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) The despicable and unnecessary murder of George Floyd resulted in not only peaceful racial equality demonstrations across the country but also violent and destructive riots that were not associated with the demonstration but which used the demonstrations as a reason to go wild. Unfortunately, the local politicians in many cities were unable to control the violence, looting and attacks on businesses, civilians and police officers.
As a result of the politicians’ failures, many people, businesses, and police officers are abandoning those cities for safety and better lives or are taking their frustration and anger out on those failed local politicians, as we see in Seattle:
- Seattle was the scene of not only violent riots but the taking over of six city blocks by anarchists, an act of insurrection that Seattle politicians led go on for weeks.
- This seizing of downtown Seattle real estate created a zone of violence and unsafe conditions that politicians were afraid to act on, leaving businesses and law abiding citizens in the middle of a lawless and dangerous position.
- As a result, one of the largest businesses in Seattle, Smead Capital Management, a large city investment firm, is leaving Seattle and heading to more peaceful, lawful Phoenix, Arizona.
- They attributed the move to the unrest and unpredictability of living in Seattle from a lawlessness perspective.
- The company also pointed out that the high minimum wage in the city, double the national minimum wage and the difficulty recruiting talent to the Seattle area, a reality that will likely get worse given the failure of the city’s politicians to control the anarchy, were also factors in the move.
- Specifically, Mr. Smead said a reason for the move is “what the business community [in Seattle] is going to come back to, and what kind of businesses are going to come back for customers.”
- According to Mr. Smead, moving out of Seattle to Phoenix was attractive because “my colleagues [in Phoenix] can pick the socio-economic rung of life that they want … live their lives, build their households and have a family if they’d like.”
- Whereas in Seattle, “where we’re coming from just wasn’t like that.”
- Mr. Smead went on to say that his business will not be the only or the last business leaving the area since he was “hearing rumors of 40-story buildings that will only be 20-percent occupied by October.”
2) Minneapolis was the center of the George Floyd peaceful demonstrations and also the epicenter of the violent riots that shook the city with looting, arson, and attacks on citizens and police officers. We have already discussed the reality that one company Sigma-7, a small city manufacturer, was taking its business and employment opportunities to another city after it was burned down in the riots.
But given how unsupportive and critical city politicians were of ALL Minneapolis police officers, not just the corrupt few that murdered George Floyd, not surprisingly many city police officers are saying goodbye:
- According to Minneapolis police officials, "At least seven Minneapolis police officers have resigned from the department since widespread unrest began over the death of George Floyd last month, and more than half a dozen are in the process of leaving.”
- Apparently this is a much higher attrition rate than what happens in normal times.
- But this should not be a surprise since the entire department has been under siege by the city’s politicians who have vowed to dismantle the entire police department and replace it with something else, with that something else totally undefined.
- Those that have not yet resigned are suffering low morale having been associated with those that murdered George Floyd, attacks by the city’s politicians, being attacked with bricks, other projectiles, and cursing by the rioters, and threats that their department will be dissolved.
- Given the uncertain fate and the constant attacks from all sides, it is no wonder that morale is low and attrition is high.
And since they have no solutions, they revert back to their primal political instincts, blame others, in this case the police department, even though they were in charge of that same police department as they are in charge of every other city function, from road repair to garbage collection.
I believe that Minneapolis is now in a death spiral from an economic and quality of life perspective. The low morale police force will be slower and more cautious in responding to real crime which will lead to higher crime and violence rates which will scare off more productive citizens and businesses which will reduce the tax base which will shrink whatever police force that is left, etc., etc. And the death spiral continues all because city politicians could not fix a police problem in the first place and then blamed others for their failures.
3) Readers of this blog know that we are not a big fan of Joe Biden for a number of reasons, reasons we have pointed out many times:
- He has a long history of fondling women and young girls without their permission including an alleged sexual assault on at least one woman, Tara Reade.
- He has a long history of racist remarks and attitudes stretching back from decades ago to today.
- He has a long history of lying about his past and his accomplishments, neither of which have had redeeming social value.
- He has a history of enriching himself and his family, brothers and sons, by leveraging his government positions to the financial benefit of his family.
- It now appears that he was at the center of a coordinated coup attempt by Obama, himself, and high ranking members of the FBI and the Justice Department to prevent and then cancel the election of Donald Trump.
- Through no fault of his own, I believe he is in the stages of significant cognitive decline for whatever reasons and that by putting him under the strain and stress of running for President, his family, his friends, and his party are committing elder abuse.
Given all of these reasons why he should not be President, we add the following reason:
- Joe Biden founded a cancer research institute in 2017.
- Since then, the institute has raised millions of dollars in the name of cancer research.
- But news reports indicate that most of those millions never made their way to the actual cancer research process.
- Almost two thirds of the millions raised since 2017 was spent on staff salaries and six figure salaries for the executives of the Biden Cancer Initiative.
- IRS tax returns show that the organization raised and spent $4.8 million in 2017 and 2018.
- Over $3 million of that went to salary, compensation, and employee benefits.
- Of the remaining $1.7 million, $740,000 was spent on conferences, conventions, and meetings.
- Simple math would tell us that less than $1 million actually may have found its way to actual cancer research, just over a measly 20% of the total raised.
Political lack of will in Seattle, an urban death spiral in Minneapolis, and the national disgrace that Joe Biden is an actual Presidential candidate.
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http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
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