A Grand Proposal For A Grand Coalition To Restore Freedom In America

The following proposal to restore freedom and liberty in this country, two principles that are under attack by any number of sources, not the least of which is the American political class, is being mailed out this week. As freedom ebbs in this country, something dramatic has to be done to turn back the tide of oppression, unseat the entrenched, long term politicians whose first priority is self enrichment, and restore the Founders concepts embedded in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Your comments would be appreciated and if you agree with what the proposal sets forth, your support going forward would be great!

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January 15, 2021

Robert Doar - American Enterprise Institute 

Robert A. Levy - Cato

Robert Bixby - Concord Coalition 

Frank Fluckiger - Constitution Party

Mark Meckler - Convention Of States 

Michael Abramowitz - Freedom House

Kay Coles James - Heritage Foundation 

Dan Fishman - Libertarian Party 

Karen Czarnecki - Mercatus Center 

E. Garrett Bewkes IV- National Review

Christopher Ruddy - NewsMax 

Larry Hogan - No Labels

Katherine Mangu-Ward - Reason Magazine 

Jenny Beth Martin - Tea Party Patriots 

George Upper - Western Journal

Good day. My name is Walter (“Bruno”) Korschek and I am just a regular American. I am not an employee or formally affiliated with any of the organizations listed above. 

However, I have been a big fan of all of the listed organizations for a long time. I have been a Libertarian voter since Roger McBride ran in the 1970s. I have been a long time subscriber to Reason magazine and Cato. And I have enjoyed and been positively challenged by the work, the research, opinions, and publications of every organization listed above for many, many years.

Thus, I am an American who cherishes the idea of freedom and liberty, an ideal that I think is a common link among all of you and your organizations. I believe that the concept of America, with its foundation in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, has provided humanity the best chance ever to have regular folks like myself live in a free, safe, and prosperous country. 

But as you and your organizations are well aware, that ideal of freedom is under attack as we speak, by an overreaching, entrenched, and corrupt American political class. Every freedom has been chipped away at over the years, be it freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to bear arms, freedom to gather, and freedom to not be dominated and bullied by government bureaucrats, rules, and regulations.

From the failure of Obama Care to excessive and draconian pandemic shutdowns and lock downs and to the obvious future failure of the New Green Deal, this loss of freedom cannot be justified by the gaining of wonderful new government services. Just about every government program and service, from the Federal government level to the local government level, eats up wealth, destroys freedom, and provides substandard services and results in return. 

And this loss of freedom seems to be accelerating. Outrageous government debt will make future Americans economic slaves to this debt burden if nothing is done. Censorship in so many forms is growing more and more prevalent as those in charge form partnerships with a failed and corrupt mainstream press and tech companies to control information and news for the benefit of the elitists that operate those entities.

The chance of returning America to its roots of freedom, liberty, minimal government interference in our lives is becoming more and more difficult every day. Which is why I am writing to all of you. While I have the utmost respect for the work you and your organizations do, working independently of each other has not been enough to stem the tide of totalitarianism and political corruption in this country that is destroying the very fabric of freedom.

Thus, I am proposing a grand coalition of the organizations listed above, a coalition which is solely focused on restoring freedom to this country and its citizens. Working independently has proven your dedication to freedom but has not stemmed the tide of an ever growing attack on freedom. Working together may be the only hope in this country of moving the needle back towards liberty and away from darkness.

Think about what you each could bring to the table of this liberty coalition. There are political parties that already have the infrastructure in place to get on ballots. There are research and policy experts that can prove the value of freedom and the negatives of government dominance. You have journalists that can spread that research and policy information to the public. Together you would be so much stronger and effective than continuing to operate independently of each other.

Now, I realize that there might be differences of opinion on individual issues and matters. But there has to be some sort of overarching agreement and consensus on freedom and liberty that can be agreed on by all of you and put forth to the public. Every family has its own disagreements but the family usually stays together for the common, overriding good of everyone. Same with the coalition, find the common ground of liberty that you all share and handle the outlier issues later. Erect a freedom tent that would be broad enough to attract disaffected voters of all kinds under a common theme of restoring freedom to this country. 

This does not mean you and your organizations cede your identities and individual organizational goals to this effort. Your unique identities and skills are what would make the coalition that much stronger. You each come at freedom from a unique and different perspective which would make that freedom tent broader and more powerful.

