January, 2020, The Unfolding Disaster That Is Obama Care: The Stupidity Of Medicare For All Continues

Every month for years now we have had to discuss how bad Obama Care is turning out to be under the continuing theme, “the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care.” This month is no different. As the legislation continues to march through America, driving up health care and health insurance prices as it serves as dead weight on economic growth, it cements its rightful place as the worst piece of legislation Washington has ever produced.

It never had a chance to be successful since it really never addressed the underlying root causes of our ever increasing health costs in the country:

• Americans eat too much of the wrong kind of food, resulting in obscenely high obesity rates for the country.
• Our food chain is infested with overdoses of high fructose corn syrup, salt, sugar, and other unhealthy additives.
• Americans smoke too much.
• Americans do not exercise enough.
• The country is in serious need of health care tort reform.
• Barriers to insurance company competition across state lines need to come down.
• Obama Care never “followed the money” to find out who is actually profiting from the ever escalating healthcare costs in this country and how to get those factors under control.
• Obama Care never got the immense amount of fraud and abuse in the current government healthcare programs, Medicare and Medicaid, under control in order to save money to efficiently fund other government health care initiatives.
• Obama Care never put serious research money towards curing the major diseases that drive high healthcare costs such as high frequency cancers and dementia type diseases.

You cannot resolve any problem unless you understand and address the underlying root causes. No difference here: Obama Care legislation never addressed these listed root causes and thus, has no chance of ever being successful.

But it is not just missing the root causes of our healthcare costs that makes Obama Care so horrible. It resulted in millions of Americans losing access to their favored doctors, hospitals, and insurance policies. It has caused insurance premiums, deductibles and copays to escalate substantially. It will likely add trillions of dollars to the national debt. It has exposed millions of Americans to higher than necessary identity theft chances. It has created government bureaucracies that are wasteful spending taxpayer wealth and being exploited by criminal elements. It has stifled economic growth and job creation.

These are just a sample of the types of idiocy that we have been reviewing for the past several years in this blog relative to Obama Care. To read those past posts, just enter the phrase, “the unfolding disaster,” in the search box above.

When we started this theme many years ago, it was all about the failure that is Obama Care. Over time, many of the failures that we predicted or other smart people predicted came true. Obama Care did not reduce annual health insurance premiums by up to $2,500 as promised. Obama Care did not bend the cost curve of health care as promised. Obama Care did not get insurance for over 21 million Americans as promised. And Obama Care did not allow you to keep your doctors, your hospitals or insurance plans as promised.

But with the failure of Obama Care has come a much worse idea, “Medicare For All.” Thus, most of these types of posts going forward will focus on this inane idea since the previous big healthcare inane idea, Obama Care, has basically collapsed in failure.

1) In our previous posts and many posts before that we pointed out the reality of what happens when government and politicians take over the healthcare industry in a country: 

1. Costs go up.
2. Quality of care goes down.
3. Access to health care goes down.
4. People suffer more pain for longer periods of time.

This is not a guess, it is based on real life experiences of ordinary citizens living in Canada, England and elsewhere were somehow, someone thought that government bureaucrats and the politicians who direct them can be more efficient and effective than the free market and individuals making decisions based on their own needs and wants.

And yet, Democrats and liberals around the country, including those running for President, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, think that the so-called “Medicare For” all concept, basically abdicating all health care decisions and responsibilities to the Federal government, is a good idea despite the failure of similar concepts around the world.

One of the main but false selling points of Medicare For All is that ordinary Americans would be better off financially under this system because 1) politicians would get rich in this country to pay for the program and 2) this program would be much more efficient and thus, overall, families would pay less vs. what they pay today.

A couple of problems with this scenario:

• Many research and analysis efforts have shown that the cost for such a program would require the Federal government to obtain over $3 TRILLION a year in extra taxes to pay for this $3 TRILLION Medicare For All program.
• We have shown in previous analyses that you cannot cover these extra Medicare For All costs even if you confiscate all of the wealth of the rich in this country, never mind just raising their taxes.
• And this approach is not more efficient since in other countries where this approach was actually implemented, the wait time for a doctor appointment, the lead time to get an operation, and the lead time just to get a simple X-ray or MRI is eons longer than the wait times in this country.
• This is why rich folks from other countries come to this country for medical care, they do not want to wait and suffer the long lead times in their own socialized medicine countries.

