Hillary & Goebbels up a tree ... K - I - S - S - I - N - G

Joseph Goebbels once boasted, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” Obama’s success (fundamentally changing the USA) hinges on Goebbels. Now Obama wants a third term through his Hillary puppet.

You've seen it over and over: the false Trayvon Martin narrative, the outrageous “Hands up, don’t shoot” lie in Ferguson (in an astonishing moment of honesty, it was totally repudiated by the left-wing US DOJ), the ridiculous Marilyn Moseby fiction about the Baltimore police ...still promoted by millions of truth-challenged left-wing US "journalists".

The most recent 15,000 “new” Hillary hidden emails confirm what we knew. Clinton Crime Family Foundation donors get direct $$$ access to Hillary, whatever her position. A vote for Hillary gets you pay for play. If that's the advantage you want, you definitely should vote for Hillary.

Richard Dennis

[GordonJ]

Originally Posted by Richard Dennis

Joseph Goebbels once boasted, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” Obama’s success (fundamentally changing the USA) hinges on Goebbels. Now Obama wants a third term through his Hillary puppet.

You've seen it over and over: the false Trayvon Martin narrative, the outrageous “Hands up, don’t shoot” lie in Ferguson (in an astonishing moment of honesty, it was totally repudiated by the left-wing US DOJ), the ridiculous Marilyn Moseby fiction about the Baltimore police ...still promoted by millions of truth-challenged left-wing US "journalists".

The most recent 15,000 “new” Hillary hidden emails confirm what we knew. Clinton Crime Family Foundation donors get direct $$$ access to Hillary, whatever her position. A vote for Hillary gets you pay for play. If that's the advantage you want, you definitely should vote for Hillary.

Richard Dennis

is a ONE term politician.

Pay to play American politics? SOP, Old School, Old Guard, Career Politicians, and now Trump has joined the game, but then, he always knew which politicians to buy, didn't he?

He's nothing new.

GordonJ

In just 10 seconds that night, Miami-Dade County lost $2,000,000+ of taxpayer money.

I was driving a bus back then, in Miami & Miami Beach. Before I started my own business in 1994, I was a government employee for 16 years. Saw some really weird stuff.

You can extrapolate, over many years, many agencies, many counties, 50 states ... and then exponentialize it with the federal leviathan.

Thru it all, this principle holds true:

A healthy percentage of government employees do not care about our money. At all.

I have seen them do all manner of idiotic things. Lose our money, spend it on Lotto tickets, waste it, gamble it away, buy gold furnishings for their home bathrooms ... because so long as they are not caught by someone who actually cares, it does not matter. When the money is gone, they just take more. That is how government works.

That is not how business works. If you don't shepherd your resources responsibly in business, you go bankrupt.

But the guy who's been thru that, who knows that, who knows that money is a valuable resouce to be protected? He's too "dangerous" to be president.

Instead, we need to elect the proven crook?

Sorry. I got sidetracked. Here is my little story.

In 1982, Dade County was testing its brand-new Metrorail system, before opening it to the public.

And one night, in the wee small hours of the morning, a "testing" driver crashed his train. He drove into a station at maybe 2 am and crashed into an empty train parked at the station.

Each train cost $1 million. Both were totalled. Two million bucks down the drain in 10 seconds.

The police came. MDTA investigators came. The driver was beside himself. They sent him home.

Next morning, someone called him in for a blood test.

Result? Quaaludes, marijuana, LSD, and 2 or 3 others I can't remember.

The County, of course, decided to fire this moron. But he called his union rep, and they put a stop to that.

They argued that he was so distressed by the accident, no doubt caused by some equipment failure, that he went home and took all those drugs to calm his nerves. And since the supervisors had not sent him immediately to have his blood analyzed, what could they say?

So this drug-addled government train driver wasn't fired. Instead, he was given a desk job, at a pay increase, after destroying $2,000,000 worth of trains.

That is how government works.

Which reminds me ... the way Metrorail had been sold to the public was, it would run 9 miles north to downtown Miami, along US1, helping relieve the incredible traffic into and out of town on the south side. And then it would extend about 11 miles on the north side up to the Broward County line, running between Biscayne Boulevard and I-95, helping relieve the incredible traffic into and out of town on the north side.

That is how it was sold to the public. And if that had been what they did, it would have been a financial boondoggle, of course. Never any doubt about that.

But at least it would have made some sense for taxpayers. It would have given some relief to a million+ commuters on the major north-south downtown Miami traffic arteries.

So that was the system the voters approved.

But that is NOT the system the County delivered.

They delivered the south end as promised. But on the north, the politicians (mostly D's, of course, but a couple of idiot R's, too) sent the north section of rail winding here and there thru NW Miami to Hialeah, thru every poor black and hispanic neighborhood they could find, because those elected reps wanted credit with their voters.

Hillary would have loved it. Trump, the biz guy, would have left the rail straight north and south, where it would have served many more people and taken in much more revenue.

