November,2017, Part 3,Political Class Insanity: The Clintons Get Rich, Hillary Ignores Security Protocols, and Obama Builds His Temple

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.

Note: we realize that November, 2017 has not started yet but trust me, we have so much political class insanity to get to this month that we are going to start a few days early in order to get it all in:

1) It is been pretty clear for some time that the Clinton Foundation charity organization was simply a tool for the Clinton crime syndicate to use to enrich themselves. Typically, an entity or government would make its needs known to Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State, those needs would be met after that entity or country donated to the Clinton Foundation and usually allowed Bill Clinton to give a speech for them for which he usually received hundreds of thousands of dollars. Pretty neat shakedown operation.

Now some people have claimed that the Clintons enriching themselves, while seeedy and greedy, could be overlooked because their charity and foundation did such great humanitarian deeds around the world. Nice try, but no cigar, according to Peter Hasson writing for the Daily Caller website on September 16, 2017:

• According to IRS tax filings, the Clinton Foundation spent just under $91.3 million in 2014 according to their tax returns that year.
• However, only 5.7% of that was actually spent helping out humanity since of the $91.3 million that they spent, only $5.2 million actually went to charitable grants.
• The remaining 94.3% or $86.1 million was spent on employee salaries, employee benefits, and “other expenses.”
• “Other expenses” comprised over $50 million.
• A whopping $851,000 was spent on “professional fundraising expenses.”
• According to the article, “Despite taking in an additional $30 million in 2014, the Clinton Foundation spent 40 percent less on charitable grants in 2014 than in 2013. Even as it slashed charitable spending, the foundation increased the amount spent on salaries, employee benefits and compensation by $5 million in 2014. The foundation also spent $5 million more “other expenses” in 2014.”
• In addition, the work that the foundation was originally famous for, distributing drugs to poor people in poor countries is no longer done, according to Sean Davis at The Federalist, “the bulk of the charitable work lauded by the Clinton Foundation’s boosters — the distribution of drugs to impoverished people in developing countries — is no longer even performed by the Clinton Foundation. Those activities were spun off in 2010and are now managed by the Clinton Health Access Initiative, a completely separate non-profit organization.”

How does the Clinton Foundation’s use of donations compare to other charities? According to the Charity Navigator website, an organization that tracks and evaluates charities, the Clinton Foundation’s numbers are pathetic: “Our data shows that 7 out of 10 charities we've evaluated spend at least 75% of their budget on the programs and services they exist to provide. And 9 out of 10 spend at least 65%. We believe that those spending less than a third of their budget on program expenses are simply not living up to their missions. Charities demonstrating such gross inefficiency receive 0 points and a 0-star rating for their Financial Health.” 

Since the Clinton Foundation only spends about 6% on good deeds, they would fall into the “simply not living up to their mission” category. So sad and insane that people like the Clintons could get so personally rich by leveraging their time in public service and political office, in this case using the cover story of a charity to make themselves rich beyond most people’s dreams.

2) I thought it was obscene when George W. Bush spent half a billion dollars to build his Presidential library. No one deserves that kind of tribute, especially a President whose tenure was nondescript at best. But according to a new report, Bush’s library expenditure looks absolutely miserly, according to a recent report on the American Outlook website:

• Barack Obama’s Presidential library will likely need a $1.5 BILLION endowment to keep it operating.
• That is the estimate the Obama architectural team of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien came up with to satisfy Obama’s desires.
• The article confirmed that the Obama Presidential library effort will indeed cost three times more than what used to be Bush’s obscene cost.
• The Obama effort will contain not only a Presidential library but also a second building that will serve as a museum dedicated to the lives of Barack and Michelle Obama.

Seriously, $1.5 billion to pay tribute to a President who:

• Almost doubled the national debt by adding a whopping $10 trillion to the debt burden of every American?
• Weaponized the IRS to deny First Amendment rights to millions of Americans?
• Illegally and immorally entered the Libyan civil war without Constitutional or legal standing, resulting in the destruction of a foreign country and turning it into a terrorist haven?
• Spend over $800 billion on an economic stimulus program that failed miserably on every measure except the reality that his political cronies and supporters got rich off of taxpayer funding?
• Put together the worst piece of legislation ever passed by Washington, Obama Care, and then lied about so many aspects of the law in front of every American?
• Lied about the real story of Benghazi, blaming the disaster and deaths of our Americans on an unknown video?

We could on and on about the failure of his Presidency but let’s stop here since just these few failures listed above prove that he does not deserve a $1.5 million tribute to his failures. Fortunately, I will not be paying for it.

3) As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton and her staff had the national security requirement to ensure that government communications stayed secret and held close to the vest in order to protect the interests, lives, and borders of the United States. There are laws and government regulations in place to help facilitate that need for secrecy and security.

Of course, we now know that Hillary Clinton and her staff treated those laws and regulations as mere suggestions, allowing top secret documents and plans to feed through and unsecured computer server in her house, a server that was likely hacked by more than one country around the world. As of yet, she and her abusers of government documents and plans have not faced the penalties that they should face.

To show you how careless they were with our country’s secrets, consider the highlights from an October 20, 2017 article that appeared on the Self Reliance Central website:

• Judicial Watch recently announced that that the State Department has admitted that 2,800 State Department documents from the Hillary Clinton State Department days ended up on an unsecured personal computer of former Congressman Anthony Weiner.
• Weiner used to be married to Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin.
• Remember also that Weiner recently pleaded guilty to sexting with an underaged girl.
• Abedin used a non-secure and non-State Department email account for government business, routing it through Clinton's unsecured home email server.
• This information came to light after Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the State Department when the Department refused to comply with a 2015 Freedom Of Information Act request which sought, “All emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013 using a non-‘state.gov’ email address.”
• Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch president summed up the transgressions: “This is a disturbing development. Our experience with Abedin’s emails suggest these Weiner laptop documents will include classified and other sensitive materials. When will the Justice Department do a serious investigation of Hillary Clinton’s and Huma Abedin’s obvious violations of law?”
• The article reminds us that Clinton attempted to delete 33,000 emails that were on her non-government server and that the State Department is still processing 100,000 emails Clinton failed to disclose when she was asked for them.

So, the Federal government, via the Clinton State Department, allowed almost 3,000 government documents to end up on the unsecured laptop of an admitted child sexual predator. And sher wanted to be President, ha!

That will do it for today’s political class insanity. Much more to come as Washington and other politicians continue to amaze us with their greed, ineptness, and stupidity.

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