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Sunday, October 27, 2024

October, 2024, Political Class Insanity, Part 3: More Voting Corruption From The Tech Industry,More Failure From The Department of Education, More Violence From Biden's Failed Immigration Policies and More

 Every month we devote posts to just general political class insanity that is running rampant through the country. The members of the American political class continue to show that they are incapable of efficiently operating any level of government in this country. 


Even their best efforts are almost always ineffective at resolving any problem facing Americans. They spend a great amount of time not trying to improve the lives of their citizens but continually ensuring their reelection and enriching themselves, their families, and their friends in the process, all at taxpayer expense.


1)We have discussed dozens of times in this blog how the integrity of the voting processes in this country have become very biased, criminal, corrupted, and fraudulent. And while some of this corruption is generated by disgruntled individuals who are so passionate about an issue or candidate that they will go to great, and sometimes criminal lengths, to impinge on the voting rights of others who disagree with their views.


But much of the corruption of the voting processes in this country has been committed by the major tech platforms in the country: Facebook, Google, and Amazon. And apparently this corruption is still ongoing despite the false claims of executives of these companies. 


Rather than trying to  explain how they are still corrupting our voting rights, go to the following link to hear a high level Facebook executive, Jeevan Gyawali, brag about how Facebook is deviously affecting elections and in the process, violating the voting rights of you and me:


https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/1061597-watch-meta-senior-engineer-caught-on-camera-admitting-to-this?utm_source=alert-Gmail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=alert&utm_content=5849caf1da9751245ab4d2608bd51513


Another very sad aspect of this behavior is that these folks corrupting our First Amendment rights, do not seem to have any remorse about how they are denying millions of Americans their right to control their lives and fate. Disgusting.


2)There is no doubt that public schools in this country, for the most part, are mostly failures in providing an adequate education to public school students. Our kids routinely perform below dozens of other countries when education attainment tests are administered. ACT and SAT scores have been declining for a long time despite the Department of Education in the Federal government spending tens of billions of taxpayer dollars every year.


And it is not just math and reading failures that public schools are responsible for:


  • Adolph Hitler was one of the worst tyrants and human beings to ever walk the earth.

  • His fanaticism led to World War II, the most deadly war in the history of humanity.

  • His hatred of Jews led to the needless deaths of 6 million Jewish people.

  • But a recent  Daily Mail and J.L. Partners' opinion poll found that 21% of Generation Z thought that Hitler actually had some commendable ideas and “good points.”

So add history failures when discussing the failures in math and reading that our public government schools are creating, making the reformation of government public schooling that much more critical.

3)We recently discussed the reality that Doug Emhoff, Kamala Harris’ husband, allegedly slugged his girlfriend in the face a number of years ago at the Cannes Film Festival. Obviously, slugging a woman in public should not be held in high esteem. 

And apparently and allegedly his bad behavior with this one woman was not isolated to that one incident:

  • There are new news reports that  while married to his first wife, Emhoff had an  alleged affair with a teacher at his kids’ school

  • The teacher got pregnant and there are now accusations that Emhoff was “aggressive” with her, whatever that means.

  • The teacher eventually lost the baby but did manage to get an $80,000 Non Disclosure Agreement settlement, possibly hush  money.

The real hypocrisy of this situation  is that the press and Emhoff have tried to present him as a “feminist hero.” If the alleged incidents are true as they have been reported by the news reports and first victim, then the political hypocrisy is alive and real.

4)Over the past few months we have reviewed the havoc and violent crimes that have been committed against innocent American citizens by violent illegal  immigrant criminals. These crimes have included rape, murder, and assault. The initial post on this topic can be accessed at:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2024/07/bidens-failed-immigration-policies-and.html

A very basic function of any government entity is to protect the lives and property of the citizens they serve. Obviously, Biden's failed immigration policies have not allowed his administration to execute this basic governmental responsibility. And the  violence continues as it pertains to illegal immigrants:

  • An illegal immigrant from Nicaraguan was recently arrested in southeast Florida and charged with assaulting an elderly American woman.

  • The alleged victim is an 80 year woman who was attacked in her own home after she fell and became unable to move.

  • The illegal immigrant, Erick Garcia-Gutierrez, was renting a room in the victim’s home and rather than call for help for the fallen woman, he allegedly sexually assaulted her despite her pleas to stop.

