The Horrors And Destruction That Donald Trump Has Imposed On America...Just Kidding! Part 21

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 two 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 year and a half 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 a little over two 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 twenty seven 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 well over 200 good things that have happened to America and Americans since Trump became President can found by entering the phrase “the horrors and destruction” in the search box above. Today, let’s add another dozen or so good things that are going on in the country even though the doubters hate the reality that Trump is President:

- The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits dropped to the lowest level in nearly half a century last month, March, 2019, dropping to 192,000, the lowest number since September, 1969, when the population was much smaller.

- The four week moving average of unemployment benefit filings last month was at the lowest level since November, 1969.

- National retail sales jumped by 1.6% last month, the highest growth level in eighteen months, indicating a still strong economy.

- The stock market has rebounded from a late 2018 drop and is almost back to record high levels.

- The infamous, expensive, and discredited Mueller investigation has cleared Trump of collusion, obstruction, and any other criminal activity.

- A strong March, 2019 jobs report kept the national unemployment rate at 3.8%, close to a 50 year low.

- Hispanics, traditionally a very strong Democratic voting bloc, gave Trump a 50% approval rate according to a recent McLaughlin and Associates poll, a 50% approval rate in a recent Marist/NPR/PBs survey, and a still high 45% approval rate in a recent Morning Consult/Politico poll.

- According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 41% of Americans feel America is on the right track as compared to mid-high 20s during Obama’s last full year in office in 2016.

- Another Rasmussen poll found that the overall approval rate of Trump is at 49%, a number that has been trending upwards and a rate that is higher than Obama’s at the same time of each administration.

- Trump donated his latest salary of $100,000 to immigration support, much like he has donated all of his previous salary dollars to supporting veterans’ needs, the fight against alcoholism, and other worthy causes that affect many Americans.

- The Trump administration has launched a $350 million effort to fight opioid addiction, through research and treatment, in an effort to reduce opioid overdose deaths by 40% in four especially hard hit states, Kentucky, Ohio, New York, and Massachusetts.

For those of you that have hated on Trump since day one, and given your obvious gross error in judgment relative to Trump given the well 200 accomplishments we have previously listed and the ten newest accomplishments listed above, 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, he will be around for a while 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 no 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. Over 200 accomplishments in a little less than two years is not too shabby despite many of you wanting both Trump and the country to fail.

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July, 2013 Political Class Insanity, Part 4: Nobody Knows Nothing, China Gets Our Iraqi Oil, and A Secret Court That Protects No One

This is a fourth in our political class insanity review for this month. As we have gone through time, the insanity and lunacy from the political class seems to have grown exponentially. What used to fill up one blog post a month now takes four, five, or six posts to get in all the stupidity from Washington and elsewhere.

The following links have already listed three days of insanity for the month of July, 2013:

http://www.loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/07/july-2013-political-class-insanity-part_2.html

http://www.loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/07/july-2013-political-class-insanity-part_3.html

http://www.loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/07/july-2013-political-class-insanity-part_4.html

This post starts the fourth post for this month:

1) We have already reviewed this month how ignorant and out of touch with reality the Inspector General for the Federal Reserve and the FBI Director have been shown to be. They both recently testified in front of Congressional committees and could not answer even the most basic questions from Congressional members despite their high level and high paying executive positions.

But ignorance is not contained to these two political appointees. Jay Carney is the President’s press secretary. He talks to the press just about every day. He should be able to handle most of the questions the press throws out to him, that is his job, also high paying.

But current news reports are carrying stories about how Mr. Carney has avoided thousands of questions from reporters over the past few years despite the Obama promise that he would operate the most transparent administration of all time. According to the news reports, since 2011, he has failed to answer 9,846 questions. His favorite excuses include: I don’t have the answer (1905 times), I would refer you to someone else (1383 times), and you already know the answer (1125 times).

Thus, in the course of the 28 months or so that he has been the White House press secretary, his inability to answer 9,846 questions comes out to about 18 non-answers EVERY DAY. So much for the promise of transparency.

