Saturday, December 18, 2021

December, 2021, Part 7, Political Class Insanity: Politicians Continue To NOT Protect the Lives Of Citizens, From Austin To NYC to Chicago

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) First, many politicians across the country in liberal cities decided that it was a good idea to defund and reduce the police forces in their cities. We knew right away, as did most logical and semi-smart people, that this was a stupid idea since their actions created a void of law enforcement without any process to handle the consequences of the void they created.

As a result, violent crime skyrocketed in liberal cities across the country, from LA to Chicago to NYC. But it was not only the major cities that rued the idea of defunding the police:
  • The brain dead liberal politicians in Austin, Texas defunded their police department to the tune of 30% over the past year.
  • And surprise, surprise, as they reduced their police force the homicide rate in the city rose dramatically this year.
  • There were 88 homicides in the city in 2021, beating by far the previous record of 59 that was set in 1984 and almost double the number of murders, 48, in 2020.
  • This happened after the city politicians reduced the Austin police budget by 30%, $150 million, and reallocated those funds to other social programs.
  • The almost doubling of the homicide rate is among the highest percent increase in the entire country.
  • And after a year of unnecessary violence, the Austin city politicians took the same belated action that other cities took: they raised the city’s police budget to a record $442 million and paid for three new police cadet classes.
As we forecasted in previous posts, this defunding of police movement was stupid because there was no back up plan to fill the void in law enforcement, It was like trying to design a new parachute AFTER you jumped out of the plane, without testing the design beforehand. The sad part of this scenario of events is that people died unnecessarily because of the shortsightedness of liberal politicians.

2) We have often asked the look running question: do politcians say the most outrageous things/lies because they actually believe themselves or do they lie so much and so grandly because they think we are too stupid to identify their lies when the put them forth? It is a question for the ages, as outgoing NYC mayor Bill de Blasio recently illustrated:
  • Keep in mind that New York City has experienced massive increases in violent crime within the city over the past few years.
  • Rampaging gangs have invaded stores and businesses and gotten away with untold millions of dollars in stolen merchandise.
  • A very, very liberal, and idiotic bail reform, has allowed just about any alleged criminal in the city to walk out of court without bail and without jail time, free to go back out into the city and commit more crimes.
  • And yet, de Blasio has recently proclaimed that NYC became “much safer” during his time in office.
  • During his first year in office, the city experienced 318 murders back 2013.
  • By 2020, the annual murder numbers were up to 437 and so far in 2021, the murder total is 443, more than a 30% increase from 2013.
  • Now, NYC is an exception in that some major crimes in the city are down, not because of decreasing murders, but decreases in other crimes.
  • In addition to increasing murder rates, the number of so-called hate crimes has gone from 252 to 503 in 2021.
  • NYC Police Commissioner Dermot Shea and incoming mayor, Eric Adams, both blamed de Blasio’s bail reform for the increase in murders and hate crimes.
So back to the original question: most rational people would say that if murders in a city go up over 30% in just 8 years, that city is not “much safer.” And yet politician de Blasio sees a city with a massive increase in murders as being “much safer.”You cannot makeup this insanity.

3) And while de Blaso’s NYC has seen a marked increase in homicides that are at least because of his massive defunding of the police, the epitome of cultivating violence in a city still belongs to mayor Lori Lightfoot in Chicago:
  • Way too many times we have discussed the weekly, monthly and annual increases in violent crimes and murders in Chicago.
  • And each time we pointed out that the local politicians and the mayor have no clue on how to fix the deteriorating situation.
  • Recently two criminals walked into a high end auto dealer in Chicago in the middle of the day and stole a million dollars worth of high end watches that the dealership also sold.
  • Dealership owner, Joe Perillo, was quoted in the local city news: “When I went on the news, I said enough is enough. Those two words resonated. The phone calls started ringing in my dealership. My friends, relatives, people that I didn’t know. People that could get a hold of my number and they were saying enough is enough. I never realized that it has gotten to such a boiling point and no one stepping out to say anything about it. They’re [mayor and local district attorney] probably good people. They’re probably are trying to do good for the community. But they’re doing bad for the community.”
  • He is probably right since there has been an amazing and depressing 220% increase in violent crime in downtown Chicago since 2019.
  • Perillo went on to further say: “What happened to my dealership, it’s not about me. What they don’t realize is that they’re harvesting criminals.”
  • Even fellow Democratic Chicago Alderman, Raymond Lopez, slammed Lightfoot for “refusing to acknowledge any fault” for the surge in crime.
And in the wake of all this increasing violence, what program has Lightfoot put forth to fight the violence epidemic? The city recently launched a program called “Safe Chicago” which has installed “bleeding control kits” throughout the city to help citizens treat life threatening injuries once they have become a victim of violent crime. Seriously? Thousands of people are being shot every year in Chicago and the local political class is basically stationing band aids around the city as a response. Pathetic.

