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 operating any level of government in this country.
Even their best efforts are almost always inefficient and 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)Especially during the Biden Presidency, millions of unvetted, unvaccinated, and potentially dangerous people have illegally entered the country. Among those coming over the border are drug cartel members who are bringing unprecedented amounts of illegal drugs into the country, gang members from South and Central American gangs, potential terrorists from hostile countries around the world, and just plain criminal elements.
All of these parties endanger the lives of Americans everywhere. And the latest government statistics prove this point:
Todd Bensman works for the Center for Immigration Studies.
He recently testified before Congress that since 2011, illegal immigrants have committed more than 430,000 crimes…just in Texas.
This comes, on average, to about 35,800 crimes a year being committed by illegal immigrants, almost 100 a day.
Try to imagine the societal and taxpayer cost from these 430,000 crimes: increased police resources, increased judicial system and prison costs, increased stress, injuries, thefts, and deaths incurred by American citizens, etc. Another example where Washington politicians care more about illegal immigrants than they care about the lives of Americans and taxpayers. Shameful priorities.
2)Speaking of illegal immigrants, it is conservatively estimated that since Biden became President, over 7 million people have illegally entered the country. To put that in perspective, there are about 35 states with less than 7 million American residents. There are fewer than 7 million people living in Massachusetts, Indiana, Missouri, Maryland and 31 other states.
Seven million illegal immigrants is larger than the combined population of the seven least populated states including Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, and Montana. This is why the American taxpayer is paying out billions and billions of dollars to provide food, shelter, medical care, and cell phones to the millions of illegal immigrants that Biden has allowed into the country. In the meantime, millions of Americans are homeless, hungry, in need of medical attention. Terrible priorities of the Washington political class. By the way, does anyone want to take a guess on how many pedophiles, drug dealers, criminals, and unvaccinated people are embedded in that 7 million figure?
3)Over 100,000 Americans die every year from drug overdoses. That number is expected to skyrocket when the latest annual results are released. Since Biden became President, his horrible and leaky border policies have allowed illegal drugs, including fentanyl, cocaine, marijuana, and other drugs, to flood into the country. The availability of these tons of illegal drugs will drive up the fatality rate.
How bad is the flood of incoming drugs? Consider:
The Coast Guard recently intercepted an amazing amount of illegal drugs headed for this country in a single bust.
The estimated street value of the drugs they confiscated is about $448 millions, approaching almost half a billion dollars worthy of death.
The haul included 33,200 pounds of cocaine and 12,400 pounds of marijuana.
Put another way, the Coast Guard intercepted over 16.5 TONS of cocaine and over 6 TONS of marijuana.
Fortunately, the good news is that these 22 TONS of illegal drugs will not endanger the lives of Americans. The bad news is that this is what the Coast Guard and Federal government found, how many other tons of illegal drugs got through to American addicts? But this does not seem to be a problem or a priority to the Biden administration as the drug cartels go wild shipping tons of drugs in the country, enriching themselves in the process.
4)It is not just Washington politicians that have a horrible set of priorities, they spend money and time on efforts that do nothing to relieve the suffering of millions of Americans. Seems that San Francisco politicians have the same disease of bad priorities:
San Francisco is a failing city for any number of reasons.
They have a severe homeless problem.
Their homeless crisis is made worse with the drug addiction problem that goes hand in hand with homelessness.
Crime is soaring, especially organized retail crime which is causing retailers to close locations and stores throughout the city.
Businesses and their employees found that they can be just as productive working from home than commuting into the city causing local restaurants, bars, and commercial real estate markets to collapse.
Given these very human problems, this is what city politicians have decided to spend billions of dollars on:
CIty politicians have decided to spend billions of dollars to construct a downtown railroad extension, a project called “The Portal.”
The amazing thing about the project is that it is estimated to cost a whopping $4,000,000,000 per mile, that is $4 billion for each mile of construction.
Of course, like most government projects, the overall cost has gone up significantly since first approved, rising from $6.5 billion to $8.25 billion, an increase of 27%.
Simple math tells us that this project will spend over $8 billion to build just a two mile railroad extension.
One justification of this boondoggle is that it will connect the city’s railroad system to the hypothetical California high speed train line.
We have previously talked about this failed project that has been years in the making, experiencing vast cost overruns and may never be completed.
Thus, the money is being spent to facilitate a future project that may never happen.
As a quick review, the high speed train project was supposed to connect Los Angeles with San Francisco, ending at the end of the “Portal.”
When first proposed in 2008, the estimated cost of this high speed train was $33 billion.
It is now estimated to cost, assuming it ever happens, to cost $128 billion, about four times the original estimate.
It was first proposed and budgeted in 2008 and now the expected completion date is 22 years later, 2030, a date that will likely slip if government projects of the past are any indication.
Again, horrible political priorities but at the local government level. How many homeless, hungry, and drug addicted city residents could get relief for the $8 billion that the city politicians want to spend on a hypothetical rail link that is at least seven years away? Insanity.
Hat will do it for today: just another ste of examples where the American political class cares about their own careers, the needs of non-citizens, and stupid government projects that cost more than expected, take long than expected, and often never occur but not before eating up millions and millions of wasted taxpayer dollars.
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