Stop Pulling the Wagon

Representative Ro Khanna

California 17th Congressional District

In the Government “Shutdown” the main sticking point has been the Democrats demanding full funding for Obamacare “Subsidy” payments which have continued to escalate over the years, and the Republican insistence on coming up with a “new” plan.  there is general agreement, even with many Democrats, that Obamacare has never lived up to its promises and costs are out of hand.  During a news broadcast yesterday Democratic Representative Khanna championed ending Obamacare and replacing it with Medicare for all.  A single payer Government Insurance for everybody.  This has been seriously looked at in the past.  I outlined my questions and concerns in a post I did back in January of 2019.  That post is repeated here below.  Some of the premium numbers I quoted have changed but I will stand by my questions and conclusions.  

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MEDICARE FOR ALL?

With the opening of the new Congress and change to Democratic control of the House of Representatives we are hearing renewed calls for “Medicare For All” residents of the United States.  This has become a rallying cry for the “Progressive” wing of the Democratic Party.  Not all Democrats are admitted “Progressives” but  a growing number appear to be.

“Progressive” is a kinder and gentler word for “Socialist” and some champions for this cause readily admit to Socialist leanings.  Socialist is in turn, often associated with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Russia  and other Socialist countries like Venezuela, Cuba and many others.

If you would like an example of living in a Socialist Country, you might want to vacation in Venezuela this year.  Make it soon.  The country is in “end stage” Economic Collapse.

“Medicare For All” has a nice “ring” to it and on the surface would appear to be a way to provide Universal Medical Care to everyone on a simplified, single payer basis.  The idea sounds simple enough to be attractive.

A similar proposal was studied under Bill Clinton’s Presidency with Hillary Clinton heading up a task force to work out a plan for implementation.  After much study and spending millions of dollars on the proposed idea it was ultimately determined to be unworkable.

Several studies have been done and reported in Bloomberg and other  outlets that place the estimated cost of such a proposed plan at between 32 Trillion and 42 Trillion Dollars over 10 years.  That’s about 3.2 Trillion to 4.2 Trillion Dollars a year and would approximately double current Federal Spending.

It should be noted that Medicare as it currently operates is on the road to Bankruptcy.  Government Trustees, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar,  issued a report that Medicare’s trust fund will run out in 2026 and the combined trust funds of Social Security will run out in 2034.  Source: The Washington Examiner – Saturday January 26, 2019 – from a report by Joseph Lawler June 05, 2018.

Many people believe that Medicare is “Free” healthcare for Senior Citizens.  It is not.  Medicare is not free.  Premiums for Medicare are based in part on income – visit: MyMedicare.Gov – but if I take myself as an example, I’m a pretty ordinary Senior on a modest income, the following shows my Medicare Medical Insurance  and Medicare Prescription Plan monthly premiums for this year.  Keep in mind that plan premiums are for each individual.  Mine total just a bit over $300 a month this year.  If on a “Medicare For All” plan and I was one of a family of five, we could be paying a total premium of $1,500 a month.  

Please keep in mind also that Medicare Medical Insurance does not cover everything and has co-pays, deductibles and maximums.  The same for the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan.  When your limits run out during the year and, “you” are “on your own” for the cost of care or prescriptions for the rest of that year, is where we Seniors get the phrase “Donut Hole”.  I hit my own “Donut Hole” last year on my Medicare Prescription Drug Plan in October.

For the tens of millions of citizens who might not want to be a part of “Medicare For All” and are happy with their current insurance, don’t worry, “If you like your Doctor and Insurance, you can keep them, and that’s a promise!”  Hmmm – Where did we hear that before?

I am sure that Congress, most government employees and various other “special interests” would find a way to exempt themselves just as they did from the “Affordable Care Act”.  Hardly “Medicare For All”.  “All” never seems to include our “Ruling Class”.

For Senior Citizens the premium is withheld from our Social Security payment.  What would the Government do to collect premiums from those who don’t have a check to withhold the premium from, or those who don’t work for a paycheck?  What about those who can’t or won’t pay?

What would happen to the cost of care?  Are there enough doctors to make the plan work?  Not all doctors are currently willing to accept Medicare patients.   There are many unanswered questions. 