That will do it for today: politicians continue to not keep their citizens safe from violent crime, from Austin to NYC to Chicago.

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

December, 2021, Part 6, Political Class Insanity: Bankrupting The Country With Build Back Better, Solyndra Re Dux, and Please Don't Visit LA

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) Biden and other Democrats in Washington have made the ludicrous claim that Joe Biden’s outrageous and mostly useless “Build Back Better” legislation will not cost Americans any money. Yes, that has been the claim. Biden is going to bring all of these promised programs and improvements to Americans and it will not cost anything. Sounds like the type of idiocy we usually get from Ocasio-Cortez.

But the Congressional Budget Office (CB) has a different view:
  • The CBO, a set of trained economists unlike Biden, says that the Build Back Better plan would increase the Federal deficit by $3 trillion over the next ten years.
  • This assumes that the facets of Biden’s plan are made permanent.
  • According to Senator John Cornyn: "If the temporary provisions of this bill are extended, and I fully expect them to be if our Democratic colleagues have the votes to do it, this legislation will cost a whole lot more than what the American people have been told."
  • Even Democrat Senator, Joe Manchin, knows that Biden and others have been lying about this fiasco, accusing fellow Democrat Biden of "using “gimmicks” to downplay the legislation’s actual cost: "As more of the real details outlined in the basic framework are released, what I see are shell games and budget gimmicks that make the real cost of this so-called '$1.75 trillion' bill estimated to be twice as high if the programs are extended or made permanent."
  • Fellow Democratic Senator, Kyrsten Sinema, is also against the sky high costs in the legislation.
As we have discussed so many times, the national debt in this country of the Federal government is over $30 trillion. The unfunded future liabilities of the Federal government is over $80 trillion. And yet Biden wants to add more trillions to the national debt and lie about it in the process. Insanity.

2) During the Obama administration, Obama made sure that big time Democratic donors and political allies in the alternative energy industry were rewarded with lucrative Federal contracts for alternative energy projects. Billions of dollars were haphazardly sent to Obama’s political friends and then were usually lost almost immediately, leaving the American taxpayer with additional debt and nothing to show for it.

Solyndra, A123, Fisker, and other companies are no longer around, having gone bankrupt or been bought out by other companies for pennies on the taxpayer dollar. And yet, despite the history of solar cronyism and expensive failures, apparently Biden has not learned anything from the disastrous Obama wasting of taxpayer wealth:
  • First Solar is a tightly connected political ally and rich donor to Democrats, having gotten a $3 billion in taxpayer loan guarantee from the Obama administration.
  • And despite getting nothing of value in that transaction, Biden’s administration is giving First Solar a half a billion Federal loan.
  • And to make this transaction even more disgusting, the loan is to help First Solar to build a solar energy factory in India, not America, in India.
  • The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation made the loan to First Solar.
  • First Solar is owned by Walmart billionaire heir, Lukas Walton.
  • Walton contributed over $300,000 to Biden’s 2020 Presidential campaign and $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee.Others think that this is possibly a highly unethical arrangement: "The United States International Development Finance Corporation, formerly known as OPIC, has a history of deals gone bad when mixing taxpayer dollars with politically connected entities like First Solar," said Tom Anderson, director of the Government Integrity Project at the National Legal and Policy Center. "This agency has a history of favoring entities backed by huge political contributors, like First Solar, by giving them less scrutiny while prioritizing politically connected projects above entities and individuals who are not politically active."
  • Part of that history of bad deals happened in 2010 when it sped through a $10 million loan to a Hillary Clinton campaign donor while she was Secretary of State.
  • The loan was supposed to fund a Haiti housing relief project but the donor put the $10 million in his own pocket, for which he was eventually sentenced to 12 years in prison, the Haiti housing project be damned.
  • First Solar government/Obama windfall was granted even though its technology was deemed not “innovative,” a requirement for getting the loan.
  • First Solar fired half of its employees within weeks of telling Congress the company was “financially strong.”
  • First Solar settled a $350 million law suit in 2020 when it was sued by two English pension funds for lying to investors.
So let’s review: First Solar got taxpayer money from Obama for technology that was not innovative, to my knowledge never provided any technology that was innovative for the taxpayer dollars it received, fired half of its workforce after claiming in front of Congress it was in good financial shape, and got sued and paid out $350 million for lying to investors. And yet, Biden just gave them more taxpayer money to build a solar plant in India which would hire workers in India to spend American taxpayer dollars to build solar panels in India. Unreal.

