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) We have probably provided hundreds of examples over the years where politicians have had very bad and sometimes fatal priorities for the citizens of this country. When they cannot solve real problems, they go ahead and try to fix things that they can fix but which have virtually no real impact on most Americans' lives.
With Democrats in charge in Washington now, there is a lot of energy being wasted on “gun control,” i.e. getting rid of the critical Second Amendment to the Constitution. Every year about 15,000 Americans are homicide victims because of gunshots. This is a terrible number but it does not take into account how many lives were actually saved by law-abiding Americans using their Constitutional rights to protect themselves, their families, and their property, numbers that we have reviewed any number of times.
In fact, an Obama gun control study backfired on him when the research showed that for every two criminal/offensive uses of guns, there were three defensive cases of law abiding citizens using a gun for good
And consider why this fixation on gun control is a bad priority:
- Every year, about 250,000 Americans die from medical errors, almost 17 times more than the number of gun related homicides.
- Every year, about 40,000 Americans die in car accidents, more than double the number of gun related homicides.
The better priorities for Washington liberals would be to fix the bigger problems of Americans dying from bad medical practices and bad driving. Neither of those fixes would destroy an important part of the Constitution. And there is an even faster growing priority that should have the attention of every Washington politician but for the most part it does not appear on their gun control infatuated radar screens:- U.S. drug overdose deaths rose to a record 93,000 people in 2020, about six times more people than guns used in homicides.
- The CDC reported there were 93,331 overdoses last year, a 30% year of year growth in 2020 vs. 2019.
- Of the 93,000 overdose deaths, about 69,000 of them came from fentanyl-related usage.
- One would think that focusing on the ever increasing use of legal and illegal fentanyl would be a great thing for Washington to work on.
- But their actions, especially Biden’s self-inflicted crisis on the southern border, is likely to feed even more drug deaths going forward.
- Border law enforcement efforts have confiscated orders of magnitude more fentanyl this past year than ever before as Biden’s border missteps have caused the drug cartels to begin shipping record amounts of fentanyl into the country.
- Thus, that 93,000 number will probably be a record for a very short amount of time.
Very bad priorities, trying to abolish the Second Amendment while there are so many other, more fatal ways that Americans are dying every day, issues that politicians in Washington should be working on. Insanity.
2) Not only are there bad priorities in Washington but incompetency is still an art form in the Federal government:
- According to the local CBS TV station in New Jersey, an American taxpayer has been trying to convince the IRS, for seven years, that she is still alive.
- Linden, New Jersey resident, Samantha Dreissig, is a healthy 25 year old camp counselor.
- But the IRS says she died seven years ago, as witnessed by her phone exchange with an IRS person:“The last actual person I had spoken to from the IRS — and I quote, ‘Wow, you’re dead all over our system.'”
- The confusion started seven years ago when she tried to file her 2014 taxes.
- That was the same year her mom died and she believes the government somehow confused her mother's death with her death even though they have different first and last names: “They say nope, sorry, this account’s linked to a deceased person.”
- When she met face to face with an IRS customer representative, she was told that the problem would be taken care of.
- However, that meeting was before the covid crisis well over a year ago and the problem of her non-death still persists.
- Dreissig told CBS: “I honestly want the IRS to know that I’m alive, kicking.”
Makes you wonder how many other lives, processes, and records are screwed up at the IRS. Such incompetence that a live, breathing American citizen cannot tell an inert government entity that they are still alive after seven years of trying.
3) Kamala Harris has proven herself time and time again to not be the sharpest knife in the drawer. And she recently reinforced that reality with an absolutely stupid statement about rural voters in this country. She was trying to make the inane point that Republicans across the country are making it harder and harder for people to vote by requiring, gasp, an id to prove they are actually entitled to vote.
But she insulted the intelligence and lifestyle of tens of millions of Americans that live in rural areas with the following statement: “Because in some people’s mind, that means well, you’re going to have to Xerox or photocopy your ID to send it in to prove you are who you are. Well, there are a whole lot of people, especially people who live in rural communities, who don’t… there’s no Kinkos, there’s no OfficeMax near them. Of course, people have to prove who they are, but not in a way that makes it almost impossible for them to prove who they are.”
Come on Kamala, is that the best you got to protest requiring an id to vote? People in rural America actually have electricity now, it actually comes right into their homes. Many of them have phones that can take a picture of an id. They can go to the Post Office, to their accountant, their lawyer, etc. to get a copy of their id. So condescending and so out of touch with reality.
She was immediately scorched on social media with comments such as, “Cause, you know, country folks don’t have electricity, much less access to copiers or smart phones. They’re too busy running moonshine & sliding on the hoods of their cars.”
4) At any one time there are about 500,000-600,000 homeless Americans living on the street in this country. As we discussed above, 93,000+ American died last year because they could not get addiction treatment. Millions of Americans often have difficulty affording to buy food for their families. There are a lot of suffering Americans in this country, people who should get our sympathy and the help they need to get back on their feet.
But while these folks continue to suffer from lack of housing, lack of addiction treatment and lack of food, this is what Washington politicians are spending our tax money on:
- The University of Pennsylvania, a college with a $14.6 billion endowment in the bank, received $18.4 million in taxpayer money to study tobacco product marketing, specifically to study “tobacco product messaging in a complex communication environment.”
- Columbia University, a college with a $19.9 billion endowment, got $5.1 million in taxpayer money to fight HIV/AIDS in the kingdom of Lesotho.
- When you find out where in the world this kingdom is please let me know and then let me know why that $5.1 million was not used to house homeless Americans, treat addicted Americans and feed hungry Americans, that people in Lesotho have a higher priority than people in this country.
- The University of California, Riverside, got $3 million of taxpayer money to find out which water tastes better: recycled wastewater, bottled water, or tap water.
- And not only did they get $3 million, their study included only 143 people, hardly a statistically valid sample.
- Viewed another way, the survey cost $21,000 PER PERSON in the study to sample three types of water.
- The Federal government gave Klein Buendel, Inc. $1.4 million to come up with an app that would encourage Latinas to go walking with nearby walking partners.
- I guess it would cost more if we wanted other types of people, non-Latins to go walking.
So the Federal government wasted almost $29 million just on these few idiotic projects. These are projects that are not statistically invalid, are racist since they only focus on one race, have some potential benefit for non-Americans somewhere in the world, and for the most part, are not scalable to help the millions of Americans that need help today.
They don't need walking apps, they don't need HIV/AIDS information, they could care less what water tastes like. For example, that $29 million could have provided about 10 million meals for homeless Americans, based on the average cost of providing one meal in a food bank in the country. Ten million meals for hungry Americans. Instead, we get some lame walking app, an invlaid water study, etc. Bad, bad priorities.
Enough insanity for today: still wasting taxpayer wealth, still out of touch with America, still inept bureaucrats, and still not caring about what kills more American than gun violence.
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