  • He was arrested and charged with first degree felony battery of a physically helpless person.

Another day another victim of Biden’s failed immigration policies.

5)Speaking of Biden’s failed immigration policies, it is not only violent criminals that are flowing into the country to cause havoc on American citizens:

  • Biden’s porous borders have allowed unimaginable amounts of deadly drugs like fentanyl to flow into the country.

  • Los Angeles police recently seized a load of fentanyl that was big enough to potentially kill every LA resident.

  • The police arrested Jose Alberto Soto and charged him with the sale of fentanyl.

  • A search warrant found over 50 pounds of powdered fentanyl, nine pounds of heroin and $14,500 in cash.

  • Those 50 pounds could theoretically kill 11 million people.

  • The street value of the fentanyl was estimated at $4 million.

  • Nationwide, fentanyl overdoses kill about 75,000 Americans a year.

A lot of people unnecessarily died as a result of Biden’s broken immigration policies  with drug overdose fatalities just being one aspect of his policies. As with many other Biden’s failed policies, the basic function of government to protect the lives and property of American citizens is never a priority of his administration.

That will do it for today: violent failure of Biden’s immigration policies, Kamala’s husband is maybe not feminist friendly, public schools continue to disappoint, and Facebook and other tech companies continue to corrupt our voting processes and our First Amendment rights.


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Saturday, January 16, 2021

January, 2021, Part, 3, Political Class Insanity: Government Sanctioned Racism From Biden, Big Tech Tries to Squash Freedom Of Speech, Big Tech Vets Infest Biden Administration And Karma Punches Ted Wheeler

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) Ted Wheeler is the mayor of Portland, Oregon. For about a year or so he has coddled, kowtowed, ignored, and tolerated Antifa as its members ran rampant through his city night after night of law breaking behavior. His passivity has endangered peaceful citizens’ lives, businesses, and the future of the city as residents and businesses leave to get away from the violence and criminality. He was even forced to flee from his own apartment when these people showed up at his home.

Well, as I have always believed, there is always karma in life as a recent article on the Conservative and Free website pointed out karma belief relative to the good mayor:
  • Apparently the mayor was recently eating at an outside restaurant one evening.
  • For no reason, an Antifa thug came upon him and decided to punch the mayor for no reason, landing a punch on his shoulder.
  • On top of the attack, one of the accompanying Antifa members told the mayor, “You are going to be made to feel like the scum you are. F*ck you, f*ck you, shame on you."
  • According to the article: “The Mayor’s office stated that On Wednesday evening, during a non-work-related dinner with a friend in a designated outdoor area, Mayor Wheeler was confronted by a group of people. The Mayor had been seated for about five minutes when a group of people began shouting obscenities at the Mayor from the outside of the tent.”
  • The mob eventually forced themselves into the restaurant where the mayor was punched.
Another failure, as we have discussed so many times, where the local political class cannot carry out a basic, basic function of government: protecting the safety of its citizens and businesses. Wheeler has failed so dramatically that he cannot even protect himself from violence.

2) One of the most important human rights in society and country is freedom of speech. Everyone should be able to talk about their views as long as it does not advocate violence in any form on another human being. In this country, we have this right protected by the First Amendment.

Unfortunately, that right is under attack by so-called Big Tech, Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. The Bill Of Rights protects our freedom of speech from government and political class violating it. But Big Tech has gotten so big that they are now on the verge of stifling free speech, adult conversation of issues, and acting like the great tyrants of the past, Hitler. Stalin, etc. 

Over the past couple of weeks, these companies have taken serious, distressing and massive actions to shut down and censor anyone who does not have the same liberal/Democratic opinions of them, for example:
  • Ron Paul is a former Congressman who was likely the most Libertarian member of Congress ever, a strong advocate for the rights laid out in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
  • He is an older gentleman so from a physical perspective he is a threat to no one.
  • For no apparent reason, his Twitter account was temporarily suspended for “repeatedly going against our community standards.”
  • According to Mr. Paul: "With no explanation other than "repeatedly going against our community standards" @Facebook has blocked me from managing my page. Never have we received notice of violating community standards in the past, and nowhere is the offending post identified.The only thing we posted to Facebook today was my weekly "Texas Straight Talk" column, which I have published every week since 1976."
  • The article that probably got him censored by Facebook was a discussion of tech company censorship.
So there you have it, Stalin and Hitler style. Dare to criticize the big tech companies and they will stifle your right to have an opinion. And no liberal and Democratic politician has stepped up to object to this suppression of free thought and opinion.

