July, 2019, Part 9, Political Class Insanity: LA Mayor's Bad Priorities, Bubonic Plague Outlook for LA, and Inane Auto Repair Rules...In California, Of Course

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) We have often made the case that it seems like Democrats today care more about illegal immigrants than they care about hungry, homeless, and other needy Americans. You never see Democrats visiting homeless shelters or street encampments, you never see Democrats complaining that American homeless folks do not have enough to eat or get enough medical care like they do for illegal immigrants.

And this conclusion was recently proven right again out in Los Angeles. Keep in mind that there are probably about 60,000 homeless Americans walking the streets of L.A. the city and L.A. the county. Keep in mind that the number of homeless there grew by double digits in the past year. Keep in mind that this is not a new problem, the political class in L.A. has been faced with this problem for years and it never seems to get any better. Keep in mind that there are now outbreaks of typhus, a medieval disease caused by the squalor caused by the massive homelessness and the accompanying explosive growth in the rat population.

Keep that in mind as you read the following recent actions and words of the L.A. mayor:

• Trump has instructed immigration officials to begin rounding up and sending back to their home countries illegal immigrants who do not belong here, i.e. they have broken our laws.
• This got LA Mayor Eric Garcetti up in arms and protesting and trying to protect the illegal immigrants in his city: “We’ve all heard reports the Trump administration is threatening to round up and deport thousands of immigrant families in cities across America this weekend. I want every Angeleno to know their rights and how to exercise them. Remember, you have the right to remain silent. You don’t have to open your door to an ICE agent that doesn’t have a warrant signed by a judge. You have the right to speak to a lawyer before signing any documents or speaking to law enforcement. And, if you need help finding an attorney, you can call 311 and learn more about our Justice Fund and other resources that offer legal support.”
• He went on to counsel them on how to act and what information to record if they are approached or apprehended by immigration officials.
• He concluded his remarks with a summary of how much he loved illegal immigrants: “In Los Angeles, we draw strength from the diverse dynamic communities that call our city home and we support immigrant families because they’re our friends, neighbors, colleagues, confidants, our fellow taxpayers, local business owners, and co-workers. For us, this isn’t partisan politics. It’s about being a good neighbor and we will never let fear and intimidation win the day. We are in this together.”

Would not his time be better spent fixing the homeless plight of 60,000 homeless AMERICANS in his city? How come he never said that the 60,000 homeless AMERICANS are his “friends, neighbors, colleagues, confidants, etc.?” How come he has never been a “good neighbor” to the 60,000 homeless AMERICANS in his city? How come he has never said he supports homeless AMERICAN families among those 60,000?

And let’s move beyond the 60,000 homeless folks. LA has one of the highest poverty levels in the country. LA schools stink at educating its kids. LA probably has a crumbling infrastructure like the rest of the country. But he focuses on the plight and welfare of illegal immigrants, wasting time and resources on that problem while his American citizens suffer in so many different ways. Pathetic priorities.

2) Let’s stay in L.A. for this piece of insanity. But before we do that let’s look at some Wikipedia information on a Dr. David Drew Pinsky:

• He is known as a celebrity doctor who is a trained medical internist, and an addiction and medicine specialist.
• He is the former medical director for the Department of Chemical Dependency at Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, California. 
• He a former chief resident at Huntington Memorial Hospital.
• He has a private medical practice.
• He got his medical degree at USC and did his residency at USC County Hospital.
• He has been active in TV and radio shows over the years which got him the “celebrity doctor” nickname.

I give you his medical background and you can decide if you believe the viewpoints he discussed in a recent interview:

• It is his professional opinion that Los Angeles faces a pending outbreak of bubonic plague.
• If true, this revival of a deadly medieval disease will be caused by the tremendous growth in the LA homeless population and the concurring growth in the rodent population, problems that local politicians have had no success in curbing.
• He claims he predicted the recent outbreak in typhus in LA, another medieval disease.
• Both typhus and bubonic plague are often carried by rats, transferred to fleas to pets and from pets to humans.
• As a point of reference, the bubonic plague wiped out one third of the European population in the fourteenth century.
• The last time the bubonic plague occurred in the U.S. was in 1924 in, surprise, surprise, Los Angeles.
• Dr. Pinsky says that conditions are ripe in that same city for a recurrence almost one hundred years later.
• He claims that LA is one of only a few cities in the country that has no rodent/rat control plan: “And if you look at the pictures of Los Angeles, you will see that the homeless encampments are surrounded by dumps. People defecate there, they throw their trash there, and the rats just proliferate there.”
• In addition, the huge size of the homeless population results in the raw sewage of 60,000 homeless people washing down city sewers to the ocean every day.
• Eventually he predicts that this could grow into a national emergency with the intervention of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Red Cross, and the National Guard “if we start to see the diseases that I think we are going to.”

Nasty, nasty stuff. Two observations: maybe it is time to throw out the existing political class in the LA area, obviously they have let a problem get out of control with potentially far reaching national emergency health implications. Second, why is the mayor wasting his time counseling and focusing on illegal immigrants on how to avoid being arrested by immigration officials. Wouldn’t his time and resources be better spent on fixing the homeless issue, avoiding the bubonic plagues, and stopping the pollution of the ocean from his city? Just saying, a really, really bad set of priorities.

And the same goes for the national politicians from California. Is it more important for Nancy Pelosi to feud with Trump and focus on helping illegal immigrants avoid our laws or would her time and resources be better spent helping her home state, and home town of San Francisco, a city with the same types of problems as LA? I know my answer but that priority viewpoint obviously does not line up with the priorities of Pelosi and Garcetti.

3) One last piece of political class insanity today and of course, it comes from California. In Sacramento County, you are allowed to the following minor repair work on your car:

• Brake part replacement
• Minor tune-ups
• Change of oil and filter
• Repair of flat tires
• Lubrication
• Other similar operations

Okay, sounds reasonable to some degree. But the law comes with restrictions:

• You cannot use tools not normally found in a residence or home.
• You cannot work on cars that are registered to people not residing at the residence.
• You cannot work on cars outside a fully enclosed garage.
• You cannot have a vehicle being inoperable on your property for more than 24 hours.

So if I get this right, if you have a tool to do brake work that is not normally found in a home, and how many homes have break work specific tools, you are in violation of the law even if that tool is kept locked away in a closed garage.

So if I get this right, if our mom is having brake problems and comes over to your home or you daughter needs an oil change and comes over to your house, you are breaking the law since neither of them live at your house.

So if I get this right, if you are working on your car and the parts supplier store will not have the part you need for 25 hours, rendering your car inoperable for more than 24 hours, you are breaking the law.

So if I get this right, if you do not have a fully enclosed garage but need to fix a flat tire in your driveway, you are breaking the law.

I understand the need to prevent someone from opening a renegade auto repair shop in a residential neighborhood. I understand the desire to not have dangerous auto chemicals running down the street gutters in a residential neighborhood.

But really, can we have a little common sense here from our politicians? Is the time, debate, and energy worth it to micro manage the lives of the citizens in the county? Are there not far more important issues to worry about than checking mom’s car registration home address location? Again, the bad, bad priorities of the American political class. 

More insanity to follow. Unfortunately.

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