October, 2020, Part 8, Political Class Insanity: Failure To Protect Lives and Property In NYC, A NY Politician Trades Drugs For Sex, and Eight Indicted For Illegal Foreign Donations To Democrats

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) A very, very basic function of government is to protect the lives and property of citizens. It does not get much simpler than that, protection. But recently, cities across the country have failed miserably in providing this basic service to its taxpayers. Stupid politicians have talked about defunding police operations or eliminating police forces altogether without having any plans in place to protect lives and properties as a result of these changes. 

The mayor of NYC, Bill de Blasio has insulted, belittled and defunded the NYPD since the first day in office, demeaning police officers and reducing the respect they get from criminal elements in the city. As a result, NYC has seen significant jumps in crime, violence, and murders perpetrated against citizens and businesses. This in turn has caused a lot of people to start moving out of the city, taking their jobs and tax money with them.

And it doesn't look like it will get better any time soon from a protect lives and property perspective:

• The number of NYC police officers retiring is up almost 90% so far in 2020.
• 2,400 officers have filed for retirement in 2020 vs. 1,300 in the same period in 2019.
• A police spokesperson said: “The NYPD has seen a surge in the number of officers filing for retirement. While the decision to retire is a personal one and can be attributed to a range of factors, it is a troubling trend that we are closely monitoring.”
• Chief of Patrol head, Fausto Pichardo, retired recently after more than 20 years of service to the NYPD.
• The PBA commented on his retirement saying that he resigned because of “elected officials” who were playing “political games” with the police force in the city.
• NYPD PBA President Patrickj Lynch stated: “This is the highest attrition rate we have seen in over a decade, during a time we are battling enormous spikes in shootings and murders. And thanks to the City Council and Mayor’s ‘Defund the Police’ lunacy, no help is coming any time soon. Our elected leaders need to be held responsible for the dangerous path they’ve chosen.”

Reduced funding for the NYPD at the same time that crime is soaring is not a viable long term strategy to protect the lives and property of the citizens in the city. But that is the failure that is Mayor Bill de Blasio and the rest of the fools that run the city, reduce funding, demean the force, lose valuable, experienced police officers and the city goes down the criminal drain, causing the city to fail in its basic responsibility to protect lives and property.. Nice job, Bill.

2) As we have said so many times, one would hope that those that enter politics would be fine, honest and upstanding citizens, setting a good example for the rest of us. And every time we say that we realize what a pipe dream that hope is with the current people in the American political class:

• A New York state politician, Dr, William Spencer, is also an ordained minister and prominent doctor.
• Sounds like he really has his stuff together.
• Until you find out that he was recently arrested trying to trade opioid drugs for sex behind a Goodwill store.
• Besides being a sitting New York politician, he has worked on fighting the opioid crisis as well as trying to reduce the use of tobacco, energy drinks, and caffeine.
• And yet he was willing to trade drugs for sex in an alley, arrested because of a law enforcement sting operation.

Nice guy but not surprising given how low so many American politicians have stooped when it comes to lacking integrity and actual criminal conduct.

3) But shady and criminal behaviors are not confined to trading drugs for sex in a back alley:

• Attorney General Bill Barr has recently announced he has executed eight indictments for people who illegally funneled overseas donations to Democratic politicians in this country.
• One of those indicted was a star witness in the Robert Mueller failed collusion witch hunt that tried to link Trump to Russian influences, further damaging the credibility of that whole fiasco.
• That witness, George Nadler, was indicted for illegally funneling foreign money to Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 Presidential campaign and other Democrats.
• Nadler was not only arrested but, according to Justice Department sources, he was one of the leaders of the whole effort.
• According to the Gateway Pundit: “An indictment was unsealed against the CEO of an online payment processing company, and seven others, charging them with conspiring to make and conceal conduit and excessive campaign contributions, and related offenses, during the U.S. presidential election in 2016 and thereafter.”
• This illegal dirty funnel money found its way into the campaigns of Democrats Hillary Clinton, Senator Cory Booker, Congressman Adam Schiff, and others.
• According to the indictments: “The 53 count indictment charges Khawaja with two counts of conspiracy, three counts of making conduit contributions, three counts of causing excessive contributions, 13 counts of making false statements, 13 counts of causing false records to be filed, and one count of obstruction of a federal grand jury investigation. Nader is charged with conspiring with Khawaja to make conduit campaign contributions, and related offenses.”
• The money involved totalled over $3.5 million.