I am only a single American, I cannot make this happen, but I would make a few suggestions about the next steps:

• This coalition and its structure, working principles, staffing, contributions, decision making process, etc. has to come together quickly, the ebbing away of freedom is not abating and thus, time is of the essence.
• Being right, doing the proper analysis, having the most effective policy proposals, and putting forth great candidates for office, are all necessary to success but not a guarantee of success. While I did not vote for Donald Trump, I did recognize that he had a wonderfully simple but effective message that resonated with tens of millions of Americans, “Make America Great Again.” A similar message is required for this coalition, one that is simple but effective, easily understood but which conveys the deep need for change that this coalition would stand for. Smarter people than me are necessary to find that powerful theme and message.
• The Presidential ticket that this coalition puts forth has to be identified and put into action as soon as possible. We cannot wait until the summer of 2024 to identify the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates this coalition will support, that is not enough time to get the message out. By then, the mainstream press and the tech companies would be that much stronger at suppressing alternative views. The candidates should be picked quickly, after a proper vetting process, and their work needs to begin now and continue on for the next four years. 

I realize this is a pretty radical idea. You all have your own organization goals, objectives, and challenges. But remember, the concept of America was a pretty radical idea at one time and the Founders pulled it off in grand style. I can't think of any other way to beat back the attack on freedom, our lives, and the future of the country and generations that follow us. 

America is in a dark place right now: divided, fighting among ourselves, being oppressed by a number of forces inside and outside of the country, and being served by a political class that care only about their long term tenure in office and the resultant self enrichment possibilities that come with “public service.” You all have the unique resources to come together and change the tide of darkness that now exists. I know of no other way or approach that can protect what the Founders created.

Sorry if I ran on a little long but I passionately believe that you and your organizations can make a gigantic positive difference in the future of this country if you work together. Put aside any minor differences you may have on an individual issue, that can be worked out later if we can all rally around the basic human need to be free. As a retired, middle class American I cannot make much of a difference. But I believe you and your organizations can change the world.

Thank you for your time and please continue the great work you do individually but also consider what you could accomplish if you took your talents, resources, and love of liberty into a grand coalition of freedom.

Walter (“Bruno”) Korschek

Robert Frost: “Freedom lies in being bold.”

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

https://www.amazon.com/Love-My-Country-Loathe-Government/dp/1604942789/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=love+my+country%2C+loathe+my+government&qid=1607716020&sr=8-1

Please visit the following sites for freedom:

http://www.reason.com

http://www.cato.org

http://www.bankruptingamerica.org

http://www.conventionofstates.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

 

 

March, 2020,Part 8, Political Class Insanity: Tlaib Continues To Embarrass Herself and Congress, Hateful Politics In Finland and More

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) Rashida Tlaib is a freshman Congresswoman from Michigan. She has also been one of the most profane, hateful, and disgusting members of Congress over the past two years. Everyone that disagrees with her is a racist, she has basically called for the destruction of Israel, and she drops f-bombs without much hesitation, hardly the behavior and class one would want from a member of Congress.

But her arrogance and greed may be getting her in serious trouble from a criminal perspective:

• The House Ethics Committee is investigating whether she requested money from her campaign finances for personal use, a Congressional no-no.
• The committee is in possession of documents that highlight the communications between herself and her staff members that indicate she actually had made those requests, an action that would be unethical and possibly criminal.
• Texts and emails indicate that she was desperate to get some of her campaign funds into her personal accounts.
• An April, 2018 email to her staff claimed that she was “struggling financially right now” and “sinking.”
• Specifically: “So I was thinking the campaign could loan me money, but Ryan [Ryan Anderson was her chief of staff.] said that the committee could actually pay me. I was thinking a one time payment of $5k.”
• In another email she complained that she was “just not going to make it through the campaign without a stipend. With the loss of a second income to lean back on, I am requesting $2,000 per two weeks but not exceeding $12,000. The cost of living stipend is going towards much needed expenses due to campaigning that includes car maintenance, child care and other necessities. Please let me know if I can proceed.”
• In a text message she stared, “Sorry for the early text but do you think the campaign can still pay me a stipend until the general. Trying to get out of debt.” 

The House Ethics Committee must now determine whether or not she violated ethics rules and/or Federal Law by diverting campaign funds to personal use. In either case it is not a good look since this person is responsible for helping determine where our tax dollars are spent and yet cannot manage her own personal finances.

