To review past posts on this insanity and idiocy, just click on the first few posts in each month listed to the right of this page. After reviewing just a handful of these insanity posts we think you will agree that we are currently being served by the worst set of American politicians ever to hold office in our entire history.
1) Over the years we have written so many posts on how government at all levels wastes untold billions of dollars of our tax dollars every year. From Medicare and Social Security fraud to Pentagon inefficiencies to outright criminal activities by elected officials, the American taxpayer has probably seen trillions of tax dollars lost with no return over the past few decades.
And that corruption and ineptness recently occurred again relative to the economic stimulus package that Congress passed in light of the coronavirus crisis:
- According to reporting by the Blaze: “The federal government’s $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package was created and passed to support Americans in a time when the U.S. economy was taking a hit and millions of citizens were worried about how they were going to pay their bills.”
- It goes without saying that the funding and legislation was aimed at helping LIVING Americans get through the virus crisis.
- However, that principle does not appear to be part of the reality in Washington since the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Federal government sent over $1.4 billion to over 1 million Americans who were dead.
- The GAO research concluded that different government agencies do not share death records with each other so that one part of the Federal government knows that someone was dead but another part of the government does not know they are dead.
- Specifically, the Social Security Administration has a full set of death records but that information was not shared with the IRS and Treasury Department who were responsible for sending out the virus stimulus checks.
- Adding insult to injury for American taxpayers, the IRS has announced that if anyone got a stimulus check intended for a deceased relative they should return it but the IRS had no plans to go after those checks that were sent to dead people.
- Given the lack of follow up and the inefficiency and incompetence of the Federal government, it is a sure bet that a great many of those bad checks will be cashed and the money never returned to the Treasury.
- What is different from other cases of government’s wasteful spending is that a Congressman, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, actually warned the Federal government in April that stimulus checks were being sent to dead people and that this idiocy was “just the tip of the iceberg” of corruption in the stimulus spending.
- Unfortunately, no one in the bureaucracy listened to him and billions of dollars were probably lost to fraud and the stupidity of the Federal government.
2) We have often talked about how ineffective and inept Chicago and Illinois politicians are when it comes to curbing the violence in the city of Chicago. This violence has been going on unabated for years, resulting in annual violence deaths in the city of hundreds and the wounding and maiming of thousands.
While the George Floyd death/murder was horrific and despicable and got a lot of attention, the killing of African Americans in Chicago by the hundreds every year goes unreported and unaddressed. The latest:
- Keep in mind that Chicago has some of the stiffest and supposedly tightest gun control laws in the country.
- And yet during one recent Monday, 41 Chicago residents were wounded and six died as a result of the shooting violence in the city.
- This Monday violence comes on the heels of a Father’s Day weekend in the city where over 100 were shot and 14 of those shot died.
3) Michigan Gretchen Whitmer has been the poster child on how to be a really bad politician over the past few months in so many ways:
- She put into place draconian lock down measures on every Michigan resident even though the vast majority of residents were not being affected by the virus since the vast majority of the cases were only in the Detroit area.
- But that logic of being a little specific and elegant about her lockdown plans were beyond her mental capacity and she locked down the whole state, bringing unnecessary hardship to the majority of Michigan residents.
- She then put in place nonsensical restrictions on what state residents could do: they could only buy paint from stores less than 50,000 square feet in size, they could only buy garden tools and seeds from stores with less than 50,000 square feet., etc.
- She illogically allowed people to take their sailboats and jet skis out for a ride but prohibited any other boats from being taken out for a ride.
- And although she locked down the whole state her husband tried to get his boat out on the water for a Memorial Day spin despite that being forbidden under his wife’s lock down edict.
- She then had the nerve to say that her husband was just pulling a joke on the marina owner, that he had no intention of actually violating his wife’s order, her reasoning being that her constituents were too stupid to not realize what a lie this was.
- She then marched in mass protests following the George Floyd killing even though she objected strongly to regular citizens going to the state capital to protest her idiotic orders, claiming that they were endangering everyone else but somehow her marching with thousands of others did not endanger others.
- She had a barber arrested for trying to save his business and feed his family because a few people might get within a few feet of each other and yet she immersed herself and supported large George Floyd protests.
- She was critical of Trump’s handling of the virus crisis and yet provided no productive solutions herself.
- She is considering blocking Trump from having a political rally in her state, denying untold millions of Michigan residents their First Amendment rights strictly because of her politics.
- It appears that she has lost control of the Michigan state government budget and wants American in other states to bail her out.
- She recently announced that the state has spent more than $436 million in fighting the coronavirus,money that had not been budgeted.
- In addition, the state has lost $3 billion in tax revenue because of the illogical and draconian lock down she placed on businesses and workers in the entire state even in areas which had no occurrences or few occurrences of the virus.
- In addition, she predicts that Michigan will be $6 billion short budget wise over the next two years.
She dug the financial hole in Michigan, she and Michigan residents should dig themselves out of it, not rely on taxpayers from other states to help them out. Those taxpayers have their own state government expenses to worry about. She obviously does not understand basic economic concepts of taxation, wealth, and government spending.
The Federal government spends wealth it has collected from taxpayers, it does not generate wealth itself. Every dollar it spends comes from someone’s paycheck and for the Governor to lay claim to the paychecks of people not living in her state is either arrogance, ignorance or both.
That will do it for today’s insanity: more wasteful Washington spending, more unabated violence against African Americans in Chicago, and more ignorance and arrogance from the governor of Michigan.
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Please visit the following sites for freedom:
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http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w
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