Another indictment of how dirty and perverted the American class has turned the political process into in this country. What is not apparent is if any of those who received the illegal and dirty money or their staff will be indicted and punished. Obviously those that donated the foreign money to the Democrats' campaigns knew they were breaking the law but what about those that received the dirty money, how did they not know they were also breaking the law?

If history is any indication, those that received the money will make sure that they never face justice because for American politicians laws always seem to be merely suggestions, not hard and fast rules that the rest of us have to live under.

That will do it for today: politics gets dirtier and dirtier, whether illegally getting money from overseas sources or trading drugs for sex in a back alley and the ability of New York politicians to provide the basic service of protecting lives and property continues to deteriorate as they dismantle the NYPD.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=loce+my+country%2C+loathe+my+government&ref=nb_sb_noss

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


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

October, 2020, Part 7, Political Class Insanity: Bad Political Priorities In California, Democrats Corner the Market On High Murder Rate Cities, and the California Financial Death Spiral Continues

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 often and recently pointed out what a terrible place California is becoming:

• The unfunded liabilities of the state government is skyrocketing.
• The state and local tax levels are among the highest in the country.
• There is a massive homelessness problem throughout the state.
• Out migration of state residents heading out of state to other places to live is among the highest in the country.
• The state has one of the highest poverty levels in the country.
• The state’s public schools generally do a horrible job educating the kids in the state.
• Faulty state government emphasis on renewable energy sources has resulted in regularly occurring rolling blackouts of electricity and electric rates that are, on average, 55% higher than the rest of the country.
• Wild fires have burned out millions of acres in the state because of stupid government regulations on forest management.
• The state’s physical infrastructure is collapsing.
• The state, like every other state, has been fighting the coronavirus for months.

Given these dire problems facing the state's residents, one would have thought that the state’s governor and other politicians would be laser focused on addressing and resolving these issues. But alas, you hopes would be wrong:

• From the beginning of time, California prison inmates were separately based on their birth gender, males and females.
• But the state politicians decided to work on and actually enact legislation that will allow prison inmates to choose their gender and it does not have to be just male or female, it can be transgender, intersex, or nonbinary.
• After they decide, what out of a multitude of genders they want to be, the state will separate the prisoners via their announced gender which, again, is not restricted to male and female.
• The law also requires prisoners to be called by their preferred pronouns, which again, is not restricted to simply he or she.
• Despite state government budget shortages, this law will obviously require money be spent to build facilities for more sex designations.

High taxes, unfunded government liabilities, forest fires everywhere, high crime, low educational system performance, etc. and these state politicians spend time, energy and resources on a prisoner gender identity bill.

2) I could have included the following discussion in one of our “by the numbers” posts but lets do it here:

• We have always viewed every segment of the American political class as being inhabited by people that are not that smart, brave, or effective in doing their jobs.
• Democratic Congressman Hank Johnson once worried that the island of Guam could tip over in the Pacific Ocean, Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee thinks the Constitution is over 400 years old and that two distinct Vietnams still exist with North Vietnam ruling South Vietnam, and Democratic Congresswoman Alexnadria Ocasio-Cortez who provides a never ending array of ignorance.
• But when it comes to being safe in a city, it is pretty clear that you probably do not want to be a city operated by the Democrats.
• According to a New York Times report, 18 of the top 20 cities in the country, when it comes to homicides, are run by Democratic mayors.
• The top 13 cities with the most homicides are run by Democrats.
• Only Miami (#14) and Tulsa (#18) are among the top U.S. cities not run by Democrats when it comes to murder rates.

Correlation is not causation (i.e. having a Democratic mayor results in a high murder rate city) but it may be a good thing to avoid cities run by Democrats if you want to stay alive, the numbers don't lie.

