Friday, October 3, 2025

October, 2025, Part 1, Political Class Insanity: Another Failed Solar Project, More United Nations Failures, Corrupted Government Statistics, and A Small Drug Cartel Win

 There is a lot going on in the world: Obama and Russiagate findings, Middle East powder keg, the Russian/Ukrainian war, Federal government shutdown, etc. But through all this, the American political class continues to constantly deliver its own special brand of insanity, stupidity, wasteful taxpayer spending, and ineffective government programs.


1)Democrats and liberals have been yelling at us for over thirty years relative to the myth of climate change/global warming. All of their hand wringing and yelling has turned  out to  be mythical: temperatures have not gone through  the roof, the  ice caps have not melted, coastal lands  have  not been  flooded  over, etc. In  fact, their global warming forecasts turned  out to be so wrong that they had to do a whole rebranding effort to evolve from global  warming  hysteria to climate change hysteria.


In many liberal parts of the country such as California, politicians went overboard and tried their hardest to get rid of traditional sources of energy and replace them with  renewable sources of energy. This has resulted in Californians having the highest energy and gas prices in the country as the climate change plans the politicians embarked on were not practical or cost efficient. They continued wasting money on climate change efforts despite the fact that the myths of  global  warming and climate change have been pretty clear to just about  everyone else.


The latest debacle of the state’s renewable energy push has recently come crashing down:


  • Eleven years ago, the state of  California spent $2.2 billion to build a huge solar energy plant.

  • Federal taxpayers donated $1.6 billion of the $2.2 billion cost.

  • Unfortunately, 11 years after being put into service  it is already being shut down because it never met the original promises of clean energy.

  • Beside not meeting expectations, the technology that was put in place  is  already deemed outdated.

  • Not  only did the power generated disappoint, but the  technology has been responsible for at least 6,000 bird deaths each year.

  • The technology used massive movable mirrors (over 173,000 of  them) to  focus the sun on  a central facility that resulted in tremendous heat, heat that was used to turn water into steam and to power steam turbines that produced the energy.

  • However, birds that flew into the focused sun rays immediately burned up.

  • Back in 2011 when  the project was proposed, Obama's Energy Secretary, Ernest Moniz called it “an example  of how America is becoming a world  leader in  solar energy.”

  • Obviously, he was wrong if the whole project is being shut down in just 11 years.


This was obviously a Rube Goldberg approach to solar energy:  spread out 173,000 mirrors  over acres and acres of ground, try to accurately focus the sun to bounce off of 173,000  moving mirrors as a day progressed and the sun moved across the sky, focus the reflections off  of a large steam generator. What could go wrong?


Let’s do  some simple  math: the project cost $2.2 billion:


  • A  rough estimate says that it costs about $22,000 to put solar panels on a typical American  home.

  • Thus, that $2.2 billion could have put solar panels on about 100,000 homes.

  • The typical warranty for home solar cell installations is at least 25 years, often more.

  • Putting this all together means that, in theory, that $2.2  billion could have  solar powered EVERY home in a city such as  Fort Lauderdale/Florida or Irving/Texas, or Little Rock/Arkansas for at least 25 years with simple  roof top solar panels  installations, a process that would  not kill 6,000 birds a year.


But rather than go simple and  effective, the politicians in the state and Washington  went grandiose, expensive and doomed to failure. The Washington  political class  cannot run a  postal  system effectively, they cannot run a "National  Do  Not Call” list effectively, they cannot operate within the  confines of the tax dollars they collect. What makes anyone think that they can  manage the climate and the technology they think is critical to the future of the planet?


2)Let’s face it, the United Nations has been almost a total  failure since its creation after World War II, failures that continue today:


  • Failure to end the Ukranian/Russian.

  • Failure to bring peace to the Middle East.

  • Failure to end  terrorism.

  • Failure to improve the lives of mankind.


The list goes on but the list of  notable  failures far outweighs the list of any type  of success. As a result, American taxpayers pay out big bucks every year to support the UN but get and see anything worthwhile in return for their investment:


  • A recent Gallup poll shows that a  lot of Americans hold a pessimistic view of the UN.