3) We have always maintained that a very, very basic function of government is to protect the lives and property of the citizens it is responsible for. No matter what else politicians in a government entity accomplish, a failure to protect lives and property relegates other accomplishments moot.

The poster child for the failure of this basic government function is Chicago, as we have discussed far too many times over the years. Every year, hundreds of citizens are killed in the city from violent crime, thousands are injured, and many businesses are robbed, gutted, and put of business by violent criminals. And every year, the politicians in Chicago fail to come up with any solution to reduce the carnage.

But it is not only politicians in Chicago that cannot protect their citizens, Los Angeles is not a safe haven either:
  • An LAPD detective recently gave advice to anyone who was planning on visiting his city in the near future.
  • The simple advice: do not visit LA, the crime has gotten so bad that you would be taking your life in your hands if you came to his city.
  • Specifically: "My advice to anybody considering coming to Los Angeles is 'Don't. We can't guarantee your safety. It is really, really out of control It's like that movie 'Purge' [sic]. Instead of 24 hours to commit your crime, these bad people have 365 days to commit whatever they want."
  • Detective McBride blamed the LA crime wave on very bad and usually dumb decisions by liberal politicians including defuding the police, putting lenient and zero bail policies into effect, etc.
I don't think I ever heard a law enforcement officer encourage people to NOT come to their city because of the crime wave that is getting worse and worse every day. That is how bad mostly liberal cities have become, from LA to Portland, to Seattle to NYC and, of course, the violence capital of the country, Chicago.

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That will do it for today: expensive cronyism still exists as Biden gives away millions of taxpayer dollars, violence and crime are rampaging across the country, and Washington continues to bankrupt the country with outlandish and stupid deficit spending.

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Monday, December 13, 2021

December, 2021, Part 5, PoliticalClass Insanity: Ocasio-Cortez Still Denies Reality, Ocasio-Cortez Thinks You Should Pay Off Her Student Loan, and Biden Has Plenty of Failures But No Plans To Fix What Is Broken

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) We used to talk a lot about Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her ignorance and idiocy regarding governing and real life were really quite funny at one point in time, and made us wonder how someone so out of touch with reality ever got elected to Congress.

But overtime her ignorance and ranting became tedious and more idiotic. Everyone and everything that did not agree with her was either racist, sexist, or both. She proposed no solutions to any problems that had any basis in reality or chance of being effective. As a result, we have cut back on her rantings since they accomplished nothing.

But let’s get back to her latest idiocy. It is no secret that defunding the police departments across the country has resulted in skyrocketing crime. The numbers do not lie. But apparently she has a math deficiency since she continues to insist that defunding the police is a valid societal approach to crime. And her blindness to reality has led her down another path of ignorance:
  • It is no secret that criminal gangs have been attacking, overwhelming and stripping retail stores, especially in California, of products on the shelves.
  • These retail gangs have threatened the safety of both employees and customers with a retail security guard already being killed in California.
  • There is no doubt that this is a crime spree that is out of control.
  • Even a fellow New York Democrat, state assemblyman Dov Hikind, is aware of reality: “These crimes that are being committed, there are real victims out there.”
  • But Ocasio-Cortez insists that the retail gang crime spree, as with the other types of ever rising urban crime rates, is a myth, just does not exist: “A lot of these allegations of organized retail theft are not panning out.”
  • How she can say this with almost nightly news reports containing video of the crime spree, is beyond comprehension.
  • But Hikind knows better: “The bail reform she (Ocasio-Cortez) supports, in which criminals walk out before the police officer finishes the paperwork, is ridiculous, resulting in new victims. It’s entirely out of hand….Republicans are speaking out on this. Where are people from my Democratic Party? Are they blind? Maybe AOC is blind. She doesn’t see it.”
Kudos to Mr. Hikind for speaking out against a member of his own party. But he states the obvious. A primary purpose of any government is to protect the lives and property of the citizens they govern. Many government entities around the country are now failing miserably at this function as witnessed by the retail gang attacks on stores. And given that Ocasio-Cortez cannot even recognize the problem, she has no chance of resolving the crime problem that plagues mostly liberal cities across the country. So out of touch.