3) We recently talked about how famous podcaster Joe Rogan was leaving high tax California and taking his operation to low tax Texas. Mr. Rogan has recently signed a $100 million deal and by moving out of Los Angeles to Texas he immediately saves about $13 million, the amount he would have paid in California state income taxes since the state of Texas doesn't have a state income tax.

We have often discussed the reality that hard working, tax paying state residents are fleeing high tax states for lower tax states with Mr Rogan probably being the most prominent person to do so. But we know that moving companies cannot get their hands on enough moving to satisfy the out migration of NYC residents out of the city. 

I believe it is a basic human drive to want to live as free as possible. But when the state’s politicians start taking more and more of your hard earned wages and offering very little in return, people decide that economic freedom from high taxation requires them to take action to preserve whatever economic freedom they can garner.

Ben Shapiro is a famous conservative commentator and pundit. He recently announced that he is also leaving his home state of California, mostly driven by the higher and higher levels of taxation with little incremental benefit in return. He described the reason why in a recent article on his website:

• Mr. Shapiro is a true Californian, having lived there most of his life.
• He was born in Burbank, California, went to college in Los Angeles at UCLA, founded his media company in the state, met his wife in the state, and his three kids were born in the state.
• He believes California is the most beautiful state in the union, the state climate is great, the scenery is breathtaking, and there is so much to do.
• And yet he is moving his family and business out of the state.
• Some of his reasons include: “We’re leaving because all the benefits of California have steadily eroded — and then suddenly collapsed. Meanwhile, all the costs of California have steadily increased — and then suddenly skyrocketed.”
• Like we have said about California (and Illinois, New York and New Jersey) the financial death spiral has started, which is what Mr. Shapiro describes using a medical analogy: “It can be difficult to spot the incremental encroachment of a terrible disease, but once the final ravages set in, it becomes obvious that the illness is fatal. So, too, with California, where bad governance has turned a would-be paradise into a burgeoning dystopia.”
• He points out that the homeless population in Los Angeles County alone has gone from less than 40,000 in 2011 to 66,000 today, an over 50% increase.
• This has resulted in homeless encampments and resultant trash in every neighborhood in the county.
• But homelessness is not the only quality of life issue: “The most beautiful areas of Los Angeles, from Santa Monica beach to my suburb, have become wrecks. My children have personally witnessed drug use, public urination and public nudity. Looters were allowed free reign in the middle of the city during the Black Lives Matter riots; Rodeo Drive was closed at 1 p.m., and citizens were curfewed at 6 p.m.”
• As crime has gone up the funding for police forces has gone down.
• He also points out the same reason why Mr. Rogan left: the top state income tax rate is 13.3% and the state politicians want to raise that retroactively to 16.8%.
• The state also has a 7.5% sales tax and high gas taxes.
• According to a survey of 650 business CEOs, California is the worst state in the union to do business.
• Out migration has risen for the past seven years as people flee the ill run state which taxes high and provides low quality government services in return.
• And finally: “I want my kids to grow up safe. I want them to grow up in a community with a future, with more freedom and safety than I grew up with. California makes that impossible. So, goodbye, Golden State. Thanks for the memories.”

This is what happens when the political class gets too big, too greedy, and proves that they have neither the brainpower, the courage, or wisdom to operate oversized, malfunctioning government operations. People want to be free and when that becomes too much of a hassle or impossible where they live, they move, be it out of California, or out of NYC, be it rich or middle class, people want to be free.

California, Illinois, New York and New Jersey are the canaries in the mine. They have started their descent into a financial and quality of life death spiral. Learn from them or we all will be living the nightmare that is California: high taxes, low quality government services, loss of freedom, high crime, bad schools, poverty and homelessness, and violence, etc.

