Government Fake Data: 93% of Jobs Created Since 2008 Due to Fictitious Birth/Death Adjustment

In my 2014 blog "3.3 Million Jobs Created Thru 'Faulty' Birth/Death Adjustment," I estimated that some 42% of all job gains reported since 2009 were created by the now-fictitious business birth/death adjustment. It may be far worse than that. Morningside Hill has reported that some 93% of all job creation since 2008 are probably fake. 

The Birth/Death adjustment was designed to capture the jobs at new, small firms who are missed in employment surveys. It's important because small start-up firms are the major job creators in the economy. Historically, in a healthy economy, start-up firm's job creation typically exceeds small firm failures by a wide margin. But, this situation hasn't been true since the 2007 crisis. In fact business deaths have exceeded new business births since 2008. This means that the Birth/Death adjustment since 2008 should be nearly zero or negative -- not hugely positive.

Fake Job Creation Compliments of the US Govt-Especially after 2008

But evidence shows that more businesses are dying than being created which means there is no basis for a positive Birth/Death adjustment since 2008. From Morningside Hill:

After the 2007 Crisis More Businesses Are Dying Than Born (The Trend Continued After 2011)

Business "Births" Remained Lower After 2009 To The Present

So, we're left with the situation where fully 93% of all job creation sinced since 2008 and 40% of the jobs in 2016 alone were added through the business birth and death model – a model which is not supported by the data.  Here are the figures from Morningside Hill:

So where are all the reported jobs coming from?  We're told that the number of jobs has recovered and finally exceeded the number of employed in 2007.

Well, full-time jobs are being replaced by multiple part-time positions, and are double and triple counted in the Establishment Survey, so the numbers of jobs sound impressive, but the quality of jobs has declined.

The US has added a net 6.7 million jobs over the past 9 years and most were part-time jobs, while the birth and death model added 6.3 million of these jobs, this means that the actual number of full-time jobs has declined significantly. This explains why wages are mostly declining. It's also why inflation is not heating-up in general. The employment situation is still not good -- despite what the government tells you.

The sad thing is that all of the highly-paid and PhD educated economists at the Federal Reserve must believe the phony government numbers. Janet Yellen insists that the economy is nearly overheating and that the Fed must increase interest rates to tame inflation.

But it's just a case of errors on top of errors. They (the Fed) really don't know what they're doing.

More Analyses Confirm Solar & Wind Power Is More Of a Problem Than Solution

I just posted an article entitled Large Scale Solar & Wind Power Not The Solution: Too Many Problems and Costs. There I make the argument that these unreliable and low-quality power sources are too expensive to be adopted on a wide scale. Where it is adopted on a large scale, in Europe, electricity prices are three times higher in order to provide the widespread subsidies for both consumers and conventional utilities. These alternative power supplies are not economic in a free market, especially when all the costs are included.

More evidence of how uneconomic these forms of power are is found in an article from Mises Institute called "More Solar Jobs Is a Curse, Not a Blessing" and an article from Zero Hedge.  The Mises article talks about the large employment in these alternative energy industries. More jobs are good right?? Not really. Instead, the large number of jobs shows how inefficient, unproductive and wasteful this industry relative to the small quantity of power that they produce.

From ZeroHedge,

Looking at electricity generated per worker, Coal generated an incredible 7,745 megawatt-hours of electricity per worker; natural gas 3,812 MWH per worker; wind a measly 836 MWH for every employee; and solar an abysmal 98 MWH per worker.

In other words, producing the same amount of electricity requires one coal worker, two natural gas workers — 12 wind industry employees or 79 solar workers.

In truth, about the only thing solar and wind companies do well is collect billions of dollars in subsidies from taxpayers and billions of dollars in much higher electricity rates from consumers. 

And when you look at the overall picture, solar and wind power generation is even worse than this.

Wind and solar's inefficiency extends to the cost to manufacture and install wind and solar power generating equipment. More carbon may be emitted in the manufacturing, installation and maintenance of this equipment than they save!  It takes a lot of land, steel, concrete, transmission lines to build these facilities all requiring fossil fuels to produce and install.

Wind and solar are so unreliable that they require nearly 100% backup by convention fossil fuel power plants which doubles the capital investment (going forward). By this measure alone, wind and solar at least doubles their installed cost. No "experts" will tell you about this. The cost of grid modifications are also never included in any solar or wind energy analysis either. The only way these facilities are built is through various subsidies from various governments. And once subsidies are provided to solar and wind producers, subsidies are also required by the conventional power producers.  Wind and Solar power isn't economic and they probably fail to reduce carbon emissions as well.

Wind and solar power are not our long-term solution for large-scale power. As I stated in my post, the world needs more inexpensive energy not more expensive energy. And these alternative supplies aren't so carbon-free either. Only ideologically blinded people like Obama and Merkel are unable to see these facts. Welcome to more evidence of Western Civilization's death by intellectual idiots.

The Movie "Hidden Figures" is Fake History

We live in a time where is everything for public consumption is increasingly fake and propagandized. Much of it comes from the MSM, a huge amount from Washington DC, and a bunch from Hollywood. These are places where professional liars and propagandists are in charge.

Hollywood's latest propaganda is the movie "Hidden Figures" which tries to portray a story that a handful of black ladies were the key to the Apollo moon shot and that they had to battle racism to accomplish their feat.

The problem is that it's mostly not true. Yes, it's true that Katherine Johnson did calculations for NASA and she technically was black. And that is a good thing and I'm happy for her. But Katherine herself said that she was only part of large teams to do hand calculations in a time of limited computer capability. And there were large teams to check the other teams. That the movie tries to portray that Katherine was a key figure in the program is extremely misleading.

And the racism that these heroines supposedly had to battle was largely fabricated. How do I know?  Because no one would even think that Katherine Johnson was black at all. See the photo below. The "rascist white" aspect was mostly made-up for the movie to fit the "narrative" in order to vilify white people in general. White people continue to be under attack in our cultural propaganda.

A Young Katherine Johnson. Does This
Nice Lady Even Look Black?

The real heroes of the moon launch were all white folks. How about Werner Von Braun who invented the rockets? 

Or take Dr. Jack Crenshaw. He was a computer genius and literally invented the trajectory and equations that were used by NASA to circle the lunar vessel around the moon and back.  In other words, Dr. Crenshaw invented the Apollo mission! Without Dr. Crenshaw, there wouldn't have been a moon mission or any need for human "calculation teams" glorified in the movie. See an interview with the real hero here.  Why aren't we making a movie about him?

