September, 2017, Part 1,Political CLass Insanity: Wasted Dollars In NYC, Wasted Words From the UN, and Wasted Lives From Baltimore

It is the beginning of another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

1) As we have often documented, political class insanity and government bungling can happen at any level of government. Let’s kick off today’s insanity with some bungling from New York City, as documented in the Washington Free Beacon by Jack Heretik on August 28, 2017:

• The NYC Police Department will have to replace 36,000 current cell phones it has in use with brand new iPhones by the end of the year even though the current 36,000 phones are less than two years old.
• Apparently these 36,000 phones are already obsolete when purchased new since they are based on a Microsoft operating system that Microsoft has already announced it will stop operational support for.
• Rather than purchasing tens of thousands of phones using the popular iPhone or Android operating systems, the NYPD's Deputy Commissioner for Information Technology Jessica Tisch is being blamed for the purchase of phones using a very unpopular operating system that is now being discontinued, something that she likely should have investigated with Microsoft prior to okaying the purchase.
• "The NYPD's decision to go with Microsoft's mobile operating system seems to confound more than a few, since Windows Phone's 2.3 percent U.S. market share is anemic when compared to Android's 65.2 percent and iOS's 30.9 percent," read an article published on the tech news site Digital Trends in October.

Millions of dollars wasted by another government screw up with no redeeming societal benefits.

2) The United Nations it probably the epitome of failed government and political and central planning and execution since it has been an almost totally useless when it comes to making the world a better, safer place to live:

• For almost 70 years it has failed to bring peace to the Middle East.
• It has failed to control the spread of nuclear weapons.
• It has failed to prevent wholesale slaughters of whole groups of people from Bosnia to various parts of Africa.
• It has failed to advance the rights of women in countries that treat women as accessories or second class citizens.
• It has failed to even speak out against the whole religious slaughter, genocide and enslavement being carried out over the years by terror groups like ISIS.
• It’s so-called “peacekeeping” functions have usually been failures in so many different ways.
• It has failed to advance the rights of freedom around the world with the majority of the world’s citizens living under totalitarian regimes, from Cuba to China to Russia
• There are probably dozens of other instances of UN failures but you get the idea: this political governmental organization is pretty useless and pretty expensive.

So, rather than try to change this dismal record and work on some big issues that might actually make a difference for mankind, what is a UN organization currently working on, according to Martin Walsh, writing for the Conservative Tribune on August 24, 2017:

• A UN committee combating racism has issued an “early warning” to the United States about the growth in “alarming racism” in this country.
• Anastasia Crickley, who is the chairwoman of U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), issued a statement relative to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12: “We are alarmed by the racist demonstrations, with overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan, promoting white supremacy and inciting racial discrimination and hatred.” 
• This type of warning is rare, according to the article, and has only been issued a few times in the past decade as it relates to countries like Burundi, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria.
• Crickley went on to lecture Americans: “In a decision issued under its ‘early warning and urgent action’ procedure, the Committee, which monitors implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, stated ‘there should be no place in the world for racist white supremacist ideas or any similar ideologies that reject the core human rights principles of human dignity and equality. In addition to the criminal investigation of the individual who ploughed his car into a crowd of peaceful protesters killing a woman, the UN experts asked the US authorities to undertake concrete measures “to address the root causes of the proliferation of such racist manifestations.”
• Seriously, while the actions and death in Virginia was tragic, this idiot in the UN has the nerve to denounce all Americans while she and the UN ignore the genocide and enslavement of Christians and other minorities throughout the MIddle East? 
• She lectures us while women in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc. have virtually no human rights? 
• She comes down on us when the U.S. is one of the least racist nations in the world, according to real data as summarized in an article by Kyle Becker in the Independent Journal Review, data which found that the U.S. did not even crack the top 25 countries from a racism perspective, as measured by the World Values Study (blue means least racist, red means most racist):

Oh, by the way Ms. Crickley, did you know that the U.S. twice elected a black man to be President, a reality that very few countries around the world can claim? Typical politician, working hard on a minor or fake issue because they are clueless on how to resolve the major issues.

3) One of the main, and possibly only roles of government in a democracy should be to protect its citizens. If it cannot even do that than what good is that level of government and the politicians that operate it? No clearer example if this type of failure has arisen than in the city government of Baltimore, as reported by James Barrett on August 24, 2017 for the Daily Wire website:

• Baltimore’s murder rate has gone up 50% in just the past six years.
• The city now averages over 300 murders a year, up from about 200 six years ago.
• Given this carnage, one would hope that Baltimore politicians would be working diligently to reduce that rate as a prime function of its existence.
• But hope is never a good thing when relating to a politician or government bureaucrat since in a recent Baltimore Sun article, state attorney Marilyn Mosby and Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis, admitted that the skyrocketing murder rate, “was directly linked to disavowing the more stringent policing policies of the past.”
• And both agreed that not only were these police policies more stringent, they were also more effective if “heavy handed.” 
• In the Sun interview both agreed that going against effective police tactics in the past has resulted in more murders but Mosby assured the residents of Baltimore that she and the Chief knew what they were doing: “People want to look for an overnight solution, but a lot of what has gotten us to this place didn’t happen overnight.”
• Despite the ever rising murder and crime rate in the city, Mosby somehow has convinced herself that, "At the end of the day, we’re making a lot of positive changes." 

\Thus, government bureaucrats in Baltimore are willing to sacrifice the lives of more and More Baltimore residents every day in order for some vague promises of better times sometimes down the road. Given that both have been in office for a number of years, years in which crime and murders rose dramatically in the city, I would not put a lot of faith in their prediction of better times, especially if they are still in charge.

Thus, we have another case of government, in this case the local government of Baltimore failing in its basic function, protecting the lives of those it rules over. Pathetic and tragic.

More insanity to follow in the coming days.

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