2) Let’s stay with Tlaib and another example of why she is such a bad role model and intolerant person in addition to possibly being financially and criminally liable for misusing campaign funds. Obviously, the country is under a lot of stress right now with the coronavirus crisis. Jobs are being furloughed, public gatherings are being curtailed, people are getting sick, and there is a serious economic hit across the economy and the country.

In times like this, some people find strength and solace in prayer. Since the First Amendment provides freedom of religion in this country and protects that freedom of religion from persecution by the government, many people have probably turned to prayer for comfort in these trying times, which is certainly their right to do so.

As a member of Congress, one would think, and hope, that Tlaib would respect that right and someone’s desire to seek strength through their religion. But given her past disgusting behavior, that was probably too much to think of Tlaib. In response to the crisis, President Trump declared March 15th a day of prayer (“We are a Country that, throughout our history, has looked to God for protection and strength in times like these. No matter where you may be, I encourage you to turn towards prayer in an act of faith. Together, we will easily PREVAIL!”). 

In response, Tlaib put forth the following disgusting tweet: “Don’t let this administration address COVID-19 like our national gun violence epidemic. F*** a National day of prayer, we need immediate comprehensive action.”

Nice, dropping f-bombs relative to a simple request and suggestion that people find peace and solace in a particular way, a way that is protected from politicians like Tlaib under the First Amendment. In addition to being crude and disrespectful, I haven't seen any positive input from her relative to what would be “immediate comprehensive action.”

Only after a severe public backlash did she try to weasel her way out of her disgusting remarks: “Let me be clear as someone who has been praying through this all & as someone who attended the National Prayer Breakfast. My retweet was not to be an attack on prayer. It was to bring attention to the need for meaningful action to combat this public health crisis.” 

But this is too little too late. By saying “F**k a National Day of Prayer” she did commit an attack on prayer and those who practice it, no doubt about it. And again, in her attempt to back out of her hateful remarks, she provided no positive input on what would be a “meaningful action” beyond what is being done already.

Bottom line: a despicable representative, a profane person in Congress who might also be a criminal representative of Congress.

3) An annoying habit that has been picked up by the American political class over the years, predominantly by liberals and Democrats, is to refrain from adult, mature, and logic based discussion of issues and just lash out and attack those that have a different opinion from themselves. We documented dozens of such examples in the following post:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/11/retro-3-obama-presidency-end-of-error.html

Political discourse in this country, especially when disagreeing with a liberal, usually and quickly turns into violent, profane, and hateful attacks against those that have a different opinion.

Apparently, this trait is not restricted to just the American political class, at least one leftist politician in Finland recently displayed the same hateful traits as many American liberals and Democrats:

• Mish Dellinger, is a member of Finland's political class and Finland’s Left Alliance.
• Apparently, Dellinger is a global warming advocate which is certainly his right in a free country.
• However, he took it a step too far when he got caught using an anonymous Twitter account to call for the death of those that do not share his views on global warming/climate change.
• Yes, he wanted all “climate change deniers and fascists” to be put to death for having a different opinion than him, that “climate deniers should be shot.”
• When confronted with accusations that he used the fake account to make the threats he first denied that he was involved in the tweets and then he claimed that others had access to the account.
• He eventually admitted that, “the account does not live up to my values. I sincerely apologize to the party, my fellow party members and the left-wing electorate for the uproar surrounding the issue.” 

What a small minded, hateful person who is also apparently a rabid liar. First he said the account was not his then he said others had access to his account and then he changed his story a third time and apologized for his hateful words. What a loser but unfortunately, he is not much different than the hateful politicians in this country.

4) Last piece of insanity for this month. According to the Convention of States website:

• The Federal government annually sends about $40 billion in taxpayer wealth to foreign countries.
• Some in government claim that foreign aid is a necessary international tool.
• But a new study from the World Bank estimates that over 7.5% of American foreign aid ends up in the bank accounts of wealthy families and corrupt government officials in foreign countries and not used to help the ordinary citizens in those countries.
• The World Bank created those estimates by tracking the deposits of money in offshore bank accounts coming from countries receiving foreign aid.
• In some countries, the amount of money diverted to wealthy people and government officials is as high as 15%.
• But the 7.5% number is only the amount of wealth that leaves the country, it does not count the amount of aid that was stolen and used inside the countries receiving the aid.
• It is known that other parts of the foreign aid is used to buy real estate, high end cars, and make other high end purchases within the country.
• The Convention of States summed up why this abuse of taxpayer wealth is so atrocious: “Of course, $40 billion is just a drop in the federal budget, but it represents one of hundreds of expenses that the federal government fails to oversee. The feds waste billions of taxpayer dollars every year, money that hardworking Americans could use to expand their businesses, take care of their families, or save for retirement.”

