If Willy Sutton were to come back alive in 2024 he’d never enter a bank. He would start an NGO. A non-profit organization used by government to address the problems we face and that government has decided that a flow of tax money will fix. The government enlists the NGO to solve the problem, and sends millions, even billions of dollars to these organizations to get out and administer a government program to solve our nations problems.
In California NGO’s are taking in about 24 billion dollars a year to fix the homeless crisis. You see first hand with your eyes how that is all working. Why they are “fixing the problem” about as well as if they weren’t spending 24 billion at all.
Because the 24 billion in reality has very little to do with the homeless. Oh sure at the bottom of the business end there are bleeding heart liberals who really, really, believe that the “needle exchange program” is going to help fix the problem. And to prevent the spread of disease and life-threatening health issues amongst the homeless population. There exist those liberals who are really, really, trying to make a difference.
At the top are donors raking in millions in salary, sending millions back to Democratic coffers so the same people that sent them the checks continue to get re-elected. The entire “industry”, the “homeless industrial complex” as it were, has become a 24 billion dollar grift.
And here is the problem.
Our government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars across the country the same way this 24 billion dollars is being doled out in California.
It is all a circle of grift. Donors are getting rich beyond your wildest dreams. Politicians are benefitting either from family hired into the “homeless industrial complex” at exorbitant salaries and perks, or getting huge campaign fund donations, or both. Probably both.
Proof?
As they have expanded the funding to help the homeless the problem has grown, and grown, and grown. The 24 billion isn’t making a dent in the problem. Governor Newsom made a dent in the problem in San Francisco for a weekend when the Chinese Premier visited. Then everything went back to the status quo.
The Pentagon has failed repeated audits. Billions and billions and billions of dollars is being siphoned off from our tax money into grift.
Wanna know how you “just know” that this is true?
Because the numbers have gone insane.
This isn’t a few thousand over here to address a societal issue. This isn’t buying uniforms and new baskets for the courts at the local recreation facility.
Everywhere you turn our government is spending billions with a “b”. It is human nature to see a flow of money that large and want to scheme to get a share. A very, very big share.
Just as it is human nature for those self-absorbed, power craving, politicians to want to create a scheme whereby Democrats vote added pay and pension money to the Teachers Union, and in turn the Teachers Union places all their political funding in the Democrat coffers who rewarded them.
a “circle of grift” with our money. To enrich the few at the expense of the many.
But we’ve reached a problem.
After the last twenty years of thieving our debt has ballooned to 36 trillion dollars. Interest payments are eating a large share of the Federal tax flow. Last I “Googled” thirty-six cents of every dollar paid in from income tax was going to service our debt. Leaving only sixty-four cents of every dollar to actually run the Federal Government and to pay the entitlements due.
Financially this system cannot continue. This will all come undone under its own weight. The grift, the thievery, the mismanagement of money has become so large they’ve bankrupted us all.
The pig is coming down the python.
How many Baby Boomers need to retire before the pension funds go broke in Chicago? I don’t know but we have to be getting close.
How bad will it have to get for current employees paying into the Social Security system for the Baby Boomers retiring in bigger numbers before Social Security goes bust? I keep seeing dates out-in-the-future of 2032, 2034. If the “pyramid” inverts, and too many Baby Boomers are in retirement for the current workforce to fund, those dates are going to move up fast. One tremendous downturn in our economy with extreme unemployment will expose the fallacy of Social Security as some “investment fund” for your retirement.
The system wasn’t set up that way.
You paid in all those years as a Baby Boomer for retirees who were retired as you worked. Your funds don’t come from your old paychecks, it comes from current workers. The entire thing is a legal Ponzi scheme. That only works as long as there are more workers than retirees.
Hey, they don’t call them Baby Boomers as a cute moniker. There was a population boom of newborns after the World War II. Who are all retiring now. God help us if we have a downturn and there aren’t enough funds coming from present day worker checks to fund the need.
NGO’s. Sounds so innocent. Just a non-profit. Set up to “help”. They surround the beltway. They “do good”. They implement all those feel good programs.
Since that Civil Rights Act of 1964 we’ve seen a few trillion poured into programs.
Did you know that the Civil Rights act of 1964 was going to “cure poverty in our lifetime”? LBJ said as much. Know what the percent of poverty is some 60 years later?
