August, 2018, Part 4,Political Class Insanity: NYC Politicians Screwing Their Unberites and Lyfters, Chicago Police Still Ineffective, and Voter Fraud In Georgia.

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) One thing you never want to do is get in between politicians and those that fund their perpetual reelection campaign coffers. Unfortunately, Uber and Lyft did that in New York City and the results are not good, for both of these companies and the freedom of choice that New York politicians have now denied to their constituents in favor of their financial backers:

• The NYC council recently overwhelmingly voted to limit the number of ride sharing consumer options via Uber, Lyft and others within city limits.
• The limitations were covered in multiple bills that the mayor is expected to sign.
• According to the news source, The Verge: "The council voted to halt the issuance of new for-hire vehicle licenses for 12 months while it studies the booming industry. Under the cap, Uber and Lyft could still be granted licenses for wheelchair-accessible vehicles — which both companies sorely lack — but would be prevented from adding new ride-hail vehicles for one year. The city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission could also issue licenses in particular neighborhoods that are running low on ride-hail vehicles. Another bill that passed would establish a $15 living wage for drivers. The bills now go to the desk of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has indicated his support for a cap." 
• In a totally inane statement, the mayor, Bill DeBlasio, tried to convince the world that Uber and Lyft type services were horrifically bad for the city and its residents: "Our city is directly confronting a crisis that is driving working New Yorkers into poverty and our streets into gridlock. The unchecked growth of app-based for-hire vehicle companies has demanded action -— and now we have it."
• It is an inane statement because the mayor and council placed no restrictions on taxi drivers, likely because taxi drivers help fund their reelection campaigns, if an Uber driver is bad for the city than an equivalent taxi driver must also be bad for the city.
• Since there are no apparent plans to expand and improve bus, subway and train service to help residents get around town easily then those same residents will face rising transportation costs and longer delays in getting transportation.
• This was explained by both Uber and Lyft spokespeople: “The city’s 12-month pause on new vehicle licenses will threaten one of the few reliable transportation options while doing nothing to fix the subways or ease congestion,” said Danielle Filson, a spokeswoman for Uber. “Uber will do whatever it takes to keep up with growing demand.”
• “These sweeping cuts to transportation will bring New Yorkers back to an era of struggling to get a ride, particularly for communities of color and in the outer boroughs," said Joseph Okpaku, vice president of public policy for Lyft. "We will never stop working to ensure New Yorkers have access to reliable and affordable transportation in every borough."
• These are the same shenanigans that the Mayor and his cohorts pulled with Airbnb, another new economy service that made life easier, better and cheaper for ordinary citizens. But since this new marketing offering upset the established political donors of current politicians, they had to be tackled and hamstrung because of typical gutter politics. 
• Details on this political heist can be seen at:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2018/07/july-2018-part-6-political-class.html

As always, politicians take care of themselves first, their financial benefactors second, and somewhere down the line they might help the people they are supposed to be representing.

2) In our last post we talked about how the Chicago political class continues to have no clue how to stop the gang violence and deaths that go on day to day in their city. A few weekends ago over 70 people were shot and eleven died as a result of the gang and gun violence in a single weekend period. This carnage has been going on for years and nothing the local politicians do, or do not do, has worked.

How bad are law enforcement results in the city? According to the Chicago Sun Times:

• The Chicago Police Department “has solved far fewer murders over the last several years compared to most other major departments around the country.” 
• In the year 2016, the department was only able to make arrests or at least identify a suspect in only 26% of the cases it actually investigated.
• Since there were almost 800 homicides in the city that year, the police in Chicago basically had no idea who did the murder in about 600 of those incidents.
• And while the good news is that that there were “only” 650 murders in 2017, the police made an arrest or at least identified a potential suspect in only 17.5% of those cases, meaning that the police had no idea what happened in over 500 city murders last year.

Oh, by the way, Chicago is a so-called “sanctuary city.”

3) Many of my liberal friends and relatives constantly claim that there is no voter fraud going on in this country, that everything is just fine when it comes to voting integrity. We have constantly disproven that fact in previous posts. For example, back in 2017 we went through this litany of voter fraud incidents:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2017/02/voter-fraud-it-exists-it-could-be.html

You can get access to many other discussions on rampant voter fraud by just typing in “voter fraud” in the search box above.

And nothing has changed since those posts if you are to believe a recent incident that the McClatchy News Service and the Gateway Pundit website reported on:

• In the lead up to primary elections in Georgia’s Habersham County’s Mud Creek voting district there were 276 registered voters.
• But after the votes were counted in the primary, the Georgia Secretary of State found that 670 ballots were cast in the district, more than double the total number of registered voters.
• An investigation is underway.

Either there is a massive misunderstanding of what happened on election day in the Mud Creek district or they have the worst voter fraudsters going, fraudsters that are very bad at math. If you want to steal an election make sure you do not have more votes cast than you have voters. No voter fraud? I do not think so.

That will do it for today’s insanity: voter fraud in Georgia, incompetence continues in Chicago, and screwing residents in NYC. More insanity to follow.

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