A bit more about Jack Crenshaw from "The Space Pioneer That No One Every Heard Of:

"Dr. Jack Crenshaw was one of the pioneers in designing the figure-8 trajectory which became known as the free-return trajectory. The early Moon missions set off for our closest celestial neighbor in the free-return trajectory which, if uncorrected, would loop them around the Moon and return them straight to Earth.

In order to orbit the Moon and land on it, the Apollo spacecraft’s Service Propulsion System (SPS) engine had to fire in order to slow the vehicle down and settle into lunar orbit. Delicate calculations were needed in order to ensure the orbit would not bring the craft into a collision with the lunar mountains."

But no one wants to portray one of the real heroes of the Apollo moon mission -- because he was white. Instead, his monumental contribution is being minimized and buried in history rather than memorialized as it should be.  Worse, Hollywood misleads you by claiming 3 black ladies were the real brains in the story! This is because the liars in charge have to make up stories to glorify any black "accomplishments" no matter how small, at the expense of white accomplishments. Welcome to "Fake History"-- compliments of Hollywood propaganda machine.

The simple truth is that more than 95% of all the major technical, scientific, medical, engineering and all other important intellectual advancements in all fields were accomplished and exploited by white people. 

I've complained about this type of media propaganda in More "Black" Shoved Down Your Throat and Leftist Media Shove "Black" Propaganda Down Your Throat."

Large Scale Solar & Wind Power Not The Solution: Too Many Problems and Costs

Many people think that the future of large scale energy production lies in "renewables" like wind and solar PV power. This is not true. There are a number of insuperable problems with both of them, especially when it's share of electricity production reaches about 10 to 15%. At this level of intermittent production, the cost of grid modifications adds even more cost to these already costly and low quality energy sources. In our stagnating world economy, every country needs cheaper -- not more expensive energy.

Even with generous government subsidies and mandates, penetration of wind and solar power is still very small with about 4% of world's electricity energy mostly due to Solar PV "religion" in Germany and the rest of Europe. It's only about 1% of the total in the US.

The cost of solar & wind power is a large burden to consumers and taxpayers where there it has been adopted on a large scale, such as in Europe. The average cost of electricity in the US is about $0.10 per KW-h but Germany and Denmark burden it's people and industry with punitive costs of $0.33 per KW-h. It's mostly due to subsidies for the renewables since these expensive forms of power are not economic. Even then, all of the costs are probably NOT included in the unit costs. The reality is likely worse. For example, Germany has installed additional power cables to/from Sweden and France to help cope with the intermittent nature of this alternative power. Subsidizing conventional power companies, who remain partly on standby when there is abundant sun and wind, adds to the burden. Taxpayers are picking up this additional tab.

Countries shown above in "red" are those experiencing severe debt problems. Solar and wind subsidies worsen these problems

All of the intermittent power sources such as wind and solar PV require basically a 100% backup because there is no solar power at nights or during much of the winter (when power demand is highest). Wind power is very intermittent (unreliable) as well. So, going forward, widespread (>10% of total power generation) adoption of such intermittent power basically doubles the capital costs.

How can paying twice the capital cost ever make sense? Yes, existing power plants are already built, so people take comfort in ignoring the conventional utility power companies. But as subsidies rise for homeowner installations, the power utilities find their revenues and profits are down, so THEY begin to require subsidies as well.  This means that subsidies then are required for everyone!  All this to support these low quality and expensive alternatives! How can this ever work?

Many countries, including many in Europe are already having debt problems. Solar and wind subsidies ADD to their problems! It's really insane.

The Figure below shows some of the more obvious problems with Solar and Wind that ultimately limit it's adoption on a wide scale. Gail Tverberg writes frequently about these issues in her blog called Our Finite World.

Numerous Problems and Costs Associated with Low Quality Intermittent Power Generation

The cost of the solar panels (alone) have become much cheaper recently, so if you just do simple math as a homeowner for instance, the panel cost (alone) seems to make economic sense. But add the cost of installation, which doubles the price, starts to diminish the attractiveness. If one integrates the solar power to feed back to the utility grid, that adds more cost. If you try to power large power-intensive appliances such as electric ranges, central air conditioning and/or electric clothes dryers, then the number of panels and costs go up to astronomic levels. Adding batteries and inverters to power your home at night adds even more costs especially if you have significant loads. Oh, and forget powering central air conditioners on batteries --- it ain't going to happen.

On a regional or national level, the example of Germany shows the problems with widespread solar PV power adoption. For 4 months of the year during winter (when their power demand is highest), there is little sun since they are at 50 deg N Latitude with plenty of clouds, so they are reliant on conventional power generation (or purchased power from Sweden or France). In the summer, when the sun comes out, the surge of solar power generation requires that nearly all of traditional power generation to shut down and/or requires them to sell power to neighboring countries. Furthermore, wholesale spot power rates go NEGATIVE during sunny periods meaning producers aren't making money to add to the grid, they're LOSING money during these peaks.. If you don't have neighbors to sell to, then that creates a huge problem due to the time required to start and stop large conventional production. And the electric power grid must be modified to accommodate these variable power flows-- which costs taxpayers money. Then, idling conventional plants in summer cause the electric utilities to lose money where they aren't able to pay investors their dividends, so Germany has to provide assistance to the utilities!

So in Germany, the solar installations don't make economic sense because of their costs. But Germany is in the grip of a climate change/solar energy fantasy which borders on a false religion since solar has never made sense there. Making public policy based on fantasy is not likely to work.

Wind has similar problems too. There are higher maintenance costs for these generators. You will often see many idle windmills in wind farms. They aren't very durable and require frequent repair.

Trying to substitute expensive energy for cheap energy is like trying to make water run uphill. It is virtually impossible to make such a system work. It makes everyone from governments to businesses to citizens poorer in the process.

Epicenters of Ignorance, Bad Ideas and Destruction

Look to African/US Blacks, Muslims and the political Left for the three major groups where ignorance and very bad ideas cause widespread destruction wherever they are found.

It's easy see the destruction of the first two groups with even a cursory look at the Middle East and all of Africa. Nearly all Africans and Middle Easterners are suffering from poverty, stagnation, crime, murder, war, strife, decay, disorder, tyranny, misery and/or starvation. Much of the Middle East and Africa is poorly developed -- often Medieval or even Prehistoric. Middle East Muslim majority countries are devolving dramatically rather than evolving and Africans have made little progress in hundreds of years. Of those Middle Eastern countries not in collapse, low oil prices will eventually collapse the remaining countries that previously enjoyed high oil prices. This means that I am predicting TOTAL COLLAPSE of all of the Mideast and N. African Arab/Muslim cultures.