Medicare For All is a plan stupid idea, as pointed out from a financial perspective in a recent Heritage Foundation analysis:

• This research found that the majority of American families, possibly three out of four, would be worse off financially under a Medicare For All program.
• Obviously, if this analysis is right, then far more than just the wealthy will be paying more out of pocket expenses than what Warren and Sanders are promising.
• The Heritage analysis found that under the Medicare For All effort some families would be paying more for than what they currently pay for electricity, gas for their cars, and possibly their food budget while abdicating their decisions for healthcare to nameless and faceless government bureaucrats guided by mostly inane and ignorant politicians.
• The total bottom line of the analysis found that 73.5% of Americans families would have less money in their pocket under the Medicare For All program than under the current healthcare market structure that exists today with likely worse healthcare quality.
• The analysis used the financial method used by other countries to finance their nationalized health care systems, payroll taxes.
• American households who currently get healthcare coverage via their employer healthcare program would be hit the hardest, seeing their after income tax take home pay shrink an average of about $10,544 a year, leading to the finding that 87% of those Americans currently getting employer sponsored health care being financially worse off under the Medicare For All plan.
• Lower-income working families, which currently get health care through government programs like Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, would also be worse off to the tune of seeing their average household income shrink by about $5,592 a year. 
• Nationally the analysis found that Medicare For All would “require an additional tax of 21.2 cents on every dollar that every American earns. (Right now, most workers and their employers pay 15.3 cents on the dollar in payroll taxes.)”
• Combining this 21.2 cents for every dollar earned with current income tax rates, Social Security taxes, and Medicare taxes, the Federal government would likely be taking over 50% of your annual household income under the Medicare For All program before the state and local governments take even more.
• The Heritage Foundation analysis was kind to the Medicare For All Program because it assumed that Americans would still continue working as hard and to the same number of hours despite having over half of their income confiscated, a shaky assumption since most level headed people would work less and less as the government took more and more.
• The Heritage Foundation got down to the real nitty gritty of what would happen to certain types of Americans under Medicare For All, not just high level, gross estimates. 
• For example, Olivia Williams, an unmarried mother of two earning $31,000 a year, would be worse off by $1,547 or a decrease in income by 5.3%, the amount she spends on electricity every year.
• The Suarezes, a median-income married couple earning about $98,000, with two kids and employer health benefits, would be worse off by $9,201, or a reduction in their income of 13.3%.
• The Joneses, a lower-middle-income married couple earning nearly $50,000, with two kids and employer health benefits, would be $1,619 worse off or 4.4%, the amount they spend annually on gas for their cars.

You get the idea, we would be spending more and getting less in terms of healthcare quality and quantity. Now, some might say that the Heritage Foundation is biased towards free market solutions and they would probably be right. But until Sanders and Warren come up with detailed analysis on how Americans will be better off under Medicare For All, something that have not done, then the Heritage Foundation, and others like it which show how stupid Medicare For All is, have the final say in how bad this concept is. Or as summarized by the Heritage Foundation: “Those pushing for Medicare for All have left out some essential details. No legislative sponsor of this plan has offered a way to fully pay for its promises. Instead, Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren have put out plans that don’t fully pay for what they’ve promised to provide, and they dramatically overestimate the revenue that new taxes on the rich could raise.”

2) And even if after all the analysis we have shown, above, the previous post, and other posts, you still think that the concept of government control of your health care decisions is a good idea, consider the following realities:

• A Georgia Congressman actually spoke out in a televised Congressional hearing that he thought the island of Guam could actually tip over in the middle of the ocean if too many Navy resources were deployed there.
• A Texas Congresswoman proclaimed that the Constitution is 400 years old (it isn’t), that her Congressional district sits 50 feet below sea level, (it doesn’t), and that she was curious if one of the Mars Rover vehicles would be going anywhere near where Neil Armstorng walked on the moon.
• A Speaker of The House once proclaimed that Congress had to pass a piece of major legislation (i.e. Obama Care) to actually see what was in it.
• A New York Congresswoman had no idea what the three branches of our government was and could not accurately define how to calculate the basic unemployment rate despite having a business college degree.