2) But one thing that Ocasio-Cortez does very well as it applies to long term politicians in Washington, is to take care of herself financially. She recently lamented that she had $17,000 in student debt and would like the American taxpayer to cover the debt she has incurred:
  • “I’m 32 years old now. I have over $17,000 in student loan debt, and I didn’t go to graduate school because I knew that getting another degree would drown me in debt that I would never be able to surpass. This is unacceptable.”
  • Obviously, in her mind, it is the fault of the world and not her because she did not go to graduate school even though untold thousands of average Americans go to graduate schools every year.
  • Keep in mind that Ocasio-Cortez earns about $174,000 a year as a member of Congress, about 2-3 times higher than the average household income in the country.
  • Keep in mind that this salary does not include the very robust benefits that Congress has voted itself over the years.
  • Keep in mind that has bought herself a Tesla electric vehicle, probably paying about $70,000 or so for the car.
  • And she wants average Americans, earning far less than her and not able to afford a Tesla to pay off her student debt?
  • To pay off her student debt and the student debt of everyone else who owes would cost about $1.6 trillion.
  • This means that every American household would have to pay out about $13,000 to cover the student debt of others.
So ridiculous for her to even think that American taxpayers are obligated to pay off her student loan. Would she be willing to pay off my mortgage? Would she be willing to pay off my neighbor's car loan? Of course not, that would cost her money. But she has no problem spending other people's money to pay off her debts. Again, has any politician ever been so out of touch with reality?

3) Let’s do a quick review of Joe Biden’s first eleven months in office:
  • He completely botched the Afghanistan withdrawal to try and get a cheap political stunt for the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, resulting in unnecessary deaths of American service personnel and Afghan civilians.
  • He left behind hundreds of Americans and possibly thousands of Afghan allies behind Taliban lines and at the mercy of these butchers and he has no plans to rescue them.
  • Overall inflation levels have hit levels not seen in thirty years and he has no plans to fix the problem.
  • Inflation levels for durable goods have hit levels not seen in 40 years and he has no plans to fix the problem.
  • Energy inflation levels had seen gas prices rise about 50% and home heating energy prices soar even higher with no plans to fix the problem.
  • Crime is rampaging across American cities and he has no plans to fix the problem.
  • The American economy's supply chain process is broken and he has no plans to fix it.
  • He has insulted a host of longtime U.S,. allies (France, England, others) and has no plans to fix the problem.
  • He has emboldened Russia, China, Iran, and other enemies of the country, endangering the freedom and lives of people living in the Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel and has no plans to fix the problem.
  • His approval ratings for both himself and his Vice President continue to trend downward with no plans to fix the problem.
  • Covid is still a major health problem and he has no plans to fix the problem.
  • Russia and China are rapidly moving ahead with hypersonic weapon development and he has no plans to counteract this new threat.
  • His domestic spending plans and proposed plans will accelerate the growth in the national debt even higher, leading to the eventual financial collapse of the U.S. economy.
  • He has opened up the borders to a surge of unvaccinated, criminals, drug cartel members, and possibly terroristic individuals with no plans to fix the problem.
  • He has no plans to provide for the basic support of needy Americans, the hundreds of thousands of homeless Americans, the millions of hungry Americans, and the untold number of Americans in need of drug addiction help.
Bottom line: the country is in bad shape and Biden has no plans to fix any of the problems facing every American. You would hope that he would be busily dedicated to working with the best minds in the country and government to fix what he has mostly broken and fix what he inherited. But no, he would rather go on television and hang out with a Hollywood liberal:
  • He recently spent time appearing on the “Tonight Show” with famed Hollywood liberal, Jimmy Fallon.
  • This is part of the White House’s new public relations blitz to shore up Biden’s cratering popularity rather than shore up his actual performance as President, a really bad set of priorities.
  • During the interview with Fallon, he came up with the following gibberish response, a trademark of his current mental state, gibberish: “Well look, here’s the deal. I think that it’s uh, we’ve been in less than a year, um, a lot has happened, look, people are afraid, people are worried and people are getting so much inaccurate information to them. I don’t mean about me, I mean about this…their situation, and and so they’re, you know, they’re, they’re being told that you know, Armageddon’s on the way.”
  • Of course, he went on to blame Trump, much like his former boss, Obama, blamed George Bush for his failings, despite being in office for almost a year and having a Democratically controlled Congress.
  • And yet he has failed on so many fronts it is pathetic, probably making him a worse president than Jimmy Carter, once recognized as one of the least effective Presidents of the past 100 years.
But at least Carter never blamed everyone else for his failures, he was an adult who accepted responsibility. Biden is not that adult, he would rather incoherently parade around on late night TV while Americans suffer at the gas pumps, in Afghanistan, in their soon to be very cold homes, and at the food checkout lines. So very bad priorities.

That will do it for today: Ocasio-Cortez is still out of touch with reality and still greedy and Biden has been a failure along every perspective imaginable.