US blacks are also devolving into chaos and even worse ignorance. Indeed the entire West is intellectually devolving. US black populations have low IQs (80s), but it is Africans, especially sub-Saharan's that have the lowest median IQs in the world--ranging from 60s to 80s. In every population, there are a bunch of "nice" people, but "nice" people can be full of very bad ideas especially in the areas of politics and religion. Low IQ populations know nearly nothing, have little logic, suffer from poor impulse control and have average mental ages of adolescents. This can actually be charming except when it results in chaos, crime and war zones as we often see from Africa to Chicago. I have written about the high correlation of poverty and misery with populations having low median IQs.  Also see my blog examining the lower IQs of US blacks and it's implications.

The Arab/Muslim Crash

Most of Arab/Muslim regions in the Middle East and North Africa are now in a cultural and political collapse. This collapse was made plainly evident in the so-called "Arab Spring" uprisings and wars in recent years caused by major wars in the region started by outside powers, their failed Muslim culture, low intelligence, poor education, chronically failed economies and tyrannical leaders.

This collapse has set-off the greatest refugee crises in recent memory. The mass migration of mostly young (and poorly-educated and mostly ignorant) Mid-Eastern and African men into Europe is already causing social disruption and crime. It's an entirely predictable clash of civilizations. Deluded Leftist EU leaders are un-fazed and maintain an obviously destructive open-border policy. Leftists are blinded by their ignorant and incorrect ideas (blinded by evil and political correctness). It appears that Leftist governments are somehow aligned with Muslims in some kind of unholy alliance of ruin!

Muslims are full of terrible and ignorant ideas that bring nothing but misery and death to themselves and those around them. Muslims are historically responsible for 10s of millions of deaths, if not 100s of millions, due to their horrible but widespread "Jihad"ideology. They are truly the Medieval Death Cult and STILL ARE. For example, since just 2001, there have been about 250,000 murders and another estimated 250,000 wounded from Jihadi attacks alone (a total which excludes war-related deaths). That equates to ~2 million deaths per century--NOT including wars! So, you can imagine how annoying it is to hear ignoramus Obama saying that 99.9% of Muslims are peace-loving. It's not true.

Muslim's ill-treatment of women is well-known, but their belief in mutilating the genitals of young baby girls is less known. In this practice, they are trying to literally eliminate any possibility of women enjoying sex. These are sick people. Another integral part of their ideology is their belief in "conquering" and dominating the world creating an Islamic Caliphate (of misery). I lived in Jakarta and saw an entire football stadium full of "mainstream" Indonesians celebrating this belief. Islam is a supremacist (and bigoted) ideology.

Hatred of Jews and even Christians is part of their religion and has been since it's inception since it's supported by their Qu'ran. Remember that the Mufti of Jerusalem sat at the right hand of Hitler in WWII.  And where there is Jew-hatred there is gay-hatred. ISIS has been throwing alleged gay people to their deaths off of tall buildings ignoring any kind of due process or anything else that might be called civilized. You would be correct in saying that Muslims REMAIN the Nazis of our day. Hell, many Muslims think dogs are evil! While dogs remain perfect, it is many (8 to 30%) Muslims who are evil. The rest are sheep-like, remain silent and complicit by default. Passive sheep-like behavior is more pronounced in low median IQ populations.

Their widespread emphasis of religious studies in lieu of math, science or any technology just continues widespread backward and massively outdated thinking that results in poor-performing economies. The tyranny in their political leadership also results from weak minds and passive sheep-like behavior. Their tyrannical leaders mirror the authoritarianism in Islam itself. And if you try to leave Islam, they are obliged to kill you! Talk about bad ideas!

The Destruction of Blacks--From Africa to the Americas

The rest of Africa is in total collapse too. It's ruled by a bunch of fools, tyrants, homophobes and evil people. You could see it when Obama invited a bunch of African "leaders" to the White House. It was truly a monster's ball. US black culture is also in collapse.

There is little evidence that any majority black community or nation on earth can adequately govern themselves. This is as true in Baltimore and Detroit as it is from Africa to Brazil. Black populations only tear down and rarely "build up." They literally destroy everything. Black majorities elsewhere in the world are failing and collapsing -- and none ascending. Every black majority city in the Americas is highly dangerous due to murders, crime, chaos and have poor health, lower life expectancy and widespread poverty. This is true even after fairly massive transfer payments for decades from the government to help them! The war on poverty has failed because black culture has failed; in part, because of government intervention.

Ignorant US Blacks believe that White people are actively holding them back. It used to be true but what's holding them back now is what every standardized test in the world says: they are at the bottom of the scale of cognitive ability (low median IQ).  And nothing will change this quickly. They blast white people, but they should be thanking white people for a mostly orderly society that Whites (Europeans) created. They COULD be living in Africa instead!

Brazil has many of the most dangerous and murderous cities in the world and a national murder tally of 50,000 murders in a recent year. It's mostly black-on-black killing just like in America. While the US has 15,000 murders per year, Brazil has 3 times the murder rate of the US and predictably they also have 3 times the blacks than the  US (~50% vs 13% in the US). The Brazil murder problem is black in color --- just as it is in America. Low media IQ means that these people have a mental age of 14 to 16 years old, have poor impulse control and little logic -- leading to murderous results.

South Africa can barely keep the electricity online these days now that blacks are in charge. Their current idiot President Zuma has recently vowed to seize White S. African's land and businesses and re-distribute them to black persons. This same idiocy was tried by Zimbabwe's President Mugabe about 30 years ago. Land and farms held by Whites were seized in Zimbabwe and given to blacks who didn't know how to farm or do anything else. Whites fled of course. It led to starvation, stagnation and ultimately hyperinflation there (also known as collapse). Now Zuma wants that for his country! Radical niggers in South Africa have also recently vowed to wipe out White people there! There is literally no hope.

The Destruction of The Left

Hard-Left (Communist) governments have caused untold suffering in modern history due the failures of their Leftist ideologies.The failure rate is 100%. The rise, spread and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union and it's empire caused untold suffering, for example. The ongoing stagnation in Argentina is another example. Cuba is a great example. The result is the same every time.

Another hybrid communist nation, Venezuela and their kleptocratic Leftist leaders Chavez and Maduro who are the darlings of the US Black "leaders," is collapsing as we speak with hyperinflation, stagnation, crisis and starvation. Ignorant voters, who repeatedly voted for "free stuff" and "free money" now find that the money is worthless and there is nothing to buy even if they had money. This is always the result of hard-Left governments: stagnation, inflation, crisis, collapse.  Free money lasts only so long.

And the Left never learns or changes and this is what makes them evil. The Pope, as an example, remains an avowed Socialist in outlook even after the damage and destruction caused by Socialism in his own country of Argentina. Fidel and Raul never changed. Why would they? In communism and socialism, only the elites and those "connected" at the top benefit. The "people" just suffer, then suffer even more.