We work hard to create the wealth and pay taxes and Congress and the rest of Washington casually hands it out to other, non-deserving wealthy types around the world. Insane.

That will do it for today’s and this month’s political class insanity: wasting our money under the guise of foreign debt, another hateful leftist politician,this one from Finland, and another despicable and hateful member of Congress.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

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It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

December, 2018, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: More Ocasio-Cortez Ignorance, More Government Waste, and More Political Arrogance

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) Nancy Pelosi has always been our go to politician for stupid, inane, and simply out of touch with reality quotes. However, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, elected Congresswoman from NYC may now be our new favorite for those types of quotes. Put her name in the search box above for the many idiotic quotes we have already discussed that have come from her mouth.

And she is not slowing down. She recently put forth this gem of ignorance: "If we work our butts off to make sure that we take back all three chambers of Congress — Uh, rather, all three chambers of government: the presidency, the Senate, and the House." Very, very sad, and scary, that an elected member of Congress has no clue how our republic and government is structured, something that a grammar school student probably knows: executive branch, Congress branch, and judicial branch.

If she is so ignorant about this basic fact, how comfortable are you with her deciding on legislation that affects all of us? Stupid is as stupid does and this type of ignorance is really stupid...but keeping with her track record.

To hear actually mouth this insanity, go to:

https://freedomoutpost.com/dumber-than-a-box-of-hammers-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-doesnt-even-know-the-3-branches-of-government-video/

2) The Federal government’s national debt is currently pushing rapidly towards a whopping $22 TRILLION. The Washington political class and the inept government functions it is responsible for waste untold billions of dollars every day with not positive impact on the American taxpayers who actually pay for that waste. The Convention of States website recently discussed a single instance of abuse in only one state that shows this concept of waste at its worst:

• California prison inmates have been siphoning off Social Security financial benefits while in prison.
• According to a quote from the Washington Free Beacon:”The inspector general for the agency reported 123 inmates received the disability and retirement payments despite the Social Security Act prohibiting payments to individuals "confined to a jail, prison, or certain other public institutions for committing a crime."
• The IG report found that 123 inmates received the $3.5 million in improper payments.

This waste was from only one state? Makes you wonder how much more taxpayer wealth is being improperly paid to prison inmates in the 49 other states and other instances in California that have not been uncovered yet? No wonder we are $22 TRILLION in debt, those politicians and bureaucrats in Washington have no clue on how to NOT waste our tax dollars.

3) The Convention of States website recently had the following gems of ignorance from the political class:

• A recent Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ran an ad that accused the Republicans of raising taxes and energy costs even though the Trump tax cuts will reduce taxes for well over 100 million taxpayers, energy costs have been dropping steadily over the past two years, Nancy Pelosi and other leading Democrats have been calling for tax increases. Talk about being out of touch.
• Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren was recently ranting that since Trump did not win the popular vote that it was unhealthy for our democracy. She failed to mention that a lot of that deficit of the popular vote was in California, a state that is rife with voter fraud, that we do not live in democracy, we live in a Constitutional republic, and the election went exactly the way our Constitutional is set up. May she come from the same school of government ignorance that Ocasio-Cortez attended.
• And finally, Democratic Senator Cory Booker claims that, “he tries to understand "other folks" by reading books like Hillbilly Elegy and travelling to midwestern, southern, and western states. Sorry, Sen. Booker. If you want to connect with everyday Americans, you probably shouldn't talk about them like they're animals in a zoo.”

To see these actual statements of ignorance go to:

https://conventionofstates.com/news/these-three-federal-politicians-are-so-out-of-touch-it-hurts-watch

Let me conclude today’s discussion of political ignorance and incompetence with some words from the Convention Of States website. It does get depressing always discussing how inept the American political class is: they are ignorant, self serving, greedy, and never resolve any of the major issues facing Americans. They always leave office much wealthier than when the enter office even though their performance while in office is usually never worthy of even their paycheck, never mind the the unexplained incremental wealth. 

The Convention Of States, however, gives us some hope that we can fix all that is broken Washington. I will let them explain their purpose and goals to fix what is certainly broken: “It's time to take power away from these D.C. swamp monsters and return it to the states and the people. The states and the people best understand how to solve the problems facing their local communities. Far-away politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea what everyday Americans are thinking and feeling, which is why they so often make such terrible decisions.

