The Failing Biden Presidency - Part 3

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) Today’s post is going to be mostly focused on the cognitive and moral decline of Joe Biden. Everyone has a slip of the tongue or a slip of the mind occasionally but when it happens so often and it happens in the presence of other symptoms, then eventually one has to reach the conclusion that he is in the throes of a cognitive decline caused by unknown causes at this point in time.

And these slips are not recent, they extend back into the middle of 2020 and the Presidential race. In fact, we made the case that his wife, his family and his political handlers were guilty of elder abuse to put him through the rigors of a Presidential campaign.

We have reported on a variety of situations where Biden’s continuing cognitive decline was on display:

• He tripped multiple times trying to walk up the steps to get into Air Force One.
• He got lost and bewildered on a tarmac trying to get to a helicopter and had to be literally rounded up by Kamala Harris and Secret Service agents.
• He threatened to run over a reporter who asked him a serious question about the violence in the Middle East.
• When asked another question about what he learned from a Middle East briefing he simply said he learned “ a lot.”
• During his first real press conference he had to be provided a seating chart of the reporters along with their names and photos, even though he had interfaced with these same people during his decades in Washington, so that he would not embarrass himself.

And now we can add another embarrassing situation to the ever growing list. In a recent meeting concerning FEMA, he could not even read off of prepared notes and ended up with a rambling, incoherent session. This embarrassment can be viewed at the following link:

https://redrightdaily.com/watch-biden-is-barely-coherent-mumbles-cant-read-note

2) Unfortunately, Biden’s accelerating cognitive decline is not only embarrassing but fatal in a variety of ways. His lack of understanding and misguided principles on the Middle East have led to Palestinian and Israeli deaths in the latest flare up in Middle East violence on his watch. People are dying at the southern border after he encouraged them to make dangerous and illegal attempts to enter the country. His reversal of a Trump directive on opioid addiction has likely led to thousands of unnecessary drug addiction deaths.

And now his missteps at the border are likely to increase the drug addiction in this country problem even more:

• The flood of illegal immigrants at the border has resulted in Border Patrol resources being pulled away from stopping the flow of illegal drugs into this country.
• There have been news reports of drug cartels bringing semi tractor trailers to the border loaded with highly addictive fentanyl.
• As the cartels flood our country with this highly addictive substance, the addiction and death toll from it is likely to skyrocket.
• In a recent interview, Texas governor Greg Abbott estimated that there had been an 800% increase in the amount of fentanyl intercepted at the border in the past year, giving an indication of how much more of the illegal drug is getting into the country.
• Specifically: “I’ve got to tell you, Steve, there’s something else, a new dynamic about what’s going on at the border that Americans need to know about, and that is the increased apprehension of fentanyl coming across the border. Yes, there may be people coming across the border. But there [are] dangerous drugs coming across the border. For your audience who may not know, two milligrams of fentanyl is a fatal dose. And so, know this, we had…[an] almost 800% increase April over April of the amount of fentanyl that has been apprehended by the Texas Department of Public Safety. We have obtained enough fentanyl coming across the border to kill every single person in the state of New York.”
• Think about that scary statistic: the border law enforcement people have intercepted enough fentanyl to kill 19 million people, the entire population of New York state, imagine how much the non- intercepted fentanyl could kill.

In 2019, over 36,000 Americans died from synthetic opioid overdoses, most of which were based on fentanyl. In 2021, that number is likely to be far exceeded due to the failed and fatal border and illegal immigration polices of Biden and his policies.

3) Politicians lie all of the time, one of the reasons why our election processes are broken and the country is in the mess we are in: once elected, American politicians care only about themselves and their own self enrichment and whatever help they promised to the American people in their campaign is quickly forgotten.

