Joe Biden - A Poster Child For Term Limits: 47 Years in Office and Nothing Positive To Show For It

As Joe Biden prepares to take office, it may be a good time to reflect on his long career in Washington. The basis of this reflection started with a Facebook post I saw to which I added to since I thought it had missed some of his many accomplishments and exploits. 

His life in politics confirms that many Americans think about our current set of politicians, i.e. we need term limits and we need them badly, given the lackluster and somewhat disgraceful political career of Joe Biden, given his antics, racism, sexism, and lack of accomplishment. 

Thus, the following is a year by year review of every Joe Biden accomplishments:

1973 Biden enters politics...

1974

1975

1976

1977 Biden fights to keep schools segregated because in his own words, “allowing blacks to integrate would create a racial jungle.”

1978

1979

1980

1981

1982

1983 Biden taxes Social Security

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988 Biden runs for President but has to end his campaign after getting busted for plagiarism.

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993 Biden allegedly sexually attacks Senate aide Tara Reade.

1994 Biden writes the "Stop and Frisk" law which is what African-Americans blame for "systemic racism" today. This law took millions of black men from their communities and transplanted them into prison, many times for minor criminal violations. This was Biden's biggest legislative accomplishment in 47 years of elected office.

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006 Biden issues the following racist comment: “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”

2007

2008 Calls Obama the first “articulate" and "clean" mainstream African-American while also telling 14 year old Eva Murray that, “Fourteen? You’re very well endowed for 14!” while attending a Delaware fundraiser.

2009 Becomes the Vice President of a Presidential administration that adds almost as much national debt as all previous Presidents COMBINED while Amy Lappos claims that Biden grabbed and held her inappropriately at a Connecticut fundraiser.

2010

2011

2012 Writer D.J. Hill’s husband had to intervene when Biden got too handsy with her at a Minneapolis fundraiser.

2013

2014 Lucy Flores claims that Biden grabbed and held her inappropriately at a Nevada fundraiser.

2015

2016 Caitlyn Caruso claims that during a spring, 2016 conference on sexual harassment Biden put his hand on her thigh for “an uncomfortable amount of time.” and also in 2016, Sofie Karasek at the 2016 Oscars claims that Biden violated her personal space.

2017

2018

2019

2020: Biden issues the following racist remarks during his Presidential campaign: 1) “Jeez, the reason I was able to stay sequestered in my home is because some black woman was able to stack the grocery shelf.” 2) “Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.” 3) If you vote for the other guy, “you ain’t black.” 4) "And by the way, what you all know, but most people don’t know, unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”

The need for term limits could not be any clearer: 47 years in Washington and nothing positive to show for it except the self enrichment of himself and his family. As the famous Brazilian clown, Tiririca, once said when he ran for, and got elected, to public office in Brazil: “It can’t get any worse.” then career politicians currently in office. How much worse could it get if we did have term limits in this country and term limits forced Joe Biden to get out of politics back in the 1970s? I really don't think it could have been any worse.

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The Horrors And Destruction That Donald Trump Has Imposed On America...Just Kidding! Part 16

Before we start today’s discussion, let’s review my voting history: 

• I have never voted for a Republican for President in my life. 
• Thus, I did not vote for Trump. 
• I have rarely voted for a Republican for national office in my life. 

About 21 months ago, many liberals, Democrats, and millennials were besides themselves with grief and fear because their pre-ordained queen, Hillary Clinton, was not elected President. Instead, Donald Trump was elected, an individual that these same people despised, hated, and feared, an individual they felt would endanger and possibly destroy the country and our democracy. For the past year and a half they fretted, worried and lashed out at anything or anyone that even remotely smelled of Donald Trump.

Given that Trump has been in office for over 21 months or so, I thought, that as someone who did not vote for him, it would be a good idea to review the horror, trauma, and terrible things that Trump has subjected the country to in just eighteen month’s time. This is obviously a very sarcastic comment when you take an unbiased look at what has happened during the Trump Presidency. The many previous posts we did on this topic identified over 190 good things that have happened to America and Americans since Trump became President can found by entering the phrase “the horrors and destruction” in the search box above.

Since the last “horrors and destruction” post an additional ten accomplishments and good tidings have occurred as a result of this Presidency:

- The New York Times actually gave Trump positive recognition for actually getting NATO allies to shoulder a bigger, fairer share of NATO’s defense costs, yes the New York Times!

- Trump’s White House staff is significantly smaller than Obama’s which could save the American taxpayer upwards of $20 million by the end of Trump’s four years as President, with Trump’s staff consisting of 374 staffers while Obama had 469 at the same time into his Presidency.

- The U.S. economy grew at a wonderful 3.5% rate in the third quarter of 2018, which, when combined with the stronger 4.2% growth in the second quarter, resulted in the strongest consecutive quarters of growth since 2014.