That's why we need to call the first-ever Article V Convention of States. A Convention of States can propose constitutional amendments that restore the balance of power between the states and the feds and ensure that our clueless D.C. "representatives" can't wreck our country any more than they already have.”

You can access their website and join the effort from the link below. More insanity to follow, with the gross reality that a former Washington politician is about to become a billionaire, yes a billionaire with a “B” even though his track record while in office was abysmal.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

www.loathemygovernment.com

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

November, 2017, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: HIV and Pronoun Idiocy in California, Hillary Gun Idiocy, and More

It is the beginning of another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Note: we realize that November, 2017 has not started yet but trust me, we have so much political class insanity to get to this month that we are going to start a few days early in order to get it all in:

1) One of the great things about this country is the ability to speak your mind and opinions and tell your rulers what you want done rather than having them tell you what they want done. This wonderful arrangement seems to be lost on most current and former politicians in that once in office they think they know what is best and are more than willing to impose their views and values on citizens.

A wonderful example of this type of political example recently came up relative to former Vermont governor Howard Dean. But first, a quick background review. Article V of the Constitution allows the states to petition the Federal government to act in certain ways according to the will of the people. In this process, state legislatures call for a Convention of States meeting where changes to how the Federal government works are discussed, voted on, and passed onto the Federal government which, according to the Constitution, must implement those Convention changes.

There is a major Convention of States effort underway to fix what the Washington politicians have broken:

• Decimating our freedoms as guaranteed under the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
• Bankrupting the country via excessive Federal government debt.
• Usurping what should be state's’ responsibilities and taking them over at the Federal level.
• Staying in office way too long and being way too ineffective while there, requiring that term limits be put in place.

The current Convention of States effort seeks to fix these four busted parts of our country. It is totally within the Constitution governance tenets to do so.

But according to the Convention Of States website, Dean recently attacked the Convention of States effort by claiming it will “be full of special interests who will want to do all kinds of right wing nut job things.” He also stated that: “The threat is the complete collapse of our democracy.”

No Mr. Dean, the Convention of States is the restoration of our democracy, not the collapse of our democracy. How can one argue against more freedom, rational fiscal policy, downsizing the massive and burdensome Federal bureaucracy by returning rightful Constitutional powers to the states, and getting rid of useless and inept Congressional members? 

The only way to argue against the Convention of States is to want to maintain the current power trip that elitist politicians are currently on because returning power to the people in our democracy threatens the cushy and personally enriching lives that people like Howard Dean have grown rich and fat off of.

As far as “right wing nut job things,” the Convention effort is very focused on a minimal amount of substantial changes, something that Dean probably knows but needs to hype up to prove his misguided point of view. When citizens win, politicians lose and that is what his fearmongering is all about.

2) As we all know, a nut case recently opened gunfire from a Las Vegas hotel room and rained down hundreds of rounds of bullets into a concert crowd, killing dozens and wounding hundreds. One reason he was able to do so much damage in a short time was that he had a so-called bump stock which crudely changed his semiautomatic weapons into automatic weapons, allowing him to fire more bullets faster. It was a tragic situation caused by a deranged madman.

It did not take long for the political class, especially Democrats, to jump in and push their agendas even while people were fighting for their lives and families were desperately seeking to find the status of their loved ones. This pushing aside human suffering to push a political agenda is bad enough.

But when you are doing such trash and are ignorant about what you are talking about, that is even worse. Such was the case of Hillary Clinton who could not wait to wade into the middle of this tragedy with her gun control nonsense, especially as it relates to silencers: “The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.” I guess her point is if the nut job had a silencer on his weapons even more people would have died since the crowd would have been slow to realize what is happening. 

But alas, as with most stuff politicians talk about, they are clueless and Clinton was no exception. Her ignorance shows since she obviously has no idea what a silencer does and does not do:

• NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch: “Suppressors [silencers] only reduce [noise] by a few decibels, still same decibel level as a jackhammer.” 
• National Reviews editor Rich Lowry said Clinton was a “tone-deaf political hack” 
• Scott Greer of the Daily Caller sarcastically called Hillary a “noted firearm expert.” 
• Former CIA member Buck Sexton said her comments were “appallingly stupid, and entirely irrelevant,” writing how “she knows nothing about firearms. "and even worse, she doesn’t care.” 
• The Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro echoed stated that Clinton’s comments were “ignorant, irrelevant and exploitative.”

