December, 2018, Part 9, Political Class Insanity: More Legal Woes for the Clintons, Taxing Our Texts, Welfare Galore for Non-Citizens 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) Not to be redundant, but for the past several posts we have discussed the continuing saga of the criminal investigations into the activities of Bill and Hillary Clinton. And today will be no different as Dick Morris, writing for the Western Journalism website, reports on yet another potential criminal and ethical problem facing the Clintons:

• Huawei is a major Chinese corporation.
• Its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, was recently arrested in Canada based on an extradition warrant from the U.S.
• The accusation is that Huawei conspired to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran.
• Meng is the daughter of the company’s founder, Ren Zhengfei.
• Huawei has had a long history of ties with the Clintons.
• Terry McAuliffe, a top Clinton fundraiser, once bought a Chinese car company, Green Tech Automotive, a producer of electric cars.
• McAuliffe convinced Huawei to incest in the company using a financing company called Gulf Coast Funds Management which so happened to be run by….wait for it, Hillary Clinton’s brother, Tony Rodham.
• Rodham helped Huawei employees get U.S. government visa’s.
• Unfortunately, the Federal government had already turned down previous requests for visas for Huawei employees because of the company’s relationships with the Chinese military.
• Those relationships and actions included helping Saddam Hussein install fiber optic cable in violations of U.S. sanctions of Iraq, helping the Taliban install a phone system in Afghanistan, stealing proprietary company information from Cisco Systems, and other actions in violation of U.S. foreign policies and efforts.

And yet Clinton supporters and relatives were dealing with these folks. Innocent until proven guilty but since Meng Wanzhou may get extradited to the U.S. and eventually end up in a courtroom, who knows what Clinton secrets will come out.

2) Claire McCaskill is a Democratic Missouri Senator who is soon to be an ex-Senator since she lost her re-election campaign. She has been around for a while, with a lot of that time when the Democrats controlled the Senate, which you need to keep in mind as we go forward. In other words, if she has a problem with the Senate, then she was part of the problem as was her political party.

In her farewell address to the Senate, that is exactly what she talked about, stating that the Senate was a worse place now than when she was first elected to the Senate: “I'd be lying if I didn’t say I was worried about this place," outgoing Sen. Claire McCaskill said in her farewell address, adding the Senate is "no longer the world's greatest deliberative body."

Well, whose fault is that, Senator? You were part of this deliberative body for years and years. Your political party, via Harry Reid, dominated the Senate for years. And over those years I do not remember that you ever expressed these concerns until AFTER you were defeated. Sour grapes, Senator.If you had concerns about the greatness of the Senate, you should have worked for that greatness when you were in office, something that I do not believe you did.

3) Consider some old Beatles lyrics:

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,

If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.

If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,

If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.

And now if you live in California and have a cell phone, they might actually tax your text messaging capability:

• According to CNN, California regulators would like to tax your text messaging to increase the tax revenue to fund programs for “underserved residents.”
• This texting surcharge has been proposed by the California Public Utilities Commission.
• It would not be a per text tax but a flat text added onto to everyone’s cellular bill on any account that includes text message service.
• The commission will vote on the proposal on January 10 but is getting strong opposition from the cellular industry.
• The proposal may also be in conflict with a recent FCC ruling.

So, long ago if you drove, walked, sat or got cold, the Beatles said you would get taxed. To that list we may now have to add taxing your texting. So sad, is there any part of our lives that politicians and government employees do not want to get their hands on?

4) Of course there is a lot of talk about the so-called “migrant caravan” stuck on the U.S./Mexican border. These are people mostly from Central America that think they can march up through Mexico and resettle in the U.S., no questions asked. President Trump is doing the right thing, upholding the rule of law on how and where foreigners can enter the country and apply for asylum or citizenship. This process has worked pretty well for a while and is the law of the land.

But of course, as what happens often, liberals and Democrats, don’t see it that way, regardless of what the law is. They would open the borders to hordes of people from around the world, with their assumption being that these non-citizens can be turned into Democrats when it comes to voting. 

They seem to forget or dismiss the reality that allowing this to happen would crash our social safety systems and budgets, allow terrorists to enter the country, allow drug cartel and gang members to enter the country, allow criminals to enter the country, and allow those with infectious diseases to enter our country, our schools, our towns, and our society.

They also seem to forget that we have some huge, unfilled needs of Americans in distress. Millions of Americans are hungry, homeless, drug addicted, without health insurance and healthcare, etc. Maybe, just maybe we should take our limited resources and help out our fellow Americans before we start worrying about the rest of the world.

But let’s stop talking about opinions and talk about some cold hard facts about illegal immigration in this country using real, valid Federal government numbers and facts:

• A recent article by the Washington Examiner, written by Paul Bedard, pointed out that 63% of the non-citizens in this country, both legal and illegal, are on some sort of welfare plan, supported by taxpaying American citizens.
• This comes out to a whopping 4.6 million households.
• According to Mr. Bedard: “A majority of “non-citizens,” including those with legal green card rights, are tapping into welfare programs set up to help poor and ailing Americans, a Census Bureau finding that bolsters President Trump’s concern about immigrants costing the nation.”
• According to the latest government numbers, 63% of non-citizens are using a welfare program.
• For those that have been in this country over 10 years, that number jumps up to 70%, i.e. once non-citizens get onto a welfare program on average they do not get off of it and integrate into American society as productive people.

• According to the Center for Immigration Studies: “Concern over immigrant welfare use is justified, as households headed by non-citizens use means-tested welfare at high rates. Non-citizens in the data include illegal immigrants, long-term temporary visitors like guest workers, and permanent residents who have not naturalized. While barriers to welfare use exist for these groups, it has not prevented them from making extensive use of the welfare system, often receiving benefits on behalf of U.S.-born children.” 
• And if 63% and 70% were not bad enough, about half of those numbers are taken up by immigrants who are here illegally but somehow beat the system to get taxpayer funded benefits.
• The sad part is that while 63% of non-citizens are on some type of government welfare, only 35% of American citizen households are on some sort of welfare program.
• These results are pretty consistent across the biggest immigrant states in the country, i.e. non-citizens on a percentage basis get far more support than citizens:

• The same is true across different programs, i.e. food programs, Medicaid, etc., non-citizens have twice the usage rate as citizens.

So sad that Democrats and liberals would overburden our citizens and our tax system while neglecting the needs of millions of citizens to take care of the rest of the world’s needy. This is so sad especially since we all know it is not because they are great humanitarians but because they want to consolidate political power for their own greed and use. Insanity.

Another day of insanity: more potential legal trouble for the Clintons, a departing Senator’s sour grapes, taxing our texts, and illegal immigrants sucking up our taxpayer dollars. More insanity to follow, it never seems to end.

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