I do not know about you but I do not want stupid people determining every aspect of my healthcare. The way to fix the healthcare problems in this country is to first understand the root causes of high healthcare costs, as listed above, and then attack those specific root causes. Throwing TRILLIONS of dollars at a problem without attacking the root causes is a recipe for financial disaster.

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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.

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http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

December, 2019, The Unfolding Disaster That Is Obama Care: The Stupidity and Gross Reality Of Medicare For All

Every month for years now we have had to discuss how bad Obama Care is turning out to be under the continuing theme, “the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care.” This month is no different. As the legislation continues to march through America, driving up health care and health insurance prices as it serves as dead weight on economic growth, it cements its rightful place as the worst piece of legislation Washington has ever produced.

It never had a chance to be successful since it really never addressed the underlying root causes of our ever increasing health costs in the country:

• Americans eat too much of the wrong kind of food, resulting in obscenely high obesity rates for the country.
• Our food chain is infested with overdoses of high fructose corn syrup, salt, sugar, and other unhealthy additives.
• Americans smoke too much.
• Americans do not exercise enough.
• The country is in serious need of health care tort reform.
• Barriers to insurance company competition across state lines need to come down.
• Obama Care never “followed the money” to find out who is actually profiting from the ever escalating healthcare costs in this country and how to get those factors under control.
• Obama Care never got the immense amount of fraud and abuse in current government healthcare programs, Medicare and Medicaid, under control in order to save money to efficiently fund other government health care initiatives.
• Obama Care never put serious research money towards curing the major diseases that drive high healthcare costs such as high frequency cancers and dementia type diseases.

You cannot resolve any problem unless you understand and address the underlying root causes. No difference here: Obama Care legislation never addressed these listed root causes and thus, has no chance of ever being successful.

But it is not just missing the root causes of our healthcare costs that makes Obama Care so horrible. It resulted in millions of Americans losing access to their favored doctors, hospitals, and insurance policies. It has caused insurance premiums, deductibles and copays to escalate substantially. It will likely add trillions of dollars to the national debt. It has exposed millions of Americans to higher than necessary identity theft chances. It has created government bureaucracies that are wastefully spending taxpayer wealth and being exploited by criminal elements. It has stifled economic growth and job creation.

These are just a sample of the types of idiocy that we have been reviewing for the past several years in this blog relative to Obama Care. To read those past posts, just enter the phrase, “the unfolding disaster,” in the search box above.

When we started this theme many years ago, it was all about the failure that is Obama Care. Over time, many of the failures that we predicted or other smart people predicted became true. Obama Care did not reduce annual health insurance premiums by up to $2,500 as promised. Obama Care did not bend the cost curve of health care as promised. Obama Care did not get insurance for over 21 million Americans as promised. And Obama Care did not allow you to keep your doctors, your hospitals or insurance plans as promised.

But with the failure of Obama Care has come a much worse idea, “Medicare For All.” Thus, most of these types of posts going forward will focus on this inane idea since the previous big healthcare inane idea, Obama Care, has basically collapsed in failure.

1) Let’s start today’s discussion with one of the biggest advocates of Medicare For All, Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren. At a recent political rally in North Carolina, Warren promised that her Medicare For All program will provide health care and health insurance for millions and millions of illegal immigrants.

At the rally Warren was asked by someone: “We know that you have included undocumented people in your plans to provide Medicare for All, so my question is why did you decide to include people regardless of immigration status, and would this include obtaining subsidies like the ACA’s – Affordable Care Act’s – affordability subsidies? Would you also support access to the children’s health insurance program without regard to immigration stuff?” 

To which Warren answered: “I’m really glad you asked this. Medicare for All, as I put this together, covers everyone, regardless of immigration status, and that’s it.” 

So:

• Warren wants to take taxpayer wealth from hard working American citizens to subsidize the healthcare of illegal immigrants.
• Warren wants to take taxpayer wealth from hard working American citizens to subsidize the healthcare of illegal immigrants even though millions of American citizens cannot afford health care today.
• Warren wants to take taxpayer wealth from hard working American citizens to subsidize the healthcare of illegal immigrants even though millions of Americans are homeless, hungry, or drug addicted and not getting support to help their needs.