And remember, Socialism is just Communism-lite.  Big government and a predominance of central planning is Socialism. Europe and China are in this category. We have that even it in the USA to a large degree. Socialism results in the same misery as hard-Left Communism, it just takes longer to get to the point of collapse. But collapse it does.

Leftism is now allied with Blacks and Muslims in the US and Europe. Leftist media promotes pro-black propaganda in the US and shields the public from the true horrific decline of black "culture" in this country. US Media news never identifies the racial identity of criminals, because it's mostly black. They do the same thing in Europe -- they cover-up the criminal activities of the new Muslim migrants to manipulate public opinion. Sweden, suffering after 20 years of importing Muslim Africans and Arabs, now refuses to even collect data on crime activities and arrests. They wouldn't want anyone to get the correct information which might cause outrage and expose government propaganda!

The US Democratic Party is now hard-Left in their politics and are apologists for US blacks and Muslims to form a triumvirate of bad ideas and destruction. Together they may be a majority in this country or might be soon. Can the fall of the US be far away? 

The common denominator here is that all of these groups have weak minds. They can't or refuse to learn the correct lessons of current events or history. They won't or can't change -- even in light of disasters that THEY create. The Left and Islam, in this sense, are evil. Black populations have very low median IQs which means they literally can't learn anything. Also, statistically there are very few highly intelligent persons in these population that could provide competent leadership or start large-scale businesses that would create prosperity or favorable change.

The Left Are Fascists and Nazis

Freedom of speech is nearly gone in Europe as Leftist totalitarianism takes hold.

The Left Are Nazis, Not Trump

Remember Geert Wilders who is one of the leading candidates in the Dutch election for president of Holland? Because of Europe's insane and easily abused "hate speech" laws, he was convicted in 2016 of "inciting discrimination" and "insulting a group" by asking a simple question of his audience: "do you want more Moroccans in your city or less?" Wilder's life has been in danger for many years as Islamists have vowed to kill him--- proving that his attitudes against Muslims are entirely correct. Islam is fascist!

He was also charged in 2011 after he correctly called Islam a Fascist religion but was ultimately acquitted of that charge. Marine Le Pen, one of the current candidates for President of France stood trial recently and was acquitted after being charged with “incitement to discrimination, violence or hatred towards a group of people on the basis of their religion.” All of this is warfare by the political elites (disguised as judges) to silence these people.

This is full-on Jihad against truth and truth-sayers by the real Fascists: the political Left. Suddenly the fascist Left is now aligned with fascist Islam!  

The political Left is determined to ruin Europe by allowing uncontrolled, non-selective mass migration of mostly young and ignorant Muslim men to come in and take welfare assistance. Then you have many instances where these devolved people harass local women and children, commit other crimes or become a burden to their highly civilized host countries. This is happening everywhere in Europe now and the political elites have no answer, take no action and refuse to have any plan to stop this.  If you say anything publicly, you risk being charged with "hate speech" or, if you're on TV and you dare speak the obvious truth, you're microphone can be cut off or you're "shussed" by TV hosts (who are usually government employees). 

As I've written, this is a needless clash of civilizations that is entirely obvious and predictable.

What the elites refuse to see is that most of these migrants have lower median IQ and are poorly educated, have few or no skills, and have nothing to offer their "host" countries. Very few of them are getting jobs because they are mostly unemployable. Worse, Muslims from the Middle East have very bad ideas that are extremely incompatible with the liberal Democracy and society in the EU and the West. The entire Arab/Muslim culture in the Middle East and North Africa is in total collapse because of this!  Islamic "cultures" are really medieval. Then these same people are allowed to migrate to London or to Malmo Sweden, get on welfare support, smoke pot, and become a nuisance to the larger community. They congregate in ghettos and recreate the very failed culture from which they are fleeing!!

Take the example of Danish writer Iben Trahnholm, who is widely read in matters of religion and culture in Denmark.  She was secretly put on a blacklist for being a "pro-Russian propagandist" for speaking out against the politicians who favor a continuation of this mass migration insanity in Denmark.  From a fascinating interview at LinkedIn

In 2015 I wrote an article criticizing our politicians who for the most part hate Christianity but nevertheless use Christian values, especially charity and compassion, to promote their own agendas, in particular mass immigration. So I called them out on that.

A few months later I got a call from a politician here who told me that I was on a government blacklist, supposedly acting as a pro-Russian propagandist agent, despite having absolutely no evidence to that effect. I occasionally work for a Russian news outlet, but that’s simply my job as a journalist.

Today, in a society where supposedly there is freedom of speech, if politicians want to silence their critics they simply accuse them of working for the Kremlin, or having some unexplained ties with Russia. That is what happened to me, and it also happening to high profile politicians and journalists in the US, France and Germany. If you don’t agree with the multicultural policies of Europe then you are labeled a Russian agent. Which is really a form of political or character assassination. [Think of the Leftist critics of Donald Trump]

They are so afraid of the rise of what leftist politicians in Europe call “populism”, which threaten the existence of their beloved European Union. And this year the stakes are very high with elections in France and Germany. So they resort to these kinds of tactics to quash any dissenters.

So I find myself in a blacklist in a supposedly free country like Denmark, but if a conflict with Russia emerges I can end up in prison under the pretext of being a foreign agent. Again, with no proof and no judicial process. This is very much how totalitarian societies operate. First they put you on a list, then when there is a problem or a made-up reason they will come for you.

You can see the same tactics at work with The Left in the USA against Donald Trump by inciting an irrational Russo-phobia. It's really a medieval witch-hunt against Trump alleging imagined "crimes" by Trump and some of his staff, just for having routine conversations with Russian officials. It's really madness.

The political Left in the US is willing to start a civil war in this country by either a real assassination or political assassination of Trump. Their hate is so deep that it is The Left who will use violence against anyone who doesn't agree with them. You can also see it the absurd court rulings against Trump's travel ban by Judges who are ruling on their "feelings" or blinded by their prejudices. Suddenly, it shows that many high ranking judges (especially those appointed by Obama) are outing themselves to be hysterical, irrational Leftists.

President Trump is entirely right to ban travelers from lawless, devolved places where their home countries can't or don't provide Intel on travelers. Eventually, Trump should allow only CHRISTIAN migrants from these countries. As you know, Christians (or any other religion groups) are under attack everywhere in the Middle East and beyond. Any other religious group is in danger wherever there are Muslims. Muslim's and their leaders are fascist supremacists who assert their will by force, violence or even murder.  It's truly the Medieval Death Cult. They are the modern day Nazis. The Left are fascists too.

