January, 2019, Part 8, Political Class Insanity: Even More Nonsense From Ocasio-Perez and Politicians Get Paid, Government Workers Do Not

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.

We keep trying to end this month’s political class insanity but every time we think we are done, newly elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez opens her mouth and expels something stupid, idiotic or inane and we are pulled back into another January insanity post. So, let’s get started:

1) Let’s start off today with a couple of different definitions of “ignorant” from several different sources:

• Lacking knowledge, information, or awareness about a particular thing.
• Lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified unaware, uninformed.
• Not having enough knowledge, understanding, or information about something.
• Not having enough knowledge, understanding, or information about something:
• Unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge.
• The want or absence of knowledge.

Now consider some of the many gaffes that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has thrown out over the course of the past few months:

• She did not have enough knowledge to know how to calculate the unemployment rate even though she has an economic degree.
• She did not have enough knowledge to know what the three branches of government are.
• She did have enough knowledge to understand a basic Pentagon audit report before speaking out and embarrassing herself.
• She did not have enough knowledge to know that her support for the Medicare For All concept and The New Green Deal concept are impossible to finance.

These are realities and facts based on her performance. And because of this we have designated her as ignorant in a wide variety of fields in this blog, something that we are allowed to do under the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. She is one of 500 people in Congress who will vote on laws that affect every Americans’ life, we should have the right to criticize her for her lack of knowledge.

But of course, the biased mainstream media would have none of that First Amendment rights stuff, as a recent Washington Post article illustrates:

• Eugene Scott of the Washington Post recently wrote that pushing back on Ocasio-Cortez’s lack of knowledge and experience is racist.
• In a recent 60 Minutes interview, she called Trump a racist, certainly within her rights to do so.
• But the White House reacted back to her statement of racism by pointing out “that Ocasio-Cortez’s “sheer ignorance on the matter can’t cover the fact that President Trump supported and passed historic criminal justice reform,” adding that the president has also “repeatedly condemned racism and bigotry in all forms.”
• At which point Scott tried to make this defence a racist remark because the White House accused a “young Latina woman of ignorance.”

There it is, the classic liberal, racist ”dog whistle.” Do not agree with someone’s opinion when comes to a minority, you must be a racist. Never mind the facts that the word ignorance means the lack of knowledge or ability and was correctly applied in a life situation where someone says many, many ignorant things, you must be a racist. 

Rosa Parks experienced real racism. Martin Luther King, Jr. experienced real racism. Millions of other minorities experienced real racism. Calling someone out on their ignorance based on the many incorrect and inane statements they made is not racism. And that is the bigger tragedy of liberals in our society today. When everything is seen as racism, then nothing is racism and that is an insult to those of the past who fought, and sometimes died, to fight real racism.

2) According to the Godfather Politics website, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a very interesting take on who are real Americans:

• Apparently she thinks that illegal immigrants are “more American” than American citizens.
• Yes, those that come here and break our existing immigration laws, those that have not paid a penny in taxes and yet always seem to get government assistance. Those that have little or no knowledge about our country or our heritage are more American than real Americans.
• Responding to Trump’s White House speech on immigration she stated that, “In the actual address, there was falsehood after falsehood and we have to make sure that we get our facts straight. Everyday immigrants commit crimes at a far lower rate than native-born Americans. And not only that but the women and children on the border seeking refuge and opportunity in the U.S. with nothing but the shirt on their backs are acting more American than any person who seeks to keep them out ever will be.”
• Of course she makes no distinction between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants because if she did she would find radically different crime statistics between the two groups.
• By combining them together she covers up the crime rate of illegals that includes drug cartel members, MS-13 gang members, and other assorted undesirables.
• But as she herself has stated, she does not want to be bothered by facts.
• She went on to say that, “Right now what we are seeing is the violation of human rights. These children and these families are being held in … basically freezing boxes that no person should be maintained in for any amount of time let alone the amount of time they are being kept on.”
• She fails to mention that no American, including Trump, put these people in this situation, they put themselves in this situation of their own free will. 
• And there is no such thing as “freezing boxes,” where does she get this nonsensical stuff?
• The border is basically desert and warm areas, those folks on the other side of the border might actually welcome the cooling effect of freezing boxes, if they even existed.

Insulting Americans, ignoring facts, and making up stuff that do not exist, but I guess I am a racist for pointing all of this out.

3) Let’s finish this month’s political class insanity visit with a most pathetic and disgusting move by the Washington political class. As always, our politicians lecture us on what needs to be done, how to behave, how paying more taxes on our part is necessary to finance their stupid and ineffective plans, and how we need to make sacrifices for the “greater good.” 

But their hypocrisy always shines through. As most of you know, the Federal government has been shutdown because Trump and the Democrats in Congress cannot agree on funding for a necessary border fence to protect the country and its citizens. 

Hundreds of thousands of Federal government employees have now gone without pay or work for about three weeks, obviously causing hardships for them and their families. Businesses in areas with high concentrations of Federal employees are also suffering as employees cut back on their expenses. I know of at least one local family that will have a hard time meeting their mortgage payments if the shutdown goes on much longer. A lot of people are suffering because Washington politicians cannot resolve this problem and have not been able to resolve it for decades, a sure sign of incompetence.

But while regular Federal government employees are not getting paid, guess who is getting paid? The very people, members of Congress, continue to be paid even though they are responsible for this mess. In fact, Nancy Pelosi cares so little about the suffering of Federal employees and other Americans that at the onset of the shutdown she jetted off to Hawaii for a luxurious vacation as hundreds of thousands were looking for ways to cut expenses.

And the hypocrisy is strongest with, of course, Ocasio-Cortez. Back in late 2018, before being sworn into office, she publicly lamented the hypocrisy that members of Congress would be getting paid during the shutdown, probably the only thing I have ever agreed with her on. But now that she is part of the Washington political class, there is no indication she has given up her Congressional salary or is donating her salary to those in need.

How quickly do you think this crisis would be resolved if members of Congress had not been paid for the past three weeks.? My bet, pretty quickly. But this way is better because they get to pontificate with no consequences and obviously not care or pity for those whose lives they are seriously injuring every day this shutdown goes on. Disgusting, hypocritical, disgusting and business as usual for American politicians.

That will do it for this month’s political class insanity, not because we ran out of insanity, but because we ran out of patience dealing with and writing about these very small minded, inept, despicable people.

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