Let’s get started:
1) Let’s review a few American realities of today:
- Just in Los Angeles and San Francisco there are about 90,000 homeless Americans roaming the streets.
- Across the country there are over half a million homeless Americans.
- About 70,000 American die from drug overdoses every year.
- About 12 million American kids live in a “food insecure home,” i.e. there is no certainty where their next meal is coming from.
But of course your hope would be wasted on these people, since according to a September 3, 2019 Newsmax article by Brian Freeman:
- Seven Democratic Presidential candidates have come out in favor of changing current Federal law and using American taxpayer money to fund abortions around the world.
- The so-called Helms amendment form 1973 current says that "no foreign assistance funds may be used to pay for the performance of abortion as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions."
- Thus, for these seven candidates to get their wish, the current laws would have to be changed at the Federal level.
- These fools are out of step with the vast majority of Americans since according to a Marist from earlier this year, a whopping 75% of Americans oppose funding abortions around the world with U.S. taxpayer money.
And worse of all, wouldn’t the millions and millions of dollars being sent overseas to fund abortions be better spent sheltering, feeding and treating Americans in need? Insanity.
2) We have often talked about how badly some major cities are being run in this country,which, by the way are all run by Democrats today and have been run by Democrats for decades. Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Detroit, San Francisco, etc. are overrun with drug addicts, homeless folks, violent crime, and general filth.
Los Angeles, for example, has almost 60,000 homeless Americans wandering the streets. This has resulted in a public health crisis since the garbage in the streets and raw human sewage has led to a boom in the rat population and the fear that Medieval diseases such as typhus and the bubonic plague might reappear in current day American streets.
In San Francisco, it is not against the law to defecate, urinate, or shoot up drugs in public places. In fact, the city government has a full time staff of five employees whose sole job is to go around the city streets to pick up human excrement.
Thus, we should not be surprised when Yahoo reports: “Scores of people are leaving the New York City area behind every day. New York leads all U.S. metro areas as the largest net loser with 277 people moving every day — more than double the exodus of 132 just one year ago. Los Angeles and Chicago were next with triple digit daily losses of 201 and 161 residents, respectively.”
Thus, at this rate, NYC is losing 100,000 people in net population every year. LA is losing over 70,000 a year. And the trend is not good. Maybe if Democrats cared a little bit more about American cities and not abortions around the world these once great American cities would not be the cesspools they are today.
3) We are going to finish up today’s political insanity with the beginning of a multi part discussion of plain old government waste. Senator Rand Paul recently issued the annual government “Waste Report” and the wasteful spending of DC politicians continues unabated. As you read how politicians are wasting your tax dollars keep in mind the suffering of the millions of Americans we pointed out above and imagine how much better suffering Americans’ lives would be if the Federal government was not wasting money on some of the following idiocies:
- Just on the government Paul looked at and analyzed, the Federal government easily wasted $50 billion on stupidity.
- One of the reasons why we have a nation debt load at $22.5 TRILLION is because politicians in DC over the decades have spent on money idiotic and unneeded projects and programs.
- This $22.5 TRILLION comes out to about $180,000 for every taxpayer, i.e. every taxpayer would have to pay $180,000 EACH to eliminate this debt.
- And 2019 will be no better since this year’s budget deficit is expected to be about $1 TRILLION which means the debt in a single year grew almost 5% while the overall economy is growing at maybe a little more than half of that.
- Example of wasteful spending number 1 - the State Department is spending almost $2 million to “to strengthen democratic institutions and processes in Tunisia by increasing trust between political parties and citizens.” First of all I doubt $2million is going to make much of a difference and second of all, why are we doing this? There is very little trust between our own political parties and citizens in this country and the government is off trying to fix this problem not here but thousands of miles away. Oh, by the way, we have already spent $1.4 billion in Tunisia already so what’s another $2 million or so?
- Example of wasteful spending number 2 - The General Services Administration (GSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have been working and have already spent about $2 billion to convert some of the abandoned St. Elizabeth's Hospital property in Washington, D.C. into a new headquarters for the DHS. This project has been going on since 2005 and is still not done. Which should not be a surprise since the buildings are over 160 years old and rather than build a new, modern, efficient building the problems with the old buildings renovations have been very costly. . since 2005. But, of course, problems tend to arise when you are working with a historical site built in 1855. After 14 years and billions of dollars these idiots decided to quit renovating many of these dilapidated buildings and go in another direction. But now the estimated completion date for the DHS headquarters is 2026 and even if they hit that target the project would have taken 21 years to complete.
- Example of wasteful spending number 3 - Medicare paid out a whopping $582 billion in 2018 and probably at least $48 billion of that was bogus, either through inefficiencies or criminal fraud. But this should not be a surprise since Medicare has been designated a “High Risk Program” for the past 29 years but the DC political class has never fixed it.
Millions of hungry, homeless, and drug addicted Americans and these buffoons are sending billions of dollars to Tunisia and other countries around the world for no tangible purpose for America, mismanaging simple construction projects, and losing tens of billions of dollars a year from a program they know has been busted for three decades. Add in the funding of abortions around the world and doing nothing about our decaying cities and it is a good day, in a bad way, for political class insanity.
More insanity to come with many more examples of wasteful Federal government spending.
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