And as a long term member of the American political class, Biden is no different, as we see from his blatant lying about how heavily he will tax all of us, not just the wealthy, not just companies, ALL of us:

• When campaigning in 2020, Biden promised he would only raise taxes on big corporations and individuals making over $400,000 a year.
• But once in office it became clear that the $400,000 number was bogus since it turns out that the $400,000 a year promise was for households, not individuals as he originally promised.
• Thus, a husband and wife who each make $200,000 would see their taxes go up since in total they earn over $400,000 a year, Biden’s first little lie.
• But his tax lies do not end there.
• According to Jim Tankersley of the New York Times, that newspaper has obtained a copy of Biden’s budget documents.
• In those documents we see that Biden plans to tax EVERY American at higher rates by 2025: “The documents forecast that Mr. Biden and Congress will allow tax cuts for low- and middle-income Americans, signed into law by President Donald J. Trump in 2017, to expire as scheduled in 2025.”
• In case you forget, Trump’s tax rate cuts allowed well over 100,000,000 hard working American to keep much more of their earned income regardless of how wealthy or not wealthy they were.
• These tax cuts increased average household income, reduced unemployment levels to unheard lows for African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, women, high school educated workers, and just about every other sub-category of American worker, raised consumer confidence, brought high paying manufacturing jobs back into this country, reduced energy and gasoline prices, and all the while kept inflation well under control.
• By allowing those tax cuts to expire, we can expect the opposite effects to take place: higher unemployment especially for minorities, lower household income, higher gas and energy prices, the loss of high paying manufacturing jobs, and higher inflation.

And yet Biden promised that he would not raise taxes on all of us, just the wealthy. And before he allows the Trump tax rates to expire, we are already seeing the effects of his bad economic policies: inflation is hitting rates we have not seen in decades, companies are already moving high paying manufacturing jobs overseas, energy and as prices are already spiking higher, consumer confidence is down, etc. Imagine how bad things will be when he lets our tax rates rise.

And for those of you who hate Trump and disagree with the above scenario that played out when Trump cut just about everyone’s taxes, get yourself educated on reality. Keep in mind that when Democrat President Bill Clinton cut taxes during his term, the economy skyrocketed and everyone benefited, just like what happened under Trump. When Democrat Harry Truman cut government spending and taxes after World War II, the economy skyrocketed.

As we have said so many times, this country has a government overspending problem, it does not have an under taxation problem. But as a long term member of the American political class, Biden, and the rest of them, do not understand basic economics and as a result, they have to lie during the campaign about not raising taxes and then do just the opposite when elected : expand government spending, which is always inefficient, ineffective, and wasteful, and make us pay for their economic ignorance.

4) And while the past few posts and this one have focused on the cognitive decline of Joe Biden and the chaos, deaths, and bad policies that are resulting from his decline, let’s not forget that he has a Vice president who is just as ineffective, just as out of touch, just as vain as him:

• Biden assigned Vice President Kamala Harris the task of fixing the illegal immigrant fiasco he created at the southern border.
• Over two months after receiving that assignment, she has yet to visit the border to try and understand what is really going on but has visited other places in the country that did not require her to put forth any deep thought or leadership skills.
• At a recent meeting with the leader of our strong ally, South Korea, she wiped her hand on her clothes after shaking the leader’s hand, a major diplomatic and sensitivity screwup.
• And this past weekend, the weekend when we honored those American soldiers and airmen who gave their lives to protect our lives and our freedoms, Harris vainly tweeted out a picture of herself with the words, “enjoy the long weekend.”
• No mention of the sacrifices made by those that served our country, no remembrance for those that died in that service, no, just a light airy picture of herself with her wishes to have fun.

But we already have reported how tone deaf and vain she is in previous posts. Thus, this is what we have leading the country today: a tax increasing, lying, cognitive declining, out of touch President and a vain, unappreciative Vice President who has done nothing to halt the insanity, the deaths, and the chaos at the border.

Those that died serving the country, those that died protecting our rights and lives deserve better than what comprises the American political class today.

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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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, 2020, Update: “The Horrors And Destruction That Donald Trump Has Imposed On America...Just Kidding!”

We are in the middle of our monthly “Political Class Insanity” stream but wanted to take time out from that craziness before continuing with the current insanity running through the American political class. Over the past three years we have been running an occasional series sarcastically called, “The Horrors And Destruction That Donald Trump Has Imposed On America...Just Kidding!” During those multiple posts we have tried to take an objective view of Trump’s administration and its accomplishments.