2) A New York Times article that was summarized in the June 14, 2013 issue of The Week identified some real political class insanity. According to the article, over the past few years, Iraq has again become one of the world’s biggest oil producers, shipping 1.5 million barrels of oil out of the country every day.

And here is the insanity: half of those 1.5 million barrels are going directly to China. Our politicians led us into a very cost military experience, costing the American taxpayer untold hundreds of billions of dollars and the lives of thousands of U.S. military personnel. It divided our country for no apparent reason.

And we cannot even get the economic benefit of receiving a large amount of their oil drilling, it goes to China who did nothing to put the country back together, they just hung back until the U.S. and the resources of the American taxpayer did all of the heavy lifting of fixing the country’s economy and oil production industry. Despicable.

But it gets even worse. When you think about it, much of our military mistake in Iraq was financed with government debt funding, much of which came to China. Thus, not only do we not get the benefit of Iraqi oil, that benefit seems to be going to the Chinese, we are stuck with paying interest payments to the same Chinese bond holders who lent us the money to have the military experience in Iraq. Despicable and insulting.

3) One of the scary aspects of the NSA and Obama administration and the fact that they are collecting every American’s electronics communications is that this information could be abused in so many ways. Supporters of this anti-Fourth Amendment snooping are trying to assure us that the Federal government would NEVER abuse or harass Americans using this personal information.

This assurance rings hollow in light of the fact that the Obama administration was actively and viciously using a Federal government agency, the IRS, to harass Americans and political organizations that dared to have a contrary opinion to the Obama administration. It also rings hollow when the President himself claims he did not know this shredding of Americans’ First Amendment rights were being trampled by the IRS.

And now consider this information from a recent USA Today article that was summarized in the June 21, 2013 issue of The Week magazine. According to their research, an astounding 4.9 million people have access to access to classified government information. Also, 1.4 million people have access to top secret government information.

Given how easily Edward Snowden was able to access top secret government data and what he did with that access, do we really think that centrally storing every Americans' personal electronics communications is not going to be abused by someone within the 4.9 million population? No way.

4) Staying with the line of thought on government abuse of spying on Americans, consider some research from the Wall Street Journal that was also summarized in the June 21, 2013 issue of The Week magazine. Those that support the shredding of the Fourth Amendment with all-encompassing government snooping have assured us that a secret court issuing secret warrants by a secret judge will protect our rights and privacy.

That amount of secrecy should scare any American who values their freedom, liberty, and privacy. And the Wall Street Journal supports that fear since it reports that from 1979 to 2012, the secret court, approved 33,900 surveillance request through the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Of the almost 34,000 requests to the court, only 11 were declined, which translates into 99.97% of all secret government request were approved.

This is obviously a rubber stamp court, you cannot convince me that all but 11 cases out of 33,900 requests were good, prime targets for terrorism surveillance probes. Doing a little math, we see that over the 34 years that these requests were made, on average only one request was blocked every THREE years. Compare this to the almost 1,000 requests that were approved EVERY YEAR.

Thus, the argument from supporters that the information the Federal government is collecting will not be abused is absolute garbage when you consider that millions of techie types have clearance to access classified government information and the court that is supposed to be protecting our rights is nothing more than a rubber stamp step in the surveillance state.

5) The wonderful website, Bankrupting America, had a short article posted on their site on June 25, 2013 that discussed more government insanity from…you guessed, the IRS. The same organization that trampled on the First Amendment rights of Americans with a contrary political position than the President, the same organization that illegally stole millions of Americans’ medical records, the organization that wastefully spent tens of millions of dollars every year on lavish conferences for themselves, and the same organization that is paying out $70 million in employee bonuses despite it being forbidden under the budget sequester.

