The sad plight of “liberalism” is on display in a recent New Yorker book review by Corey Robin. The essay, “How Do We Survive the Constitution,” laments that American society is increasingly disgusted by government institutions. Polling reveals that Americans have never had less trust in government or mass media. The largest segment of American …
Category: Government incompetence
Aug 05
US Postal Service FAILING TO DELIVER MAIL for weeks in parts of Washington
The US Postal Service enjoys every advantage in the market; yet it loses billions annually. It owns some of the most valuable and prestigious real estate in America, pays no state or federal property, income, or corporate tax, and has the power of eminent domain. And most significantly, the USPS has a government-enforced monopoly on …
Mar 31
Nine Percent of Children Attempted Suicide Under COVID Lockdowns
The New York Times, which fiercely promoted the government’s COVID-19 “pandemic” agenda throughout 2020 and 2021, is now out with an article about a CDC study. The study found that lockdowns and “zoom” schooling from home left many American children vulnerable to abuse, depression and hunger. Nine percent of children in the survey reported they …
Jan 02
Overregulation is killing private medical practice
Devorah Goldman, writing in the Wall Street Journal, reports that her father’s rheumatology practice in Brooklyn has been swamped with patients from far-flung states because many other private practices have closed permanently. Overregulation by medical authorities is destroying private medical practice. In 1983, more than 75% of physicians owned their own practices. By 2018 that …
Dec 17
In 2017 the US government provided six projections for sea level rise due to climate change. Seas are already rising at rates BELOW the lowest scenario projection.
“The Battery,” New York is the fortress-like edifice at the very tip of southern Manhattan. It has a nice small park, walking distance from Wall Street and other sites in Lower Manhattan. Scientists and agencies have kept exact measures of sea levels at The Battery for over a century. For years, sea levels at the …
Oct 28
Americans are fleeing big cities by the thousands
America’s most socialist cities have been losing residents for years, as people flee life-crushing regulations, policing and taxation. But 2020 has seen this mass exodus increase significantly. Chicago’s change-of-address postal notices more than doubled over last year’s for the period from February 1 to August 1; New York City’s are up 490%; San Francisco’s up …
Jul 11
Government vampires seek extreme tax increases
Government’s unquenchable thirst for money and power continues despite America’s cratering economy. Throughout the government’s COVID-19 impositions, no one at local, state or federal levels has lost a paycheck. Many government employees have received their paychecks in spite of having no work whatsoever to do. But the cratering economic stability of the country is already …
Jul 06
500,000 middle class New Yorkers flee the City after government COVID impositions
New York City, once the world’s flagship of commerce and capitalism, is now a sewer of government control, rioting and misery. New York’s governing officials ordered most businesses closed for months. A story in the Daily Mail reports that 500,000 New Yorkers–disproportionately hard-working middle-class residents–have already fled the Big Apple. Streets once teeming with tourists …
Jul 02
Studies show coronavirus death rate is LOWER than the flu
Study the above graph carefully. It shows deaths from all causes (by week) in Arizona over the past 3 years. There was a deadly flu outbreak in 2017-18 which killed some 80,000 Americans. The graph suggests that the flu death rate in 2018 was likely worse than the death rate from coronavirus thus far this …
Jun 12
Government coronavirus regulations will deprive U.S. hospitals of $200 billion in revenue by the end of June
In alleged response to the coronavirus “pandemic”–a disease outbreak posing a death rate of around 1/10th of 1 percent, government officials throughout the United States issued decrees that all non-approved businesses must shut down and hosptials must close their doors to all patients except coronavirus or emergency patients. Government officials claimed that hospital beds needed …