Love My Country, Loathe My Government

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Some Major Government and Politician Lies Over The Past Two Decades

A number of recent news events raised the topic in my mind of government employees and politicians and the lies they create, perpetuate, and force on the country. These lies cover economic, medical, and environmental lies. They are put forth with straight faces by those telling them, raising that age old question: do these folks actually believe the lies they tell or do they think we are too stupid to find out and understand if their assertions are true or not?

Let’s check out the latest lies and myths that they have floated over the years:

1)Let’s go back to the days when Obama Care was being developed and passed as legislation. Remember when those of us that expressed our doubts about how that legislation would not resolve the country’s health care issues were met with some very vicious and demeaning rebuttals to our views:

Democrat Speaker Of The House Nancy Pelosi called opponents to Obama Care unpatriotic for simply having a difference of opinion with many politicians in Washington including herself.
Democrat Charles Rangel slandered millions of ordinary Americans who opposed Obama Care by calling them racists for simply having an honest difference of opinion with many politicians in Washington.
Democrat Shelia Lee Jackson slandered ordinary Americans who opposed Obama Care by associating them with the Ku Klux Klan,
Democrat Alan Grayson called those opposed to Obama Care knuckle dragging Neanderthals.

Let’s fast forward to today:

According to a recent large-scale survey from the Kaiser Foundation, health care costs in the past year were up 6% after rising 7% in each of the two previous years.
All of these increases were larger than the overall inflation rate and the growth in wages in those years.
Thus, it does not look like Obama Care’s objective to “bend the cost curve downwards" was not met if the rate of health care spending and costs are rising faster than inflation and wage growth.
About 25-26 million Americans do not currently have health insurance coverage according to an analysis by the Kaiser Foundation.
Thus, another Obama promise, that EVERY American would be able to get and afford health insurance under Obama Care, has proven to be false.

It appears that those of that were called unpatriotic, racists, KKK members, and knuckle dragging Neanderthals for simply having doubts about a government program actually turned out to be right: costs have not gone down, coverage has not gone up, and things are getting worse since part of the current government shutdown is because the failure of Obama Care is requiring more and more taxpayer subsidies to stay afloat.

In other words, those that supported Obama Care lied to us and used derision, and insults to cover up their lies. The problem is very simple: Obama tried to implement an economic based solution to a public health problem, using a hammer when he should have been using a screwdriver, it was doomed from the start.

The underlying problem with high health care costs in this country involves a number of factors: Americans eat too much, they eat too much of the wrong types of food, they do not exercise enough, and they smoke too much. By not fixing those underlying causes you cannot fix the overall cost problem.

Consider the informed opinion of Dr. Delose Cosgrove, formerly the CEO of the Cleveland Clinic:

In our current health care industry there is no incentive for staying well.
Obesity in America accounts for 10% of all health care costs.
Smoking, diet, and lack of exercise, according to Dr. Cosgrove, contribute to 40% of premature deaths in this country, 70% of chronic diseases such as heart disease, and accounts for 75% of the nation's total health care.

Thus, the American public was led astray down the faux Obama Care path: it did not resolve any of the health care issues facing the country despite the ravings of Democrats. But we knew this back in 2010 when we predicted exactly what would happen if Obama Care passed:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/search?q=Cleveland+clinic

Which brings us full circle back to the above hypothesis: were politicians of that timeframe too stupid to know they were not going to resolve anything or did they know but thought we were too stupid to question their assertions?

2)The Trump administration raised some hackles, mostly with liberals and Democrats, several months ago when they asserted that pain reliever Tylenol may have negative impacts if taken by pregnant women, specifically that there might be a link between Tylenol consumption during pregnancy and autism. However, it appears that various government people and politicians actually knew for a long time that there was at least a hazy connection between using Tylenol and causing autism:

Apparently, the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had in its possession scientific reviews from 2016, 2019 and 2022 along with two memos from two different divisions within the FDA that warned of a possible link between Tylenol, pregnancy, and autism.
None of this information was shared with the public or doctors, specifically pregnant Americans regarding the potential danger of taking Tylenol.
In late 2016, FDA senior medical officer, Adrew Mosholder, finished his review of eight studies, with seven showing at least an association between Tylenol like products and attention deficits, delayed motor skill development, and autistic behaviors.
He recommended that the FDA issue a warning that Tylenol should be used rarely if at all given that there was possibly some kind of link between usage and autism, a recommendation that was not heeded.

We could go on with further examples over time when the FDA lied about what might be going on with Tylenol but took no action but you get the idea: the government sat on information that may have negatively impacted an untold number of American families. By lying in this case, we are assuming not telling the truth or sharing available information is the same as lying.

