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.
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.
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."
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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