Having never voted for a Republican President in my life (I am 67 years old) and thus, having not voted for Trump, I think I have somewhat of an unbiased view of the Trump Presidency. The purpose of these posts has been to get down below the liberal hate and venom they have for Trump, and everything else in this country that is not supporting of liberal causes, views, and craziness, and get to the bottom of what his accomplishments, if any, have been.

In doing so, we easily came up with hundreds of positives that the country has experienced under the Trump Presidency that most Democrats and liberals will deny but what reality will say are true, including:

• Reducing the African-American unemployment level to record lows.
• Reducing the Hispanic unemployment level to record lows.
• Reducing the non-high school graduate unemployment level to record lows.
• Reducing the female unemployment level to record lows.
• Reducing the overall unemployment level to record lows.
• Increasing household income steadily since taking office.
• Raising the income levels of the lowest earning Americans faster on a percentage basis than any other income level.
• Reducing the country’s carbon footprint by 140 million metric tons even though he withdrew us from the useless Paris Climate Agreement.
• Forcing NATO partners to finally fulfill their financial commitment to defending Europe from a military budget perspective.
• Keeping gas prices near record lows for a long time on an inflation adjusted basis.

You get the idea, it has been a very good Presidency so far along any number of perspectives. To see the hundreds of other accomplishments, enter, “The Horrors And Destruction That Donald Trump Has Imposed On America” in the search box above.

So let’s review some of his accomplishments that we have already discussed and add some new ones, using the same format that we used for the previous reviews of his Presidency:

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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. 

A little over three years 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 three plus years 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 three years, 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 hundreds good things that have happened to America and Americans since Trump became President, including, but not limited, to the following:

* Trump recently signed 3 bills to benefit Native American people. One gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one funds Native language programs, and the third gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana, three things Obama never got accomplished.

* Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch.

* Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences, something that Obama never got accomplished.

* Violent crime has fallen every year he’s been in office after rising during the 2 years before he was elected.

* Trump signed a bill making CBD and Hemp legal, something Obama never got accomplished.

* Trump’s EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure problem in Flint, Michigan.

* Under Trump’s leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of crude oil.

* Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on Pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving information, something Obama never got accomplished.

* Trump signed the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” (FOSTA), which includes the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act” (SESTA) which both give law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking, something Obama never got accomplished.

* Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding Moms, something Obama never got accomplished.

* The 25% lowest-paid Americans enjoyed a 4.5% income boost in November 2019, which outpaces a 2.9% gain in earnings for the country's highest-paid workers.

* Low-wage workers are benefiting from higher minimum wages and from corporations that are increasing entry-level pay.

* Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection & conservation bill in a decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land, something Obama never got accomplished.

* Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic and garbage from the ocean, something Obama never got accomplished.

* He signed a bill this year allowing some drug imports from Canada so that prescription prices would go down, something Obama never got accomplished.

* Trump signed an executive order this year that forces all healthcare providers to disclose the cost of their services so that Americans can comparison shop and know how much less providers charge insurance companies.

* When signing that bill he said no American should be blindsided by bills for medical services they never agreed to in advance.

* Hospitals will now be required to post their standard charges for services, which include the discounted price a hospital is willing to accept.

* In the eight years prior to President Trump’s inauguration, prescription drug prices increased by an average of 3.6% per year. Under Trump, drug prices have seen year-over-year declines in nine of the last ten months, with a 1.1% drop as of the most recent month, something Obama never got accomplished.

* Trump created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans.

* VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far, something Obama never got accomplished.

* Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life.

* Because of a bill signed and championed by Trump, In 2020, most federal employees will see their pay increase by an average of 3.1% — the largest raise in more than 10 years, something Obama never got accomplished.

* Trump signed into a law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of federal workers, something Obama never got accomplished.

* Trump administration will provide HIV prevention drugs for free to 200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years.

* All-time record sales were attained during the 2019 holidays indicating a very robust economy.

* Trump signed an order allowing small businesses to group together when buying insurance to get a better price.

* President Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act that provides funding for states to develop maternal mortality reviews to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions & largely focuses on reducing the higher mortality rates for Black Americans, something Obama never got accomplished.

* In 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, a criminal justice bill which enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society, something Obama never got accomplished.

* The First Step Act’s reforms addressed inequities in sentencing laws that disproportionately harmed Black Americans and reformed mandatory minimums that created unfair outcomes.