In other words, she has no idea what she is talking about and yet some how thinks she does know what she is talking about. Ignorance at the time of tragedy = political class insanity.

3) Unfortunately, political class insanity is not restricted to Washington politicians. Many state politicians, seemingly a disproportionate of whom live in California, are also inept and ineffective. Consider the latest insanity from that state’s political class as reported by Keely Sharp on the Eagle Rising website:

• The state government recently passed a law that makes it only a misdemeanor now to knowingly expose others to the AIDS/HIV virus including blood donated to blood banks.
• Yes, let that reality set in: in California it is no longer a felony to knowingly pass on HIV to another person, either through direct contact or by submitting bad blood to a blood bank.\According to the article: “This new law also applies to blood banks. People will not be required to tell blood banks that they are HIV-positive and can therefore freely donate their infected blood.”
• Sponsors of the bill tried to justify the downgrading of the crime by stating that modern medicine allows people to live longer with HIV so I guess no big deal if you get HIV from someone who knows they have the disease, just suck it up and start taking medicine and live with the disease for the rest of your life while the person that infected you gets a misdemeanor slap on the wrist.
• One of the sponsors was quoted in the LA Times as saying: “We are going to end new HIV infections, and we will do so not by threatening people with state prison time, but rather by getting people to test and providing them access to care.” 

This obviously makes no sense at all. According to California Democrats’ warped logic, it is okay (i.e. not a felony) for a HIV infected person to infect another with a potentially fatal disease since medicine is much better at treating a life long affliction. I am not sure that the innocent person who knowling gets HIV from an infected person would agree with that statement. 

Republican Senator Joel Anderson apparently does have some common sense: “I’m of the mind that if you purposefully inflict another with a disease that alters their lifestyle the rest of their life, puts them on a regimen of medications to maintain any kind of normalcy, it should be a felony. It’s absolutely crazy to me that we should go light on this.” This is why we call it political class insanity.

On a somewhat related note, understand that the same politicians in California that just said it is basically okay to knowingly infect another person with the HIV virus also recently passed legislation that makes it a crime to call call a senior citizen in a California nursing by a pronoun that is not preferred by that senior citizen. 

Specifically, any person who “willfully and repeatedly” does not “use a transgender resident’s preferred name or pronouns” could, if found guilty of the misdemeanor, spend up to a year in county jail and face a $1000 fine.” Thus, in California it is now a misdemeanor to infect someone with a life threatening fatal disease, HIV, and it is also a misdemeanor to call a person by the wrong pronoun name. Sometimes this stuff makes your head to explode.

Enough insanity for today: HIV and pronoun insanity from California, more Hillary ignorance, and Howard Dean insulting Americans exercising their Constitutional rights. More insanity to follow.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

www.loathemygovernment.com

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

July, 2017, Part 6, Political Class Insanity: Clueless (And Gross) In Seattle, Overreaching In D.C., And Still Poor In California

As we do every month, we review the latest idiocy, lunacy, ineptness, and general insanity from the American political class. The members of the political never cease to amaze us with their greed, idiocy, gumption, and criminal activities. And just when we think there is no new way to disappoint us and tick us off, they manage to find a way to do it, wasting our tax dollars and destroying our freedoms in the process.

The political class has been very busy this month so let’s get right to it:king county,

1) Sometimes politicians are so idiotic, inane, and weird that it is difficult to even begin to argue with their position it is so stupid. Consider a recent National Review article describing the position of a Seattle councilman:

• Seattle sits in King County in the state of Washington and near its Superior County county courthouse is a homeless shelter and other social services organizations.
• According to the the Seattle Times, the area around the courthouse has become an “unsanitary and potentially frightening” scene , one “that reeks of urine and excrement.”
• Too fix this very nasty and more importantly, unsanitary condition, two of the judges who serve at the courthouse have asked the city of Seattle to power wash away the excrement, urine, and associated smells and unhealthy conditions, which seems like a reasonable and simple solution.
• But even a simple solution is usually at odds with the warped mind of some politician somewhere, even when citizens’ health is involved.
• According to the Seattle Times,  Council member Larry Gossett “said he didn’t like the idea of power-washing the sidewalks because it brought back images of the use of hoses against civil-rights activists.”