A Swede's Take On Their Government's Disastrous, Deluded Immigration Policies

Below is a comment from a Swede in a recent article that tried to downplay the extent of immigration problems caused by 20 years of importing mostly Muslim men from N. Africa and the Middle East into Sweden. 

If you skip down to the comment section, very few commentors agreed and many complained bitterly.  What you may not know is that, if you're Swedish and question the sanity of their obviously insane immigration policy in the past 20 years in Sweden, your microphone is cut off or you are "shusshed" by TV personalities (Gov't employees?) that are immediately eager to censor any and all dissent. 

The comment by "Joe Slater":

"Sweden is in the process of destroying a civilization that took 1,000 years to build. It floods its cities with aliens who dislike the food and climate, feel uncomfortable with the taciturn, reserved Swedes around them, mostly cannot work for months or years for language reasons, and end up festering in angry and unemployment-plagued parallel societies in the suburbs. I don’t care what the stats are made to say. What I know is this. When I first stayed in Sweden, three decades ago, crime of any kind was a rarity. When I last stayed there, a few years ago, it was a daily occurrence. I don’t need BRAA reports to know that everything in Sweden has changed. You name it: murder, non-fatal shootings and stabbings, burglary, rape, rioting, vandalism, molestation, benefit swindling: all of these things are now daily occurrences in large parts of most cities, and in nearly all of Malmo. In cities, young women do not dare to go out alone at night. That’s a banal observation that hides an awful truth: Sweden has lost the most valuable thing any society can have: civic trust. For decades Swedes could trust strangers to do the right thing. Well, they can’t any more. In fact, a lot of them simply avoid certain parts of town, and look away from certain faces. That too is new. The old Sweden—the real Sweden--never really had places you could not feel safe in. But thanks to mass immigration, all that has gone, as it has gone in our country too.

In response to this disaster, the government doubles down and the left-leaning middle classes, in a country so unused to having to face colossal failure, are forcing themselves to smile and pretend to like all the new excitement. Meanwhile, dissenters are persecuted with a zeal that echoes East Germany (google the ritual front page “hanging out” of hacked Disqus commentators by Expressen). Swedish schoolgirls are subliminally encouraged to mate with Afro-Asian immigrants, not with Swedish boys (see this video, in Swedish but you get the picture  http://www.ur.se/Produkter/161....

What is happening there is a comprehensive tragedy that has only one upside: they are making the mistakes for everybody else. This is exactly how the rest of Scandinavia has come to view Swedes, who are now regarded by Finns and Danes as having almost lost their reason.

But don’t take my word for it. I leave the last words to this plaintive, anonymous internet post by a Swede summing up the feelings of millions of his compatriots. Translated from Uriaposten website (sorry for reposting if you have read it):

“At the beginning of each depressing thread, I look nonetheless at relatively encouraging comments; "Now things are changing!" Or “(PM) Löfven is waking up from his dream world." Personally, I feel just a huge darkness, hatred and sadness.

My country is ruined and there will never be the same. The welfare system will be destroyed, crime is increasing markedly, my future children will grow up in a much less safe society, the wages of low-paid jobs will plummet, Islam will gain an increasingly important role in Swedish society, housing queues will become enormous, and the white homogeneous neighborhoods are disappearing at a furious pace. In time, ethnic Swedes will be outnumbered by Arabs in this country.

It does not matter that the borders are closed or that the public debate has finally become more open. The last fifteen years have completely destroyed my beloved country. What has happened is irreversible, and it will only get worse. I'm just so very sad."

Martin Armstrong: Mainstreet Media Has Become Just Liars

From Martin Armstrong's Armstrong Economics blog:

Thomas Friedman of the New York Times demonstrates why mainstream media is just becoming so bought and paid for. You have to wonder if they should not be in prison for attempting to overthrow the government and start a revolution. Here he is still ranting about how Russia hacked the election and asserting that this is somehow a Pearl Harbor and 911 event. I suppose this is implying we should start world war III because Hillary lost.

The Homeland Security and the FBI both said that Russia’s hack of the DNC did not involve altering the vote. In fact, it was his own paper that reported on November 25, 2016: “The Obama administration said on Friday that despite Russian attempts to undermine the presidential election, it has concluded that the results “accurately reflect the will of the American people.”

The constant lies and manipulations seem intent upon creating war exactly as took place with the Spanish American War. We have returned to yellow journalism which is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. Pulitzer and Hearst went head to head. I remember grade school history class blaming the Spanish American War on fake news. There is one such story that male Spanish officials were strip searching American woman tourists in Cuba looking for claimed messages from rebels. This was the front page of Hearst’s newspaper showing what has become known as “yellow journalism” whereby the illustration was by Frederic Remington published in the New York Journal, February 12th, 1897.

Hearst’s New York Journal was called out for this fake news by its rival Joseph Pulitzer’s, New York World, reporting that this story was erroneous and its graphically illustrated strip-search of a woman aboard U.S. passenger steamer was fake. The Journal article was written by Richard Harding Davis, who reported that Spanish authorities boarded the U.S. steamer, the Olivette , as it prepared to leave Havana and searched several passengers for contraband. Among the passengers was a young Cuban woman named Clemencia Arango, whose brother was a leader in the insurgency against Spanish rule. The Journal’s article was ambiguous, implying the woman was strip-searched by men, which was created by the accompanying illustration of Frederic Remington.

The New York World attacked the Journal’s fake news, quoting Arango as denying that men had strip-searched her. That task, she said, had fallen to a matron, or “inspectress.” The Journalist Davis, in a letter to the World, then blamed Frederic Remington for having drawn “an imaginary picture” and insisted his dispatch had not report that men had conducted the search.

Nevertheless, this story of the strip-search discredited the Journal as being unreliable and prone to publishing “fakes” and other thinly documented reports. Welcome to the present where the New York Times and Washington Post seems to be carrying on in the same unreliable manner as well as ABC, CBS, NBC, and of course – CNN.

Of course, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times has won the Pulitzer Prize three times – it seems it has become the award that does celebrate yellow journalism for whom it was named. 

If the Democrats were clean, then even if Russia hacked the DNC, there would have been nothing to release. Moreover, nobody has accused Russia of altering one single email. This is outrageous blaming Russia for their candidate losing instead of admitting they got caught.

This interview is a disgrace to the New York Times and to MSNBC. Comparing the hack of DNC to Pearl Harbor and 911 where thousands of people died is just insulting.

College Tuition Bubble: Far Too Many Unqualified Students Attending College

Everyone has heard about the ongoing and growing bubble in student loans -- which now totals $1.25 Trillion and rising even though the non-payment rate has hit 43%.  If you ever needed evidence of how broken Washington DC has become, this is it.  Outright defaults have reached at least 13% but the government is still making loans and doing so at very low interest rates.