3) But maybe this tech censorship initiative should not surprise us since according to a January 10, 2021 article by Chuck Ross of the Washington Times:
  • At least 14 current or former high ranking employees from five different major technology companies will be serving in Biden’s Presidential administration.
  • Maybe not coincidentally, it is these five companies, Apple, Google, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook that have launched their own censorship efforts to quiet and squash the opinions and free speech rights of non-liberal citizens.
  • The top government lobbyist for Apple, Cynthia Hogan, was a chief advisor to the Biden transition team.
  • A former Twitter executive will be Biden’s chief spokesperson for the National Security Council.
  • Jessica Hertz, who was a director for Facebook’s regulatory team, will serve as White House staff director. 
  • Emily Horne, former head of global policy communications for Twitter, will be the director of press and spokesperson for the National Security Council.
  • David Recordon, a former developer for Facebook, will be the director of technology for the Office of Management and Administration. Austin Lin, a former program manager at Facebook, will serve as Recordon’s deputy.
  • Jeff Zients, a former Facebook board member who served in the Obama administration, is Biden’s Covid-19 czar.
I could go on and on about others but you get the idea. The very type of people that either worked for or probably support the censorship efforts from these tech companies will be serving you and I in the Biden administration. Which means it is highly unlikely that Biden will properly respond to the growing censorship of American citizens by these tech companies who, it is my opinion, are not doing it out of a higher sense of consciousness but to preserve what is obviously their lucrative business monopolies.

When a competitor arises that immediately has a negative impact on their money printing machines, such as Parler, an alternative to Twitter and Facebook, these companies act in unison to shut down this potential monopoly upsetting company. These companies are willing to stifle free speech in this country, something that is vitally needed to address the many issues we are all facing, in order to keep themselves rich and powerful beyond any regular American’s wildest dreams.

4) One thing that irritates me to no end is the insistence by Democrats and liberals in this country that anyone or any action that they disagree with has racism at its core. This insistence that just about anything that rubs them the wrong way is racist minimizes the real racism in this country: if everything is racist then nothing is racist. 

And at the same time, the refuse to recognize the many times when they are actually racist themselves, as Joe Biden recently illustrated:
  • According to a Daily Wire article by Ryan Saavedra on January 11, 2021, Joe Biden wants to get economic relief to American small businesses.
  • Sounds like a good idea on the surface, small businesses in this country have certainly suffered as a result of the pandemic.
  • But then you find out that his program will be intentionally racist in nature, since according to Biden: “Our focus will be on small businesses on Main Street that aren’t wealthy and well-connected, that are facing real economic hardships through not fault of their own. Our priority will be Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American owned small businesses, women-owned businesses, and finally having equal access to resources needed to reopen and rebuild.”
  • So, small business owners who happen to be white males need not apply.
  • So, Biden is not even in office yet and his racist past, as we have pointed out previously, is already underway.
  • You cannot single out a group of Americans because of their skin color, exclude them from a government program, and claim you are not a racist.
It is my understanding such behavior is against Federal law which means someone is probably and correctly going to sue him out of the gate for this racism against white business owners.

The good news is that, according to the article, his racism was met with heavy criticism. The bad news is that very few liberals criticized his racism even though they usually have a long history of complaining but faux racism but now ignore this real racism:
  • “White need not apply. Unbelievable. Would you want to also just round them up while you are at it.” - Obianuju Ekeocha
  • “Asians have the highest median household incomes of any racial group in America, and it’s not even close — $87K vs $65K for whites, the next highest group. Why should they get preferential treatment? Identity politics is garbage.” - Alliance Imitative Executive Director Noah Pollak
  • “Can we please just help Americans without further dividing us into competing subgroups?” - Ricochet Editor-in-chief Jon Gabriel
  • “This is actual institutional racism.” - Ricochet Editor-in-chief Jon Gabriel
  • “Discrimination based on race and sex of white men remains unlawful under federal law.” - Attorney Marina Medvin
  • “Are you implying minorities and women unlikely to own large businesses? That’s racist.” - Political commentator Wu Lebao
  • “Asians are doing economically far better than whites. One of the many flaws of the ideological ‘POC’ / ‘white’ model.” - Writer Rav Arora 
  • “If you’re wondering what systemic racial discrimination actually looks like, the Harris Administration is about to give you a tutorial.” - Daily Wire columnist Matt Walsh
But nowhere in the reaction were the typical race baiters like Pelosi, liberal Hollywood types, liberal media people, etc. I guess racism in their minds only exists when it serves their political purposes.

