Why Are U.S. Taxpayers Providing Public Pensions To Millionaire Members Of Congress?

Monday, January 4, 2021

Taxpayers provide pensions, generous pensions, to many millionaires who once worked in government. Not JUST those who were in Congress. (From Forbes) As the longest-serving member of Congress, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) would qualify for a yearly pension of $167,040 if he retired today.

Source: Why Are U.S. Taxpayers Providing Public Pensions To Millionaire Members Of Congress?

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Critics question the necessity of such a system. Why are U.S. taxpayers providing public pensions to millionaire members of Congress on top of a 401(k)-style plan? (The median net worth for a member recently exceeded $1.1 million.)

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Why indeed?

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20 striking findings from 2020 | Pew Research Center

Sunday, January 3, 2021

A large majority of U.S. adults (86%) say there is some kind of lesson or set of lessons for mankind to learn from the coronavirus outbreak, and about a third (35%) say these lessons were sent by God. In open-ended survey responses collected by the Center in the summer, Americans pointed to practical lessons, such as wearing a mask; personal lessons, such as remembering the importance of spending time with family and loved ones; and societal lessons, such as the need for universal health care. Other responses were political in nature, including criticisms of both major parties and concerns about the politicization of the pandemic.

20 striking findings from 2020 | Pew Research Center

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I agree about the “politicization of the pandemic”.

I, for one, am not sure that there is a “pandemic”, or an “epidemic”.

Evidence is that: (1) adjusting the number of “cycles” in PCR testing seems to dial up whatever result you want; and (2) no one has identified the “corona virus” yet.

Hell, there’s even a Conspiracy Theory” that “corona 19 virus” may be a vitamin defiiency. I have a lot of sympathy for this question about the #wuflu.

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MONEY: Bloomberg Intelligence Projects $50 Silver in 2021 | SchiffGold

Friday, January 1, 2021

DECEMBER 23, 2020  BY SCHIFFGOLD   0   0 Saxo Bank recently projected silver will soar to $50 an ounce in 2021, powered by loose monetary policy along with the push for “green energy.” Bloomberg Intelligence is now making a similar call, saying silver will be “the primary metal” benefiting from electrification and quantitative easing in 2021. Gold set a new record earlier this year and briefly traded above $2,000 an ounce. In a recent report, Bloomberg Intelligence senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone predicted silver will follow gold toward a record high of its own.

Bloomberg Intelligence Projects $50 Silver in 2021 | SchiffGold

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Clearly higher metal prices are predicting inflation from all the FED’s action to stimulate the economy.

The result will be a harder life for the “middle class” if there is any such left.

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California COVID-19 unemployment fraud may total $2 billion – Los Angeles Times

Thursday, December 31, 2020

A bank official said red flags have been issued on claims filed in the names of infants, children and centenarians, as well as people living in states not contiguous to California.

California COVID-19 unemployment fraud may total $2 billion – Los Angeles Times

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The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

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Levin: On Jan. 6, we learn whether our Constitution will hold – TheBlaze

Thursday, December 31, 2020

At no time did the framers even raise the possibility that governors, attorneys general, secretaries of state, election boards, administrators, etc., would play any significant role in the electoral process. Indeed, certain of those offices did not even exist. Moreover, as I said, the courts were rejected out of hand. Thus, such an important power was to be exercised exclusively by the state legislatures.

Levin: On Jan. 6, we learn whether our Constitution will hold – TheBlaze

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Great point!

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Biden transition team disables Zoom chat for journalists: Reporter | Fox News

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Biden transition team disables Zoom chat for journalists: Reporter Reporters, editors complained that they were not able to ask questions in the video conferences By David Rutz | Fox News

President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team disabled the chat function for reporters on conference Zoom calls, where journalists had been pressing officials to take more questions.

Biden transition team disables Zoom chat for journalists: Reporter | Fox News

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Don’t need any questions from the “reporters”!