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Saturday, December 11, 2021

December, 2021, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Violence Across American Cities and Elitism Across the Rich and Famous

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) Too many times we have pointed out in this blog that a very, very fundamental job of government is to protect the lives and property of the citizens in their city or state. And just as many times we have discussed how poorly American politicians in office fulfill that very basic responsibility to protect lives and property.

And nowhere has this failure been so obvious and blatant than in Chicago:
  • For the first time in 27 years, the number of murders in Chicago’s Cook County will exceed 1,000 deaths.
  • You have to go all the way back to 1994 when the number of county murders was over 1,000, 1,141.
  • Since Chicago dominates Cook County, most of the murders have occurred with the city limits, about 77% so far this year.
  • So far there have been 1,009 homicides in the county vs. 968 in all of 2020.
  • And keep in mind that 1,009 is a year to date number so that the total number of 2021 murders is likely to go higher.
  • On the Sunday morning after Thanksgiving, 40 people were shot just that morning inside Chicago city limits.
  • Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, continues to have no clue on how to fix the violence epidemic in the city, now blaming the pandemic for the violence: "There's no question that the COVID-related impact on the public safety system in Chicago, in New York, in L.A., D.C. and other cities across the country is real. And what we've got to continue to do is make sure that we're demanding of our courts and our prosecutors that they hold violent people accountable and keep them off our streets."
  • However, she fails to mention that violence was rising in the city before the pandemic and she fails to explain how the violence increase in Chicago is related to covid, what is the cause and effect link, a link that likely does not exist to any great extent.
  • She also fails to propose any detailed, common sense plans to fix the situation, instead talking about general issues like job creation, poverty, gangs, etc. with no concrete plans to actually address these top line issues.
Certainly another failure of a very, very basic function of government. Given that 81% of the homicide victims in the county are African Americans, the absence of Black Lives Matter in this matter is a telling tale that they really don't care that black lives are being killed at a greater and greater rate in the city.

2) A growing reality is coming to light across the country that those in charge, be they in government, the mainstream media, in entertainment, or high tech business do not care about ordinary Americans. These folks are so rich that they are able to insulate themselves from the issues and problems facing the vast majority of Americans today, be it higher and higher gas prices, food price inflation, the growing crime rate, higher and higher taxes paid for lower and lower government services, etc.

For example, take the current and disgusting retail crime wave affecting mostly California...so far. Gangs of young men descend on a retail store or mall and rampage through it, stealing merchandising, threatening and attacking customers and retail employees and causing tremendous financial losses to business owners.

It has been all over the news, including detailed and harrowing video of retail robbers going crazy. And yet, out of touch, again, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks it is all a hoax, that the retail ravaging gangs really don't exist, it is all fake.

And the lawlessness involved in the retail crime wave is spilling over to dangerous home invasions of not only the poor and middle class but also the rich who live in places in Beverly Hills. A famous socialite was recently shot to death in her Beverly Hills home during a home invasion and Oprah Winfrey finally came out with a comment about how bad the crime and violence is becoming in some American cities but only after the home invasion.

I do not recall her having anything to say when ordinary Americans, over 1,000, in the Chicago area were killed this year, the majority of which were also African American like herself. When a security guard was recently killed during a retail rampage in the Oakland area, I do not recall her having anything to say then either. But when one of her elite type friends is a victim, all of a suddenly she has something to say.

As gas prices and food prices have gone higher and higher during Biden’s first 11 months, members of his administration and members of the mainstream press have actually come out and say that inflation is good, it shows a strong economy. No, inflation is not good but since these administration people and mainstream media types are making far more money on their jobs than ordinary Americans, it's no surprise they are so tone deaf.

And then we come to the elitist and wealthy types living out by Montauk Long Island, New York:
  • Apparently the wealthy types that were driving along the coast of Long Island were not happy that they had their view interrupted by above ground power lines.
  • This was so upsetting to them that they convinced the local political class to spend $750,000 of taxpayer money to bury the power lines in order to give them a nicer view.
  • Newsday reported that over 2,000 linear feet of above ground power lines will be buried.
  • The median household income in the area where the lines will be buried is just under $100,000, about 30-40% above the nationwide median income average so one can see where the elitist feeling comes from.
I am sure that there are fewer than average homeless, hungry, and drug addicted people in the Montauk area. But I would bet there are some local people that are in need of shelter, food and drug addiction help. Thus, personally, I would think that the $750,000 spent on rich folks to give them better views could have been much better spent helping out local folks in need, those people that are not making almost $100,000 a year.

This is the kind of waste and petty things that happen when politicians are up for sale and the wealthy and elite in this country lose touch with what is happening to the overwhelming majority of Americans, from crime to inflation to the petty waste of taxpayer wealth.