Much of that $1.25 T student loan portfolio is held as an "asset" of the Federal Government (just like a bank's assets are their loan portfolio). It is, in fact, the LARGEST asset of the Fed Government. But 43% of it already looks very shaky. But don't expect any write-downs or "mark to market." Any kind of proper accounting or even accountability is now absent in every aspect of government.

The College tuition "bubble" has all the makings of a free-money welfare scheme. According to the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress), overall only 30% of 12th grade students perform at a "proficient" or better level for 12th grade knowledge, skills and capabilities. That's averaging the Reading and Math scores for those proficient or better. (See here for Math and here for Reading.)

One would think that a student should be performing "proficiently"or "advanced" at the 12th grade level before they are ready for college, right?  You thought wrong. Some 66% of high school graduates are going to college but only 30% of them are performing proficiently at the 12th grade-level.  It means that, overall, about 1/2 of kids going to college probably don't belong there.

Given this situation, one shouldn't be a surprised if about 1/2 of those college loans aren't payed back. But that's what we're seeing. Because 1/2 of these kids don't belong in college at all, it's not really doing them any good.  It's all a huge racket that benefits colleges--both good and bad ones and the not-for-profit and for-profit ones. All that money has inflated college tuition costs to the moon and has priced-out the next generation of college kids. And those student loans are a huge burden to an entire generation of young adults.

And if you look at the data for Black kids at the 12th grade level, only 12% of those kids are "proficient" or better at 12th grade studies but fully 70% of all black high-seniors are going to college!  Only 12% of black kids are qualified for college but 70% are taking the money and going to school (and actually attending classes???).  Why is this? Because black teenage unemployment is sky high. And few blacks can pass up seemingly "free money." They are right though, politicians will bail them out before long -- all at taxpayer's expense.

So, about 83% of black college kids don't belong at college at all.  Correspondingly, the expected student loan default rates for blacks will be about 80% or higher.  This is already being seen in repayments from primarily black colleges are leading the list of institutions where NOT ONE DOLLAR OF STUDENT LOANS are being repaid.

So, this has all the marks of a "free-money" scheme (that will ultimately need a taxpayer bailout) and a welfare scheme to "benefit" or "help" black kids the most. It's also a huge "racket" to fund unworthy colleges and professors. For-profit colleges are benefiting enormously from all that "free money." See my blog post "Student Loan Racket In Action."

Think about how stupid Hillary, Sanders and others in the Democratic Party are who are in favor of "free college" for all. It would amplify the absurdity of the current tuition bubble and turn many colleges into high schools--which I suspect is already happening. How can it NOT be with so many "deficient" kids attending class?

Confirming that mainstreet media are a bunch of liars, they never tell you that most of the students that demand "safe spaces" and other protections to shield themselves from opinions that they don't understand or like are mostly minority kids who don't belong on those campuses in the first place. And it shows.  Insanity is taking over this country (and world).

And Congress is sitting on their asses watching the money fly out the window since it's assumed that taxpayers will pay the bill for the defaults. Shut down the whole damned thing! Only private banks should be making such loans!

Are You the Enemy?

Trump's nearly single-handed battle against The Left has begun. The Left wants to destroy this country. They don't see it that way, but they do. They control the media outlets and it's become all-out war.  They are the enemy. The Left's mouthpieces like MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS (and basically all the others) are sinking into a self-destructive, screeching insanity in political matters. But Trump is playing them like fiddles by 'triggering' them to expose their lies and biases. They will lose. Trump is too clever for them.

It's sad because we, in fact, need rational, impartial, investigative journalism for the sake of our Democracy. We have it at alternative websites like Breitbart.com and ZeroHedge.com. But these sites have been targeted as "Fake News" by the REAL Fake News outlets like the Washington Post. They are they enemies.

Are you the enemy?  Here's some great indications that you indeed are the enemy of this country (from Uncola at the BurningPlatform blog).

1. If you believe the mainstream media is NOT the primary source of “fake news” in America today, then you are the enemy.
2. If you believe Trump’s inauguration speech was “bleak”, “combative”, “militant”, “dark” or as having “anti-Semitic overtones”, then you are the enemy.
3. If you propagate lies in order to perpetuate a political agenda under guise of impartiality, then you are the enemy.
4. If you have the raging desire to physically assault someone walking on the street simply because they are wearing a Trump hat, then you are the enemy.
5. If you believe the Russians “hacked” the 2016 presidential election, or that Trump is not a “legitimate” president, then you are the enemy.
6. If you march in the streets because Trump is a misogynist, but believe Bill Clinton is not, then you are the enemy.
7. If you believe Trump made fun of a handicapped reporter during the election, then you are the enemy.
8. If you propose that Barron Trump might be autistic, or Tweet that he will be the country’s first homeschool shooter, or say that he is a date rapist to be, then you are the enemy.
9. If you can’t sit by a Trump supporter on an airplane, or, lack the balls to tell your wife to “shut up”, then you are the enemy.
10. Since the election of Donald Trump, if you have “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House”, then you are the enemy.
11. If you say that President Trump has wet dreams about his own daughter, then you are the enemy.
12. If, under the guise of a political protest, you take to the streets causing violence and property damage, then you are the enemy.
13. If you are more concerned about Trump’s inaugural crowd size instead of the “devastation and destruction in our schools, with our health care, in our economy, and with our small business owners”, then you are the enemy.
14. If you are concerned regarding “the Disturbed Psychological Mindset Driving President Trump’s Climate Change Policies”, then you are the enemy. 
15. If you think the world would be better off spending $70 to $90 Trillion to halt the very gradual and slight global (1.6 deg F in 100 years) warming underway, then you are the enemy.
16. If you believe that Barack Hussein Obama was a good president, then you are the enemy.
17. If you esteem Hillary Clinton’s vagina more than her honesty, then you are the enemy.
18. If you value your own “welfare” more than your country, then you are the enemy.
19. If you refuse to acknowledge, identify or speak the words “Islamic Terrorism” or “Islamic Extremism”, then you are the enemy.
20. If you consider the phrase “black lives matter” to be just and fair, but the phrase “all lives matter” to be intolerant and racist, then you are the enemy.
21. If you believe that little children should be subjected to the dangers of “gender neutral” bathrooms, then you are the enemy.
22. If you believe in prosecuting hate speech and encourage “safe spaces” to protect students from free speech on college campuses, then you are the enemy.
23. If you believe Donald Trump is a bigot, a racist, or a xenophobe, then you are the enemy.
24. If, when discussing your political opponents, you use terms like “white privilege”, “toxic masculinity”, “Islamaphobia”, “xenophobia” or “homophobia”, then you are the enemy.
25. If you value the skin color of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Barack Obama over the character and integrity of Dr. Ben Carson or Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, then you are the enemy.
26. If you either subsidize, or receive payment for, protesting in the streets of America, then you are the enemy.
27. If you support people from foreign countries invading America illegally, then you are the enemy.
28. If you believe the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights to be antiquated documents written by old, white slave-owners in order to infringe on your modern natural rights, then you are the enemy.
29. If you believe only celebrities, politicians, the government, the rich, the powerful, law enforcement and the military deserve protection under the Second Amendment, then you are the enemy.
30. If your politics result in the sacrifice of American workers upon the altar of globalism, then you are the enemy.
31. If you are an individual, corporation or government agency illegally surveilling American citizens in violation of their Fourth Amendment rights, then you are the enemy.
32. If you are a politician, member of the military, employed by a government alphabet soup agency or working in law enforcement while playing politics and abnegating your oath to the U.S. Constitution, then you are the enemy.
33. If you are a politician who lies to get elected, or one who earns false respect, seeks illicit favors and accepts unearned wealth by giving away other people’s money while accepting bribes, then you are the enemy.

