June, 2018, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Pelosi Continues to Be Out Of Touch, the TSA Touches Too Much,and More

It is 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.

Let's get started:

1) The Fourth Amendment guarantees that we are save from unreasonable searches carried out by the government. One only has to go through an airport security line to realize that the Fourth Amendment is only a suggestion when it comes to the TSA and airport pat downs. Watch the following video to see how despicable and low the TSA has gone relative to the Fourth Amendment, common decency and respect for the elderly:

https://www.libertyheadlines.com/video-of-tsa-molesting-96-year-old-woman-in-wheelchair-sparks-outrage/

2) As time goes by we find out more and more how wretched and ineffective the nuclear arms agreement Obama reached with Iran actually is. Obama shipped over a billion dollars in cold cash to the Iranian government, money they could then be used to heighten their terrorism efforts around the world, the agreement did not stop them from developing long range missiles to deliver nuclear weapons when, not if, they develop them, and did nothing to curtail their terrorism activities around the world. 

And according to news reports, Obama also tried and failed to circumvent current U.S. laws to secretly do more favors for the Iranian terror machine:

• A new Congressional report found that the Obama administration tried to collude with the Iranians to the the tune of $6 billion.
• Obama wanted to help Iran avoid standing economic sanctions by illegally granting a license to Iran to move almost $6 billion from the country of Oman, convert it into Euro currency, pass it through the U.S. banking system and give it to the Iranians.
• The license was necessary since such a transaction was usually a violation of the sanctions the U.S. has in place for Iran.
• The illegal scheme eventually failed because no U.S. bank was willing to take the risk and get slapped for violating the sanctions.
• But this was just one of many shady dealings that Obama carried out with the Iranians as Senator Ted Cruz recently pointed out: “The Obama Iran nuclear deal was a devil’s bargain, but one exclusively designed to help the devil. The Obama administration covertly greased the nuclear deal with bribes and secret agreements that made it even worse for America. Over the years we’ve discovered some of them: There was the nuclear side deal to let Iran inspect itself. There was the ransom deal that gave Iran $1.7 billion in cash. There were several wire transfers from America to Iran, ranging from roughly $1 million to $10 million, including a purchase of excess nuclear-related material that Iran never should have been producing and America did not need from them.”
• He also summarized nicely the latest attempt to break U.S. law to help the Iranians: “They [Obama] subordinated American law and the U.S. financial system to the deal, hatching a scheme that would have put the U.S. dollar and U.S. banks to work moving money for the Iranians.”

I still wonder how Obama was able to treat the U.S. Constitution and current, standing laws as mere suggestions, using them or ignoring them at his whimsy. Any regular citizen ignores an existing law and there is a penalty to pay, Obama does it and nothing happens. Insanity.

3) How badly screwed up is the current immigration laws and policies in this country? Consider a recent story from the Boston Herald to put the screwiness into perspective:

• Bulmaro Enriquez is a Mexican citizen who has been deported nine times, has a long history of documented criminal activity, and he skipped out on his trial last month for domestic abuse and battery.
• He was recently arrested for illegally coming back into this country but rather than lock him up and deport him again, a federal judge released him back onto the streets of America despite the pleas of prosecutors.
• His crimes include operating a vehicle while under the influence (three times), possession of a controlled substance (twice), the domestic abuse and battery case, and failing to appear in court when required.
• “He is the definition of someone who should be held in custody pending deportation,” said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies. “I cannot for the life of me think why a magistrate would let him out on bail.”

This is how innocent Americans end up getting killed and maimed, illegal immigrant criminals are allowed to walk our streets despite a whole litany of illegal activities including domestic violence on his wife. But after decades of trying or not trying, the political class still cannot put together a fair compassionate, and protective immigration system.

4) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi thinks that the lowering of unemployment by President Trump will result in frustration that there is not an increase in wages: “Unless we have an increase, a very significant increase, in wages, and bigger paychecks, we are going to increase the frustration of America’s families because they will be saying, ‘Hip, hip, hooray, unemployment is down. What does that mean to me and my life? I need a bigger paycheck. And that’s the apprehension the American families have had for a while and continue to have and that we must address.”

Never mind during the time she was the Speaker of the House and during the entire Obama Presidency unemployment was much higher, wages were stagnant, job creation tended to be in the lower paying industries, and record numbers of Americans dropped out of the workforce, too frustrated to continue to look for jobs. 

Under Trump, the unemployment rate is at an almost unheard of level of just under 4%, wages are up almost 3% year over year, tax rates are down, African American, Hispanic, women, and non-high school graduate unemployment rates are at or near record low levels, and companies have given out billions of dollars in bonuses to millions of Americans because of the Trump tax cuts. And yet, Pelosi is still so out of touch with reality that she rants and rages against the best economic conditions in decades.

That will do it for today’s insanity: Pelosi still not dealing with reality, screwed up immigration policies, another (foiled)Obama law breaking episode, and fondling a 90 year old grandmother by the TSA. More insanity to follow.

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