So, we have bad priorities in a distressed state, California, it looks like Democrats operate the top murder cities in the country, and the famous and not so famous continue to abandon the sinking ship that is California.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=loce+my+country%2C+loathe+my+government&ref=nb_sb_noss

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


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

October, 2020, Part 6, Political Class Insanity: The Clinton Books Bomb, The Chicago Mayor's Horrid Priorities and A Texas Politician Who Lives In California

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) I have always felt that those who serve in the House of Representatives should live in their Congressional district. It has always made no sense to me that someone would be elected to represent a group of people in Congress but not live among them to get an up close feel of the issues that their constituents face every day. 

For example, Congresswoman Maxine Walters in California represents one of the poorer Congressional districts in the state and country. But she does not live in that district that she represents in Congress, preferring to live in a mansion-like home in a much more affluent area with other rich folks, not the poorer voters she is supposed to represent.

But Ms. Walters is a saint compared to a politician in Texas:

• Helane Sawsan Seikaly is running as a Democrat to represent Texas voters in the House of Representatives.
• Specifically, she wants to be the Congresswoman for the 3rd Congressional district in Texas.
• But there is a problem in that Ms. Seikaly lives and works in California.
• Despite living in California she has voted in Texas for at least the past four years, falsely using her parents’ Dallas address as her own address, misrepresenting herself to the state and its voting procedures.
• She has tried to position herself as someone who “understands the challenges facing North Texans”.... even though she has been living in California.
• Thus, it makes it a little difficult to see how she understands the needs of the Congressional district she wants to represent when not only does she not live in the district, she lives in an entirely different state.
• When responding to a questionnaire from the Dallas Morning News earlier this year, in true political doublespeak, she lied without appearing to lie:"My parents came to North Texas in the late 80s when I was a year old. It's been home ever since." 
• No, it's been the home of her parents since then, not her home.
• She became a member of the California bar in June, 2014, she is listed on their website as an active attorney in California, her bar information says she lives in Roseville, California, she was an adjunct professor at the University Of California Davis law school from 2015 to 2017, and she worked for a California law firm from January 2015 until March, 2020, Churchwell White LLP, a firm “with deep roots in California.

So, not only is this politician likely in violation of the voting laws of Texas by voting in the state but no doubt not living in the state, she somehow wants voters to ignore this criminal infraction and vote for her, someone who is worst than folks like Maxine Walters: not only does she not live in the Congressional district she wants to represent, she doesn't even live in the state of that Congressional district. Insane.

2) Somehow politicians and those related to the political scene think that the rest of the world is dying to find out their inner thoughts and insights to life and will pay good money if they write a book about their wonderful selves. Most of the time these books get an initial rush of readers but fade very quickly to the discount rack in the local Barnes and Noble store.

Thus, you know a book is really, really bad if a political operative writes a book that does not even get that initial rush as we see from the latest efforts from Chelsea Clinton and her mom, two political operatives that refuse to fade away and who constantly have to feel they are important:

• Let’s be clear, I am not a fan of either Chelsea or Hillary.
• Chelsea has absolutely no life experiences that I care to hear about and her mother in my opinion, ran a crime syndicate that enriched the Clinton clan while she was Secretary of State.
• And apparently most of the rest of the world now feels the same way.
• A recent book that Chelsea Clinton co-authored, did not crack the top 15,000 titles that Amazon sells.
• The book, “Governing Global Health,” ranked 17,748 in a recent Amazon listing of book sales.
• And those that did read it gave an average rating of only 1.6 out of five.
• One Amazon reviewer called it “As superficial and boring as its author, who has received a free ride her entire life.”
• And her mother's recent book, “Stronger Together: A Blueprint for America’s Future,” did even worse despite Hillary’s name on the front.
• It sold less than 3,000 copies its first week and somehow did far worst than her daughter’s book, ranking a whopping 89,681 on Amazon’s Best Sellers Rank.

Wow, could it be possible that America is finally growing tired of the Clinton’s, people who have added very little to the welfare and benefit of Americans but who enriched themselves beyond every American’s dream in the process? We can only hope that these book failures means they will finally just...go...away.