* The First Step Act expanded judicial discretion in sentencing of non-violent crimes.

* Over 90% of those benefiting from the retroactive sentencing reductions in the First Step Act are Black Americans.

* The First Step Act provides rehabilitative programs to inmates, helping them successfully rejoin society and not return to crime.

* Trump increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%.

* Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt, something Obama never got accomplished.

* New single-family home sales are up 31.6% in October 2019 compared to just one year ago.

* Trump received the Bipartisan Justice Award at a historically black college for his criminal justice reform accomplishments.

* The poverty rate fell to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment, something Obama never got accomplished.

* Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data.

* President Trump signed a bill that creates five national monuments, expands several national parks, adds 1.3 million acres of wilderness, and permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund, something Obama never got accomplished.

* Trump’s USDA committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water infrastructure.

* Consumer confidence and small business confidence is at an all time high.

* More than 7 million jobs have been created since Trump took office.

* More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.

* More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs have been created since his election.

* Trump appointed 5 openly gay ambassadors, something Obama never accomplished.

* Trump ordered Ric Grenell, his openly gay ambassador to Germany, to lead a global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality across the globe.

* Through Trump’s Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative, Federal law enforcement more than doubled convictions of human traffickers and increased the number of defendants charged by 75% in ACTeam districts.

* In 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismantled an organization that was the internet’s leading source of prostitution-related advertisements resulting in sex trafficking, something Obama never got accomplished.

* Trump’s OMB published new anti-trafficking guidance for government procurement officials to more effectively combat human trafficking.

* Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations arrested 1,588 criminals associated with Human Trafficking.

* Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services provided funding to support the National Human Trafficking Hotline to identify perpetrators and give victims the help they need.

* The hotline identified 16,862 potential human trafficking cases.

* Trump’s DOJ provided grants to organizations that support human trafficking victims – serving nearly 9,000 cases from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018.

* The Department of Homeland Security has hired more victim assistance specialists, helping victims get resources and support.

* President Trump has called on Congress to pass school choice legislation so that no child is trapped in a failing school because of his or her zip code, something Obama never got accomplished.

* The President signed funding legislation in September 2018 that increased funding for school choice by $42 million, something Obama never got accomplished.

* The tax cuts signed into law by President Trump promote school choice by allowing families to use 529 college savings plans for elementary and secondary education.

* Under his leadership ISIS has lost most of their territory and been largely dismantled.

* ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed.

* Trump signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs, something Obama never got accomplished.

* Trump issued an executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.

* Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting the U.S. government from discriminating against Christians or punishing expressions of faith.

* Trump signed an executive order that allows the government to withhold money from college campuses deemed to be anti-Semitic and who fail to combat anti-Semitism.

* Trump ordered a halt to U.S. tax money going to international organizations that fund or perform abortions.

* Trump imposed sanctions on the socialists in Venezuela who have killed their citizens.

* Trump negotiated and finalized new trade agreement with South Korea.

* Trump made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.

* Trump withdrew the U.S. from the job killing TPP deal.

* Trump secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam.

* Trump okayed up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation.

* Trump got over a dozen US hostages freed, including those Obama could not get freed.

* Trump signed the Music Modernization Act, the biggest change to copyright law in decades, something Obama never got accomplished.

* Trump secured billions that will fund the building of a wall to secure our southern border.

* The Trump Administration is promoting second chance hiring to give former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find meaningful employment.

* Trump’s DOJ and the Board Of Prisons launched a new “Ready to Work Initiative” to help connect employers directly with former prisoners.

* President Trump’s historic tax cut legislation included new Opportunity Zone Incentives to promote investment in low-income communities across the country.

* 8,764 communities across the country have been designated as Opportunity Zones.

* Opportunity Zones are expected to spur $100 billion in long-term private capital investment in economically distressed communities across the country.

* Trump directed the Education Secretary to end Common Core.

* Trump signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into law, something Obama never got accomplished..

* Trump signed measure funding prevention programs for Veteran suicide.

* Companies have brought back over a TRILLION dollars from overseas because of the tax reduction bill that Trump signed.

* U.S manufacturing jobs are growing at the fastest rate in more than 30 years.

