Let’s get started:
1) Baltimore had been in the news a few months ago when President Trump rightfully pointed out what a mess it was from a crime, rat infestation, and garbage perspective. And this mess was occurring despite the city constantly getting millions and millions of dollars in Federal taxpayer aid.
Specifically, Trump got into a very public spat with the Congressman whose district covered most of the city, Elijah Cummings, and how Cummings spent much more of his time trying to enrich his own wife and impeach Trump than caring and taking care of the voters in his district.
Unfortunately, since then Mr.Cummings has passed away. However, corruption still exists in his hometown of Baltimore as a recent Baltimore Sun report recently pointed out:
- An audit of the city’s finances showed that there were still massive accounting problems in tracking state and Federal grant dollars that were given to the city.
- Specifically: “Grant money coming into government coffers is not balancing out with what city agencies are spending.”
- According to the city auditor, Audrey Askew: “The city is not able to establish accurate balances of grant accounts.”
- One potential fallout is that the city could begin losing grant funding from the state and the Federal government due to these lax accounting results.
- Losing these funds could be a disaster since the city gets about $448 million a year in grants which is a whopping 16% of its total budget.
- Not surprisingly, the city politicians were outraged even though in reality it is their job as the city’s leadership to make sure this does not happen: City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young: “I don’t understand how we can have a problem with grants. That has to really stop. If the grants don’t add up … the federal government is going to come and they’re going to want their money. We’re going to owe thousands, maybe millions of dollars.”
- He really wants it to stop but proposed no way to make it stop.
- And this is not a new problem, apparently the accounting has been awful for years and years.
- Back in 2014 an audit found that as much as $40 million in grant money was unaccounted for.
- In 2015 the Baltimore Housing Authority approved $6.2 million in questionable payments including granting city money to three dozen households that did not even reside in the city.
- Auditor Askew found that it was impossible to determine if the grant money was actually being spent as it was intended.
2) I believe that when people are sworn into being members of Congress they swear to uphold the laws of the land. Of course, if any clown in Congress is going to renege on that promise, it is not a surprise that it is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Ocasio-Cortez has been a continuous flow of ignorance and arrogance, expounding on just about any topic and knowing nothing about any of those topics. But she recently broke her uphold the laws vow relative to rioting in New York City:
In Brooklyn recently, there was a violent demonstration because, shock, police were going to crackdown on subway toll evaders, so-called turnstile jumpers. Since this is law breaking, and the police are charged with enforcing the law, that is what they do. But Ocasio-Cortez thinks breaking the law is just fine:
- She said she was in support of the anti-police protest despite the police trying to do their job and preventing turnstile jumping.
- Specifically: “Ending mass incarceration means challenging a system that jails the poor to free the rich. Arresting people who can’t afford a $2.75 fare makes no one safer and destabilizes our community.”
- What in the world does that gibberish mean, putting poor people in jail is going to get rich people released from jail?
- If she does not want lawbreakers going to jail, then change the law, that is how a civilized society works.
- But if you are going to make the subways free, then where are you going to get the revenue to keep them running or had you not thought that far in advance or that deeply, your typical approach to a situation?
- By the way, some of the demonstrators/rioters attacked a bus with innocent people inside, no mention from the good Congresswoman if that was also okay to do.
- The good Congresswoman also did not have a view on some of the vile things the protesters were saying about the NYPD officers who were just doing their law enforcement jobs: “Punch that cop!” “Don’t let these pigs touch us,” “F—k NYPD,” and "NYPD KKK".
Rather than be a leader and coming up with solutions, she is a divider, supporting criminals and lawbreakers, supporting the spreading of hatred and not supporting the people that protect us everyday and who were just doing their jobs.
3) While we have very little regard for most American politicians regardless of where they reside in the country, the ones in California have been a source of a lot of material for this blog. Their ineptness to do anything right has turned California into a desperate, dirty, contaminated, and financially ruined entity.
But we also need to add hypocrisy to their negative traits. Liberal California politicians were quick to jump down Trump’s throat when he looked to impose a travel ban to prevent Islamic terrorists from coming into the country, calling him among other things a bigot and intolerant. How dare he discriminate against others who simply have a different opinion or religion from him!
But their hypocrisy shines through when the shoe is on the other foot and they go nuts and take actions against other Americans who have a different opinion than them:
- If your state has a different view on LGBTQ rights or abortion, then you must be punished, according to California politicians, they have no tolerance for such nonsense in their eyes.
- According to San Francisco Mayor London Breed: “Just as we restricted spending with states that have laws that discriminate against LGBTQ people, we are standing up against states that put women’s health at risk and that are actively working to limit reproductive freedoms. By limiting travel and contracting with certain states, we are sending a clear message to states that disregard the right to abortion.”
- Never mind that his city is financially headed for bankruptcy, that his city streets are filled with mountains of human excrement and garbage, that there are tens of thousands of homeless wandering his streets, he is focused on debasing the views of people across the country that have nothing to do with his city.
- The states that him and fellow politicians have blacklisted for daring to have a different opinion are: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
- City employees and organizations are not allowed to use city tax revenue to travel to these, in reality a travel ban, the same thing that they went crazy against when Trump proposed it.
- But Trump did it to keep out Islamic terrorists, these San Francisco folks do it to punish law abiding Americans exercising their voting and First Amendment rights.
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