December, 2017, Part 1, Political Class Insanity: A Congresswoman Goes to Prison, Baltimore Homicides Soars, and a Senator Howls With Ignorance

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) We have previously discussed the reality that a former Congresswoman, Corrine Brown, had first been arrested and then prosecuted for defrauding a charity that she and others had set up. Now we know what punishment she faces, according to the Liberty Headlines website:

• She was recently sentenced to a five year federal prison for various fraud and tax crimes.
• This included raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for a sham charity she had established.
• Her long time former chief of staff when she was in Congress, Ronnie Simmons, got 48 months in prison for her actions and the former head of the sham charity, Carla Wiley got a 21 month sentence.The judge chastised the three of them for stealing money from a charity that was set up to supposedly help kids and spent on themselves and their lavish lifestyles: “This was a crime born out of entitlement and greed committed to ensure a lifestyle that was beyond their means. Just think of the good that could have been done with that money if it would have been used for its intended purpose.”
• The former Congresswoman will start serving her five years beginning on January 8, 2018. 

Another example of the types of people that now populate our political class, classless, greedy, and totally out of integrity.

2) We have often talked how politicians in Chicago, Chicago’s county, and Chicago’s state have put forth some of the toughest gun control laws in the country and every year seem to set records for gun violence and murder by guns, most of which were illegally obtained and used despite the tough gun control laws in place. These politicians at the city county, and state level keep tighten gun laws, denying law abiding citizens the right to defend themselves, while never addressing the underlying root causes of gun violence and use.

But according to another recent article on the Liberty Headlines website, Baltimore, another city and state with ever restrictive gun control laws, is suffering the same fate of Chicago, the continual shredding of the Second Amendment without any discernible decrease in the city’s violent culture and underlying problems:

• As of early December, 319 people had been violently killed in the city of Baltimore. 
• With a month to go in 2017, the city has now had more homicides this year, 318, vs. the 317 that occurred in all of 2016.
• The annual Baltimore record for homicides occurred in 2015 when 344 homicides were reported which means that the all time record could be broken if 27 more homicides occur in December.
• The city has become so dangerous that it is now reported that school trips to the city have been cancelled since it is now deemed to dangerous to enter the city.

Another case where politicians have no idea how to resolve the underlying root causes of violence and crime in the city and continue to enact and enforce useless gun control laws as the Baltimore record for annual homicides continues to be threatened in 2017.

3) One of the most inane and most stupid politician statement ever issued was done by Nancy Pelosi when she was Speaker of The House back during the early days of the Obama administration. That was the time when Obama and Congressional Democrats were trying to pass Obama Care, a piece of legislation that has turned out to be a complete failure as we have reported every month in this blog.

Pelosi made the public statement that the Obama Care legislation had to be enacted so that we, the country, could see what is in it. In other words, as Speaker of the House, she had no idea what was involved with the proposed legislation and would not know what was in it until it had been passed. You cannot make up this idiocy. What else do Washington politicians have to do but write, debate, READ, and enact laws? Pathetic.

But this statement of idiocy may have been recently challenged by Senator Elizabeth Warren. Ms. Warren recently harshly criticized the tax reform legislation that Congressional Republicans are close to passing:

• According to Mike MIller, writing for the Independent Journal Review on December 2, 2017, the Senator stated that the legislation was,“Tax cuts for the rich, tax hikes for the middle class.”
• She also called the legislation a “GOP tax scam.”
• Seems like she has some strong objections and opinions on what is in the legislation.
• But here is the idiocy, she admitted on Twitter that she had not read the legislation: “No, I haven’t had time to read the 500-page #GOPTaxScam bill that we’re voting on tonight. I couldn’t read it if I tried – and I did.”

Fabulous, here we have an important Senator spouting off about an important issue for all Americans and she has not even read the document she is bellowing about. Hell of a why to operate a government.

And even worse than this insanity, according to the Heritage Foundation there is a real good chance she is completely wrong about this begin a scam, hurting middle class and helping the rich. Rachel Greszler, writing for the Heritage Foundation on December 6, 2017, obviously had better data and more common sense than Warren since she wrote about a detailed financial analysis on how five different prototypical senior families would be treated by the GOP tax reform.

These five scenarios looked at five different family and income configurations and computed what the tax burden change would be under the GOP tax reform legislation that Warren never read. In two of those scenarios, the family would see no change in their tax burden, in two scenarios the family would see a good decrease in their tax burden and in one scenario, there would be a substantial rise in the family’s tax burden.

And guess which family would an increase in their tax burden Senator Warren. It was the hypothetical family earning a million dollars a year. Those in the lower and middle class families would see no change in their tx burden or a decrease in their tax burden, the exact opposite of what you howled about. And the Heritage Foundation analysis actually read and analyzed the legislation, something you seemed to deem not important before erroneously going berserk.

To see the detailed analysis that came to the above conclusions, go to:

http://dailysignal.com/2017/12/06/retirees-save-money-tax-reform-key-examples/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell%22&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTldRM01XWTNZelZoTUdaaCIsInQiOiJaQ2c1RUZFcUJmS21zMDlxdCs0SEwxVlVZSEh1NjV4TWp1a2VIbHZldGZcL1l4anN4em1pQTFLRWJiZm5OQ1NPSjBsYUFSckp0RGlcL1NrU0FHUHJqTkNsazVQSHVpdXZCTEJpNHJyWEdYc2wyR3BjSllCK2VQdlFUUlFTazE0RXcrIn0%3D

To see the detailed analysis that Warren used in her analysis go to her Twitter feed.

That will do it for today’s insanity, a good start for this month: a Senator that has no idea what she is yelling about, a former Congresswoman going to prison for despicable, selfish behavior, and more policy and politician failures in Baltimore with fatal results. More insanity to follow.

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