  • 63% of those polled perceive the UN’s performance as “poor.”

  • Only 32% believe it  is doing a “good” job.

  • 60% consider the UN as necessary but that number is trending downwards.

  • Republicans hold a much more pessimistic view of the  UN  than  Democrats.


The old saying says that the  definition of insanity is doing the same thing  over and  over and  expecting different results.  For 80 years the American taxpayer has basically underwritten the financial  viability of this organization that has no real accomplishments to speak of for over 80 years. And yet, the American taxpayer continues to pay for nothing.


3)We have talked many times about the many failures of  the Biden administration. The latest two conversations on this topic can be  accessed at:


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-ever-growing-list-of-biden-failures.html


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-ever-growing-list-of-biden-failures_24.html


To these lists we should add another failure and  corruption of the  governing process in Washington:


  • The Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington issues monthly estimates of how many jobs the  economy has created the previous month.

  • This is a critical measurement  process since it is an important measurement of  the  health of the economy and how well Americans are doing financially from a job availability perspective.

  • Thus, timely accuracy is  critical for businesses  and residents to  make economic decisions.

  • Up until the Biden  administration, one rarely questioned the integrity of the estimates or how they were calculated, a  run of success  that ended  with  the Biden  administration.

  • It looks  like the Bureau of Labor Statistics artificially inflated the number of jobs  created by Biden’s  economic policies.

  • And the inflation was not a small number since the Bureau eventually reduced the estimated number of jobs created in the  country during  the Biden aera by a whopping 818,000 jobs.

  • Thus, it looked like the Biden economy was doing much better than  it actually was at the time  of  the estimates when in  reality the  estimates were inflated.

  • The Bureau eventually reduced their estimates much later by the 818,000 number mentioned above.

  • This was the largest downward revision in 15 years.


When the government manipulates numbers and  estimates for political purposes, everyone loses. People and businesses  make  decisions based on faulty data just because someone wants to improve their political careers. It  also brings  doubt into people’s mind that if this government  statistic is tainted, what other government  statistics are also  tainted.  A sad commentary on government integrity.


4)As a nasty, and a very often fatal aspect of Biden’s failed immigration policies, is the reality that Mexican drug cartels were able  to flood personnel and deadly drugs into the country, setting up operations around the country. This not only resulted in thousands of Americans dying from drug overdoses but the enrichment of the cartels,  making them even more of a violent threat to their enemies and future drug addicts.


However, there was some recent good news  in the effort to curb drug trafficking and the resultant overdose deaths:


  • A recent  successful operation by the Federal government and Trump administration resulted in the arrest of over 600 alleged cartel operatives across the  country.

  • Many of those arrested were associated with the Mexican Sinola drug cartel, a cartel that has  flooded the  country with fentanyl, meth, cocaine, and counterfeit pills.

  • The crackdown operation spanned five days and that short time the Feds uncovered over half a ton of fentanyl powder among other heavy volumes of other drugs.

  • Since two milligrams of fentanyl  is enough to kill a person, half a ton can theoretically kill millions of Americans.

  • And the arrests were not just at the southern border, they were throughout the country.

  • In Franklin,  New Hampshire, 27 people were arrested in connection with drug trafficking in that town.

  • In all  of New England, far from the southern border, 171 people were arrested, $1.3 million in cash was confiscated, and more than 22,000 fake pills were taken off of the street.


The good news  is that mega amounts of deadly drugs have been  taken off of the streets, some very bad people were arrested, and the cartel cash flow was at least temporarily curtailed. The bad  news is that the battle to protect Americans from all  types of illegal  drugs is still a big job that will  continue as long as there is a demand for the drugs in his country. Beating up the supply of illegal drugs is good but the real battle is won when the demand for those drugs dries up.


Enough for today: a small victory against the Mexican drug cartels, destroying government statistical integrity, the United Nations history of failures continues, and another solar energy project dies a premature death.


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