Just another example of a leading liberal in this country who values illegal immigrants over legal, taxpaying, and needy Americans.

2) We have often documented how bad health care is in some foreign countries, e.g. England and Canada, countries that basically have implemented similar programs to “Medicare For All.” High costs, long wait times, inferior treatment, spotty coverage, etc. are all consequences of having the government run all of a country’s health care processes. James Schmitz, writing for the Heritage Foundation on November 21, 2019, recounted his own horror stories of dealing with “Medicare For All” type programs overseas:

• When he was very young, Mr. Schmitz suffered a hellacious fit and spasm that required him to be rushed to the hospital.
• He was rushed into a CT scanner that night and afterwards a neurologist told his parents that their small child had West Syndrome.
• This syndrome is a severe form of epilepsy and his parents were told that he had about a 90% chance that their son would never be able to speak, walk, eat, or think, there is no cure.
• He was treated almost immediately with Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) which may have been the reason why he defied the odds and according to him, “I found myself in the top 1 percentile of people with West syndrome who could enjoy a mostly normal life. Thanks to the top-notch medical treatment I’ve received in America, I can do most of the things the neurologist predicted I wouldn’t be able to.”
• Flash forward many years ahead and Mr. Schmitz is a college graduate and living in England.
• Although he was living a mostly normal life he still needs anti-seizure drugs and visits to a doctor every three months.
• He also needs access to a doctor within a week’s notice if needed.
• So imagine his surprise and fear when he walked into an urgent care clinic in England, expecting to easily set up an appointment with a local neurologist within a few weeks.
• The general practitioner working in the clinic said she would be glad to set up an appointment with a recommended neurologist but that it would be for about nine months out.
• When Schmitz panicked, the urgent care doctor said she could make a call and possibly, possibly see if an appointment could be made for three to four months out.
• At that point, his dream of living, working, and traveling throughout Europe had come to an end: “Disheartened by the news, I knew staying in the U.K. was out of the question. I had to return to the U.S. in order to keep accessing the routine medical care that had saved my life so many years before. A month later, I packed my bags and left for Heathrow Airport having spent less than three months in the country. It’s a shame, because Britain is an amazing country and I would have loved to stay longer. Health care should not be a reason to have to leave a modern, First World country. I cannot go a day without taking medicine or without knowing if I’ll be able to see my doctor in a timely manner. My life is only made possible by the high-quality care and access I get in the United States. It’s something other countries don’t enjoy.”

This is what nationalized medicine and Medicare For All means: you will have less access to medical treatment, less access to specialized doctors, you will experience more pain and stress, and the overall cost will be higher. Higher, costs lower quality, less access, not a great combination. And somehow, people like Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and others think this is a good idea. Insanity.

3) The Heritage Article cited above went on to lay some realities about nationalized medicine:

• On average, in England and Canada sick people wait twice as long vs. the U.S. to see a specialist, according to the National Community Pharmacists Association.
• We have discussed other studies which estimate that the wait time in England and Canada is much longer than twice as long.
• Nearly 1.8 million people in England are currently sick and ailing but are on a long waiting list to get admitted to a hospital for treatment or for outpatient treatment.
• Tens of thousands of foreigners come to the U.S. every year for medical treatment since the wait time to get treated in their home countries is just way too long, too painful, and too agonizing.

One reason why people like Warren and Sanders are so high on Medicare For All is that they know that they will write the legislation so that they personally do not suffer from the poor and expensive healthcare that will result in this country. They will take care of themselves, much like they did for Obama Care and every other aspects of life, and we will be sicker, more pained, and poorer for their ideas.

Thus, the stupidity of Medicare For All and the stupidity of making taxpaying real Americans pay the medical bills of illegal immigrants. Did no one learn anything from the failure of Obama Care?

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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.

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December, 2019, The Horrors And Destruction That Donald Trump Has Imposed On America...Just Kidding! A Three Year Review Of The Trump Administration

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. 

