Another look at the continued insanity, ineptness, and stupidity from all levels of the American political class:
1)One of the very basic tenets and responsibilities of any government entity is to protect the lives and property of the citizens that they serve. Needless to say, with crime and violence rising rapidly across the country it is pretty obvious that the political class is failing to execute this responsibility.
And one of the worst situations in this country, that is leading to ever increasing drug overdose deaths, is the flood of fentanyl that is flowing over the southern border. More American aged 18-45 are now dying from fentanyl than from suicides or car accidents:
Senator Steve Faines of Montana recently demonstrated how bad the problem is regarding fentanyl.
Recently his staff conducted a virtual sting operation relative to how easy it was to get fentanyl.
They created a fictitious social media account, went live with the account and within five minutes a drug dealer found their account and offered to sell them fentanyl.
The Senator then sent a letter to the largest social media companies in the country: “Criminal drug networks are mass-producing fentanyl-laced pills and exploiting the ongoing crisis at our southern border caused by President Biden’s total inaction to smuggle thousands of pounds of fentanyl into our states… Social media platforms like yours provide a convenient venue for dealers to anonymously and discreetly peddle these counterfeit pills to a young audience. With 4 in 10 of these pills containing a lethal dose of fentanyl, more and more of these online transactions are ending in tragedy.”
Given that a tiny bit of fentanyl, the size of a couple of grains of salt, can be fatal, the easy availability of fentanyl via social media platforms and other means is not good news for Senate staffs or kids surfing the web.
While the cartels get rich, the American political class is failing at a basic function, protecting the lives and property of citizens.
2)We had previously discussed the reality and history of Biden’s racial comments, sexual predator actions, and constant streams of lies:
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2021/01/january-2021-part-4-political-class.html
One of his more outrageous lies was that he was arrested while trying to see South African leader Nelson Mandela. Recently, he actually admitted that he lied: "I said once — I said I got arrested. I wasn't arrested. I got stopped, prevented from moving."
This was his original lie: "I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him [Mandela] on Robbens Island." However, The Washington Post noted that the city of Soweto is nearly 900 miles from the Robben Island prison.
Makes you wonder if he 1) will ever admit that his other lies were indeed lies and 2) will he ever stop lying? Just another example of how out of integrity most politicians are.
3)One of the great failures of the current set of American politicians is their inability, in this land of plenty, to resolve the ever growing homelessness and hunger problems that millions of Americans are suffering from. Biden and other Washington politicians have no problem allocating billions of our tax dollars to feed, house, clothe, and educate illegal immigrants while at the same time millions of Americans continue to be homeless, hungry, and fighting drug addiction.
A perfect and sorry example of this failure is unfolding in New York City:
Although the city government runs homeless shelters, according to Sal Salamon, an advocate for the homeless, those shelters are failing the homeless population in the city: “The city shelters, in his opinion, ‘are worse than prison’ — that’s one reason why so many people prefer a hard life on the streets. Some loudmouth runs shelters from the neighborhood who knows the mayor and hires their friends with city money.”
According to state senator Brad Hoylman: “Conditions at the shelters are deplorable.”
The NYC government annually spends $3.5 BILLION while failing to resolve the homeless problem in the city.
$3.5 billion means that the city, on average, was spending $9.6 million a DAY and still the problem gets worse and worse.
You have to be really incompetent to spend close to $10 million a day and be a failure. But never underestimate the ineptness of American politicians.
4)One of the country’s most inept politician is Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago. She has allowed to crime to skyrocket during her term and apparently has no idea how to address the problem.
As a result, citizens and businesses are moving out of the city to protect themselves, their employees and their property. This is reducing the tax revenue base which will reduce city services which will damage the quality of life int he city which will drive more people and businesses out of the city which will reduce tax revenue and the financial death spiral is in motion.
Companies such as Boeing, Caterpillar and a major, major financial company, Citadel Management, are just a few of the businesses that have moved their headquarters out of Chicago. And they may not be the last:
Chris Kempczinski, MacDonald’s CEO, recently told the Economic Club of Chicago, that “our city [Chicago] is in crisis” and crime is “seeping into every corner of our city.”
And the numbers support his views since there have already been 479 murders in the city and crime in the city is up 38% vs. last year.
Kempczinski went on: “Everywhere I go, I’m confronted by the same question these days — what’s going on in Chicago? While it may wound our civic pride to hear it, there is a general sense out there that our city is in crisis….We have violent crime that’s happening in our restaurants. … We’re seeing homelessness issues in our restaurants. We’re having drug overdoses that are happening in our restaurants. So we see in our restaurants, every single day, what’s happening in society at large."
He explained that his company and others are having trouble recruiting top employee talent since people do not want to commute to a job that has an ever increasing chance of making them a victim of violence.
Not a good situation for the people of Chicago. Violence all around them and a shrinking tax base. And yet the mayor thinks they are doing a good job: "We rank third among 50 U.S. cities for violence prevention programs, services, and policies. And this, to us, is a very big deal. We are grateful for the recognition." And yet, almost 500 people have already been murdered in her city this year, almost two a day on average.
That is enough political class insanity for today: a dying and out of touch mayor, a city spending billions of dollars with no return on that investment, a liar finally admits he lies, and the fentanyl epidemic proving that the American political class is failing at a basic component of their job.
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