You cannot make this idiocy up. Seriously? A simple solution to a very dangerous situation from a health perspective and this is what an elected official is worried about, that somehow power washing down excrement from a street is equivalent to fire hosing civil rights demonstrations from over 60 years ago? As always, it does not appear this politician has an alternative solution, he is just insulted that that the proposed situation is somehow offensive to him. In his mind apparently, walking around and avoiding human excrement and the smell of urine is preferable to washing down the area and making it safe for people. Totally, totally insane.

2) The Convention of States website recently listed the three worst abuses of power that the Washington political class has heaped upon the country. We have reviewed these abuses many times before but let’s do it again quickly, using the Convention of States article as a template:

1. Although the current national debt is about to hit a whopping $20 TRILLION, there is another $100 TRILLION that the Washington political class has promised to pay out over the coming years that currently cannot be funded for Social Security, Medicare and other programs. Even if you confiscated every American’s wealth in an extreme tax program, you still could not fund the $100 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities. Spending must be cut, increase taxation cannot fix this dreadful problem, a problem made doubly worse by the Obama administration which basically doubled our national debt during its tenure.
2. Not only are Americans and American businesses over taxed to fund the overspending of Washington, the Washington political class has created a government bureaucracy that is overwhelming and stifling. According to research from the American Enterprise Institute, since 1949 Federal regulations, most of which are unnecessary, have lowered annual real GDP growth by 2% and made America 72% poorer.
3. The Constitution set up the American government system as a minimal national government that was supposed to have minimal powers and pass most of the governing power to the states. But as the Washington bureaucracy and craving for power has grown, it has changed our governing system from one in which states were mostly sovereign to one in which state governments are more and more subservient to the whims and wishes of distant Washington politicians and bureaucrats.This has greatly diminished the rights and freedoms of all of us. Or as the Convention of States says, “The Founders believed that the structures of a limited government would provide the greatest protection of liberty. Not only were there to be checks and balances between the branches of the federal government, power was to be shared between the states and federal government, with the latter only exercising those powers specifically granted in the Constitution. Collusion among decision-makers in Washington, D.C., has replaced these checks and balances. The federal judiciary supports Congress and the White House in their ever-escalating attack upon the jurisdiction of the fifty states.”

Insanity and why the Convention of States effort is so necessary to reign in the out of control Washington political class.

3) For some reason, this month’s political class insanity has had a lot to say about how more and more political power (i.e. more and more socialism) usually results in less and less freedom and less and less economic upside for citizens. We have discussed the reality that high taxation and meddling by politicians in Denmark has made life much more rigid, less wealthy, and more depressing for citizens of Denmark. We have shown that socialistic countries like Sweden and Germany would be some of the poorest states if they were part of the United States. We have reviewed how the most socialistic state in the union, California, has the highest poverty rate in the union, some of the worst schools, and that its biggest city has made its citizens so poor that 40% of them qualify for Medicaid’s low income levels.

Let’s continue this discussion today, returning to socialistic California for our example of how life gets worst as politicians’ reach gets longer:

• According to the American Outlook website, 33% of the nation’s welfare recipients live in the state of California.
• Given that only about 13% of the country’s citizens live in California, something is very out of synch.
• Almost 25% of the state’s residents live below the poverty line.
• Could it be that having an intrusive, overreaching, over taxing, and socialistic political class reduces the economic opportunities and living standard of citizens in that state?

But let’s not jump to conclusions. Maybe California socialism and its ruling politicians have created a paradise in the state in other respects. Maybe the obscenely high taxation and the loss of individual freedom in the state has been made up in other ways.

Ah, nice try but not even close if you are to believe a recent article by the Investors Business Daily website:

• 62% of the state’s roads are currently rated poor or mediocre.
• There are huge cost overruns on the state’s high speed train line before the first mile of track has even been laid.
• One third of Bay area residents in a recent poll stated they are hoping to leave the area soon.
• Despite high taxation rates, California schools and infrastructure status ranks near the bottom of the fifty states.
• California residents pay some of the highest rates in the country for gas and electricity.
• The unfunded liabilities of the state’s pension funds are sky high.

So what did we learn, again, from all of this: the more that politicians meddle in our affairs, our economic well being, and our freedoms the poorer, less free, and more difficult life is with lower economic growth, higher poverty, worse roads, horrendous schools and a high degree of overall pessimism on life.

Pretty depressing stuff, as it always is when discussing our out of control political class. One more political class update for this month to follow but you can be sure that next month we will be back with more.

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