December, 2019, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: Kamala Does Not Get Democracy, Another American Dies Because of "Sanctuaries" and San Francisco Is Still A Cesspool,

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 talked about how local city politicians have turned the once beautiful city of San Francisco into a cesspool. It is a city no where it is not illegal to defecate, urinate, or shoot up illegal drugs in broad daylight on city streets. It is a city where the homeless population has grown to almost 30,000 with no solution in sight on how to fix any of these problems.

Journalist John Stossell recently did a film documentary on the deteriorating city conditions. His report included the following random yet sad observations and quotes from those in the know about the downfall of a great American city:

• Stossell came away from his investigation with the impression that San Francisco is now the slum by the bay.
• The city found it necessary to create a permanent maintenance staff, “Poop Patrol,” that goes around the city on a daily basis to scoop up human defecation from the city’s streets.
• Stossell quotes an urban planner in his reporting: “One urban planner told me, “I just returned from the Tenderloin (a section of San Francisco). It’s worse than slums of India, Haiti, Africa!””
• Stossell’s on site reporting from the city caused him to compare the living conditions in the streets to slums he has seen firsthand in Haiti and India.
• Quoting one local resident: “There’s shit everywhere. It’s just a mess out here.”
• A lot of the thousands of homeless on the streets are victims of mental illness but San Francisco authorities mostly leave the mentally ill on the streets to fend for themselves.
• In 2015, there were 60,491 formal complaints to the police about vagrancy, aggressive panhandling, and going to the bathroom in public and yet only 125 people out of the over 60,000 complaints were ever arrested.
• On resident told Stossell: “It’s nasty seeing people shoot up -- right in front of you. Police don’t do anything about it! They’ll get somebody for drinking a beer but walk right past people using needles.”
• Crime has also risen significantly with 85 cars broken into on a daily basis throughout the city.
• Although the homeless problem is reaching crisis proportions in the city, for decades politicians have tried, and failed, to fix the problem: current U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein was once mayor of the city and she once proudly announced that she was putting the homeless in hotels: “A thousand units, right here in the Tenderloin!” It did not resolve the problem.
• Current California governor Gavin Newsom was mayor of the city when he boasted that “We have already moved 6,860 human beings.” It did not resolve the problem.
• In 2018, former city mayor Mayor Mark Farrell proclaimed, “We need to fund programs like Homeward Bound.” It did not resolve the problem.
• Stossel points out that strict and sometimes idiotic zoning laws and regulations make it impossible for a developer to build low income and moderate income housing which contributes to the homeless crisis.
• As an example: “For years, developer John Dennis has been trying to convert an old meatpacking plant into an apartment building -- but it has taken him four years just to get permission to build. “And all that time, we’re paying property taxes and paying for maintenance. I will do no more projects in San Francisco.””

Just another example of politicians that make bold promises that always end up being unable to resolve any issue of any kind. Decades and billions of dollars are wasted and in the case of San Francisco, the situation just got worse. Insanity.

Stossell’s entire video reporting can be viewed at:

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/john-stossel-san-francisco-has-become-the-slum-by-the-bay-bad-laws-cause-citys-homeless-crisis

2) We have often discussed the reality that politicians in Washington are so out of touch with reality and life outside of their lavish and exclusive lifestyles inside the Beltway. For example, we once reported that, “Congresswoman, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell who issued the following insane observation: Illegal immigration is “really not affecting American people.””

That of course is an inane, so out of touch observation and perception of reality. Every year thousands of American citizens are killed, raped, or robbed by illegal immigrant criminals. I am pretty sure that the victims and families of victims would disagree quite strongly with her idiocy. 

And even those not directly affected by violent criminal acts by illegal immigrants, end up paying over $100 billion a year to handle our illegal immigration crisis, from detention centers, to law enforcement, to housing, to food stamps, to crime, to funding pregnancies of illegal immigrants. Recent Department of Justice statistics showed that 64% of Federal criminal arrests are of non-citizens, most of which are likely illegal immigrants. I am sure that the rapes, murders, robberies and other crimes these 64% committed did affect a lot of American people.

To that list of American citizen victims that the Congresswoman claims do not exist, we add another victim in a sad piece of irony:

• Sean Buchanan had been a long time advocate for illegal immigrants.
• He had often cited Trump’s position on illegal immigration as racist and compared Trump to Hitler.
• Sadly, Mr. Buchanan’s life came to an end when he was driving his motorcycle on a Colorado highway and illegal immigrant Miguel Ramirez Valiente drove into Mr. Buchanan’s lane and killed the father of five.
• Valiente had avoided deportation for being here illegally because he was hiding in a so-called “sanctuary church.”
• Valiente was arrested and charged with reckless driving and driving with a revoked license.
• ABC News Channel 7 Denver interviewed a close acquaintance of Valiente who claimed that he was “an alcoholic and an abuser.” 
• He had previously been arrested for reckless endangerment in 2011 and domestic violence in 2016. 

Again, a sad, tragic story for his family. But just another example to show how Congresswoman Mucarsel-Powell is clueless when it comes to understanding what is really going on in the country. And if you cannot understand the reality of a problem you have no chance of resolving that problem. And Congress has shown many times how inept it is when it comes to creating a viable and SAFE immigration plan for the country.

3) Kamala Harris is a U.S. Senator from California. Up until the past week or so she was also a Democratic Candidate for President. She is now a failed Democratic candidate for President since she has shut down her effort due to lack of funds and more importantly, a lack of a cohesive plan for the country that resonated with any type of American. 

Now, Kamala Harris is also a black woman. Thus, as expected, many liberals are attributing her failed campaign to the standard liberal boogeymen, racism and sexism and not the fact that she failed miserably to connect with the country.

And maybe one reason she did not connect is that even though she is a Senator, she has a very ignorant grasp of what it means to live in a free country. At a recent political gathering she discussed the high cost of healthcare in this country, a real issue that affects millions of Americans. That discussion is a good thing.

Unfortunately, her plan to attack the high costs makes her look more like a Soviet dictator than someone in Congress who has promised to defend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights along with our freedom. She promised the crowd that if drug companies did not reduce the cost of drugs she would take drastic, totalitarian action: “I will snatch their patent. So that we will take over. And yes we can do that. Yes, Yes, we can do that. Yes, we can do that. It’s a question of if you have the will to do it. I have the will to do it.” “We” in this case is the government and the politicians that operate it.

Uh, no Kamala, you can't do that. And if you tried you would be destroying the very fabric of this country, leading the government to forcibly take anything you own, anything you have developed, anything that you invested in at the whim of some politician who does not understand democracy. Charge too much for drugs, we will confiscate your proprietary patents that you probably invested millions of dollars to create. Charge too much for food, will confiscate your farm and operate it as a government bureaucracy. Charge too much for gasoline, we will confiscate your refineries.

You get the idea, the government, which is really nothing more than a set of usually lame and ignorant politicians, cannot go around stealing private property in whatever form it is in. For a potential Presidential candidate to think that it is okay is very, very scary. Also, everytime that has been done, government confiscation, form the old Soviet Union to current Venezuela, the results have been a catastrophic decline in the quality of life for citizens since as we all know, government stinks at doing anything efficient and effective.

So today we learned that: A Senator and Presidential candidate has no idea what living in a democracy and a free country entails, a Congresswoman has no clue how illegal immigration often violently affects Americans, and San Francisco liberal politicians STILL have no idea how to operate a major city, turning it a public cesspool and illegal drug shooting gallery. More insanity to follow.

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