When I was training to drive the bus in 1978, one of the trainers very proudly told us something I have never forgotten. He said that of every dollar spent to run the Metro Dade Transit System, 13¢ came from the farebox, from the people who used the system. So 87¢ of every dollar came from people who did NOT use the system.

And most of those people weren't in Miami, or even in Florida. Most people financially supporting our Metro Dade Transit System were thousands of miles away, working their jobs, running their businesses, having the money they earned siphoned off to Miami by the U.S. Federal Transit Administration.

THAT is how government works. As Jimmy Durante used to say about stories, "I got a million of 'em!" But what's the point?

If the US is to survive, we have to control the leviathan sometime. It sure won't be Obama. It sure won't be Hillary.

Trump? Maybe he's a start.

[GordonJ]

Originally Posted by Richard Dennis

A healthy percentage of government employees do not care about our money. At all.

That is not how business works. If you don't shepherd your resources responsibly in business, you go bankrupt.

That is how government works.

Exactly.

And how many times has Trump gone through it, again and again and again, using OPM (banks-read-bank customers, like bus driver union pensions)

Which means,

Trump is nothing new.

One more old rich white guy, using OPM, going bankrupt, and living the life of Riley (or is it O'Reilly today)...

'what a revoltin development this is"

GordonJ

PS. A gov't can't be run like a business, and certainly not one like the Trump empire is run. But, today, as we saw in too big to fail, there is little difference between the two.

The guy who has never held a public office and is now running for President is nothing new?

The guy who wants to enforce our immigration laws, contrary to ALL the "D"s and most of the "R"s ... is nothing new?

Hillary is bad, but she's better than Trump?

Really?

THAT is your case?

[GordonJ]

Originally Posted by Richard Dennis

The guy who has never held a public office and is now running for President is nothing new?

The guy who wants to enforce our immigration laws, contrary to ALL the "D"s and most of the "R"s ... is nothing new?

Hillary is bad, but she's better than Trump?

Really?

THAT is your case?

Pretty much.

Donnie may not have run for any public office, but he's bought and paid for many others, so, he's been a surrogate politician, an Illuminati type.

Enforce immigration and create a crisis in the food supply chain, which one of the American citizens will be in the fields then? Who will Rush Limbaugh buy drugs from?

Throw 11 million over the fence, while 12 come around it?

Contrary to common sense, when there are jobs CITIZENS will not do, then what choice is left? Big talker, as he always has been.

Trump is nothing new.

Another rich old white guy who wants to tell other people how things should and aught to be. When his pool doesn't get cleaned cause his houseboy was deported, watch him whine then.

GordonJ

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by Richard Dennis

In just 10 seconds that night, Miami-Dade County lost $2,000,000+ of taxpayer money.

I was driving a bus back then, in Miami & Miami Beach. Before I started my own business in 1994, I was a government employee for 16 years. Saw some really weird stuff.

You can extrapolate, over many years, many agencies, many counties, 50 states ... and then exponentialize it with the federal leviathan.

Thru it all, this principle holds true:

A healthy percentage of government employees do not care about our money. At all.

I have seen them do all manner of idiotic things. Lose our money, spend it on Lotto tickets, waste it, gamble it away, buy gold furnishings for their home bathrooms ... because so long as they are not caught by someone who actually cares, it does not matter. When the money is gone, they just take more. That is how government works.

That is not how business works. If you don't shepherd your resources responsibly in business, you go bankrupt.

But the guy who's been thru that, who knows that, who knows that money is a valuable resouce to be protected? He's too "dangerous" to be president.

Instead, we need to elect the proven crook?

Sorry. I got sidetracked. Here is my little story.

In 1982, Dade County was testing its brand-new Metrorail system, before opening it to the public.

And one night, in the wee small hours of the morning, a "testing" driver crashed his train. He drove into a station at maybe 2 am and crashed into an empty train parked at the station.

Each train cost $1 million. Both were totalled. Two million bucks down the drain in 10 seconds.

The police came. MDTA investigators came. The driver was beside himself. They sent him home.

Next morning, someone called him in for a blood test.

Result? Quaaludes, marijuana, LSD, and 2 or 3 others I can't remember.

The County, of course, decided to fire this moron. But he called his union rep, and they put a stop to that.

They argued that he was so distressed by the accident, no doubt caused by some equipment failure, that he went home and took all those drugs to calm his nerves. And since the supervisors had not sent him immediately to have his blood analyzed, what could they say?

So this drug-addled government train driver wasn't fired. Instead, he was given a desk job, at a pay increase, after destroying $2,000,000 worth of trains.

That is how government works.

Which reminds me ... the way Metrorail had been sold to the public was, it would run 9 miles north to downtown Miami, along US1, helping relieve the incredible traffic into and out of town on the south side. And then it would extend about 11 miles on the north side up to the Broward County line, running between Biscayne Boulevard and I-95, helping relieve the incredible traffic into and out of town on the north side.

That is how it was sold to the public. And if that had been what they did, it would have been a financial boondoggle, of course. Never any doubt about that.

But at least it would have made some sense for taxpayers. It would have given some relief to a million+ commuters on the major north-south downtown Miami traffic arteries.

