July, 2019, Part 4, Political CLass Insanity: A Criminal Government Employee From The Obama Administration, A Potential Criminal Washington D.C.Councilman, and a Delusional Kamala Harris

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 corruption and criminality of the political class never seems to end as we see from the following situation involving a formal Obama official:

• Haroon K. Ullah was a senior employee of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM).
• He was the chief strategic officer for the organization that is responsible for communicating America’s ideals and viewpoints around the world through such outlets as Voice Of America.
• He has admitted that he illegally stole $40,000 in taxpayer government funds by lying about hotel invoices, fake taxi rides, and billing the Federal government for personal travel expenses.
• According to a Justice Department statement: “Additionally, Ullah admitted that he created a falsified letter from a real medical doctor purportedly claiming that Ullah needed to fly in business class at government expense because of a sore knee. By submitting the forged letter from the doctor, Ullah fraudulently obtained costly business class upgrades at government expense, including on lengthy international flights. Ullah admitted to creating many of the false documents on his government-issued laptop computer.” 

He faces up to ten years in jail when sentenced in October. The good news is this government employee got caught abusing taxpayer funds. The bad news is that we have no idea how many other government employees do this and get away with this abuse every day.

2) Ullah was a Washington government employee who rightly got busted for criminal acts. Continuing this line of discussion, the Washington Post recently reported that an elected Washington D.C. official may have also broke some laws along the way:

• The FBI recently raided the home of D.C. Councilman Jack Evans.
• The possible law breaking involves a recent memo that alleges that Evans “repeatedly and proactively” used his Council position to help out a company that was paying him $50,000 a year for that help.
• The memo is a 20 page document that was put together at the request of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Board to look into conflicts of interest.
• The document concluded that: “Our investigation uncovered a pattern of conduct in which Evans attempted to and did help his friends and clients and served their interests, rather than the interest of [the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit]. The evidence uncovered through our investigation demonstrates that Evans’s ethical violations occurred not by accident, but ‘knowingly.’” 
• The company was doing over $300,000 a year in contracts with the city and allegedly kicking back a good chunk of that contract money to Evans.
• As always, Evans is assumed innocent until proven guilty and no charges as of yet have been filed for this alleged behavior. 
• But Council Chairman Phil Mendelson was not happy, having told the Washington Post: “It is imperative that public officials maintain high ethical standards. Public trust is critical. At the same time, it is delicate and precious. We must now work to regain it.”

A few posts ago we discussed the outrage of a sitting Congresswoman, Frederica Wilson, had because people were making fun of politicians and she thought that was outrageous and that anyone who made fun of a politician needed to be made a criminal. Well, Congresswoman, until elected officials, like possibly Evans, and government employees, like Ullah, stop abusing the law, their government positions, and taxpayer money, you and others like you have not earned our respect so please shut up until the integrity of your peers and the government employees you oversee is worthy of our respect.

3) Since Trump became President:

• The national unemployment has dropped below 4% and has stayed there for many, many months.
• African American unemployment levels are at or near all time lows.
• Hispanic unemployment levels are at or near all time lows.
• Women unemployment levels are at or near all time lows.
• Many companies have relocated or opened new factories and facilities within the country as a result of the Trump tax cuts.
• Wages are rising, something that rarely happened until Obama’s tenure.
• Overall economic growth continues to ride at levels higher during the entire Obama Presidency.
• Inflation continues to run at very low levels.
• Gas prices have been stable and low since Trump took office.
• Growth in manufacturing jobs has been booming, something that Obama said would never happen.
• Businesses took the Trump tax cut savings and reinvested those tax savings in higher wages, higher levels of employee training, employee bonus payments, and higher donations to charities.
• Trump’s tax cuts resulting in dozens and dozens of utilities passing those tax savings along to utility companies in the form of lower rates.
• Possibly because they were able to keep more of their hard earned wages, Americans set a record for charitable giving the year after the Trump tax cuts took effect, donating over $400 billion to charitable causes.

So let’s review: low unemployment rates across the board, rising wages, low inflation, low gas prices, high overall economic growth, lower utility rates, life is pretty good for most Americans.

Unless you are a Democrat running for President. According to Kamala Harris, the Trump economic policies are “not working for working people.” What? Total nonsense. Higher wages, more and better jobs, low inflation, low gas prices, are you kidding me Kamala? What else could one possibly want from an economy? Plus, you were awfully quiet when the Obama economy had stagnant wages, low paying job creation, higher gas prices, higher taxes, higher taxes for most Americans. My gosh, you cannot make up this insanity.

Of course, Harris is running for President so she has to suspend reality to get some traction in light of the best economy in decades. She went onto say she would repeal the Trump tax cuts which means that the vast majority of people in this country would be paying more, not less in taxes, and somehow in her perverted logic that would be better for working people: “One day one I will repeal that tax bill, which benefits the one percent and the biggest corporations.” 

No, Ms. Harris the tax cuts benefited the vast majority of middle class and lower middle class Americans in this country. In fact, the wealthier in this country often paid MORE after the tax cuts since Trump put a cap on the tax deductions the wealthy could take for state taxes and interest payments. 

Using realty and real data, the Tax Policy Center found that 1) 81% of the middle fifth of income earners paid less Federal tax in 2018, 2) 66% of all Americans paid less tax, and 3) only 5.5% of U.S. households paid more than $100 more in taxes in 2018 and most of those paying higher taxes were in the upper income tax brackets.

As with most politicians, it is often impossible to determine if politicians are really that stupid and do not understand basic realities or they think we are that stupid that we believe everything they say, or lie about, despite reality. Ms. Harris is obviously no exception to this rule, given her gross misstatement about the Trump economy.

That will do it for today’s insanity: Kamala Harris spewing falsehoods or delusions about the state of the economy, a potentially criminal politician in D.C. and a real, admitted criminal from the Obama administration. More insanity to follow including more From Kamala Harris and her inability to understand dates.

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