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Sidney Powell interview on Rush Limbaugh show…”Absolutely Unprecedented” | Populist Press 2021 ©

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

“The very night of the election many people saw something that they had never seen before in the history of our elections. They saw votes being changed on the screen in front of them, going from President Donald Trump to Joe Biden. On top of that, the morning after the election, even that night, the voting stopped. They stopped counting in multiple districts at the same time before the vote got to 270 electors for President Trump. That’s never happened before. The only time votes have ever stopped being counted in this country on election night was when the Broward County problem developed over Hanging Chad’s in one county in FL. So for FIVE states to stop counting on election night is absolutely UNPRECEDENTED. And they did it because the vote count for the electoral college was about to hit [+ go over] 270 for President Donald Trump, because of the massive outpouring of votes for him that night. By the next morning, multiple mathematicians had contacted me and told me they knew the algorithm that had been run to change the votes. It was that obvious to people with mathematical expertise. It is a mathematical impossibility for 100’s of thousands of votes to show up for VP Biden alone and to have been injected into the system the way that they were. We have eye-witness testimony of countless people who saw votes coming in, in unsecured containers and improper means and looking different the night of the election. These people have come forward at great personal risk to themselves & their families to provide thousands of affidavits of voting abnormalities and actual crimes that they witnessed happen on election night. The very fact that the other side is working so hard to hide all of this. Federal law requires transparency in our electoral process and our elections.” There is a federal statute that requires all the documents pertaining to the election to be maintained for 22 months following an election, for the very reason that it has to be completely auditable. A Federal Judge in October [in ATL] found all kinds of problems w/ the Dominion system that GA bought and crammed down for everybody across the state to use. That’s where the most problems have been, is in GA. Witnesses have come forward, there was supposedly a water leak that they shut down voting for. That was an abject lie. We have video of witnesses pulling suspect ballots out from under a table after they ran off all the observers. Somebody told me that one of the people that did that has told gov’t officials how it happened and what happened. But has that information been provided to the public? No. There is rampant voter fraud of all kinds. Federal violations of 5 years + more across the country by virtue of all the misconduct on election night. The flipping of votes by Dominion is even advertised, on their ability to do that, to run a fraction, to make a Biden vote count 1.26% and a Trump vote to only count 0.74%. They’ve done it before. They’ve done it in Venezuela. They done it in other foreign countries. They’ve done it in THIS country. We have evidence even that it was done in 2016 in CA to benefit Hillary or Bernie Sanders, and it’s been done in other local elections and smaller elections in different places. This is the only time it’s been this widespread, and the reason it didn’t work this time, they’ve been able to shave these votes for a long time, but the reason it didn’t work completely this time and they had to shut down in so many places was because so many Trump supporters poured out on the day of the election to vote for President Donald Trump in what was a LANDSLIDE victory, a historic victory, is because it BROKE the algorithm. That’s why they had to stop counting that night. That’s why they had to bring in ballots and try to back-fill. And it still doesn’t work, because there are still 100’s of thousands of more votes than there were voters to vote them. The math simply doesn’t add up. And if they had nothing to hide, why aren’t they providing transparency into the voting systems of the United States of America, the country that is founded upon the Rule of Law and is supposed to be above all this? It is absolutely the most appalling criminal operation in the history of our country.”

Sidney Powell interview on Rush Limbaugh show…”Absolutely Unprecedented” | Populist Press 2021 ©

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Don’t skip reading this!!!

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12 NJ Bars, Restaurants Broke COVID Rules, Attorney General Says | Parsippany, NJ Patch

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

12 NJ Bars, Restaurants Broke COVID Rules, Attorney General Says Twelve bars and restaurants in New Jersey accused of violating coronavirus restrictions may be in trouble. Russ Crespolini, Patch Staff Posted Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:20 pm ET | Updated Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:45 pm ET Replies (29) There are actions against more than 200 establishments in response to breaking COVID-19 rules, according to authorities. (Shutterstock) NEW JERSEY – The state wants to suspend the liquor licenses of 12 New Jersey bars and restaurants for violating executive orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal.

12 NJ Bars, Restaurants Broke COVID Rules, Attorney General Says | Parsippany, NJ Patch

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If one accepts the current Federal Constitutional interpretation of “subordination”, isn’t this a “taking” under the Fifth Amendment.

I think “subordination” is an incorrect interpretation but as long as the Gooferment believes it, it should be used against them!

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Nashville bomber’s girlfriend told police in 2019 he was making explosives inside RV: report | Fox News

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Nashville bomber’s girlfriend told police in 2019 he was making explosives inside RV

Nashville bomber’s girlfriend told police in 2019 he was making explosives inside RV: report | Fox News

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So much for “see something; say something”!

Argh!

Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

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Please, No Shooting Into The Air On New Year’s Eve

Monday, December 28, 2020

Source: Please, No Shooting Into The Air On New Year’s Eve

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Seems like common sense!

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