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 just plain, downright stupidity of American politicians as always boggles my mind:
- Hank Johnson, a Georgia Congressman, once during a public Congressional hearing, insisted that the island of Guam could literally tip over if too many armed forces resources were placed on the island.
- Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee astounded us with her insistence that the Constitution was over 400 years old, that South Vietnam and North Vietnam still existed with North Vietnam controlling South Vietnam, and that her Congressional district was 50 feet below sea level (it isn’t).
- New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez astounded us so many times with her ignorance with some of her better points ignorance were: not knowing the simple, basic definition of what the unemployment rate despite having a business degree background, claiming that the three branches of government were the Presidency, the House of Representatives, and the Senate, and not knowing the difference between a tax credit and a tax cut, (again, despite having a college degree in business) which ended up costing her Congressional a once in a lifetime economic boom when she scared off Amazon from putting an incredibly lucrative part of their business in her district. (Note: in the past two years she has probably been the most prolific member of Congress to say and believe inane stuff, put her name in the search box above for more hilarity and ignorance from her.)
- She wants Biden to issue as many executive orders as possible to get her radical left wing agenda put into play in this country.
- She wants to have all student loans cancelled.
- She wants to eliminate the patent process for companies and inventors that invest their resources to develop new products and services.
- She wants to raise the minimum wage for all federal contractors to $15 an hour.
- She wants to create a “Racial and Ethnic Disparities Task Force” to “review racial disparities in pandemic funding.”
- Declare the the climate crisis a national emergency
- Executive order governing - Basically she wants Biden to act as much as a dictator as possible, bypassing Congress and squashing the concept of the First Amendment for every citizen and the power of their vote for representation on national matters.
- Forgive student loans - the problem of those with large student loans is not a problem that the rest of us should have to solve with a free pass of government and taxpayer dollars. What would she say to kids who did the right thing by working multiple jobs after getting out of college to pay off their loans? What would she say to poor and middle class families who scraped and suffered to get their kids through college without massive student loans after graduation? Given many of the kids who have large student loans went to elite colleges to begin with and thus, many likely came from wealthier families, let their families pay off the kids’ loans, not the taxpayer.
- Eliminate the patent process - This would essentially mean nothing new would be invented since why would a company or individual pour resources, time, and money into inventing something new just to have it become the property of the rest of the world at the end of the invention process? Think back say thirty years ago if this patent process/insanity had been eliminated then - it is doubtful you would have an iPhone in your pocket, television quality would be nowhere as good or inexpensive as it is today, you might be dead since medical advances would have ground to a halt decades ago without patent protection. Life is so much better now because inventors and smart people took the risks, paid the price and were thus entitled to the fruits of their work. Warren would kill off all of that.
- Minimum wage of $15 for all Federal contractors - this idea would affect how many Federal workers, 2, 22, 102? Such a nit of an issue when there are so many more issues that affect tens of millions of Americans, she would waste time and resources on this idiocy.
- Racial task force on the pandemic - Is this even an issue? I would be that it does not crack the top 100 issues facing Americans if Americans put a list together. Focus on alleviating the pandemic effects for ALL Americans.
- Climate change - we have discussed so, so many times why this is just nonsense.
2) There is no doubt that covid was and is a major issue facing the country. It required major steps to get the pandemic under control from a medical servicing perspective including the shutdown of parts of the economy to dull the spread.
But all of this comes with a price and that price is the reduction in freedom. The very real concern is that once politicians know they can shut down selective parts of the economy and life, having done it once, are they more likely to do it again for other issues that do not merit such drastic actions, that we are now on the very slippery slope where governors and mayors can rule by their own views, using any issue they want to bypass freedom and elective offices.
Finally, someone in the Washington establishment is highlighting the danger and potential loss of freedom we face:
- Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recently said the coronavirus pandemic has “resulted in previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty.”
- He also warned that “religious liberty” is “in danger of becoming a second class right.”
- In a virtual speech he recently gave a conference he warned that we must be diligent in restoring freedom as much as possible after the pandemic is over especially as it relates to freedom of religion.
- Specifically, “Nevada was unable to provide any justification for treating casinos more favorably than other houses of worship,” he said, referring to a recent Supreme Court case in which the court rejected a request by a church to block state restrictions that subjected houses of worship to a 50-person limit, while allowing casinos to operate at 50 percent of their fire-code capacities.“Religious liberty is in danger of becoming a second-class right.”
- And: “In certain quarters religious liberty has fast become a disfavored right. For many today, religious liberty is not a cherished freedom. It’s often just an excuse for bigotry and it can’t be tolerated even when there’s no evidence that anybody has been harmed.”
3) Speaking of freedom, we have talked any number of times of how current politicians had no problem severely restricting the life activities of their voters just to ignore their own pandemic decrees that caused such hardship with everyone but themselves, the old “do as I say. not as I do” complex:
- The mayor of Chicago shut down all of the hair salons in the city, preventing her constituents from getting their hair done, but forced her hair salon to open so she could get her hair cut.
- The mayor of Beaumont, Texas, did the same thing in her city but forced her favorite nail salon to open to get her nails done, something she denied to her voters.
- The mayor of New York shut down all of the city parks and gyms to prevent the spread of the virus but forced his gym to open only for himself to get a workout and walked through closed parks for a stroll, all of which he denied to his residents.
- The governor’s husband in Michigan tried to get his boat out of storage and on the water for a Memorial Day boating day despite his wife having shut down all boating activities in the whole state.
- The Illinois governor shut down all travel out of and into Illinois but allowed his wife and family to travel to Florida.
- The Philadelphia mayor shut down all indoor dining at city restaurants but took a trip to Maryland so that he could have an indoor meal.
- The governor of California kept county public schools shut down in the county where he lives even though the expensive, ritzy private school where his kids attend was allowed to reopen for face to face learning.
The latest such behavior comes from California:
- Gavin Newsom is the governor of California.
- He has placed some of the most draconian lock down restrictions on state residents.
- And yet, according to a local NBC News report: “For months, Gov. Gavin Newsom has pleaded with Californians to resist the temptation to socialize with friends and relatives outside their household. Turns out, he's the one who couldn't resist. Newsom acknowledged Friday he attended a birthday party with a dozen friends on Nov. 6 at the posh French Laundry restaurant in wine country north of San Francisco.”
- This is one of the most expensive dining places anywhere, with the menu including a $350 per person wine tasting option, i.e. this is a dining option for only the very rich.
- Newsom’s public gathering restrictions include “ If people must visit others, they should meet outside, include no more than three households, wear masks, stay socially distant and limit their interaction to two hours.”
- It appears that Newsom violated at least some of these tenets, tenets he has imposed on every other citizen of California.
- AFTER he got caught he had this weak apology: “While our family followed the restaurant’s health protocols and took safety precautions, we should have modeled better behavior and not joined the dinner.”
He obviously should have known better which means he really didn’t care, he is above the very same edicts that he imposes. Incredible hypocrisy.
That will do it for today: more of the same “do as I say, not as I do” hypocrisy from the American political class, at least one member of the Washington establishment is worried about us losing our freedom and a Senator wants to take that freedom away while focusing on extremely trivial matters. Insane.
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
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:
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
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