July, 2019, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: More Voters Than Adults In LA, "The Russians Are Coming," and Politicians Pulling Strings?

It is 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.

Let’s get started:

1) In order for a democracy to survive there must be total faith that the voting process is in complete integrity. Once citizens believe that casting their vote makes no difference since forces are working behind the scenes to undermine their vote and their voice then democracy dies.

And according to the Godfather Politics website, if democracy dies in America from voter fraud there is a good chance that the death spiral begins in Los Angeles:

• In an article by Warner Todd Huston on July 11, 2019, there are 1.6 million more registered voters in Los Angeles county than there are eligible adult voters living in the county.
• This is equivalent of the county having the population of Philadelphia worth of extra voters.
• This disgrace in voter integrity puts the county in violation of Federal law.
• Despite being in violation of Federal law, according to the article, county officials do not seem to be in a rush to fix this problem, a problem that has been going on for years.
• And while Los Angeles is a very gross voting disgrace, they are not alone relative to other California counties.
• Ten of California’s 58 counties have voter registration rates that are higher than 100% of the counties’ eligible voters.
• This in turn causes the ENTIRE state of California to have 101 registered voters for every 100 eligible voters.
• According to the article: “Eight other states have voter rolls that exceed their actual voting population, and 38 states have at least one country where the disparity exists.”
• A Pew research study estimated in 2012 that there are 24 million voter registrations, about one in eight, which are “no longer valid or are significantly inaccurate.”
• 24 million is bigger than the entire population of Florida or New York state.
• Pew also found that current voter registration rolls included 1.8 million dead people and 2.75 million voters who are registered to vote in at least two different states.

What a mess. If democracy dies in this country could very well die because our broken voting process caused Americans to lose faith that they still had an honest and worthwhile voice in their country’s future. What a disgrace.

2) The Democrats that fueled the Robert Mueller Russian investigation into whether or not Trump used the Russians to help get himself elected spent almost $30 million to find out that there was no Russian/Trump collusion. But even after two years of wasted time and resources and a lot of taxpayer money, Democrats are still trying to find a way to blame the Russians for everything wrong with their lives:

• Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has already claimed that the Russians are already after her, over a year away from the next Presidential election and months and months ahead of any Democratic primaries.
• In a recent interview she claimed that “Russian bots” have already attacked her campaign:
• During the interview she was asked if her campaign would come under attack from the Russians: "We already know we are [under attack]. What we have to do is we also have to know when we’re being played and we also have to respond immediately when we know something is inaccurate."
• And in a really weird twist she also blamed the Russians for attacking Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL quarterback who insulted America with his childish anti-America and anti-police antics.

Really foks, the whole “Russians under every rock” is really getting tired. If the Russians were actually that good and influential then the Soviet Union would still be a world power. Why not go positive and promote your assets, ideas, and ideals rather than chasing Russian ghosts everywhere, it is getting stale and is so unproductive.

3) Most people probably know that Jeffery Epstein, a very rich billionaire, has once escaped the consequences of promoting pedophilia with young girls but has been recently arrested again for the alleged sick transgressions. The biggest question and scandal of the original effort to put him jail was the extremely lenient sentence he received for abusing so many underaged girls.

The lenient sentence and treatment raised the obvious question: what people in power may have helped Epstein escape justice in his original trial and arrest? If you believe the old saying, “follow the money,” than those who may have helped him dodge justice with his first brush with the law for abusing kids could be in the following list:

• Steven Beyer, writing for the Western Journalism website on July 12, 2019, shed some light on how much money Epstein has given to mostly Democratic politicians over the years.
• Epstein donated to Democrats 26 times in the 1990s but only 3 times to Republicans.
• Receivers of Epstein donations included Democrats Chuck Shumer, Jeff Bingaman, Joe Lieberman, Chris Dodd, John Glen, Bill Bradley, Daniel Moynihan, and Mark Pryor.
• Epstein also donated to the Democratic senatorial campaign organization.
• He gave $25,000 to the Democratic National Committee.

Just saying, who knows who may have pulled strings to get Epstein off the hook the first time. Hopefully, this time he will not get the same secret help for his disgusting transgressions.

4) But if politicians, likely Democrats, helped get Epstein off the hook the first time, these same politicians may have also helped their kids get unfair advantages and admissions to the best schools in the country, not because their kids were special but because they had influence and money to do so. We already know that famous celebrities in Hollywood pulled strings, cheated, and paid off people to get their kids into top schools when such admissions were not valid. Many of those involved, including celebrities, have gone or will be going to jail.

But maybe it was not only celebrities who pulled those Epstein-like strings for their kids and fancy colleges:

• All four of Al Gore’s kids got into Harvard even though Harvard usually accepts only 4.5% of all applicants.
• What are the odds that each of Gore’s kids fell in the top 95.5% of kids applying to colleges, at least according to Harvard’s standards?
• Other Democrats whose kids got into Harvard include Senator Richard Blumenthal, Senator Robert Menendez,Senator Chuck Shumer, former NewYork Governor Eliot Spitzer, and President Barack Obama.
• NYC mayor Bill de Blasio’s son got intoYale as did the kids of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Senator Amy Klobuchar, and Senator Michael Bennet even though Yale has an acceptance rate under 6%.
• Chelsea Clinton got into Stanford even though its acceptance rate is only 4.8%.
• Kids of Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden and many Kennedys got into Georgetown whose admission rate is only 6%.
• Also, consider the reality that Ivy League colleges donated over $1 million to Democratic politicians while donating far less to Republicans last year: Yale gave Democrats over $170,000 and only $2,600 to Republicans, Harvard gave Democrats over $440,000 but less than $50,000 Republicans.
• Back in 2016, Ivy League schools gave about $2.6 million to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

All of these kids of Democrats could have been very smart and maybe none of them received any extra help getting into elite, highly selective schools. And Jeffery Epstein may have just gotten lucky and got minimal jail time and punishment from his first arrest for pedophilia without the help of powerful people in politics. Maybe...but doubtful. More insanity to follow.