Their latest insanity is a doozy. It appears the IRS sent $46 million to one, SINGLE address in Atlanta, Ga. According to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), the IRS paid out $46 million to “unauthorized workers” who apparently all live at the same Atlant address. The news of the mysterious money has spurred a variety of questions like:

• Does IRS they have any idea what they are doing?
• Is this the result of a lack leadership?
• Is the brain power of this organization so tiny that they do not have a simple edit baked into their data processing procedures that says something like: once we send out more than a million dollars to one address maybe we should check it out?????

Incredible, indescribable stupidity and incompetence.

The head of the FBI, the Inspector General of the Federal Reserve, the head Presidential Press Secretary, and just about any IRS employee who know nothing or who are totally incompetent. A disastrous foreign policy that results in the American taxpayer funding the oil supplies for China, a court that is supposed to protect Americans’ rights that do nothing of the sort, and almost 5 million people that can potentially access and abuse just about everyone’s private electronic communications.

This is America today and this is the Federal government today, all courtesy of the American political class. And tomorrow will bring more of the same lunacy.

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July, 2013 Political Class Insanity, Part 2: Obama Officials Do Teir Best Sgt. Schultz Impressions and More

This is the second in our monthly series which covers and reports on political class insanity. It is amazing how every month we can come across new and novel ways that the political class in this country can come up with to waste our tax dollars and screw up our economy and democracy. The first in this month’s series on their lunacy can be accessed at the following link:

http://www.loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/07/july-2013-political-class-insanity-part_2.html

Today’s insanity starts now:

1) Michael Snyder is a blogger who writes The Economic Collapse blog. He has researched and developed a list of “66 Crazy Ways That The U.S. Government Is Wasting Your Hard-Earned Money.” We highlight some of them below. We have already covered a few of these in previous posts but they are worth repeating here because they are such idiotic wastes of money:

• The IRS is about to pay out $70 million in bonuses to employees even though discretionary bonuses are supposed to be cancelled due to the sequester.
• According to the Washington Post, the U.S. government is going to leave $7 billion worth of military equipment behind in Afghanistan.
• It is being projected that the trip that the Obamas will be making to Africa will cost U.S. taxpayers $100,000,000, the equivalent of over 100 years of White House tours.
• U.S. taxpayers spend more than $1.4 billion a year on the Obamas. Meanwhile, British taxpayers only spend about $58 million on the entire royal family.
• During 2012, $25,000 of Federal money was spent on a promotional tour for the Alabama Watermelon Queen.
• The U.S. government spent $505,000 “to promote specialty hair and beauty products for cats and dogs” in 2012.
• According to InformationWeek, the Federal government is spending “millions of dollars” to train Asian call center workers.
• The Federal government has actually spent $750,000 on a new soccer field for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.
• The U.S. Agency for International Development spent $10 million to create a version of “Sesame Street” for Pakistani television.

The Federal government could have kept White House tours going for hundreds of years if this money had not been wasted on these stupid programs, programs, and trips.

2) The IRS has been in the news lately, mostly because of their shredding of First Amendment rights of Tea Party and other conservative political groups because they dared to have a difference of opinion with the Obama administration. Their harassment and tyranny had not been seen since the Nixon years, if even then.

But the bad news continues relative to this dysfunctional government entity, at least according to a recent Inspector General audit. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration revealed in a recently released audit that in 2010 and 2011 more than 1,000 Internal Revenue Service employees misused government charge cards issued by Citibank.

The audit found that during the two years in question, IRS employees sent Citibank a total of 325 bad checks written on personal accounts that had insufficient funds to cover them, that agency officials with top-secret security clearances had their charge accounts suspended for failure to pay the balances, and that the IRS had a tendency of being “overly lenient” in disciplining those who abused the card privileges.

Whoopsie, the check bounced. I do not think the typical American taxpayer gets away with that excuse if they are late paying their taxes or that the IRS will be “overly lenient“ with common Americans. Pretty sad the nation’s accounting department, the IRS, cannot keep many of its employees and executives in line and fiscally responsible.