- The economy is on a growth rate to record the largest annual economic growth rate since 2005.

- In 2017, Trump’s first year in office, median household income rose to the highest level ever recorded.

- The number of murders in the U.S. declined by .7% in 2017, reversing a rising trend over the previous two years.

- The unemployment rate is at a 50 year low, falling from 4.8% when his term began to a current 3.7% rate.

- Corporate profits are at an all time high.

- The number of people on food stamps is at the lowest level since November, 2009, a reduction of 3.8 million people since Trump’s term began.

- The percentage of African Americans and Hispanic Americans in the country living in poverty are at the lowest levels ever since the Census Bureau began keeping track in the mid 1960s.

For those of you that have hated on Trump since day one, and given your obvious gross error in judgment relative to Trump, let me ask that you to do us all a favor by implementing the following changes in your behavior and attitude:

• Chill out, tamp down your TDS affliction. No matter how much you hate Trump on a sexist, personal basis, get over it. He is the legally and duly elected President, he will be around for a while so refocus your hatred on more constructive issues and matters. You will live a lot longer if you take your hatred out of your heart and soul and devote it to something positive.
• I would really appreciate it if some of you would apologize to the Trump voters you have disrespected in some of the grossest terms possible over the past year. You have called millions of voters racists, ignorant, stupid, Nazis, KKK members, and other horrible names simply because you disagreed with their voting choice. No American should be called such disgusting names simply because they exercised their Constitutional rights to the best of their abilities. Plus, slandering over 60 million Americans is no way to unite the country and get it focused on the real issues facing us all.
• More personally, I would like, no I am demanding, an apology from some of you for your slanderous and disgusting name calling because in doing so, you insulted and disrespected my sister, my family members, my friends, and my co-workers who simply voted their conscience. I will defend their right to vote anyway they wanted and will no put up with your childish and vicious venom and bile directed at them, very important people in my life.
• And finally, I challenge you to read the following blog post, a post that shows quite clearly that it was hateful people like some of you and your silence during the Obama years that actually caused Trump to be elected. Thus, the people you hate for voting for Trump are actually looking back at you in the mirror:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-american-liberals-and-washington.html

• If you were silent in the dozens of instances listed in this post then you were responsible for the very thing you hate: a Trump Presidency. Or put another way, a so far successful and productive Trump Presidency. Over 200 accomplishments in a little less than two years is not too shabby despite many of you wanting both Trump and the country to fail.

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September, 2014 Political Class Insanity, Part 7: We Do Not Have A Strategy ...Or Any Competence For That Matter Either

This will be the seventh and final update to our monthly series of political class insanity for this month. Not because I have covered all of the insanity but because it is just too depressing to go on. The overwhelming incompetence and wasteful spending of these politicians can get you very depressed after a while.

Thus, we will finish this month’s update with the following nuggets of idiocy and move onto other topics starting tomorrow. 

1) The fine website, Against Crony Capitalism, had a nice review of how rich American companies are the happy receivers of outsized taxpayer funded subsidies every year. Their review asserts that, on average, each of the largest 100 companies in the country receives $200 million from the US taxpayer, each year. Some more than others of course.

Examples of this crony capitalism from the latest year of data include:

• General Electric - $380 million
• General Motors - $370 million (as if the American taxpayer has not already given this company enough money)
• Boeing -$264 million
• Archer Daniels Midland - $174 million
• United Technologies - $160 million
• Others who got free taxpayer money include John Deere, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Bank of America, Walmart, and American Express.

These are multi-billion dollar enterprises, their shareowners should be shouldering these expenses since they are the ones that benefit, not the American taxpayer. Unfortunately, these same companies and their executives contribute heavily to politicians’ election campaign funds so it is not a surprise that they get rewarded for such support.

2) The President stated this past week in a news conference that his administration did not have a strategy for dealing with the ISIS terror threat that is building up in Iraq and Syria. These terrorists are barbarians and a severe threat not only to the U.S. but also to humanity itself. 

According to recent news reports, this growing threat has been well known within this administration and this President for a few years. However, it has done nothing to combat it as the threat has gotten larger and more powerful. So little has been done that the President publicly admitted that “we don’t have a strategy yet” for defeating ISIS.

Despite this lack of focus and a strategy for dealing with this threat, the President did find time two weekends ago to attend multiple fundraisers in New York and Rhode Island and a wedding in that same area. Yes, possibly the biggest terror threat to the country can wait as this President attends what I believe to be the 401st through 403rd political fund raiser of his term in office, far exceeding the number of fund raisers attended by all previous Presidents. Since he has also played more golf while in office since Eisenhower, over fifty years ago, one has to really question the insane priorities of this President.

