Although the past half dozen or so of posts have focused on the ridiculously wasteful spending of the USAID organization and how it has spent untold millions and millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars around the world on absolutely stupid programs, that doesn't mean that the American political class has not been hard at work doing stupid stuff in other areas. Let’s spend a day or so catching up on what our politicians have been up to and generally it has not been good.
1)It has always been our opinion that the Biden Presidency was the worst Presidency in a long, long time:
Failed economic problems, resulting in roaring inflation.
Failed immigration policies, resulting in criminal and drug cartel people flooding over the southern border along with well over 10 million illegal immigrants, a flood of people that has resulted in billions upon billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars being used to provide free food, shelter, medical care, and cell phones to millions of illegal immigrants.
Failed diplomacy efforts, resulting in a world that is far more embroiled in war at the end of Biden’s Presidency than at the start of it.
Failed budget planning, resulting in the addition of over $6,000,000,000,000 to the national debt.
Major government programs, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, still hurtling towards financial insolvency.
Maybe, maybe just one of the reasons for Biden’s multiple failures is that he basically did not try that hard. According to the New York Post, it appears that in the four years of his Presidency, Biden spent an amazing 577 days away from the White House. That is a record for the Presidency. The 577 days set a new record for the number of vacation days taken by a U.S. President, with 577 days representing 39% of his Presidency.
These days off were spent mostly at his beach home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, his other home in Delaware, the Presidential retreat at Camp David, and homes of various billionaires. Obviously, everyone, regardless of their job in life, is entitled to vacation time. And being President is likely the most stressful job in the world, so leisure time is probably a must, just from a mental health perspective. But with 39% of his time being off from the job, and the results of his efforts while on the job, he abused the trust and responsibilities of the office and Americans are far worse off because of it.
2)Dr. Anthony Fauci was supposedly the subject matter expert during the country’s battle with Covid. He has been a controversial player in the Covid pandemic, with many blaming him for the failures of the government to function efficiently during the crisis.
Whatever you think of him, he was nothing more than a government employee. A very highly paid government employee but one that did not perform heroically or consistently correctly during his Covid management tasks. But someone in the Federal government thought it would be a good idea to build a museum exhibit to honor this government employee and spend a whopping $170,000 of taxpayer money to do the museum exhibit.
Fortunately, the Trump administration via the Department of Health and Human Services properly decided that such an expenditure was a tremendous waste of taxpayer wealth. That decision resulted in ending this ridiculous vanity project. This is an idea that had no redeeming value for ANY American taxpayer and deserved to be cancelled.
3)If you thought honoring Fauci with a $170,000 museum exhibit was bad , consider how much worse this wasteful spending of American taxpayer dollars was:
The latest insanity from past USAID spending was recently disclosed.
Recently discovered documents show that the American taxpayer paid for the college education of Anwar al-Awlaki, a terrorist that went on to become the leader of al Qaeda, the worst terrorist organization in the world.
Not only did we pay for his education, he attended Colorado State University to get his education.
And furthermore, he lied about his immigration status to get that taxpayer college money.
So while American kids and families were scraping together college tuition money and taking out onerous student debt, the Federal government via USAID was giving out free college tuition benefits to a lot of non-Americans, one of which evolved into one of the worst terrorists ever.
4)One of the very very basic tenets of any government entity is to protect the lives and property of those that they serve. Anything short of fulfilling that tenet is a failure. That is the main reason why we pay taxes, for the protection that the government is supposed to provide.
As you all know, several weeks ago, there was a collision of a jetliner and a military helicopter at Reagan National Airport in D.C., resulting in the deaths of 67 people, just a horrible, horrible accident. But we now know that maybe we should not be surprised that the FAA, a government entity responsible for protecting the flying public, knew it had problems at the airport and did nothing to fix those problem:
As a result of the Daily Caller’s review of public documents, the FAA knew that the airport had numerous near miss collisions between airplanes and helicopters at the airport for a long time.
But while the documents identified the problem of near misses, apparently the FAA did very little to handle the situation which turned fatal a few weeks ago.
Subsequent to the crash, the FAA did implement some rules that prohibited certain types of aircraft from functioning near the airport but that is little comfort to the families who lost loved ones several weeks ago.
Pilots who had narrowly avoided crashes at the airport in the past had denounced the flying conditions at the airport through an anonymous public database but still nothing was done by the FAA to improve safety.
One example of a pilot venting about the dangerous situation: “THIS HELI CONFLICT … AT DCA IS AN ONGOING PROB. HERE IS AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN.”
A failure of a basic government responsibility, protecting the lives and property of the citizens it serves. In this case, the FAA, despite knowing about the situation at the airport, failed in its basic duty to protect. Your tax dollars at work.
Enough insanity for today: a President sets the record for most days away from the office, building statues while millions of Americans are homeless, hungry, and need medical attention, giving taxpayer college money to future terrorists while American families struggle to finance their kids’ educations, and they knew there was a problem at Reagan National Airport and did nothing to fix them, with fatal consequences.
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If you agree that we need to deseat every member of Congress for their lack of success and accomplishment, then please consider going to the following petition link to help the cause:
https://www.change.org/p/deseat-congress-reset-freedom
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