Paul Craig Roberts: Trump's Declaration of War

January 20, 2017 Paul Craig Roberts  A brilliant and truthful article.

"President Trump’s brief inaugural speech was a declaration of war against the entirety of the American Ruling Establishment. All of it.

Trump made it abundantly clear that Americans’ enemies are right here at home: globalists, neoliberal economists, neoconservatives and other unilateralists accustomed to imposing the US on the world and involving us in endless and expensive wars, politicians who serve the Ruling Establishment rather than the American people, indeed, the entire canopy of private interests that have run America into the ground while getting rich in the process.

If truth can be said, President Trump has declared a war far more dangerous to himself than if he had declared war against Russia or China.

The interest groups designated by Trump as The Enemy are well entrenched and accustomed to being in charge. Their powerful networks are still in place. Although there are Republican majorities in the House and Senate, most of those in Congress are answerable to the ruling interest groups that provide their campaign funds and not to the American people or to the President. The military/security complex, offshoring corporations, Wall Street and the banks are not going to roll over for Trump. And neither is the presstitute media, which is owned by the interest groups whose power Trump challenges.

Trump made it clear that he stands for every American, black, brown, and white. Little doubt his declaration of inclusiveness will be ignored by the haters on the left who will continue to call him a racist just as the $50 per hour paid protesters are doing as I write.

Indeed, black leadership, for example, is enculturated into the victimization role from which it would be hard for them to escape. How do you pull together people who all their lives have been taught that whites are racists and that they are the victims of racists?

Can it be done? I was just on a program briefly with Press TV in which we were supposed to provide analysis of Trump’s inaugural speech. The other commentator was a black American in Washington, DC. Trump’s inclusiveness speech made no impression on him, and the show host was only interested in showing the hired protesters as a way of discrediting America. So many people have an economic interest in speaking in behalf of victims that inclusiveness puts them out of jobs and causes.

So along with the globalists, the CIA, the offshoring corporations, the armaments industries, the NATO establishment in Europe, and foreign politicians accustomed to being well paid for supporting Washington’s interventionist foreign policy, Trump will have arrayed against him the leaders of the victimized peoples, the blacks, the hispanics, the feminists, the illegals, the homosexuals and transgendered. This long list, of course, includes the white liberals as well, as they are convinced that flyover America is the habitat of white racists, misogynists, homophobes, and gun nuts. As far as they are concerned, this 84% of geographical US should be quarantined or interred.

In other words, does enough good will remain in the population to enable a President to unite the 16% America haters with the 84% America lovers?

Consider the forces that Trump has against him:

1. Black and hispanic leaders need victimization, because it is what elevates them to power and income. They will turn a jaundiced eye toward Trump’s inclusiveness. Inclusiveness is good for blacks and hispanics, but not for their leaders.
2. The executives and shareholders of global corporations are enriched by the offshored jobs that Trump says he will bring home. If the jobs come home, their profits, performance bonuses, and capital gains will go away. But the economic security of the American population will return.
3. The military/security complex has a 1,000 billion annual budget dependent on “the Russian threat” that Trump says he is going to replace with normalized relations. Trump’s assassination cannot be ruled out.
4. Many Europeans owe their prestige, power, and incomes to the NATO that Trump has called into question.
5. The financial sector’s profits almost entirely flow from putting Americans into debt bondage and from looting their private and public pensions. The financial sector with their agent, the Federal Reserve, can overwhelm Trump with financial crisis. The New York Federal Reserve Bank has a complete trading desk. It can send any market into turmoil. Or support any market, because there is no limit on its ability to create US dollars.
6. The entire political edifice in the US has insulated itself from the will, desires, and needs of the people. Now Trump says the politicians will be accountable to the people. This, of course, would mean a big drop in their security in office and in their income and wealth.
7. There are a large number of groups, funded by we-know-not-who. For example, RootsAction has responded today to Trump’s forceful commitment to stand for all of the people against the Ruling Establishment with a request to “ask Congress to direct the House Judiciary Committee to open an impeachment investigation” and to send money for Trump’s impeachment.
8. Another hate group, human rights first, attacks Trump’s defense of our borders as closing “a refuge of hope for those fleeing persecution.” Think about this for a minute. According to the liberal-progressive-left and the racial interest group organizations, the US is a racist society and President Trump is a racist. Yet, people subject to American racism are fleeing from persecution to America where they will be racially persecuted? It doesn’t make sense. The illegals come here for work. Ask the construction companies. Ask the chicken and animal slaughter houses. Ask the vacation area cleaning services.

This list of those on whom Trump has declared war is long enough, although there are more that can be added.

We should ask ourselves why a 70 year old billionaire with flourishing businesses, a beautiful wife, and intelligent children is willing to give his final years to the extraordinary stress of being President with the stressful agenda of putting the government back in the hands of the American people. There is no doubt that Trump has made himself a target of assassination. The CIA is not going to give up and go away. Why would a person take on the grand restoration of America that Trump has declared when he could instead spend his remaining years enjoying himself immensely?

Whatever the reason, we should be grateful for it, and if he is sincere we must support him. If he is assassinated, we need to take up our weapons, burn Langley to the ground and kill every one of them.

If he succeeds, he deserves the designation: Trump the Great!

Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and any other country on the CIA’s hit list should undersand that Trump’s rise is insufficient protection. The CIA is a worldwide organization. Its profitable businesses provide income independent of the US budget. The organization is capable of undertaking operations independently of the President or even of its own Director.