About 3 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 almost 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 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 over 300 good things that have happened to America and Americans since Trump became President and they can found by entering the phrase “the horrors and destruction” in the search box above. 

Given we are three years onto Trump’s Presidency, I thought it would be a good idea to list out some of his many accomplishments that we have already listed in the previous numerous posts on the topic. As the previous paragraph points out, we have already named over 300 ways that American is better off today than it was three years ago when he took office. So in no particular order, consider the following 13 improvements that have occurred in America under the Trump administration:

1. According to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, 76% of those polled rated the economy as very or somewhat good, higher than the rating a year ago which was 67% and the highest level since February, 2001.
2. The House of Representatives passed Trump’s new trade treaty with Mexico and Canada with overwhelming Democratic support, a treaty that should benefit the U.S. economy and provide protections to workers outside of the U.S.
3. According to a study by Surveys of Consumers Attitudes, consumer sentiment has been at 95 or higher in 30 of the previous 35 months, a 20 year high.
4. Trump has recently announced that he will be withdrawing about 4,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan, hopefully a first step in getting the country completely out of this disaster.
5. Since Trump took office the number of individuals receiving food stamp aid has dropped by 6.2 million people and 2.7 million households, a sign of a robust economy.
6. Trump has introduced additional food stamp regulations that will reduce the number of food stamp recipients by another 700,000 able bodied adults.
7. There are currently 158 million American citizens in the workforce, a record.
8. Female labor workforce participation is at an all time high.
9. The African-American unemployment rate is at an all time low.
10. Over 6.3 million jobs have been created by the Trump economy, with over half of them going to women.
11. November results on illegal immigration showed for the sixth consecutive month the number of apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the border was down from the previous month, hitting their lowest level since July, 2018, indicating that Trump has tightened up security on the southern border.
12. Trump recently donated his quarterly salary to fighting opioid addiction in the country, a donation that follows previous donations of his salary to the Department of Education, infrastructure improvement, Veterans Affairs, the Small Business Administration, alcohol abuse prevention, and aid to U.S. farmers.
13. Under Trump, improper payments by the Medicare program have declined $7 billion from fiscal 2017 through 2019.

Okay, let’s stop the list here, you get the idea. The previous posts under this topic found over 300 successes and good things since Trump took office. Higher wages, better job opportunities, higher economic growth, better approaches to health and drug addiction, stronger actions and respect in foreign affairs, reductions in government bureaucracy, hardly the disaster that liberals, Democrats, and Hillary Clinton predicted.

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 300 accomplishments we have previously listed, let me ask that you 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 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. Over 200 accomplishments in two years is not too shabby despite many of you wanting both Trump and the country to fail.

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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.

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http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

December, 2019, Part 7, Political Class Insanity: Whistleblowing the Clinton Foundation, IMpeaching Trump Because He Is Too Tall, and More Insanity and False History from Ocasio-Cortez

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) After impeaching Trump for virtually nothing, it should be interesting to see what Democrats think about the financial shenanigans that were recently uncovered relating to the Clintons:

• According to a recent interview by Congressman Mark Meadows, three whistleblowers have come forward and provided hundreds of pages of information relating to possibly illegal and unethical financial activities relative to the Clinton Foundation.
• The whistleblower documents allege misuse of charity funds and quid-pro-quo promises made to rich Foundation donors.
• Meadows has called for Congressional hearings relative to an already investigation going on relative to the Foundation.
• That investigation has been going on since 2018 and is being led by U.S. Attorney John Huber.
• Huber recently requested documents from MDA Analytics LLC, a company that has been investigating the Clinton Foundation.
• MDA recently contacted the FBI in Arkansas, the Department of Justice and the IRS to share the findings that their analysis has turned up.
• Back in 2016, Clinton Foundation CFO, Andrew Kessel, allegedly told MDA that, “one of the biggest problems was [former President Bill] Clinton’s commingling and use of business and donated funds and his personal expenses” and that Bill Clinton “mixes and matches his personal business with that of the foundation. Many people within the foundation have tried to caution him about this but he does not listen, and there really is no talking to him.”
• What is also interesting and suspicious is that back in 2016, when Hillary was running for President, the Foundation pulled in $62.9 million in donations but once she lost out to Trump, the Foundation only pulled in $26.6 million in 2017, about a whopping 60% decline in a single year.
• Meadows believes that this sudden drop off “raises grave concerns their operations were not above board as the American people have been led to believe. Whenever we look at the possibility of ‘pay to play’ by government officials, current or former, it demands answers, and anyone who uses public office to sell access for their own financial benefit must be held accountable.” 

