It is the beginning of another month which means it is time again to review the latest political class insanity from the American political class. Each month it takes us multiple posts to cover the wasteful spending, incompetent government organizations and employees, government programs that usually make a problem worse than resolving it, inane and idiotic politician comments, etc.
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)One of the very basic functions of any government is to protect the lives and property of the citizens it serves. Any successes in other endeavors are insignificant if a government entity and the politicians that operate it cannot protect the lives of its citizens.
Unfortunately, over the years we have shown that one of the worst, if not the worst, set of politicians at protecting the lives of its citizens are in Chicago. Every year it seems the violence and murder rates continue to climb and the local politicians have no idea how to fix this very basic failure:
Over the recent New Years weekend 28 residents of Chicago were shot and 7 died from their wounds.
This is probably a pretty normal weekend for the city when it comes to violence and homicides.
Those that died included a 9 year old boy who was killed while inside his house.
A teenage boy was shot to death and three other teenagers were wounded in a car to car shooting.
For the year, Chicago had 723 of its citizens murdered and almost 3,000 wounded.
A failure of a political class and government entity if there ever was one.
2)While Chicago has been a hotbed of murder and violence over the past several years, with no relief or solution in sight, the city of Philadelphia is becoming another prime example where local politicians cannot find a solution to the violence and in the process, protect the lives of its citizens:
Philadelphia recently wrapped up 2022 with over 500 murders for the second year in a row.
Those murders ranged in age from 9 years old to 78 years old.
Seven of those killed were kids under 14 years of age.
The murder total has not been this high since 1990 when 500 people were killed during the crack cocaine crisis.
In 2014 248 people were murdered in the city and thus, the murder totals have doubled in the past seven years, really accelerating after Philadelphia went through its own, stupid “defunding the police” charade.
Again, if a government entity cannot protect the lives of its citizens, it is a failure, clear and simple, and a failure of its local political class.
3)Politicians are great at the old adage, “Do as I say, not as I do.” The examples of such behaviors have been covered many times in this blog and will not be reviewed again here. If interested, type “do as I say” in the search box above to get some posts where these heinous, hypocritical behaviors are documented.
Biden recently exhibited similar behavior over the holiday week:
Biden has been carping about man-made climate change for years and how Americans need to sacrifice how they heat their homes, how they should never get cheap gas for their cars, and how their behaviors are bad for the environment.
Congress recently passed a bloated and debt laden 2023 budget bill that will cost the American taxpayer $1.7 TRILLION and resolve none of the crises facing the country.
Joe Biden went on vacation to the Virgin Islands and never got around to signing the legislation even though it was passed well before he left on vacation.
Turns out the legislation had to be signed by December 30 in order to keep the government operating, a date when Biden would still be on vacation.
Thus, the Biden White house decided that they would fly the actual legislation down to the Virgin Islands for him to sign before December 30, resulting in unleashing unnecessary carbon output into the air, something he has nagged us about for years.
Again, do as I say, not as I do.
4)Speaking of Biden’s vacation, consider the heartless optics of his Virgin Islands vacation. The country was encased in a massive cold front that was spewing ice and snow all over the country. This horrific storm was caused major transportation, heating, and power problems for millions of Americans. Dozens and dozens of people died as a result of this storm.
And yet he still went on vacation to the tropics. And from what I can gather, really showed no compassion or statement of concern for those freezing their lives away while he sunbathed on the beach. Total absence of leadership and empathy.
5) Continuing with the above theme that any government that cannot protect it citizens is a failure, consider a unique and very dangerous situation out in California:
Liberal politicians across the country spent the past years implementing “defund the police '' programs where they gutted their police force resources.
At the same time they degraded, verbally attacked, and did not support their local police organizations.
These actions have resulted in higher crime, fewer criminal convictions, more dangerous cities, low police force morale, and extreme difficulty in hiring and retaining trained police officers.
As a result, citizens are dying, being robbed, and being raped in ever growing numbers as police forces are demoralized, under staffed, and under resourced.
And now we have seen the extreme effects of all this defund the police nonsense.
In Tehama County in California, the county sheriff’s department has publicly announced that due to a “catastrophic staffing shortage throughout the agency,” the department will no longer patrol the streets and protect citizens during the day, only at night.
So if you are a local criminal, your chances of being caught for your criminal acts just got much smaller if you commit those acts during the day when there would be no sheriffs around to prevent your criminal actions.
In a statement the sheriff's department basically blamed the city’s politicians for insufficient funding which resulted in the inability to staff and function properly.
Good luck to Tehama county residents, during the day you are basically on your own.
Another day and another set of political class failures across the country, often with fatal results.
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