3) According to the center For Investigative Reporting, back in 2009, the number of veteran soldiers who had been waiting more than a year for their Veterans’ Administration care totaled 11,000. In three short years, By December 2012, this list had ballooned to 245,000 veterans:

After reviewing internal Veterans’ Administration documents, their analysis also determined that many veterans are waiting much longer than a year to receive their benefits:

• In New York City, the delay can be 642 days.
• In Los Angeles the delay can be 619 days.
• The largest number of year-long waits are in Oakland (19,077), Waco (18,442), Houston (14,480) and Los Angeles (13,901).

Disgraceful abuse of our brave servicemen and service women who made great sacrifices for this country. The Obamas are still going to take their $100 million African vacation, the Alabama watermelon queen got her touring money, Pakistan has a $10 million version of Sesame Street, dogs and cats got their Federal money for pet beauty products, etc. but our veterans wait years for what is rightly due to them for their service. Disgraceful beyond belief.

4) I am not an expert by any stretch of the Federal Reserve System but it seems to me that it has literally been out of control for a while now. Every month for a long time it has been buying tens of billions of dollars worth of different kinds of bonds in its various “quantitative easing” disasters. The problem is that the Fed does not have any “wealth” so to speak. It basically creates money out of thin air (“printing of money”) and introduces it into our economic system with no underlying wealth to support it.

If that does not scare you into believing that our economy and financial system is about to implode, take a look at the following video of a recent Congressional hearing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIM8x5wLtR4

The lady being grilled by Congressman Alan Grayson says at the beginning of the video that she is Federal Inspector General responsible for auditing the Federal Reserve. And that apparently is the extent of her knowledge on just about any topic under discussion.

In the span of about five minutes, Grayson asks her a series of straight forward questions regarding the trillions of dollars that the Fed is tossing around. Her lack of knowledge regarding the Fed’s operations, DESPITE being the head Inspector General, is horrifying, scary, and unbelievable. To quote Sergeant Schultz from the old TV show, “Hogan’s Heroes,”, “I know nothing” is basically her mantra through the entire line of questioning.

If the Inspector General knows nothing and cannot account for the Fed‘s trillion dollar financial activities, who can? Very, very distressing and depressing.

5) For Americans who love freedom and the First Amendment, the IRS harassing and hindering of Tea Party and conservative political groups in exercising their freedom of speech is a direct affront to the concept of liberty in this country. Finding why and who did these actions, who ordered the harassment, etc. should be a top priority of every American.

Which makes this piece of political class insanity all the more depressing. FBI Director Robert Mueller was recently questioned by Congressman Jim Jordan under oath at a Congressional hearing regarding the IRS targeting of conservative groups. Unfortunately, but typically, for a high ranking Obama administration official, Mueller appeared as uninformed as possible regarding of the details of the case , doing an even better impression of Sgt. Schultz’s “I know nothing” line than the above mentioned Fed Inspector General:

Congressman Jordon: “Can you tell me who is the lead investigator is?’

Director Mueller: “Not off the top of my head.”

Congressman Jordon: ”This is the most important case in the country for the past six weeks and you don’t know who the most important person is, leading the case?”

Director Mueller, same song different verse: “Not off the top of my head.”

Disgusting and disgraceful. The Director knew he was going to be asked questions like this, this was the primary purpose of the hearing and he did not care enough or was not smart enough to do at least some basic preparation. Since Congress represents people like oourselves and acts like our surrogates in these matters, Mueller’s lack of preparation is a direct insult to the voters and taxpayers of this country.

Furthermore, the exchange above was just a small example of Mueller’s ignorance and lack of preparation. The entire exchange cab be viewed at:

http://theblacksphere.net/2013/06/fbi-director-mueller-knows-nothing/

At this video you can see his apathy and arrogance goes on for minutes at a time, totally unprepared and unprofessional, a disgrace to the American taxpayer.

Having fun yet? Trust me, the bad news will keep on coming for a few more days along with the insults and contempt that the politicians in this country have for us, our wealth, and our freedom.

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It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:

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http://www.cato.org
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