So that was the system the voters approved.

But that is NOT the system the County delivered.

They delivered the south end as promised. But on the north, the politicians (mostly D's, of course, but a couple of idiot R's, too) sent the north section of rail winding here and there thru NW Miami to Hialeah, thru every poor black and hispanic neighborhood they could find, because those elected reps wanted credit with their voters.

Hillary would have loved it. Trump, the biz guy, would have left the rail straight north and south, where it would have served many more people and taken in much more revenue.

When I was training to drive the bus in 1978, one of the trainers very proudly told us something I have never forgotten. He said that of every dollar spent to run the Metro Dade Transit System, 13¢ came from the farebox, from the people who used the system. So 87¢ of every dollar came from people who did NOT use the system.

And most of those people weren't in Miami, or even in Florida. Most people financially supporting our Metro Dade Transit System were thousands of miles away, working their jobs, running their businesses, having the money they earned siphoned off to Miami by the U.S. Federal Transit Administration.

THAT is how government works. As Jimmy Durante used to say about stories, "I got a million of 'em!" But what's the point?

If the US is to survive, we have to control the leviathan sometime. It sure won't be Obama. It sure won't be Hillary.

Trump? Maybe he's a start.

Thanks Richard - I always enjoy reading your writings...

I agree government is inefficient and maybe it being run more like a business could make it more efficient. I ain't no expert in that.

There are probably cases to be made both ways. I think it might not be that simple too.

My late father was an economist, and one thing he talked to us about (when he got into "economics mode") was something called "natural monopolies."

Some services are best run as a monopoly. For example take the water supply. Let's say it is run like any business with competitors. It would mean that any business could run water pipes to your house. You could have 10 different companies running different water pipes to your house. This would not be efficient at all. That's why the water supply is called a "natural monopoly."

Now say that it is run as a private business with no restrictions. What's to stop the water company from charging you an exorbitant rate for your water? Because it's a "natural monopoly," if there were no government controls - you'd probably be paying exorbitant rates for your water. That's one example where running a government can be different from your "usual" business.

Just thought I'd throw that in there... I always enjoy your posts.

Best wishes,

Dien

Originally Posted by Dien Rice

Thanks Richard - I always enjoy reading your writings...

I agree government is inefficient and maybe it being run more like a business could make it more efficient. I ain't no expert in that.

There are probably cases to be made both ways. I think it might not be that simple too.

My late father was an economist, and one thing he talked to us about (when he got into "economics mode") was something called "natural monopolies."

Some services are best run as a monopoly. For example take the water supply. Let's say it is run like any business with competitors. It would mean that any business could run water pipes to your house. You could have 10 different companies running different water pipes to your house. This would not be efficient at all. That's why the water supply is called a "natural monopoly."

Now say that it is run as a private business with no restrictions. What's to stop the water company from charging you an exorbitant rate for your water? Because it's a "natural monopoly," if there were no government controls - you'd probably be paying exorbitant rates for your water. That's one example where running a government can be different from your "usual" business.

Just thought I'd throw that in there... I always enjoy your posts.

Best wishes,

Dien

Dien,

Your water example is a good one. Where I live we are constantly bombarded by the guvmint run water authority to conserve, conserve, conserve. They have even instituted penalties against people who they perceive as being non conservationists.

That's on one side of the ledger.

On the other side of the ledger is their fee schedule. A citizen can buy unlimited water usage for a certain price per month. Currently it is a little bit over $100 with no penalties attached.

Your example explains how our local one guvmint agency does everything you mentioned. I guess we're ****ed either way, hunh?

I think the US should make Australia a possession and transport all your water to our current drought stricken regions. This would benefit both countries. We'd get the water and you'd learn how to become more self reliant. OK, that was a joke but what's a poor working class schmuck supposed to do?

Originally Posted by Dien Rice

Thanks Richard - I always enjoy reading your writings...

I agree government is inefficient and maybe it being run more like a business could make it more efficient. I ain't no expert in that.

There are probably cases to be made both ways. I think it might not be that simple too.

My late father was an economist, and one thing he talked to us about (when he got into "economics mode") was something called "natural monopolies."

Some services are best run as a monopoly. For example take the water supply. Let's say it is run like any business with competitors. It would mean that any business could run water pipes to your house. You could have 10 different companies running different water pipes to your house. This would not be efficient at all. That's why the water supply is called a "natural monopoly."

Now say that it is run as a private business with no restrictions. What's to stop the water company from charging you an exorbitant rate for your water? Because it's a "natural monopoly," if there were no government controls - you'd probably be paying exorbitant rates for your water. That's one example where running a government can be different from your "usual" business.

Just thought I'd throw that in there... I always enjoy your posts.

Best wishes,

Dien

Dien,

Good point.

On the other hand, if your dad knew that the people running the water company and the other natural monopolies got a little aggressive and ran up $19 trillion on their Visa card (as they have here in the U.S.), payable by our children and children's children and children's children's children, then I bet he would get to work on figuring out some other solution.

Richard