3) We have far too often discussed the reality that Chicago as a city is a mess:

• It is the murder capital of the country with hundreds and hundreds of city residents getting killed and thousands getting wounded every year.
• It is a city that very well will go bankrupt very soon, unseating Detroit as the largest American city to ever go bankrupt.
• Its ever rising crime rate has forced the mayor, Lori Lightfoot, to plead with businesses to not abandon the city because the city cannot protect the assets or employees of those businesses.
• The city is so unsafe that the same mayor has allotted herself and her neighborhood extra police protection while not providing enough police protection for regular citizens.

Given the dire situation in the city, one would hope that the mayor was hard at work on these major issues and taking her job very seriously. But of course, if you made that assumption, you would be wrong:

• I am sure that the whole covid crisis continues to threaten the lives and health of people in Chicago and needs to be taken seriously.
• Unfortunately, the serious part did not make through to the mayor,
• In a recent news conference she showed up dressed in a bizarre Halloween outfit.
• She showed up not as a dignified leader of the city but as “Captain Corona,” wearing a cape and giving out Halloween candy.
• She was there at the press conference to discuss the city’s Halloween procedures.

Over 3,100 Chicago residents have been shot in the city this year and she takes time out of her day to dress up in a bizarre Halloween outfit. Hundreds of city residents have been killed by the violence in her city and she devotes a press conference to Halloween procedures, something that a simple press release should have handled. Tough to take any politician seriously when dressing up for Halloween trick or treating is a high priority for them and they are dressed like this:

So, today we have a California resident that wants to be a Texas Congresswoman, the long awaited failure of anyone in the Clinton family to reinsert themselves into our lives, and the continued failure of the Chicago mayor to resolve any issue and who acts like a clown in the process.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=loce+my+country%2C+loathe+my+government&ref=nb_sb_noss

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


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

October, 2020, By The Numbers: Why There Is Only One Issue In This Election, Nothing Else Matters

On a periodic basis we do some posts that fall under the theme of “by the numbers.” Rather than trust what the American political tells us about reality, we like to examine the real numbers and the real reality in the world to understand what is actually going on. Relying on politicians, and their cohorts in the media, to tell us what is reality is always a sucker bet. They have their own agendas and goals, usually centering around their needs and self-enrichment. So we need to look at the reality of the numbers to determine what is really going on.

Previous analyses of “by the numbers” can be accessed by entering the phrase in the search box above. This is the third and final post in this series where we look at the numbers to truly find out how good, not likely, or bad, most likely, the American political class is doing in managing our tax dollars, protecting our freedoms, and resolving major issues that affect all of us.

A short post today that involves the only issue that I believe matters when it comes to the Presidential election. Forget about abortion rights, gun rights, taxes, jobs, etc. The only overriding issue that matters is the incremental amount of debt that government entities across the country have incurred and continue to incur every minute of every day.

How bad is the debt problem that governments have today? Let’s do the numbers:

• The ‘regular” national debt of the Federal government is just over $27 trillion and counting.
• The first covid economic stimulus plan cost the Federal government $3 trillion.
• The next follow up stimulus plan is likely to cost about $2 trillion.
• Thus, in short order the Federal government will be servicing a debt of about $32 trillion, a number that will continue to grow. 
• Recent government analysis estimates that over the next few decades there will be about $82 trillion in unfunded liabilities in Social Security and Medicare, where unfunded liabilities is the difference between the money the government expects to have to fund these programs and the larger amount of money that will be actually needed to fund these programs in their current state.
• But state governments also have unfunded liabilities with a recent analysis putting those unfunded liabilities at around $7 trillion. 
• But this is before the unforeseen state government covid expenses so lets estimate that there are an additional $4 trillion in state government unfunded liabilities.
• Add up all of these debt loads and unfunded liabilities and we see that state governments and the Federal government have about $125,000,000,000,000 ($125 trillion) in some form of debt, a level that grows by the minute.
• How big is $125,000,000,000,000, let’s do some numbers.
• There are about 331 million people living in America today so if that $125 trillion debt load was spread out over every American, each American, including kids, would have to write a check for about $377,000 to cover the government debt load.
• Thus, a family of four would need to write a check for about $1.5 million to cover the $125 trillion government debt.
• There are about 129 million households in the country so if each household was to pay for the debt, every household would need to write a check for $972,000.
• But what about the liberal mantra of “tax the rich” to pay for the debt?
• Let’s start with Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the country.
• Although his wealth level varies according to what happens to Amazon's stock price every day, most estimates put his personal wealth at around $175 billion.
• Rather than increase his tax rate or put a tax on his wealth, let’s assume the government could seize his ENTIRE personal wealth ($175 billion) and sell it off to help pay for the debt.
• But his $175 billion, even if it could be liquidated and used to pay down the debt, would account for only .14% of the $125 trillion, no 14%, not 1.4%, a measly .14%.
• Elizabeth Warren once proposed a wealth tax on the rich of 2% of their total wealth and belongings, which means that if her stupid tax was applied to Bezo, that .14% would be 50 times smaller.
• Not convinced that taxing the rich would not pay for the $125 trillion, consider the latest estimate from Forbes which says the richest 400 people in this country are worth about $3.2 trillion.
• If we confiscated their entire net worth and somehow liquidated it we would be able to pay off only 2.6% of the $125 trillion.
• If we used Warren’s 2% number then the richest 400 people would only be able to pay off .5% of the $125 trillion.