3) Although Chicago has been the poster child for the failure of American politicians to provide that very basic function, protecting Americans Lives and property, there are plenty of other cities across the country where local politicians are also failing to provide that basic function:
  • At least a dozen U.S. cities have already set murder records for 2021 with three weeks yet to go in the year.
  • Not surprising, Chicago leads the nation with 739 murders through the end of November.
  • That homicide rate is up 3% vs. the high rate in 2020.
  • Philadelphia is doing a great job increasing the murders in that city, even having more murders than much larger cities, New York and Los Angeles.
  • Philly has had 521 murders through December 6 vs. 443 in NYC and 352 in LA.
  • The number of murders in Philadelphia is 13% higher than in 2020, a year that broke the previous record set in 1990.
  • Other cities that have set homicide records this year include Columbus, Indianapolis, Louisville, St. Paul, Portland, Tucson, Toledo, Baton Rouge, Austin, Rochester and Albuquerque.
  • Milwaukee and Minneapolis are close to setting their own records for annual homicides.
  • According to Captain Frank Umbrino of the Rochester Police Department: "The community has to get fed up. We're extremely frustrated. It has to stop. I mean, it's worse than a war zone around here lately."
What a mess and the American political class, from Washington to the local city governing bodies apparently have no clue how to fulfill this basic government function: protect the lives and property of its citizens.

That will do it for today: elitists are still tone deaf to ordinary Americans’ struggles and many of those elitists in the political class have no solution for the ever increasing crime and violence in American cities.

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Wednesday, December 8, 2021

December, 2021, Part 3, Political Class Insanity: The Coming Collapse Of Social Security and Medicare, Clinton Hung Out With A Pedophile, and Freedom Across The Country

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) For over a decade we have pointed out and discussed the reality that the American political class is basically filled with people not smart enough, courageous enough, or focused enough on protecting the taxpayer wealth that we pay them via our ever growing tax burden. They have taken tens of trillions of dollars and really not fixed anything in this country that is broken, be it a crumbling infrastructure of roads, bridges and dams, our failing public education system, our deteriorating military capabilities, etc.

They have wasted untold trillions on foreign aid that does us no good, bloated and ineffective Federal bureaucracies, and caring for, feeding, clothing, and housing millions of illegal immigrants., As a result of their incompetence and greed, we have pointed out that this country is headed to a huge financial collapse in the not too distant future as the unfunded Federal government liabilities (over $80 trillion and counting) and the skyrocketing national debt (over $30 trillion and counting) will crash the economic well being of the government, the country, and every U.S. citizen.

And despite knowing all of this, the current people in office in Washington have no clue or inclination to fix what they have broken, even given the latest dire economic and government debt analysis:
  • According to a recent Treasury report, the Social Security Trust Fund is forecasted to go broke 12 years from now, one year sooner than the previous estimate.
  • This change in the collapse was attributed to the pandemic impact on the economy.
  • In addition, Medicare’s hospital insurance fund is expected to go broke even sooner, 2026.
  • “The finances of both programs have been significantly affected by the pandemic and the recession of 2020,” the Treasury said in the new materials they released. The combined impacts of a massive decrease in employment, refusal to return to the workforce, artificially manipulated interest rates, earnings, inflation, and GDP, as well as increased mortality for the next few years. “all significantly impact the outlook of the programs.”
Not a pretty picture. But as we have previously pointed out, both Medicare and Social Security are already bankrupt, these new dates from the Treasury Department only reflect accounting tricks. Both programs have not been self-sufficient for years, relying on general tax revenue to sustain themselves at current spending levels. The taxes earmarked in all of our paychecks for both programs no longer can pay out the benefits that politicians have promised.

And yet, foreign aid continues to flow to usually foreign dictatorships, the Federal bureaucracy gets bigger, more expensive and less effective every year, and there is no one in Washington sounding the alarm on this pending disaster.This disaster will eventually reduce seniors' Social Security payments every month by at least 20% and will make Medicare and healthcare more expensive for millions of retired folks living on a mostly fixed income stream.

There are ways to fix the problem, many of which were laid out in our book, “Love My Country, Loathe My Government:”
  • Raise the retirement age to 70 for those Americans that have sufficient sources of other income to survive in order to extend the saved revenue for those that really need the money to survive.
  • Stop payments to anyone that has personal assets of at least three million dollars since they do not need a Social Security check to live a normal life. Folks like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, etc., people with untold millions of dollars of net worth, should not be depleting the limited funds of Social Security and Medicare.
  • Stop all foreign aid, stop encouraging illegal immigration, and stop the growth of the Federal government and allocate those saved funds to actually serving millions and millions of Americans who are dependent on Social Security and Medicare.
I doubt that Washington politicians have the guts, courage, and brains to fix what they have broken and eventually the collapse of both Social Security and Medicare will represent the biggest disaster ever managed by the American political class.