The CIA has had about 70 years to entrench itself. It has not gone away."

The Trainwreck Of Black/Democrats Idiocy Continues to Run Amok

The trainwreck of the Democratic Party and their captive Black "leader's" idiocy is now running amok in this nation with their stupidity and racism taking a front and center position. Our ignorant half-black President, during his 8 year tenure, started a war on cops and a race war by automatically taking sides with black persons in their interactions with police  -- even before facts of the cases were known. Police officers across the nation have rightfully felt under attack and have stepped back in their patrols causing more black people to die as most violent crime in this country is squarely centered in black areas and committed by black men. So Obama, Holder and Lynch have black person's blood on their hands. They don't and can't see what their doing -- proving that they are entirely unfit for any responsible office. But they NEVER will see it.  These people are extremely ignorant. 

Blacks and their "leaders,"who are nearly all fools, charlatans, idiots and/or criminals, have been quick to jump on the Black Lives Matter and "Hands up, don't shoot" lies & nonsense. Both of these movements are built on proven lies. Whites are more than twice as likely to be shot by police even though blacks are committing crimes at 7 to 10 times the rate of whites!

Sworn Grand Jury witnesses and detailed forensic evidence proved that Michael Brown was charging Ferguson officer Darren Wilson when he was shot. This after Brown robbed a convenience store and attacked Wilson in his own patrol car!  Of course the Liberal media tried to make Brown some kind of hero. Black leaders were entirely sure he was a suitable martyr! The media, without any evidence whatsoever, tried to claim that Brown was a sweet young guy heading to college! The reality was that Brown was already a criminal, was fat and violent and was heading to jail-- not college. Liberal media and Democrats just make things up.

Facts are an anathema to Liberals and Democrats. Grand Jury verdicts are not respected. How is this the basis for civilized society?  It's not!

Very few black persons are capable of reasoned, rational thought in these matters. This includes our Harvard-educated President (Harvard should demand their diploma back -- IF he really has one). Instead they want uninformed mob justice like exists in the Congo and much of Africa.

Just yesterday, our "black" DOJ, led first by racist Holder and now Lynch just announced that Chicago police are racist pigs citing the fact that excessive force is used against blacks at 10 times the rate of whites.  So their war against police of all races continues. But Lynch's report doesn't state the truth that, in Chicago, Blacks are murdered 15 times more often than Whites, or that Blacks commit murders at 20 times more often than whites, or that Police are 30 times more often to be killed by a Black than by a White?  It's not much better in any other urban area with large black populations; Memphis, St. Louis, New Orleans, Baltimore, Washington DC.  Black America is a royal mess! Black politicians are a royal mess! What good are Democrats??

First of all, it is extraordinary that black Americans cling to the corrupt Democratic party in the first place. The Republican party was created to eliminate slavery, it was the party of post-civil war Reconstruction in the South, and voted significantly more in support of voter rights and black civil rights in the 1960s.

It was the Democrats that brought an end to Federal troops in the South which brought a dark 100 year period which ended Reconstruction. Blacks lost Constitutional rights, lost voting rights and freedoms and were victims of Jim Crow laws that lasted until the 1960s.  Democrats are the party of the KKK. (West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd was a KKK member for instance.)  Got that people, the Democrats are historically the party of black oppression.

The disputed election of Rutherford Hayes and Tiltden in 1876, an arrangement was made to give Hayes the Presidency but with the agreement that Federal troops would be removed from the South -- ending Reconstruction -- all to appease the Democrats in the South and their majority in the House of Representatives. Blacks voted Republican at that time and rightly felt betrayed.  It took about 100 years before civil rights were won again for black citizens following Brown vs.The Board of Education in 1954. Later, Republicans cast far more votes than Democrats to ratify civil rights laws in the 1960s.

So, the Democratic party's damage to US blacks continues to this day. "Government" is "helping" black people like they "helped" native American Indians. It's ruined them!  Money thrown at blacks to "help" them hasn't had the effect that was intended or expected. It has only brought the highest percent of single parents. highest unemployment, highest dropout rate, highest out of wedlock births. Highest instance of absent fathers. Poverty is higher than ever even after all that money spent to "help" people.  (Households with a single parents are very impoverished compared to intact families with fathers around.)  But US blacks can not see their own degraded condition or what caused it!

Because of their own blindness, US Blacks have no idea of what's good for them. Like lemmings running off a cliff, for 60 years blacks in Detroit kept electing black Democrat mayors who ran that city into the ground. Many were prosecuted by the FBI. After Detroit's bankruptcy, white lawyers under a Republican governor essentially took over. Detroit is the "crown jewel" of black Democratic party incompetence.

The black idiocy and racism continues today by supposedly sophisticated blacks like Corey Booker, Obama, and John Lewis. Like most Democratic party issues, they believe in things that are untrue. Efforts by Booker to call Trump's DOJ nominee Jeff Sessions a racist is very unfair and untrue. Sessions, as DA in Alabama prosecuted KKK members.  In reality, Sessions is more like Atticus Finch in the award-winning story "To Kill A Mockingbird." Atticus Finch was a high-integrity white lawyer who defended a black client in the story. In reality, principled and high-integrity people (Republicans) like Atticus Finch (and Jeff Sessions) became high level judges or prosecutors in the South and helped transform justice in the South. Sessions used to be praised by black leaders in recent years and decades. In fact, Booker was singing Session's praises only two years ago!  So, this public disrespect to Sessions was to appeal to their ignorant constituents?  Very phoney, very disrespectful, very deceitful and dishonest! What a transparent charade of lies! And Booker thinks this will help him?  How dumb is this nigga? Or how dumb are his constituents? (hint; very).

The trainwreck of black and Democratic Party ignorance and destruction continues in this country. John Lewis, black and increasingly irrational Democrat Congressmen, has called Trump's landslide electoral win "illegitimate" due to DNC leaks which reveals that Democrats are a bunch of scumbags and liars. I guess Lewis doesn't want facts to be revealed. Facts are pesky things.

From Paul Craig Roberts: "Trump made it clear that he stands for every American, black, brown, and white. Little doubt his declaration of inclusiveness will be ignored by the haters on the left who will continue to call him a racist just as the $50 per hour paid protesters are doing as I write.

Black and hispanic leaders need victimization, because it is what elevates them to power and income. They will turn a jaundiced eye toward Trump’s inclusiveness. Inclusiveness is good for blacks and Hispanics, but not for their leaders."

The final straw in the destruction of the Democratic Party would be to install radical Keith Ellison as DNC chair. Then the Democratic Party would become the party of the worse parts of Black America, not the other 87% of the country. I hope it happens!  It's fitting that they will willingly commit suicide.