November, 2019,Part 7,Political Class Insanity: The Hypocrisy of Michelle Obama and The Laziness of Bill de Blasio

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) As we have discussed previously, it is not only the lying, greed, ineffectiveness, and idiocy of politicians that make us mad but it is also the hypocrisy. Obama Care was good for Americans but politicians continued to get much more superior healthcare and insurance above and beyond what Americans got from Obama Care. It is a crime to do insider stock trading if you are not a member of Congress but perfectly okay if you are a member of Congress. Hypocrisy galore.

Michelle Obama is just the latest hypocrite to have one opinion for us but a totally different set of behaviors for her:

• She recently spoke out about how “white people” (which in itself is a racist term) moved out of city neighborhoods as minorities moved in, creating the term “white flight.”
• Specifically: “But unbeknownst to us, we grew up in the period — as I write — called ‘white flight.’ That as families like ours, upstanding families like ours … As we moved in, white folks moved out because they were afraid of what our families represented. And I always stop there when I talk about this out in the world because, you know, I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. This family with all the values that you’ve read about. You were running from us. And you’re still running, because we’re no different than the immigrant families that are moving in … the families that are coming from other places to try to do better.”
• Given this viewpoint, I am assuming that her and Barack have moved back into their old neighborhoods in Chicago, wanting to set an example of how bad “white flight” is.
• But wait, didn’t she and Barack just spend over $15 million to buy a luxury house on Martha’s Vineyard, a locale that is 95% white and only 2% black?
• And if this is not bad enough, the Obamas also own a home in the Kalorama neighborhood of DC which is 80% white and only 4% black, and they have a $5 million third home in Rancho Mirage, California which is 80% white and 2.5% black.

They had three chances to practice with Michelle is preaching, i.e. do not run away from minority neighborhoods like white people do and they chose in all three cases to be crass hypocrites of what they say vs. what they do.

People move their homes because they want a safer neighborhood, they want better schools for their kids, their jobs removed or they move for a better job, or they are retiring and downsizing. But if white people do any of these things they are acting like racists and causing “white flight” in Michelle’s eyes while she is allowed to move into high end white neighborhoods and she has no problem with that.

Hypocrisy galore from the former first lady. 

2) The other thing that bothers me and probably others from the previous set of paragraphs is how are the Obamas, who during his eight years in office made only $400,000 a year from his job while Michelle learned nothing from her time in the White House: able to afford a luxury home in exclusive Martha Vineyards, a luxury home in an exclusive housing enclave in D.C. and a luxury home in California? I believe I read somewhere that the D.C. house is worth $8 millions which puts the total Obama home investment over $28 million? 

Let’s do some simple math:

• The total value of their three homes is about $28 million.
• Let’s assume they put 20% down for their mortgages.
• Let’s assume they got a very favorable mortgage rate of 2.5%.
• Which means that their monthly mortgage payment is about $88,000 a MONTH!
• This doesn't include property taxes, homeowners insurance premiums, or any HOA fees they would have to pay.

Thus, it is not inconceivable that Obama's are paying over $100,000 a month to manage and hold these three properties.

They did not come into the White House as a very, very rich family. They did not earn enough money in their jobs during their eight years in the White House to be considered a very, very rich family. Are we to believe that their books and speeches have been so grand as to allow them to afford over $25 million in real estate properties and over $100,000 a month in housing expenses before taking into consideration their other assets and expenses? 

Gee, it must be great to be an American politician even if during your time in office you accomplished very little of any value to most Americans. What a great country...for the American political class at least.

3) We have often talked about how bad the homeless problem is out on the west coast. From Seattle to Los Angeles, liberal and Democratic politicians have turned once beautiful cities into dangerous eyesores: public urination and defecation without repercussions, tons of garbage littering the streets, no plan to help the thousands and thousands of homeless Americans get back on their feet or beat their drug addictions, explosion of the rat populations because of the garbage and the reviving of serious, long dormant diseases such as typhus, etc.

What had mystified me is that there were very few similar stories regarding the homeless-related problems in New York City. NYC has the same characteristics of the west coast problem-plagued cities but no reported public urination or defecation issues, no tons of garbage littering the streets, no large homeless encampments throughout the city, etc. Is it possible that NYC found a way to resolve homeless problems that the west coast cities did not despite having an overwhelming number of liberal and Democrats politicians?

Seems that is not the case, i.e. they did not resolve the issues and problems of their homeless problems, they found a rather unique way to sidestep what west coast cities did not:

• Rather than help homeless Americans in his city, the current mayor of the city, Bill de Blasio, has been working a program to export them to other parts of the country.
• Rather than spend city funds to find these folks shelter and feed them and help them get drug addiction treatment, he has been trying to dump them off anywhere that was not inside his city limits.
• De Blasio has been operating a program called the “Special One-Time Assistance Program” directed at his city’s homeless population.
• This was a top secret program within the city’s Department of Homeless Services organization.
• This organization spent $89 million of taxpayer money to send 12,482 homeless New Yorkers out of the city to other parts of the country.
• Those homeless folks that promised and actually did leave NYC received money for transportation, home furnishings, and a year’s worth of rent somewhere else.
• On average, this program spent $41,000 of taxpayer money on each homeless family.
• And to make the program even shadier and more disgusting, de Blasio and his city employees did not notify other hundreds of towns and cities around the country that they were about to receive the homeless folks that had been bribed to leave NYC.
• Now the burden of resolving the NYC homeless problem has been simply and quietly exported to other places around the country.
• When Hawaiian Democratic state representative John Mizuno found out that at least one homeless NYC family had been transplanted to Honolulu, he accused NYC of their homeless people “being dumped here” in Hawaii.
• The Democratic mayor of Mount Vernon, New York is demanding that de Blasio take back the homeless people that de Blaosio shipped up to Mount Vernon, that his town ”is not standing for it.”
• Of course, de Blasio’s people do not see it that way, saying that calling the program a “dumping ground” and “export” is offensive to those that are relocating which, of course, is hogwash.

$89 million properly spent within the city limits could have gone a long way to breaking the cycle of homelessness: building food banks, building homeless shelters, paying for temporary housing within the city, offering job training, offering day day care services, that $89 million could have done a lot of good. But no, de Blasio would rather have this cycle of homelessness not be resolved, just moved out of his domain.

This attitude of not doing you job to help those in need within your domain is lazy, selfish, and inhumane, providing a temporary self serving fix while not addressing or working to resolve the underlying root causes of being homeless. I find it beyond insane, I find it disgusting.

The hypocrisy of Michelle Obama and the inhumanity of Bill de Blasio, not a good review of the American political class.

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