2) As most of you know, Jeffery Epstein, friend of the rich and powerful around the world, was one of the worst sexual predators ever when it came to abusing and molesting young girls. And his alleged partner in such disgusting behaviors, Ghislane Maxwell, is currently on trial for abetting his perversion.

As a result of testimony at the trial we are finding out that a lot of powerful people may have also indulged in Epstein’s disgusting behaviors. Specifically:
  • In just two years, between 1993 and 1995, Epstein visited the Clinton White House 17 times.
  • Three times he visited the White House twice in the same day.
  • This was when Maxwell was allegedly finding underage girls for Epstein to have sex with.
  • A picture exists where both Epstein and Maxwell were with Clinton during a fundraising event at the White House.
  • We also know that Clinton rode on Epstein’s private plane over two dozen times, often without any Secret Service detail to watch over him.
  • And while denying he ever went to Epstein’s private island where Epstein is known to have abused many underage girls, others have stated that he was indeed there multiple times.
What a mess, a former President allegedly tied up doing who knows what with the sexual predator Epstein. A sad commentary on the morals of American politicians.

3) The beauty of this country is that it has been the home of possibly the most freedom oriented society in the history of humanity. Guided by the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, the freedoms promised by the Founding Fathers have ensured that Americans have generally been freer than citizens in other countries.

But it has been a battle to protect those freedoms and rights, a battle that continues to this day. With dictator-like politicians denying us our freedoms in the name of covid protection, with higher and higher taxation levels that help restrict our life decisions and options, and woke politicians that are all too willing to sacrifice our freedom because someone somewhere got their feelings hurt, freedom is under attack in this country.

But the loss of freedom has not been consistent across the country according to a recent analysis:
  • The Cato Institute recently released its most recent “Freedom in the 50 States” analysis.
  • Factors in the study included state fiscal policy, government regulations and civil liberties.
  • The top five states from a freedom perspective are New Hampshire (freest state), Florida, Nevada, Tennessee, and South Dakota.
  • The bottom five states from a freedom perspective are New York (least free state), Hawaii, California, New Jersey, and Oregon.
As we have pointed out any number of times, states like New York, New Jersey, and California have the highest tax rates in the country, taking a very high percentage of their citizens’ earnings to support the state and local governments in the state. When the government takes a high percentage of workers’ earnings, workers and their families have fewer options and freedoms to live their lives as they would like: less money and freedom to send their kids to better schools, less freedom and money to possibly start a business, less money and freedom to buy a better house, car, etc.

And these financial limitations have recently been combined with onerous covid restrictions on freedom, with the most onerous restriction coming from the politicians running the least free states to begin with.

All of this leads to a question about the country’s future: are we going to continue to cede our economic and political freedom to an ever greedy political class like the politicians in Oregon, California, New Jersey et al, or is it possible to reverse the loss of freedom and follow the examples of Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada et al?

That will do it today for political class insanity: the impending near term collapse of Social Security and Medicare, the collapse of morality and integrity of the political class as witnessed by Bill Clinton’s close relationship with pedophile Epstein, and the dangerous, potential collapse of freedom in the country. Dangerous times.

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Saturday, December 4, 2021

December, 2021, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: Juvenile Sex Abuse By A North Carolina Politician, Covid Fraud in Connecticut, Hunter Biden Gets Richer, and More ChicagoViolence

 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)One would hope that anyone running for public office would have a high degree of personal integrity and morality. Unfortunately, as we have pointed out many times, that hope is rarely present in the American political class:


  • A former North Carolina Democratic Party county chairman recently pleaded guilty to committing a sex act against a young boy.

  • The ex-chairman, Daniel Ray Green, was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to a number of sex charges with a minor.

  • He was arrested two years ago when a 14 year old boy claimed Green gave him alcohol, shared pornography with him, and then sexually assaulted him.

  • Another sad part of this sordid affair is that Green is a former judge in the local superior court.

  • Besides the jail sentence, he has to pay the boy’s medical bills, is permanently disbarred from practicing law, and must register as a sex offender.


Another huge and disgusting episode with a member of the political class.


2)But disgusting political class behaviors of low or no moral integrity is not restricted to sex with minors:


  • A Connecticut state politician, Michael DiMassa, is facing criminal charges, alleging that he stole over $630,000 from the city of New Haven.