Bob Bandy – January 2019

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In closing, my concerns with Medicare for All have not changed.  The program was designed for people who had worked all their lives and paid into the Social Security System.  The Medicare “Trust Fund” is still on a path to Bankruptcy.  What about all the folks who do not work?  What about those who can’t or won’t pay the premiums for Medicare?  Keep in mind Medicare is not “Free”.  In my example above premiums for a family of five would be about $1,500 a month (2019 Dollars).  One of the main problems with Health Care Costs is the large number of folks who use the system but do not work or pay into the system.  During the “Shutdown” I saw one woman interviewed who was/is totally dependent on the government for herself and her seven children.  Who is going to pay the “Medicare” premium for this family?  Lots to think about.

Bob Bandy – November 2025

SOMETIMES THE FOLKS IN CHARGE MAKE  IT TOO EASY FOR ME

THEY ARE AT IT AGAIN – ANOTHER GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

FROM DECEMBER OF 2018

ESSENTIALLY ESSENTIAL NON ESSENTIALS?

(A title that could have been written by KAMALA HARRIS)

December 2018

As of this writing our Government is in “Partial Shutdown”.  We are told that this is only about a 25% shutdown as only “Non-Essential” Services will be put on hold.

All other Government spending is on “Auto-Pilot” and no budget is needed to continue spending.  How comforting.  Excuse the sarcasm.

Lets see.  As a nation we are now some 21 Trillion (with a ‘T’) Dollars in debt.  Well, Excuse me……..  I have a question, if we are only shutting down “Non-Essential” Services, which by my country-boy  thinking means “we can live without them”, then why don’t we shut them down permanently, save the money and maybe, just maybe, start digging our way out of debt?

 (Note: the 21 Trillion Dollar debt total from 2018 is now 36 Trillion Dollars in 2025)

But, we are told that is not the way Government works.  When the clowns, criminals and lunatics in Washington get done arguing and come to some kind of agreement, they will “Restore” all those “Non-Essential Services” and retro-actively again fund all those “Non-Essential Services” because, as you see, our Government considers them “Essential”.

In our family, and with most businesses,  budgeting does not work this way.  But of course we don’t have the ability to print fiat money.

Following this tirade I am again printing below an article that was sent to me back in August of 2012 and I reprinted at that time on this site because it is such a classic example of “Government Think”. I can think of no way of saying it better.  It is not original with me – I merely share it.

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THE NIGHT WATCHMAN

Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert.  Congress said, “Someone may steal from it at night”.  So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.  Then Congress said, “how does the watchman do his job without instruction?”

So they created a planning department and hired two people.  One person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.  Then Congress said, “How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?”  So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people.  One was to do the studies and one was to write the reports.

Then Congress said, “how are these people going to get paid?”  So they created two positions: a time keeper and a payroll officer, then hired two people.  Then Congress said, “Who will be accountable for all of these people?”  So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.

Then Congress said, “We have had this command in operation for one year and we are $918,000 over budget, we must cut back.”

So they laid off the night watchman.

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Now slowly let it sink in.  We go like sheep to the slaughter.  The lunatics are in charge of the asylum.

Bob Bandy – Again October 2025

GIVEN THE AUTHORITY I COULD REDUCE THE COST OF NEW HOUSING

BEING BUILT IN CALIFORNIA BY $60,000 OR MORE IN LESS THAN A MONTH

By way of historical context I spent several years “back in” the 1970’s as a carpenter and builder of housing, mostly in El Dorado County, California but also in Sacramento County.  I was also one of the project Foremen on the Grizzly Flats Mountain Retreat Project from start to finish in El Dorado County.  I loved my work.  In those days when we went in to get a building permit for a new home the cost of the permit was a couple to a few hundred dollars.  My memory is not perfect but I remember one permit on a custom home we were building was $292 (don’t know why that number has stuck in my head all these years).  Times have changed. 

FIRST – THE GOOD NEWS

Give me the authority to control the cost of a building permit for new homes within the State of California and I will mandate that Cities, Counties and all other agencies that issue building permits may not charge more than $1,000 for giving builders permission to build a new home.  At the time of this writing many/most government agencies in California are charging $60,000 or more to give you a paper to let you build a house on property that you already own.  And I have heard unverified horror stories of permits running  as high as $150,000 in some locales before you can drive the first nail in that new home.  