There you have it, your next batch of political class insanity: the racism of Joe Biden, the tyranny, monopoly, and censorship from big tech, big tech’s infiltration of the political class, and a liberal mayor suffers the same pain that he has inflicted on his constituents.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

April, 2020, Part 7, Political Class Insanity: A Senator Lies, A Mayor Hates, and A Congressman Is Useless In Time Of Crisis

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) Obviously, the country is going through some rough times caused by the Chinese coronavirus crisis. Initially, shortages of ventilators, masks, and other supplies were widespread across the country. But various efforts by various government and private sources have helped narrow if not close the supply shortages.

One of the major perceived shortages initially in the crisis was for breathing ventilators in New York city, a city that has been, by far, the worst hit region in the country, accounting for about a third of all cases and deaths. New York politicians realized early on that they probably did not have enough ventilators if things went really bad and asked the Federal government for help in getting more ventilators.

The request resulted in more ventilators being shipped to New York City to relieve the shortfall, many of these ventilators ended unneeded and in storage, and after the virus started to subside in NYC, New York politicians shipped 100 unused ventilators to New Jersey and another 150 unused ventilators to other states where they actually were needed. Bottom line, according to experts in the Trump organization, no one who caught the coronavirus did not have access to a ventilator if they needed one.

But this reality and timeline did not stop Washington Senator Tammy Duckworth from putting out a major falsehood about Trump and ventilators: “As he watches Americans die by the thousands, Trump remains incapable of showing empathy or leadership. He *could* have saved lives by sending more ventilators, but he didn’t. That’s true regardless of who Donald ‘I don’t take responsibility at all’ Trump tries to blame.”

Total tripe. If New York was in such dire needs for more ventilators then why did they ship 100 ventilators to New Jersey and another 150 to other states? Of course, Duckworth provided no proof to her lie, just blather to not only disparage Trump but adding nothing to the solution for the bigger problem.

Three people with knowledge of the situation proved that she was lying:
  • During a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing this week, Adam Boehler, a former HHS official who is now CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation and who has been tapped to help with the coronavirus response, said, “There’s been no American that has needed a ventilator that has not received one.”
  • Even the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, stated that Duckworth was lying: “Have we saved everyone? No. But have we lost anyone because we didn’t have a bed, or we didn’t have a ventilator, or we didn’t have health care staff? No. People we lost are the people we couldn’t save.”
  • White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said that there was no evidence that there were any shortages of ventilators around the U.S. “We were reassured after meeting with colleagues in New York there are still ICU beds remaining and there’s still significant, over a thousand or 2,000 ventilators that have not been used yet.”
Never let the truth get in the way of Washington politicians playing politics.

2) In a sane and perfect world, politicians would actually be leaders, uniters, and not political and vengeful hacks. Unfortunately, we don't live in that kind of world. This reality was recently driven home by a hateful, vindictive politician out in California:
  • William Kirby was the mayor of Auburn, California until recently.
  • He is now out of a job after residents were appalled when he posted some very hateful messages about citizens on social media.
  • On social media he compared Trump supporters to be like members of the racist Ku Klux Klan even though many of his constituents were Trump supporters.
  • Rightfully so, he came under attack for being such a hateful, loathsome public official and ended up rightfully resigning his post as mayor.
  • One of his most hateful posts is when he posted a photo of a hooded KKK member with the caption: “Good news for Trump supporters is that most of them already have masks."
  • But his most hateful post went as follows: “If Hitler and everyone who supported him was removed from the face of the earth in 1939 the world would be a much better place. The same is more true of Trump and his supporters today.”
  • This is a public official who is supposed to respect and protect the rights, lives, and property of all of his constituents, not wish about half of them to die.
Tough not to live in a hate filled country when many of those in public office are leading the hate brigade.