* The stock market has reached record highs during the Trump years.

* Median household income has hit the highest level ever recorded.

* Women’s unemployment rate is at a 65-year low.

* Youth unemployment is at a 50-year low.

* The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans.

* 95% of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future— the highest ever.

* As a result of the Trump tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.

* Trump has eliminated a record number of unnecessary regulations that hurt small businesses.

* Trump signed welfare reform legislation that requires able-bodied adults who don’t have children to work or look for work if they’re on welfare.

* Under Trump, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history.

* Trump reformed the Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors 100’s of millions of $$$ this year alone.

* Trump signed Right-To-Try legislation allowing terminally ill patients to try experimental treatment that wasn’t allowed before, something Obama never got accomplished.

* Trump secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.

* Trump signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care, something Obama never got accomplished.

* U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high so we are less dependent on oil from the Middle East.

* The U.S. is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.

* Trump has his circuit court judge nominees being confirmed faster than any other new administration.

* Trump got his Supreme Court Justice’s Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh confirmed.

* Trump moved U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

* Trump negotiated a new trade deal with Mexico and Canada that will increase jobs in this country.

* Trump reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.

* Trump imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices.

* Trump signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline, something Obama never got accomplished.

* Trump signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments, something Obama never got accomplished.

* The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump doubled the maximum amount of the child tax credit available to parents and lifted the income limits so more people could claim it.

* It also created a new tax credit for other dependents.

* In 2018, President Trump signed into law a $2.4 billion funding increase for the Child Care and Development Fund, providing a total of $8.1 billion to States to fund child care for low-income families, something Obama never got accomplished.

* The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) signed into law by Trump provides a tax credit equal to 20-35% of child care expenses, $3,000 per child & $6,000 per family + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) allow you to set aside up to $5,000 in pre-tax $ to use for child care.

* In 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (CARES) into law which allocates $1.8 billion in funding over the next five years to help people with autism spectrum disorder and to help their families, something Obama never got accomplished.

* In 2019 President Trump signed into law two funding packages providing nearly $19 million in new funding for Lupus specific research and education programs, as well an additional $41.7 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the most Lupus funding EVER, something Obama never got accomplished.

* Trump will soon likely be signing the first major anti-robocall law in decades called the TRACED Act (Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence), legislation that will extend the period of time the FCC has to catch and punish those who intentionally break telemarketing restrictions. The bill also requires voice service providers to develop a framework to verify calls are legitimate before they reach your phone, aloof which Obama never did accomplish.

*Trump did all of this while fighting flagrant and fake Russian collusion and ridiculous, politically driven impeachment charges.

Another set of reasons to add to the previous hundreds why the first three plus years of the Trump Presidency has not wrought disaster on the country.

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, 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 not 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. Hundreds of accomplishments in just over three years is not too shabby despite many of you wanting both Trump and the country to fail.

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Great review of what has actually gone down in this country on the positive side of the ledger during the past three years, a reality that most of the country’s mainstream media refuse to acknowledge.

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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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

 

September, 2016, Part 9, Political Class Insanity: Defeat In Afghanistan, Food Stamp Fraud In New York, Chicago Violence, 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 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 burst 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:

http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2016/08/when-even-the-state-department-spokesperson-cant-keep-a-straight-face-about-things-anymore-video/

Let’s continue on with this month’s political class insanity, Day 9 for September, 2016:

1) It seems every month, we find we need to talk about the runaway violence that is happening in Chicago. Every week there are dozens and dozens of shootings which always ends up in some number of deaths as a result of those shootings. Last week we covered the shooting results from a single weekend in August. As drug cartels and other criminals take over the city’s streets, civilians are often left defenseless since Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country. It seems politicians never understand that criminals are not going to heed gun control laws, that is why they are criminals.

Well, this month we are going to cover two weekends of Chicago gun violence and the deadly results. MRCTV, in an article written by Brittany Hughes, highlighted what happened in the city over the Labor Day weekend and the carnage was not good:

• 65 people were shot and 20% or 13 died as a result of Chicago gun violence over the holiday weekend.
• Victims included Crystal Myer who was nine months pregnant.
• Allen Smith, a retired pastor, was killed outside of a nursing home.
• According to the Chicago Tribune, this was the deadliest Chicago holiday weekend of the year, by far.
• Police attributed much of the violence to gang activities.
• The 90 murders in Chicago in August was the highest monthly number since 1996.