Should be interesting to see if Nancy Pelosi has any integrity at all and supports an investigation into the Clintons and the possible phony front charity foundation. Given her history of strictly bitter and partisan politics, I doubt it. It is only political opponents that she goes after, integrity and trust be damned.

2) Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson was the laughing stock of Congress, and quite possibly the nation, several years when during a Congressional hearing he wondered and worried out loud that the island of Guam could tip over. Yes, during a hearing on the deployment of naval resources to the island, he asked a high ranking Navy official if the island would tip over if too many resources were deployed there.

If this is not enough to show how perverted and insane our political processes have become, that someone like this not only got elected once but has been reelected since showing these extreme ignorance, than nothing is.

But that does not stop him for continuing to speak silliness and ignorance:

• During the debate on Trump’s impeachment, Johnson stated that Trump should be impeached because he is taller that Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
• Specifically, “Colleague from Georgia talks about how Democrats are trying to make Zelensky look weak. Well, I’ll tell you. That brings to mind the picture of President Trump and President Zelensky meeting in New York in September at the UN — and a big chair for President Trump — a little chair for President Zelensky.” 
• Forget high crimes and misdemeanors as outlined in the Constitution, let’s impeach Trump because he is taller than another nation’s leader.
• Johnson did not know when to shut up, going on to describe Trump as, “Big, 6’4″ President Trump and 5′ 11″ Mr. Zelensky.”
• And he is not even right with his “facts” since if you look at the picture of the two leaders shaking hands, the chairs are identical in size and style, one is not bigger than the other.

You cannot make up this nonsense. During the very serious process of impeachment this guy is focused on Trump’s height rather than reality. To see this foolery in action, go to the following link to see that Johnson is actually this out of touch with reality:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/democrat-village-idiot-hank-johnson-wants-to-impeach-president-trump-for-checks-notes-being-too-tall-video/

3) So many times we have had to review the insane comments, logic, and positions of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Despite having a college business degree she did not know the simple definition of the unemployment rate. Despite running for Congress, she did not know the three branches of government. The list goes on and on and can be reviewed by simply putting her name in the search box above.

And despite her history of speaking from a position of ignorance, she continues to stick her foot in her mouth as recently illustrated:

• She recently asserted that the Democratic Party should go back to the way the party used to be and the values it represented, specifically citing the Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
• She also said that the party needed to return to its roots during the passage of the Civil Rights Act back in the 1960s.
• Specifically, “I want to be the party of the New Deal again. The party of the Civil Rights Act, the one that electrified this nation and fights for all people. For that, many would call us radical. But we aren’t “pushing the party left,” we are bringing the party home.”
• She obviously does not realize that FDR did not fight for the rights of tens of thousands of Japanese American during World War II since he shipped them off to internment camps in one of the most egregious violations of human rights in this country’s history.
• She obviously does not realize that Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act and filibustered the bill for 75 days until Republicans were able to get it passed through the Senate.
• She obviously does not realize that a higher percentage of Republican in Congress voted for the Civil Rights Act than the percentage of Democrats in Congress that voted for it.
• She obviously does not realize that it was a Republican President, Eisenhower, who made tremendous strides in breaking the back of segregation in the 1950s.
• She obviously does not realize that the Democratic Party was the party of the Ku KLux KLan and Jim Crow laws after the Civil War.

The ignorance of this member of Congress continues to boggle the mind just about every time she speaks. Combine her erroneous rantings with the Georgia Congressman who thinks a Pacific island can actually tip over...a Texas Congresswoman who thinks the Constitution is 400 years old AND who wanted to know if an exploring vehicle on Mars was going to be near the area where Neil Armstrong walked on the moon... a Speaker of the House who actually said a piece of legislation had to be passed in order to find out what was in that legislation and you can see why we feel our political processes are so broken that these types of people actually hold public office.

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