A bit of history.  Some number of years back California voters passed Proposition 13 which says Taxing authorities within California cannot raise taxable property values by more than 1% a year unless the property is “improved” (such as adding a pool or an additional room etc. that lets them re-evaluate the property to “current market value” for taxing.

Since government at all levels has an unquenchable thirst for more tax dollars the above “Prop 13” rule frustrates their desire to find ways to tax you more and more. 

But then…  almost by accident government discovered a way to raise property taxes exponentially.  They discovered that if they raised the cost of a building permit, which you must my law have to build a home, the cost of the building permit would be added to the cost of the home being built and of course to the price of the home.  The added benefit to the Taxasauras’ is that the Building Pcrmit fee increases the price of the home and its tax base and Harry Homeowner will now pay taxes on the cost of the home AND also pay taxes on the added permit cost, indefinitely.  What started out as a $340,000 new home has been converted into a $400,000 (or more) Tax Cow that your Neighborhood Tax Authority can “Milk” forever.  A 20% increase in property tax  revenue for issuing a piece of paper allowing you to build a house.  Talk about creative accounting.

Give me the authority to remove their ability to “fleece” you with this clever little “Permit Scam” and the cost of a new home can be reduced by $60,000 (or more).  As an added bonus the Property taxes would be based on $340,000, the actual cost of building the home, not on $400,000, which is the inflated value from the greatly inflated Permit cost, a savings of 20% in taxes to the homeowner.

NOW – THE BAD NEWS

Since the above little government scheme has inflated the market cost (and tax base) of housing in California by $60,000 (or more), if we remove their ability to charge those fees, the cost of a new home can be reduced by the amount of those fees, in this example $60,000,  which is good news to those looking to buy a new home.  But there is a downside.  This reduction would put downward price pressure on existing homes….  Good news for those looking to buy and, in many cases, bad news for those who would now find themselves “upside down” in homes purchased under the existing Government “Flim-Flam” Tax Scheme where they are forever stuck with paying “Property Taxes” on governments little Permit Fee to “work around” the “Prop 13” “hurdle”. 

Editors Note:  If property values decline you can have your Property Tax Authority revalue your property for Property Tax purposes and a reduction in Property Taxes on your home.  Don’t expect speedy smiling service. Tax Authorities do not like losing Property Tax revenue because of declining property values.

In the “Good News” case citizens would likely make me out a hero because new housing would be more affordable.  

In the “Bad News” case citizens stuck with the phony, paper value inflated tax scheme and facing market value devaluation of their homes would most likely not form a “Fan Club” for me.

What would you say the odds are of government letting this little “Tax Bonanza” “ripoff” slip out of their control? 

Don’t you just love the way government can find new ways to tax you?

Bob Bandy – September 2025

IN THE NEWS

In the News today Congress is wrestling with the fact that in the United Kingdom, Canada and some other countries, what you say can put you in Prison.  Case in point is a British comedian who made a joke about a “Transgender” and has been arrested and is now facing serious Jail time.  Seems some folks, somewhere, have made the decision that what he said was “hate speech” and that is forbidden and gets you a lengthy stay in the “Crossbar Hotel“.  Which gets me to thinking…..  Who gets to decide what is allowed and what is not allowed?  My general observation is that it is, for example, okay to mock a Christian but if you protest late term abortions in front of a Planned Parenthood Clinic, you can end up in jail.  Who made that rule?

Looking back on my writings over the years it is clear to me that I better not visit the United Kingdom or Canada or ?? because my writings, many of which have been posted on Facebook, X and many other public websites available worldwide, many of these “thought & word” Police would consider grounds to lock me up and throw away the key!  An example follows of an article I posted some nearly four years ago.  I published this article under the category of “Humor” but everything in it from a scientific, DNA, biological and medical basis is absolute fact and yet not acceptable to the WOKE,  LBGTQ++ and “Trans-gender” crowd.  I am reprinting it below and hopefully no one will come to my front door with an arrest warrant!  For it and related articles just type Gender Studies in the search for articles box in the left column of the home page.  Enjoy!

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GENDER STUDIES

WE HUMANS CAN’T SEEM TO LEAVE ANYTHING ALONE

This is written under the category of “Humor” for a reason.