Dang, we obviously cannot pay off the debt by the rich even if we steal their entire fortune and wealth. We cannot pay off the debt if every American household has to pay almost a $1 million each to pay off the debt.

And no one, absolutely no one, neither the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, cares about this dire situation. And like I proposed above, nothing else matters because when this debt bubble blows, assuming no one in a position of power ever gets around to attacking the problem, the consequences will be huge:

• There are analyses around that say in about five years or so, Medicare Part A will go belly up, meaning less affordable and less available medical care for Medicare recipients.
• Shortly after that, the Ponzi scheme known as Social Security will begin to implode which will likely result in a drastic reduction in Social Security benefits.
• Given that Social Security is now in a cash negative position which is growing steadily larger every day, this implosion is not that far off.
• In a desperate attempt to fill the debt hole in government budgets, state governments and the Federal government will raise taxes.
• But the raising or taxes will reduce consumer spending and business investment which will crash economic growth and result in lower, not higher, tax revenues.
• At the same time, desperate governments will start cutting spending, way too late, which will result in immediate draconian cuts in police and fire forces, reduced number of teachers, crumbling infrastructure, etc.
• In another desperate move, the Federal Reserve will start printing money which will likely lead to hyperinflation.
• And before you know it we look like Venezuela: high taxes, higher and higher prices, shortages of all sorts, reduced government benefits and services, and quite possibly the collapse of our democracy and freedoms.

We are already seeing the beginnings of this type of debt collapse. Detroit, Stockton, California and other cities have already gone bankrupt. New York City and New York’s state government are desperately pleading for the Federal taxpayer to bail out their inept spending and budgeting skills which have resulted in massive debt loads. 

Illinois and California are looking to raise taxes even higher than their existing high rates to cover their out of control spending and debt even though there is a steady migration of state residents in both states moving out. Thus, these two states are already in a financial death spiral: they keep raising tax rates which drives taxpayers to other, more affordable states which reduces state government tax revenue which forces them to raise the tax rates more, etc. and the death spiral is in effect.

So, yes, please go vote, it is your responsibility to make your voice heard. But before voting for a Republican or Democrat, ask yourself if you really think that they will be able to resolve the debt bubble before it is too late. Given their history of only incurring more and more debt, I doubt that either party and all of their candidates they are putting forth have the wisdom, the courage, and political will to fix what is going to severely and negatively affect every American, a crisis that will make all other problems insignificant in comparison and a crisis that is going to likely happen pretty quickly.

If you do take that moment to pause and consider what the existing two party system will not do, may I suggest that you look into the Libertarian Party for an answer to the debt issue. The Libertarian Party is the ONLY national party that recognizes the tragedy that this debt issue will bring and actually has the plan and will to address it before it is too late:

https://jo20.com/issues/

Have a great day!

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=loce+my+country%2C+loathe+my+government&ref=nb_sb_noss

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


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