The complete history of this negligence can be found at the following link:

https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/21/fda-stayed-silent-potential-tylenol-risks-internal-reports/

3)Let’s stay in the medical field for this classic quote dropped on the American public by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s lead point man on the covid epidemic:

“When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health and that of the family but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community. In other words, you become a dead end to the virus. And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus is not going to go anywhere. And that’s when you get a point that you have a markedly diminished rate of infection in the community.”

Let’s be honest, it did not quite work out that way:

I had the first two vaccination doses and still got covid … twice.
My wife got the first two vaccinations and booster shots and got covid.
A good friend of mine got the first two vaccinations and all of the booster shots and caught covid four times.
I could go on and on about my personal experiences with friends and family that got the vaccines and boosters and still got the virus.

I would bet anyone reading this also can tell stories of how the Fauci promise above was either wrong, a trait you do not want in a person in charge of the nation’s health, or he was lying, knowing full well that the vaccine was basically useless for everyone except drug companies that got rich on taxpayer wealth.

4)On last example for today:

I have lived in Florida for twenty years and have had my share of hurricanes.
During that time, I and millions of others were constantly told by politicians and government scientists and agencies that global warming would make those hurricanes more frequent, more intense, and more destructive unless we surrendered trillions of tax dollars and personal freedom to prevent the impending weather disasters.
People like Al Gore got even more famous and wealthier by predicting that dire climate changes will increase the severity of hurricanes and other bad weather.
Barack Obama agreed to a multi-national climate agreement that was created at a Paris climate summit during his term to combat the growing threat of catastrophic weather and its increasing frequency, all of which would require American taxpayers to pay more for every type of energy.

But guess what: in 2025, two decades after Hurricane Katrina kicked off a hand-wringing epidemic across the country by global warming advocates, my state of Florida experienced absolutely no hurricanes this year. No hurricanes, no tropical depressions, no tropical storms ... nothing. And it was not like we had any near misses either. No weather disruptions at all.

Which brings us back to the old question: did politicians and other government officials really believe that we were headed for climate disaster when they asked to control our lives and wealth in the name of global warming or did they just want to control our lives and think we were too stupid to understand they were leading us on?

Which brings us full circle to the reality that government officials and politicians are wrong or lying more often than they are right or telling the truth. In the meantime, our taxes, our lives and our futures can change dramatically for the wrong reason: did these folks actually believe the information they were espousing or did they think we were too stupid to understand they were lying?

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

October, 2025, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: More Minimum Wage Stupidity In California, Corruption At The Small Business Administration, Jacksonville Gets it Right and More

There is a lot going on in the world: Obama and Russiagate findings, Middle East powder keg, the Russian/Ukrainian war, Federal government shutdown, etc. But through all this, the American political class continues to constantly deliver its own special brand of insanity, stupidity, wasteful taxpayer spending, and ineffective government programs.

1)We have often discussed the reality that when a state radically raises its minimum wage law there are fewer workers getting fewer benefits who are working fewer hours as companies try to cope with significant increases in their salary budget. The latest research proves that this economic reality still exists and that it continues to negatively affect California workers:

A new analysis by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) found that the latest round of minimum age increases in California had severe negative effects on the state’s fast food workers.
The new $20 minimum wage level reduced employment opportunities and reduced hours for those workers who still had jobs in the fast food industry.
Despite California politicians loving their legislation, the NBER found that the law directly reduced jobs in the fast food industry by 3.2%.
This 3.2% reduction is the equivalent of a whopping 18,000 jobs.
The Employee Policies Institute found in their analysis that on average fast food workers that continued to have a job lost 250 working hours a year.
These 250 lost hours average out to about $4,000 lost in salary a year or seven weeks of full time pay,
To cope with the increase in salary budget, businesses have had to raise prices of their fast food products with the Burger King Whopper meal, for instance, now being 12% more expensive than it was prior to the new higher minimum wage law.

So, as always, the good news is that your fast food position pays you $20 an hour. The bad news is either 1) you no longer have a job or 2) your higher hourly wage will be offset by fewer working hours. Political class economic insanity strikes again and as always, everyone loses: workers, businesses, and consumers.