We all need to lighten up a little and learn to laugh at ourselves.

The Federal Government and various Colleges and Universities have spent Hundreds of Millions of taxpayer and student loan dollars on “Gender Studies” and research over a period of years.

It is rumored that the “final” conclusions from all this fact finding and money spent were  so  surprising and perhaps controversial, and may I say for those doing the studies a shock  that they decided to bury the report in a previously abandoned Nuclear Missle Silo in the mid-west guarded round the clock by heavily armed troops.

Never the less, and despite all the care given, a single copy of this report fell into the hands of a “whistle blower” who has leaked it to our undercover agent.

To the great consternation of all the researchers it was finally concluded and scientifically established  that, contrary to all publicly pronounced protocol and human wishes, there are two and only two genders.  Male and Female.

Despite the efforts of some states and localities to encourage parents of newborns to leave blank the gender line on newborn birth certificates so that said newborn can come back at a later date, after they have decided what gender they want to be (from a creative list of 20+ options) and fill it in with the self chosen gender of their choice.  However, that newborns true gender will remain the same as it was at birth at a biological, chromosome,  genetic and DNA level throughout his or her life.

It was also established that the term “Trans-Gender” is not a gender.  It would be more appropriate to title it the “Wannabe Gender”.  An example would be large, strong athletic males who “wannabe” dominate in women’s sports.   It simply describes those of one gender who desire to be a member of the other gender for any of a number of reasons.  Despite wardrobe changes, good intentions, bad intentions, “plumbing” changes, hormonal treatment and all manner of “smoke and mirrors, if a self styled “Trans-Gender” has the cruel misfortune to die in such a way as the only option to identify them lies with a medical examiner and DNA analysis, the final report will show they were either male or female.  There is no such thing as Trans-Gender DNA.  Sorry.

Dogs, cats, horses, cows, chickens or people.  There are two genders. 

You can have all the fun you want, even invent new social constructs and groups but…

THERE ARE TWO AND ONLY TWO GENDERS AMONG WE HUMANS

Too bad about all those hundreds of millions of dollars spent on research.

……. God created mankind…… male and female He created them.     Genesis 1:27

Bob Bandy – December 2021

INTEGRITY FOR SALE

California is in a state of destruction under the corrupt management of “Wannabe President” California Governor Gavin Newsom whose integrity is for sale to whoever or whatever will further his ambition to run for the highest office in our nation. 

From support for the High Speed Rail to nowhere disaster, mismanagement of the Pacific Palisades, Altadena and Malibu Fire non-recovery program,  11 Billion++++ Dollar shortfall on the state budget, 23+ percent increase in Homelessness, unfunded costs of caring for millions of illegal immigrants and their needs, highest gas taxes in the nation, crumbling roads and infrastructure, 25 Billion Dollars in “Homeless Funds” that just “disappeared”,  ctc. etc…  Governor Newsom is both the  architect and owner of the destruction of what once was a beautiful, prosperous and wonderful state to live in.

Not all, but much corruption and monumental waste of tax resources can be showcased in his government sponsored Homeless Programs where Billions and Billions of dollars are wasted because once funded the money for these programs end up in the coffers of “NGO’s”, translation: Non-Government Organizations, translation: Pockets of Political Supporters. 

The Clinton Global Initiative is an example of an NGO operating as a “Non-Profit” (wink! wink!) that has received Billions of Dollars in Government funds over the years.  Most of the funds they have received have “evaporated” yet somehow, by some stroke of luck, they have been spared serious IRS audit of just where the money has gone. “Poof”.

The following is a reprint of an article I published back in September of 2023 which “Showcases” just one example of what happens when Governor Newsom and his supporters get their hands on Billions of Dollars that have no chance to solve a problem, only fatten their own pockets with Taxpayer Dollars.

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CALIFORNIA’S $44,000 HOMELESS BONANAZA

photo: Los Angeles Times

September 2023

FOR POLITICALLY “CONNECTED” CONTRACTORS – CALIFORNIA’S HOMELESS CRISIS IS A WINDFALL BONANAZA

Messenger News – 9-15-23

Los Angeles officials prioritized speed over cost while building a new city-sanction tent village for homeless people in East Hollywood, reportedly shelling out $44,000 for each individual tent — about the price of a new Tesla Model Y.