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The More Things Politicians Change The More They Stay The Same, Despite Spending Trillions Of Dollars, Part 2; Housing Bubbles, Health Care Costs, and More

Yesterday was the first of a two part pictorial series where we proved that despite forty years of half-hearted trying and the expenditure of trillions and trillions of dollars of taxpayer wealth, the American political class has failed miserably to resolve just one of the major issues facing Americans over the years. Yesterday we proved that:

1. Despite ever increasing expenditures and resources on our public school processes, the reading, math, and science scores of Americans kids have not increased in about forty years and our kids fail miserably in those categories when compared to kids around the world.
2. Despite spending trillions of dollars and causing the Great Recession, the Washington drive to make it affordable for more families to own their own home as resulted in the percentage of home ownership to be right where it started during the Carter administration.
3. Despite fighting the infamous “war on drugs” for over forty years, drug usage and prison incarceration for illegal drug use has never been higher, roughly ten times higher than when the so-called war was declared.

The details and graphs of these failures can be read in detail at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-more-things-politicians-change-more.html

Let’s finish up our pictorial review of major political class failures today with a whole new set of disasters:

1) The Great Recession was, at its core, a collapse of the housing market due to any number of factors. These factors artificially inflated the price of housing in the country and when the pricing bubble collapsed, as all financial bubbles do, it rained havoc on banks, mortgage brokers, the housing industry, government housing entities, and the overall economy.

The following chart shows the historical average monthly price of homes in the U.S. over the past several decades, on both a real time value and an inflation adjusted value (click on the graph for a larger view):

Up until the late 1990s and into the early 2000s, the prices of homes in the U.S. were slowly going up on a lazy growth trend, especially visible if you look at the inflation adjusted prices. However, as we get into the 2000s, the average prices start to skyrocket due to cheap money from the Federal Reserve Board, faulty legislation from the political class in Washington, lax oversight of Federal regulators in the banking and mortgage industries, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac going wild from lax oversight and political cronyism.

What we eventually see is a classic financial bubble that burst in 2008, spinning the country into the Great Recession. Which raises a critical question: given all of the money the American taxpayers pay in taxes in order for the Federal Reserve Board, the Treasury Department, the Federal Housing Authority, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Housing and Urban Development, Senate committees and housing and banking, House of Representatives committees on housing and banking, the FDIC, and other government organizations to manage the economy, how come not a single Federal analyst, statistician, or economist working for the government did not look at this chart in the 2005-2008 timeframe, say “Uh-oh!” and raise the red flag? 

Pathetic economic oversight over the past decade or so, not even looking at a simple graph to see what was inevitable, the housing crash and the Great Recession.

2) It is no secret that health care costs are escalating quickly in this country, having been going up for decades. Obama Care was supposed to resolve this major issue, resulting in the infamous lie from the President that the average American household would see a $2,500 annual reduction in their health care costs. 

Well, Obama Care was finally launched in late 2013 and look what happened:

According to real life data, quarterly growth in healthcare spending in this country over the past five years had its two largest quarterly increases in the first six months that Obama Care went live. In other words, we see the classic political class case of unintended consequences: pass a law to address a problem and the exact opposite happens, the law makes the problem worse, not better.

In this case, early results look like Obama Care, which was supposed to REDUCE health care costs and spending, has had the exact opposite effects in its first six months, actually INCREASING health care costs and spending. Thus, even when they try to fix something, the political class usually gets the solution wrong or makes the original problem worse.

3) Remember when the Democrats in Washington went bat crazy during the Bush administration when gas prices exceeded $3.00 a gallon, horrors! The following photo op picture shows their disgust with high gas prices:

What American would not kill to be paying $3.19 a gallon today? In some places in America, a gallon of gas, five and a half years after Bush left office, is over $4.00 a gallon and the national average is almost double what it was when Obama took office and the Democrats took over both houses of Congress. 

This is another favorite and unproductive tactic of Washington politicians. Fake outrage over some major issue to make political and photo op points, and then ignore the problem, never resolving it, even when they have the opportunity and power to do so. 

In either case, gas prices are far above the contempt level these politicians showed many years ago, indicating these Democrats, did not have the will, the smarts, or the creativity to resolve the energy crises in this country.

Two days of pictures and graphs, forty years of spending trillions of dollars with little resolution on the major issues of our times, and a set of current politicians that have shown no ability, will, or intelligence to break that decades long losing streak of failure. And still, we continue to throw good money after bad when it comes to the Federal government:



Federal spending has gone up twelve times faster than our income levels, leaving us poorer and less free to live our lives as we choose. It would have been one thing if increased Federal spending had won the war on drugs, fixed our failing public schools, prevented the Great Recession, put a strategic and comprehensive energy plan in place (as opposed as standing in front of a gas station), reined in runaway health care costs, monitored the economy for self induced bubbles, or resolved any other of the major issues of our times.

But alas, the increased in spending did none of these things except leave us with a $17.5 TRILLION national debt that grows by billions of dollars every week. That is why implementing term limits is so important. After forty years and trillions of dollars, isn’t it finally time to throw the incumbents out of office, many of whom have been in office for all or most of those forty years, and replace them with fresh minds with fresh ideas and less corruption? You can help do that at:

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Failure to do so soon, will result in the following picture becoming our reality in the near future:



We cannot afford to wait another forty years to figure out that Washington still has not resolved any major issues, we do not have that much time.

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