Same exact percentage of the population as 1963. Even after all that money was spent to “end poverty in our lifetime”. Poverty just comes with air conditioning, a color TV, and a cell phone now. Poverty is more comfortable. Those in poverty have about a zero chance of ever getting up and out. But they have a free phone.
Our politicians just gamed the system in Ukraine to the tune of roughly 300 billion. Billion with a “b”. The head of Ukraine, US State Department installed, just said this week that 70% of the “money” never reaches the battlefield. It’s all siphoned off.
In grift.
He implied that Ukraine military officials, and other Ukranian organizations were at fault, stealing the money, funneling the money to themselves and family. But a billion is an awful lot of money. That is some serious cash. Three hundred billion is really, really serious cash.
How much would you guess came back to the US to the dark money groups funding political ads, funding the trolls on Twitter, creating disinformation programs on behalf of candidates, and directly into re-election campaigns?
Even 10% would be enough to ensure the current crop of elected officials stay in office for life. Thirty billion dollars, that is “game changing”. That is a flow of cash that no amount of honest competition can overcome.
Neocons.
You hear the term often. What does it mean? Who are these Neocons.
They are conservative warmongers participating full-time in this grift and flow of cash, and they don’t want the funds to stop. Some call them “Never-Trumpers”. They fear he will cut off the funds, the flow of cash, and end the grift.
This is why the rhetoric is so high. This has fueled two assassination attempts.
It fueled multiple impeachment attempts. One mole inside the White House, a man named Vindman, entrapped Trump by “Whistleblowing” on a phone call Trump made to Ukraine where he asked the premier to look into Biden corruption. Vindman worked with the Schiff office to try to take down a sitting President. This Vindman is now running for Congress in Virginia. He should be tried for treason.
But he is all a part of the grift. The funds have to continue to flow to Ukraine so that his cronies stay in power. He had to take a position in the opposition White House to attempt to bring down the opposition President.
Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, you may think they are opposed to the Democrats and all things Nancy Pelosi, but they are just as corrupt. On every major spending bill they go along. As much a part of the problem as Nancy.
They are all Willie Sutton, they figured out how to rob us all absent using a gun and note to the bank teller.
They may wear different hats, but the hats are all black.
Last I looked we were on a path to spend a trillion dollars more than we take in, at the Federal Government level.
The numbers have become so big, the grift so large, it all cannot be sustained.
The reason Trump is an “existential threat” is that he could expose all of the corruption. He wants to shut down the flow of cash to Ukraine. Shut off the money supply. He wants 24 billion spent on the homeless problem to actually solve the problem of homeless in California. Not be grifted out to Democratic donors.
At this point I am personally numb to it all.
If Trump wins there may be some hope. But their fear of being exposed at this point is so big, and their thefts so large, they will do everything in their power, another “Russiagate” times a million, to prevent him from effectively governing. They impeached him what, twice, three times that first term?
They will impeach him every month of his Presidency if he wins and the Dems have anywhere near a majority in Congress.
And if Kamala wins the grift will just go on.
But just as the mob blew up their good thing in Las Vegas, with greed getting the best of them, so will the Democrats destroy this grift. Stealing so much, into the hundreds of billions that become a trillion, and it will all come crashing down.
On all of us. Unfortunately.
I’m numb because I can’t figure out whether to just allow them to elect the empty pantsuit and get the crash over with sooner than later, or to attempt to elect Trump and try to fight them. It was just exhausting living with all the “Russiagate” bullshit, the impeachments, the harassment, the lies, the mainstream media last time.
When I “Googled” how much California is spending on the homeless I burst out laughing sitting in this chair. 24 billion. Holy Shit. The streets of San Francisco are littered with human feces like a third world country in the face of 24 billion being spent to “solve” the problem.
And Californians will go to the polls and vote “D”. Still. Again. In a “Super Majority”.
You Californians have shit for brains. Absolutely.
Our Federal government is a behemoth that is out-of-control.
Willie my boy, you were born at the wrong time. You don’t need a gun, a mask, and a teller note any longer. Just an NGO and a politician in your pocket.
Eugene Vindman is running for congress in VA. He is the twin brother of Alexander Vindman, the one who 'overheard' the call Trump had with Ukraine that was in impetus for the 1st impeachment proceeding.