Since according to a recent Rasmussen poll, only 23% of the electorate think America is heading in the right direction, and 69% think it is on the wrong track, maybe Americans are finally actually questioning his priorities and his insanity.

3) According to a recent article on the Black Community News website, a Pew and USA Today opinion survey of 1,501 adults found that 69% say blacks and whites get along “very well” or “pretty well.” Apparently this finding represents a “modest” drop since 2009.

Thus, this President has failed so much as a leader that the first African American President has somehow managed to slightly degrade race relations in this country, not improve them as he promised. His administration has been divisive rather than inclusive, often using the “race card” for political benefit rather than racial and political harmony. The numbers prove it.

4) Staying with race for a while, according to a Wall Street Journal report that was summarized in the April 4, 2014 issue of The Week magazine, in 2008, the last year of the Bush administration, 8.2% of the Federal government’s Small Business Administration loans went to African-American business people. 

Since then, covering the first five years of the Obama administration, the first Presidential administration headed by an African-American, that percentage has dropped to only 1.7% of Small Business administration loans going to African-American business people in 2013. But the President’s supporters call people like me racist, who have an honestly different of opinion on policy, but ignore the fact that the support for African-American businesses is down almost 80% in just five years under this President. Insane.

5) Anemic economic growth, heavy fighting in the Ukraine, a large and growing terrorism threat from the Middle East, high unemployment, failing public schools, a failed war on drugs, a leaky border and associated illegal immigration crisis, etc. One would hope that all members of the Washington political class would be busting their tails to address and hopefully resolve at least some of these issues.

But seeking hope from these politicians is usually a fruitless search. According to a recent article in Business Week, once Congress returns from its five week summer vacation, The House of Representatives will be in session for only twelve days in September, twelve days in October, and then take off again, returning after the November elections to put in only fifteen more days until the end of the year.

If I counted correctly, over those four months there are 87 days on the calendar that are not weekends or holidays. Thus, despite the major issues facing this country, the House will only be working for 39 of those days or less than half of the working days most Americans will be working, assuming they are lucky enough to have a job. 

For this kind of pitiful dedication to their jobs, these people make more than three times the amount of money that the average household in American earns each year. They also have better benefits and working conditions and can obviously set their own schedules, which they obviously set very light. Pathetic excuse for public servants, no wonder nothing ever gets accomplished in D.C.

6) We will finish up this post and this monthly series update on political class insanity from the wonderful website, Bankrupting America: 

• According to the latest Congressional Budget Office analyses, Federal government debt hit a 64-year high this past fiscal year: “Federal debt held by the public will reach 74 percent of GDP at the end of this fiscal year—more than twice what it was at the end of 2007 and higher than in any year since 1950.” In addition, interest payments on the debt will total more than $799 billion in 2024 or almost $7,000 for every American household. Outrageous and dangerous debt numbers that may never be reached because the economy crashes far before these onerous levels of debt are attained.
• The Federal government announced that the U.S. economy grew at a 4.2% rate in the second quarter, which is good news. The bad news is that this follows a contraction of the economy in the first quarter, making the midyear to date economic growth only 1.05%, still leaving the Obama administration with the worst economic recovery record since World War II.
• In related news, the CBO has halved its 2014 national economic growth estimate down from 3.1% to 1.5%. These numbers continue to confirm that Obama and Congress still have no grasp of economic policy and theory and how to put forth economic polices that foster robust growth.
• Although the rollout of Obama Care was badly botched by both administration employees and contract employees, it turns out that the American taxpayer will be paying for their incompetence. The Inspector General (IG) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report showing that private contractors associated with and hired for the rollout of Obama Care exceeded their original estimated costs. The new report shows that one-third of the 60 Obama Care contractors examined are set to be overpaid, while seven companies are due to receive more than double their initial estimates.
• Sticking with Obama Care incompetence, Nevada insurance brokers are suing the Nevada Obama Care state health insurance exchange over unpaid Commissions. According to local news accounts: “Nevada’s health insurance exchange faces yet another big lawsuit. Six brokers filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Clark County District Court, seeking class-action status for their claim that the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange and its website contractor, Xerox, have failed to pay commissions on coverage they sold through the exchange’s Nevada Health Link website. Matt Callister, an attorney representing the brokers, said the six are collectively owed ‘a very significant amount well in excess of $200,000.’”

So many failures in so many ways. Crony capitalism, lack of a strategy or ability to think strategically, making race relations worse rather than better, the never ending disasters from Obama Care, skyrocketing national debt, a Congress and White House that take more vacations than deserved, etc. It is insanity, the worst set of politicians operating a broken Federal government at a very high expense with little societal benefit in return. Pathetically insane.

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