December, 2019, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Politicians Who Should Be Seen and Not Heard and The Continuing Greed of Those Who Serve In Office

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) Freshman Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has shown herself to be anti-Israel any number of times in the past two years. Her disgust with Israel has been well documented and we will not go into her statements and actions supporting her hatred at this time.

So her behavior after the recent slaughter of Jewish Americans in Jersey City, New Jersey was certainly surprising, crazy and at the end of the day bigoted:

• According to Alicia Luke, writing for the Freedom Outpost website on December 12, 2019, Tlaib tweeted and blamed “white supremacy” for the murders for the three Jewish Americans, and a Jersey City policeman.
• Specifically: “This is heartbreaking. White supremacy kills,” the Michigan Democrat wrote in a since-deleted tweet.
• Her sympathy was initially surprising given her past disgust with the Jewish state.
• It would seem that maybe she had a change of heart but that was probably not the case.
• Rather then opportunity to make peace with the Jewish state, she immediately tried to leverage the dead Americans to support her faux outrage at the myth of white supremacy.
• You see, white folks did not commit the violence and murders, two African Americans committed the atrocities, a reality that did not fit Tlaib’s knee jerk reaction to spread hate about the races in this country.
• As soon as she realized that her desire for headlines and an opportunity foment white supremacy made her look like an ill-informed idiot she deleted the tweet.

This is how low the leadership has fallen in D.C. A politician immediately assumes the worst in order to fit it into her dialog of dividing the races in this country and she opens her mouth without doing even basic research into the reality of a situation. And she makes a fool of herself while families in Jersey City are in the beginning stages of mourning the loss of their loved ones, Tlaib did not even have the human decency to remain quiet for a grieving period. Disgusting.

2) But Tlaib is not the only freshman Congresswoman opening her mouth and espousing idiocy. Our favorite politician gaffe machine, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, somehow put her foot in her mouth again:

• Trump has been trying to clean up the scandalous food stamp program that while it does a good thing in helping struggling American families to put food on the table for their families, it has been riddled with scandal and fraud as people fleece the system and the American taxpayer.
• Trump has proposed changes to the system that would reduce the taxpayer risk and make sure that only people who deserve the food support get it.
• It is estimated that upwards of 700,000 people currently milking the system for food support would lose that opportunity to rip off the system.
• But as with Tlaib above, Ocasio-Cortex did another knee jerk reaction as a result of her hatred for Trump.
• And has a result of talking without knowing and/or understanding what Trump was trying to do, she looks like a vain and hateful person.
• She tweeted out the following fallacy: “My family relied on food stamps (EBT) when my dad died at 48. I was a student. If this happened then, we might’ve just starved. Now, many people will. It’s shameful how the GOP works overtime to create freebies for the rich while dissolving lifelines of those who need it most.”
• But this assertion is so false since according to the rule that Trump is pushing, the restrictions and reductions would apply to able bodied adults between the ages of 18 and 49 who DO NOT have dependents and does not apply to parents with minor children, the elderly, or the disabled.

In other words if you are a stand alone adult without kids, are not elderly and not disabled, you are going to have to get off your duff and get a job in order to eat. Millions of American taxpayers go to work every day in order to eat, there is no reason why able bodied adults should not do the same.

For Ocasio-Cortez to say that many Americans will starve to death because of Trump is nothing more than a fallacy, a denial of reality, and more childish hatred towards Trump. As always with Ocasio-Cortez, she should again consider the following piece of advice: It is better to remain silent and thought ignorant than to speak up and remove all doubt. Ocasio-Cortez and just about every other politician in D.C should consider this advice.

3) We recently discussed the rather distasteful reality that Obama now owns three homes worth in excess of $25 million: an estate on Martha’s Vineyard, a home in an exclusive D.C. neighborhood, and another luxury home in California. This is quite amazing since Obama earned only $400,000 a year as President, before taxes, and his wife was a housewife. Both of their careers prior to the White House did not include million dollar salaries nor do they have massive family inheritances.

Thus, we were forced to wonder how the former First Family is not only able to afford three grand homes but also pay the maintenance, property taxes, and utility costs that accompany these properties. And now we may know how he does it:

• During his administration Obama actively pushed the so-called Common Core education process, a process that we accurately predicted would be a disaster for the country and which is now basically defunct despite billions of taxpayer dollars wasted on the effort.
• Wherever Common Core was adopted, test scores and learning progress plunged.
• Fast forward and we find out that Obama got a whopping $65 million book deal from Penguin Random House Publishing.
• Pearson Publishing received a $350 million contract during the Obama administration to publish Common Core educational materials.
• Nothing shady here until you realize that Pearson Publishing and Penguin Random House are corporate relatives.
• Pearson and a company called Bertelsmann are joint owners of Penguin Random House which we just said gave Obama the ridiculous book deal.

So, the obvious question is: did Pearson/Bertelsmann/Penguin Random House have a quid pro quo deal with Obama, Pearson gets the $350 million Common Core contract and Obama gets a sweetheart book deal from Penguin Random House? The appearance of a conflict of interest is often just as bad as a real conflict of interest and this “arrangement” certainly fits that description.

Combining this Obama “deal” with the reality that Joe Biden has made over $15 million since leaving office, the whole stench of politicians getting obscenely wealthy while providing little to benefit society just smells more and more. Politics is no longer about serving the country and its citizens, it is about making oneself richer and richer. From the mega bucks Nancy Pelosi’s machinations relative to the Visa IPO to Ocasio-Cortez complaining she is overpaid despite living in a luxury apartment, getting $300 haircuts and wearing designer clothes, the greed of the American political class has never been so intense or so obvious while its ability to resolve real issues and problems has never been so low.

So today’s insanity included two politicians who do not know when to just be quiet, or at least speak AFTER they have the facts, and the gross corruption and greed of politicians both while in office and after they leave office.

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