March, 2020, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Corruption, In Baltimore, Corruption In The FBI, Corruption In Congress

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 often pointed out, political corruption is not reserved just for Washington politicians, as we find out from what recently happened in Baltimore:

• Mike LaChance, writing for the American Outlook website on February 28, 2020, reported that the former mayor of Baltimore has been sentenced to prison on multiple corruption charges.
• Catherine Pugh ran a scam which required companies to buy copies of her childrens’ book in order to do business with the city of Baltimore.
• In other words, buy my book and you get city contracts which in the process makes me wealthier.
• According to Fox News: “Catherine Pugh, a former mayor of Baltimore, was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday following her conviction on federal tax evasion and conspiracy charges related to the sale of her “Healthy Holly” books to help fund a political career, the Baltimore Sun reported."
• She also has to pay back money to the University of Maryland Medical System and almost $12,000 to the Maryland Auto Insurance Fund, both of which had to purchase her book.

Corruption pervades all levels of American government.

2) A new Justice Department report found evidence that the ineptness of the FBI may have allowed a number of terrorist attacks to take place in the country during the Obama administration:

• Specifically: “The FBI has acknowledged that various weaknesses related to its assessment process may have impacted its ability to fully investigate certain counter-terrorism assessment subjects who later committed terrorist attacks in the United States,” according to the report.
• Inspector General Michael Horowitz said that the report shows that the FBI made inadequate attempts to fix its assessment process even though they knew they existed.
• Since September, 2001, in country terrorists have committed over 20 terror attacks in the country with six of them occurring during the Obama administration when Jame Comey led the FBI.
• According to the report: “Before some of these terrorists committed the attacks, they had been “the subjects of FBI assessments or investigations that had been closed by the FBI.””
• These “subjects' ' went on to kill over 60 Americans in just two of these attacks, the foot Hood terror attack and the Pulse Nightclub terror attack.
• These two attacks were part of a larger screwup by the FBI: “Since September 11, 2001, HVEs have carried out over 20 attacks in the United States, some of which occurred after the FBI closed a counterterrorism investigation or assessment on the individual. Following these attacks, the FBI conducted reviews and determined there were weaknesses in its HVE assessment processes. However, we found that the FBI has not taken sufficient action to address these weaknesses.” 

So they knew they were screwed up and yet did not fix anything, likely resulting in the unnecessary death of American citizens on our own ground. One has to wonder if the FBI and Comey had not been so interested in framing Trump and denying him the duly elected presidency that maybe they actually could have saved some American lives.

A primary, very basic function of government should be to protect the citizens it governs. Comey and the FBI he led failed misrerably to fulfill that basic premise.

3) Congresswoman Maxine Walters of California has been one of the more obnoxious, inane, and useless politicians in Washington for a long time. To hear her talk and the gaffes and hate that come out of her mouth is overwhelming at times. She is almost always on anyone’s “top ten” list when it comes to political corruption.

But even worse, perhaps, is the self enrichment she has showered on herself, as pointed out by an article on the Three Percenter website:

• Keep in mind that when reading the following facts and realities that Walters annually earns $174,000 as a member of Congress, before taxes and living expenses.
• To my knowledge, she has had no other job or spouse that would have gotten her personal wealth up into the millions of dollars.
• But according to the article, Walters owns a $4.5 million Los Angeles estate that is a half a city block long and is in one of the most affluent sections of LA, not in her Congressional district.
• She also owns two other homes with an approximate value of about $1 million and she also has a timeshare property in Palm Springs, California, one of the more affluent locations in the whole country.
• Her expensive, $4.5 million estate is managed and maintained by a private company that involves extensive landscaping.
• This is a massive 6,000 square foot home surrounded by a brick wall and protected by iron gates.
• It has a custom barbeque area and an indoor swimming pool which sits in a separate structure from her mansion.
• According to the article: “The Waters estate boasts large scale rooms touted as “perfect for for gracious entertaining” in one LA-based publication. It includes a “stunning entry with dramatic staircase. Lovely pecan paneling in the family room. Guest house too!””

Now, keep in mind that she supposedly accumulated all of this wealth by earning not more than $174,000 a year over her long Washington career. Also keep in mind that California has some of the highest state income taxes and property taxes in the country,both of which would take a huge chunk out of her annual salary. And ask yourself: how was she ever able to get so rich on so little salary, relatively speaking, living in such a high tax state as California? 

Maybe she should shut up about the Trump tax returns in case someone ever asks to review her tax returns and maybe find out where her wealth came from. It is doubtful that she is so frugal as to have gotten so wealthy by pinching her Congressional pennies.

Corruption in Baltimore, corruption in the FBI, and corruption in Congress, gets tiring after a while doesn’t it?

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