3) Let’s stay with hate for another incident:
  • According to the Washington Examiner, Democrat Congressman Harley Rouda of California recently verbally attacked his Republican challenger.
  • His challenger is Orange County Supervisor Michelle Steele.
  • Roud’s words: “You can’t make this up: @MichelleSteelCA and her colleagues are standing in masks…refusing to create workplace safety provisions that would give masks to our brave essential workers. This isn’t leadership — it’s reserving the lifeboat for yourself.” 
  • Apparently, Mr. Rouda did not understand the reality of the situation and just went off on a political falsehood since Steele had to set him straight: “No, @HarleyRouda What’s shameful is your continued efforts to politicize this pandemic. This is a picture of me accepting 2,000 face masks for the county’s emergency health workers.”
So, Steele is 1) doing her job and getting medical supplies to the workers she supports and 2) she is taking the necessary pandemic precautions as laid out by the CDC by wearing a mask during the pandemic.

And somehow Rouda had to politicize all of her behavior for cheap headlines under false pretenses. 

More despicable behavior and lack of leadership in a time of crisis. By the way Mr. Rouda, if you want to talk about leadership, how about you call your boss, Nancy Pelosi, and have you and her and the rest of Congress get off your vacations and back to Washington and actually do something productive?

A Senator lies, a mayor hates, and a Congressman looks for cheap publicity in the midst of a crisis, which he is doing nothing to help resolve while on vacation. The insanity and pettiness that dominates American politicians today.

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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

September, 2016, Political Class Insanity, Part 2: The Looming Debt Disaster.Pentagon Credit Card For Strip Joints,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.

The current monthly record for the number of days that were needed to cover one month's worth of insanity is ten. We almost equaled that record last month when we needed nine days to cover one month’s worth of political class insanity. There is a very good chance that the ten day record could fall this month since as we get closer and closer to the election, the volume of ineptness grows almost exponentially. 

But today and for all of the posts this month, let’s start off with a welcome piece of honest political dialog. It comes from a State Department spokesperson.Mark Toner, who is about to start the daily State Department press briefing. In a joking matter, he makes the following quote: "Welcome to the State Department. I think we have some interns in the back. Welcome. Good to see you in this exercise in transparency and democracy." 

He then bursts out laughing at his own quote, indicating he also knew what a joke the Obama administration has been, especially Mr. Toner’s State Department, when it comes to cover ups, lack of transparency, denial of Freedom of Information Act requests, the prosecution of whistleblowers, etc. But at least it was a little refreshing to finally hear some actual honesty out of Washington as we see from the actual clip of the news conference:


With that context of honesty, let’s see what other insanity has been going down:

1) Yesterday, we discussed the scandal where the Pentagon had lost over $6.0 TRILLION over the years, trillions that could not be properly accounted for by the auditors. Today we get an idea where a little of that money may have ended up. According to a recent Washington Free Beacon article by Morgan Chalfont, a recent analysis of government issued credit cards to Pentagon employees found that those cards were often used for personal expenses at casinos and stip clubs.

Details of the misuse of the credit cards included the following:
  • A sampling of credit card usage found that almost two dozen Pentagon employees charged $8,544 to their government credit cards for personal use, of which some of those dollars were obtained by using ATMs at casinos.
  • This came out in a follow up audit from 2015 where the inspector general found that over $1 million had been improperly charged to government credit cards by Pentagon employees.
  • The latest inspector general probe confirmed that Pentagon management had not taken enough appropriate action after the first audit found the misspending.
  • One Navy civilian employee was found to have misspent almost $30,000 of taxpayer wealth at casinos and other locations even though that employee had been explicitly identified in the first audit.
  • In addition, the latest audit found that of the 29 employees reviewed, 22 were improperly reimbursed for 131 vouchers totaling $8,544 during the review period. Thus, over 70% of those audited had misused their government credit cards.
  • The original audit found that 4,427 improper credit card transactions totalling $952,258 were done at casinos and 900 transactions were done at “adult entertainment establishments” between July 2013 and June 2014.
Now we at least know where some of the lost $6.0 TRILLION ended up. The frustrating thing is that the Pentagon management was told what was going on as a result of that first audit and the second audit found virtually no improvements in behavior had occurred. Insane.

2) Let’s stay in the defense area for this next piece of insanity. According to a recent article on the Freedom Post website, written by Tim Brown on August 23, 2016, a Federal judge recently sentenced Wenxia Man, a California citizen and a naturalized citizen, to jail for trying to illegally export military equipment to a foreign nation.