  • The money came from the American taxpayer via the covid Cares Act and was given to the city government of New Haven for covid relief.

  • It is alleged that DiMassa and another person set up a dummy consulting firm which began billing the city government for work that was never done.

  • After receiving the relief money, DiMassa then wrote checks to himself, many of which coincided with trips to a major Connecticut casino.

  • According to the FBI: “From February 12, 2021 through April 30, 2021, seven checks were made payable to COMPASS INVESTMENT GROUP, LLC from the City of West Haven and were deposited to the business account. The checks ranged in value from $11,847.50 to $87,650.0. These funds were then used for twenty-one cash withdrawals that were conducted by MICHAEL DIMASSA, ranging from $8,000 to $10,000, for a total of $178,150.”


If he is guilty of this fraud, then that is the good news. The bad news is that we have no idea how many people like him have not gotten caught defrauding the American taxpayer.


3)New York Post reporter, Miranda Devine, recently published a book, “Laptop From Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets The President Tried to Hide.” The book is obviously focused on a damaged laptop computer that Hunter Biden dropped off at a Delaware computer repair shop but whose contents got out and showed how corrupt both Hunter Biden and his father, Joe Biden, are.


One of the excerpts from the book explains just a single incident of the corruption that has permeated the Biden political career:


  • One of the incidents of corruption outlined in the book involved a Chinese Communist government dominated company exec giving Hunter Biden a huge three carat diamond worth about $80,000.

  • The diamond gift came from the head of a Chinese energy company, CEFC, a gentleman named Ye Jianming.

  • The diamond was part of a business deal that was to bring the Biden family in on a joint investment company that would be run by the Biden family and CEFC.

  • The diamond exchange came in 2017 when Hunter Biden flew to Miami to meet with Ye Jianming.

  • In a private, one on one diner, Jianming not only offered up the diamond but offered to pay Hunter $10 million a year for a minimum of three years strictly for Hunter to make introductions to influential Americans which presumably was focused on his father, then the  Vice President.

  • As a cover story, Hunter claimed the meeting with Jianming was to get a donation to the World Food Program USA of which he was a board member.

  • This cover story apparently was used more than once on Hunter’s world enrichment tour.


Two bad things going on here. Obviously, the most obvious is the President’s son, both now and in the past, using his father’s high positions in the Federal government to enrich himself, a huge conflict of interest and ethics violations. The second, more subtle wrong here is that the mainstream press has basically lost their voice in the face of this obvious corruption, carrying very few stories of possibly one of the biggest corruption stories in recent time as it relates to the American political class.


As we have said before, the country will survive bad Presidents. We got through bad Presidencies before, e.g. Carter, Obama, and now Biden. However, democracy will not survive if the press and journalism industry continue to lose their voices when it comes to the corruption they refuse to report on because of their personal and business political leanings. A corrupt, silent, unbiased press will eventually cause freedom to wither in the face of ignoring the destruction of integrity in the American political class.


4)And it really is not a true “political class insanity” post unless we check in with the domestic war zone known as Chicago:


  • Violence and murders continue to soar in the Windy City and this past Thanksgiving weekend was no different.

  • Three city residents were killed and 40 were shot just over the Thanksgiving weekend.

  • In 2021, city shooting incidents are up 9% vs. 2020, now totaling over 3,200 with a month yet to go.

  • This means on average, almost 300 people are shot every month in the city.

  • This increase in violent crime follows a 2020 move by the mayor, Lori Lightfoot, and the city council to gut/defund the police force in the face of Black Lives Matter pressure and riots.

  • This defunding included taking $59 million out of the police force budget and reducing the department’s staffing plan by 600 positions.

  • But after a female police officer, Ella French, was murdered on duty this past August, Lightfoot has proposed to refund the police force with a $16.7 police budget that would include hiring more police officers.

  • Even more disconcerting, is that some of the gun fire heard in the city streets over the weekend could have included shots from a machine gun.


From day one we asserted that the “defunding the police” movement would result in more murders, more shootings, and more crime since there was no proven alternative to police actions. And we were right. Our analogy was this: defunding the police was like trying to design a new parachute AFTER you have jumped out of the airplane and you are falling to earth. 


Unfortunately, it took deaths and crime to make people like Lori Lightfoot see the light but only after who knows how many innocent people were maimed or killed by the stupidity of defunding the police movement.


That will do it for today: Chicago politicians still haven't found a way to make the city not be a violent shooting gallery, the Biden family is up to their corrupt necks in influence peddling and self enrichment, a Connecticut politician is caught defrauding the American taxpayer, and a powerful local North Carolina pleads guilty to sexually abusing a minor.


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