October, 2020, Part 9, Political Class Insanity: Congresswoman Omar's Alleged Self Enrichment Actions, LA Crime Grows and Grows, and How California Became a North Korea With A Tech Industry.

It is the beginning of another month which means it is time again to review the latest political class insanity from the American political class. Each month it takes us multiple posts to cover the wasteful spending, incompetent government organizations and employees, government programs that usually make a problem worse than resolving it, inane and idiotic politician comments, etc.

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) In the previous post we discussed two examples of how low American politics has sunk. On a local politician level, we have a New York politician arrested for trying to trade opioid drugs he had for sex behind a Goodwill store, hardly the type of distinguished behavior one would like from a community leader. We also discussed the many recent indictments of people that were illegally funneling foreign money into Democrats’ election campaigns including, but not limited to, the campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Cory Booker, and other Democrats.

We continue that discussion today with the following discussion of malfeasance by a Congresswoman:

• Ilhan Omar is a first term Congresswoman from Minnesota.
• Recall that we have talked about her potential misbehaving before including the alleged act of marrying her brother to get him into the country and having an affair with a consultant to her Congressional campaign that eventually led to the consultant and her both getting a divorce after the affair and marrying each other.
• During that time she was alleged to illegally use campaign funds to pay for travel expenses for the consultant to travel around the country with her to continue their alleged affair on the road.
• For the second quarter in a row, Omar’s campaign has been found to have funneled around 70% of all of her campaign funds to her current husband’s consulting firm, The E Street Group.
• The consulting company has received $1.1 million from Omar’s campaign between July 23 and September 30 of this year.
• This is out of the $1.6 million the campaign received from donors in total.
• In the first three weeks of July, her husband’s company got $787,000 of her campaign funds, 77% of the total the campaign received during that time, $806,000.
• Of course, the Congresswoman claims that these are legitimate expenses spent in support of her reelection campaign.
• But 79% of a campaign’s money going to a single company is not common and the fact that her husband is getting the money is even more suspicious.

Sometimes the perception of conflict of interest is as bad as a conflict of interest. In this case, we may have both, the perception and reality of conflict of interest. Funneling campaign money to your husband’s company at such large levels should be totally banned from politics. I'm sure there are other consulting firms that can do the same job that the E Street is doing without having a Congresswoman scam campaign donations for family purposes. Despicable.

2) We have often and recently discussed the insanity that is called “defund the police.” Local politicians have decided that the reason their cities are so screwed up in so many ways is not because of their failings as politicians but because of their local police forces.

The cities that have embarked on this defund the police insanity without having a replacement plan to control crime and protect law abiding citizens’ lives and property include Minneapolis and New York City, situations that we have previously discussed on how the defunding and disrespecting of police by local politicians has resulting in skyrocketing crime levels.

Los Angeles is not in any better shape as they continue to defund their police department, the LAPD, recently lopping off another $14 million from its budget and transferring the money to support illegal immigrants in the LA area.

But like elsewhere, defunding and demanding the police in the LA area has gotten the same bad crime results as elsewhere:

• In a recent stretch of just a few days in LA, over 50 people were shot despite some of the stiffest gun control laws in the country.
• Of those 50+ who were shot, over a dozen died from their wounds.
• According to Assistant Police Chief Robert Arcos: “We haven’t seen that type of week in over 10 years,”

Nice going LA politicians. Like your peers in Minneapolis and NYC, as you continue to defund and disrespect your own police forces, your ability to provide the very basic government services of protecting lives and property goes down the drain.

3) This inability to protect lives and property in California cities like LA has resulted in Californians leaving the state like never before. But this inability is not the only reason why state residents are getting out of Dodge, as a recent analysis and article by the Mises Institute points out in their article, “The Great California Exodus:”

• People were leaving California at a greater rate than people were moving into the state even before the latest political class insanity and the pandemic.
• Two recent studies show that it is not only the rich and wealthy that are leaving California, with higher and higher state taxes driving that wealthy exit, but also lower and middle class income families leaving also.
• Probably one of the reasons the wealthier are leaving is because the already high taxes are likely to get higher with state politicians proposing that the already sky high marginal state income tax rate of 13% be raised to a whopping 16.8% and making it retroactive to the beginning of the year.
• The governor recently signed an executive order that will ban the sales of new gas powered cars in the state\ of 2035, forcing people to buy electric cars and putting even more strain on a state power grid that cannot supply enough electricity today, never mind what happens when millions and millions of cars plug into that faulty grid for power.
• That same governor also wants to get rid of fracking in the state, an action that could cost the jobs of upwards of 360,000 Californians who work in that industry.
• Getting back to the lack of enough electricity, the state now has a formal plan of rolling blackouts that block homes and businesses from getting electricity on demand, a characteristic of many third world nations.
• State government and political mismanagement of state forests has resulted in millions of acres of wildfires throughout the state due to bad forest management policies.
• The state is also facing water shortages in addition to electricity shortages due to the short sighted and faulty environmentalist policies.
• The ridiculously stupid and recently enacted state law AB15 is likely to cost the state’s gig economy hundreds of thousands of jobs if fully implemented, upsetting the lives and financial stability of thousands of families and individuals who were perfectly happy working in a gig economy job.
• Despite a huge current budget deficit and an even bigger lump of unfunded debt shortages the state is weighing the possibility of paying out slavery reparations.

The state could not be any worse shape even if the state politicians tried to screw it up. Higher and higher taxes, not enough electricity, not enough water, ever rising crime rates, etc. Somehow California politicians took an utopia of weather and countryside and turned it into a version of North Korea with a tech industry. Take Silicon Valley out of the state and you have a bigger version of North Korea. 

That is enough insanity for now: California heading down the drain, LA short changing its police force with the resulting higher and higher crime rate, and Ihlan Omar allegedly enriches herself and her family using campaign donations.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=loce+my+country%2C+loathe+my+government&ref=nb_sb_noss

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w