2)Another undercover effort by James O’Keefe has uncovered yet another scandal regarding the misuse and corruption of government spending:

The Small Business Administration operates a program designated as 8(a).
The program is supposed to provide taxpayer funds to so-called “disadvantaged” businesses, i.e. minority owned businesses.
However, the fraud and corruption occurred when criminals set up bogus "disadvantaged businesses,” collected no bid taxpayer funds, and used the bogus businesses to channel that money to non-minority sub contractors.
The amount of money in the program that may have been criminally channeled to fake interests could be as high as $183 million.
A hidden camera video recording by O’Keefe of Melayne Cromwell, a contract manager for ATI Government Solutions, laid out how the scam often worked.
She operates a disadvantaged company that is Native American owned which allows her to get no-bid government contracts: “Because we’re Native American-owned, we’re heavily favored for government contracts, There’s no bidding war.”
The process apparently works as follows: a company such as ATI gets a no-bid contract from the Federal government and taxpayers and then simply passes that money through to another non-minority company that does all of the work.
That pass through company does not have to be a disadvantaged company and in reality, may not be the best choice to do the work, assuming any work is done at all.
Specifically, according to Cromwell: “So, a lot of our subcontractors bid on contracts that were perfect in their industry, but because they weren’t Native American, they wouldn’t win it. So we bid on it for them, they become our sub, and it’s an automatic win because you’re Native American status. I tell you, pass-throughs are a great thing!”
In fact, during the secret video interview, Cromwell admitted that the ATI minority owned business was actually created by two Caucasian gentlemen, Firmadge Crutchfield and Scott Deutschman.

Yet another interesting approach to defrauding the American taxpayer. The hidden video can be seen at the following link:

https://thepatriotchronicles.com/news-for-you/watch-undercover-video-exposes-massive-federal-contracting-fraud/#google_vignette

3)We have often discussed two races:

Which state government will collapse financially and be the first state to go into bankruptcy?
Which major city will be the next major city to collapse financially and be the next major city to go into bankruptcy?

Our main candidates to be the first state to go bankrupt include Illinois, New York, California, and New Jersey. Our main candidates to be the next major city to go bankrupt include Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

The financial death spiral mechanics for these states and cities are pretty simple:

State and city politicians continue to raise taxes and increase business regulations without materially improving the quality of life of their citizens.
This causes residents and businesses to leave for other cities and states that have lower taxation and lower business regulation burdens.
This creates a tax revenue shortfall in the states and cities they left.
Rather than get more efficient and cut government spending, the politicians raise taxes to cover the tax revenue shortfall.
This causes more residents and businesses to leave and the death spiral is in place and the trip to bankruptcy court is in play.

But some politicians understand this basic economic principle and are reaping the benefits of lower taxation and less business regulations. Jacksonville, Florida is the perfect example of less is good:

By reducing taxes, Jacksonville is now the leader in corporate and business relocations, gaining businesses and residents who are fleeing high taxation and regulatory environments.
The city has seen a 67% growth in corporate relocations from 2022 to 2023.
More than 150 corporate, regional, and divisional headquarters are now operating in the Jacksonville area.
For example, Intercontinental Exchange announced a $173 million headquarters expansion in Jacksonville for its Mortgage Technology division, Paysafe moved its North American headquarters to the city, Dun & Bradstreet relocated from New Jersey as did American Roll-On-Roll Of Carrier, and Shoe Manufacturing.
Unlike the bankrupt bound politicians, Jacksonville politicians restructured and reduced its pension debt by $1 billion and negotiated a $400 million reduction in its long term debt, all of which allowed the city politicians to actually cut the tax burden for local residents and businesses.
This in turn led to more than a dozen major construction projects either recently completed or currently underway, creating good paying construction jobs.
The city unemployment rate is 3.5%, significantly less than the national average of 4.3% and much less than the cities and states heading for bankruptcy.
Jacksonville was the tenth best city for population growth in 2024.

Lower taxes, lower business regulation, leads to population growth, high paying jobs, and a better quality of life. Is not that hard to understand. But it is a concept lost on politicians in Chicago, New York City and other cities and states.

4)One more quick hit for today:

Smartmatic is an international election technology company.
Its technology helps manage elections around the world including in the U.S.
A Miami Federal grand jury recently indicted the company and some of its senior executives and accused them of being involved in bribery and money laundering operations across different countries and foreign election contracts.
The indictment claims that the company and its executives bribed Philippines' top election officials to secure contracts after that country’s 2016 national elections.
According to U.S. attorney Jason A. Reding Quinones: “These defendants allegedly engaged in a sophisticated global bribery and laundering scheme designed to manipulate the public contracting process and enrich themselves at the expense of public integrity.”
Given that Smartatic has been involved in U.S.elections, it makes you wonder about the 2020 election integrity doesn’t it?

Enough political class insanity for today: an election management company is accused of criminal activity, Jacksonville shows how it is done from a productive government perspective, criminal fraud at the Small Business Administration, and the economic stupidity continues in California.

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https://www.change.org/p/deseat-congress-reset-freedom

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