Out of control gun and other violence despite having the toughest gun control laws in the country. And the political class both in the city, state , and Washington have no idea, or no desire or will, to do anything about it. If one of the basic, primary functions of government is to protect its citizens, than that function is failing very badly in Chicago with no help or end insight.

2) The United States has been fighting a war in Afghanistan since 2001, immediately after the 9-11 attacks. Thousands and thousands of American troops have died or been wounded and the American taxpayer has easily spent hundreds of billions of dollars, often wastefully, in the country. In fact, more money has been spent and more lives lost and ruined by wounds since Obama took over than during the Bush regime and despite the fact that Obama promised to have us out of the country by 2014.

One would have hoped that for this pain, dying, and suffering, human and financial, that we would have something to show for our efforts. But again, hope is never the right word to use when describing any endeavor run by the American political class.

Because according to Jack Davis, writing for the Western Journalism website on August 24, 2016, The American University Of Afghanistan, located in the capital city of Kabul in Afghanistan, recently came under heavy attack by Taliban militants last week. Early reports from CNN reported that at least a security guard had been killed and 21 students wounded. The attack started with a car bomb explosion and then a breach of the security walls of the university.

After fifteen years of taxpayer spending and military efforts have left thousands of our soldiers dead and wounded, our major enemy in the country, the Taliban, can still waltz into the center of the capital of the country and rain havoc and violence down on students? Seems like an insane waste of military, financial, and human resources, courtesy of the American political class.

3) Last week we discussed the arrests of over a dozen individuals in the Baltimore area that had defrauded the Federal government and the American taxpayer via the Federal food stamp/food assistance program. Fourteen people were arrested and accused of stealing at least $16 million from the food assistance program. $16 million from one gang in one city, which gives you an idea of how bad this problem likely is nationwide.

Recently, another food stamp scam was uncovered in northern New York. An illegal immigrant was arrested for using his owned grocery store to change food assistance credits into cash and then using the cash to restock his store. The charges were serious enough for a $2 million bail to be assigned to him so this is not considered by the judge to be some kind of petty theft.

But what is interesting is how his family reacted to his arrest and bail, basically saying that America should go f*&% off and giving local news people the finger after the bail hearing. Yes, illegal immigrant breaks the law, steals from the American taxpayer and America should go f*&% itself. It is an insane world we live in, as witnessed by the following videotape report on the crime:

http://www.americanjournalreview.com/watch-islamic-wife-refugee-store-owner-busted-food-stamp-fraud-yells-fk-america-tv/#

4) Wages and household incomes for the American middle class and poor have basically been flat and stagnant for the entire run of the Obama administration. But one entity within the country has seen its income grow steadily in the face of the rest of us getting by with less. And that entity is the Federal government:

• The Congressional Budget office (CBO) recently reported that the Federal government took in a record high haul in tax receipts through July, 2016, a whopping $2.679 TRILLION.
• And yet despite stealing a record number of dollars from Americans in 2016, the Federal government will likely run a budget deficit of $600 billion, an increase of $56 billion from the last CBO estimate for 2016 and increase of $161 billion from the 2015 full year budget deficit.
• Even more distressing, despite receiving a record amount of tax receipts, the New York Analysis of Policy and Government organizations points out, based on the analysis it has done, that the Federal government is still underfunding important functions like national security, infrastructure improvement, hardening the national electrical grill, and other problem areas.
• And the shortfalls in these areas are in addition to the impending financial collapse of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Like an addict, no matter how much the political class takes in from taxes on hardworking Americans, the more they need without getting anything constructive done. As we recommended in our book, “Love My Country, Loathe My Government,” we need to make government smaller and smaller, stripping it down to basic government functions in order to give the government a chance of doing something, anything, effective and efficient. Because right now, government and the politicians and bureaucrats that operate it are trying to do everything and getting nothing done efficiently and effectively.

More insanity tomorrow, when we will tie the monthly record for most posts under the theme. “Political Class Insanity.”

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