But she was not trying to export a few rifles or grenades. Federal prosecutors presented evidence that she was trying to send F-135, F-22 and F-16 engines from Air Force fighter jets to China as well an MQ-9 Reaper drone aircraft, worth = $50 million. She was caught in a Federal law enforcement undercover operation before she could ship any military hardware to a “technology spy” in China.

The pure insanity of this situation is that despite trying to ship major military equipment and military secrets to a foreign, semi-hostile power, she was given only four years in prison. Are you kidding me? People selling marijuana get more jail time and in no way do they endanger our national security like this woman tried to do. Talk about bad law enforcement and judicial priorities and penalties. Insane.

3) We recently did a dedicated post that showed how bad the Obama administration and the Washington political class had handled our country’s economic affairs over the past eight years or so:

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Despite the favorable tailwinds of a massive economic stimulus program, low energy costs, and trillions of dollars pumped into the economy by the Federal Reserve, the resulting economic results were historically anemic and pathetic. Low overall economic growth, stagnant wage growth, doubling of the national debt, various unemployment problems, etc. were the result of their ineptness.

And those results are not getting any better, as outlined in a recent Washington Free Beacon article by Ali Meyer on August 26, 2016. That article reported that the U.S. economy expanded at a pathetic rate of 1.1% in the second quarter of 2016, a downward revision from the original estimate. This second quarter, 2016 growth in the GDP was much lower than the same period in 2015 when the quarterly growth was a more respectable 3.7%.

Thus, the worst economic recovery in the possibly the past 80 years continues with the Washington political class having no idea how to bust out to a more robust economic environment.

4) It is no secret that the Obama administration and its economic mismanagement has resulted in:
  • The doubling of the national debt in eight years.
  • Four consecutive years of having an annual Federal budget deficit of over a trillion dollars.
  • So far, incurring the seven highest annual Federal budget deficits in the history of the country.
  • Raising the national debt to annual total GDP ratio to over 100% from only 60% when Obama took office.
  • Horrific budget management that will burden future generations of Americans with really heavy debt loads and interest payments.
And according to a recent Heritage Foundation article by Michael Sargent on August 24, 2016, this situation is not about to change any time soon:
  • The budget deficit in 2016 is likely to rise again after falling for a few years down, from the whopping trillion dollar deficits earlier in the Obama Presidency.
  • Not only are the budget deficits likely to start rising again but a recent analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted that this year’s budget deficit will be $50 billion higher than they last estimated.
  • This year’s budget deficit is now estimated at $590 billion, a deficit that would require every U.S.household to pay an additional $5,000 or so in incremental income taxes to cover.
  • This is a 35% deficit increase in just one year from 2015 to 2016.
  • The CBO expects trillion dollar deficits to return by as soon as 2024 unless Washington gets its act together.
  • Within ten years, at the current spending rate, the national debt load will be up to $28 TRILLION, almost triple what it was when Obama took office.
  • If interest rates jump up unexpectedly, then the debt increase would be even more dramatic.
  • And no amount of tax increases will overcome the anticipated spending increases of the Federal government.
  • Only four spending categories, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and interest on the debt will eat up the majority of Federal government spending, going from 69% of the Federal budget today to 77% in ten years.
  • Think about that last number: three out of every four dollars spent in ten years will be on these programs with far less left for the military, infrastructure improvements, welfare assistance, education, and other functions.
  • Annual interest on the national debt by itself will triple over the next ten years. 
The good news, which is really bad news, is that we are likely to see the collapse of the economy and the country long before we reach these horrid milestones. 

Thus, what Hitler, Stalin, Putin, Mussolini, and many others could not do to us, we are likely to do to ourselves because no one in Washington or on the campaign trail wants to talk honestly about what needs to be done to prevent this fiscal meltdown. Not Trump, not Hillary, not any Democrat or Republican Congressional person running for office. 

The insanity is that problem is right there in black and white numbers and no one in the political class has the nerve, the courage, the smarts, or the will to fix what is the biggest issue facing the country today: runaway government spending and waste. So sad.

Two days into the insanity and we already see the highly probable end of the republic. Imagine what the rest of the insanity that still needs to be covered in the coming days.


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