All told, it cost about $4 million to put up fencing, bathrooms, and staffing facilities for the village. Catering services and 24-7 staffing cost an additional $3 million per year, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Despite the high costs, the site is only temporary. It’s located on a parking lot that will eventually be turned into public housing. But because it will take years for construction to commence on that project, the city decided to fill the space with tents in the meantime.

Urban Alchemy, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, maintains the camp village, but not without controversy.

When the nonprofit launched with a small grant in 2018, it mostly hired former prisoners because they had the “ability to read people in unpredictable situations.” Lawsuits have since accused some of these employees of abusive behavior.

The nonprofit brought in $51 million in 2021 after expanding into Austin and Portland

Urban Alchemy says it’s offering a practical solution to build quick and affordable housing for California’s 172,000 homeless people, while also offering more intangible perks, like safety and autonomy.

The tents in the East Hollywood location are of higher quality than anything someone could buy from a typical camping store. They have raised wooden platforms, full beds, and storage lockers. The site has reportedly been close to capacity since opening in February 2022.

The nonprofit Coalition for Responsible Community Development, meanwhile, set up an office across the street to attract people who might be interested in reentering the workforce.

The nonprofit already oversees several camp villages across the state with varying styles. The residences at a tent city in Culver City are made from sturdy white canvas, while those in South Los Angeles are more humble, resembling store-bought camping gear.

Only about 2% of the guests have since moved on to permanent housing, a statistic Urban Alchemy blames on a lack of affordable housing in the city, according to the Times.

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It is hard for me to add to the above.  These multi-million dollar homeless “solutions” are really only an endless “Cash Cow” for our politicians and their “well connected” supporters.

Do you want to speculate what these pristine white tents will look like after a couple of months of occupancy by drug and alcohol addicted vagrants? It has been my experience in life that, not in every case, but in general, people show the same care and discipline in caring for the place where the lay their heads at night as they do in managing their own day to day lives.  What do the areas these homeless vagrants have occupied so far look like?

Reminds me of the spoof I wrote some months back about Mayor Conrad Blowhard which follows:

A SPIN CITY NARRATIVE

Conrad Blowhard is the Mayor of Spin City, California.  His city has become infested with homeless encampments and vagrants numbering in the thousands.  To some this would seem a problem but Mayor Blowhard sees an opportunity.  

He will convince his City Council that in an effort to help the homeless and decrease their numbers on the cities streets and alleys he would like them to pass a funding bill in the amount of 80 Million Dollars with the proceeds dedicated to renovating a dilapidated, nearly abandoned hotel down on “Skid Row” and convert it’s 80 rooms into housing for the homeless.  The City Council passes the funding request and pats themselves on the back for “caring” about the homeless.

Closed bidding contracts are let out to major contractors who are supporters and donors to the Mayor for the work to be done.  A ceremonial event is held at the Foggy Bottom Hotel with the Mayor swinging a sledge hammer through a faded door of a shoddy 200 square foot room in front of live television cameras.  Everybody applauds.

Work begins.  Some effort is made to rid the building of most of the rats, termites and other vermin which infest it.  The leaking roof is patched.  Contractors workers “freshen up” the rooms with new paint, carpet, updated (cheap) fixtures from China and new window coverings.  Cost per room renovated is $400,000.  In addition, the hotel gets a new name:  “NEW BEGINNING’S” and a single fresh coat of exterior paint. 

Grand Opening Day arrives.  Brass Bands and Ribbon Cutting.  Mayor Blowhard and City Council members make grandiose speeches about how they have solved the cities Homeless Crisis.  A few ragged homeless people are seen entering the building to take occupancy of their renovated 200 square foot “apartments”.

The Mayor’s handpicked contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers go out and spend their profits on new boats, sports cars and luxury vacations but not forgetting to “tithe” back some of those profits to the Majors campaign re-election coffers.

The 80 “new” tenants of the once dilapidated hotel settle in and begin the task of de-renovation on the hotel to turn it back into a Skid Row Manor.  

The whole process is “spun” as a huge success and praise and credit is layered on all who participated in the project.  What could possibly go wrong.  Housing was provided, at least temporarily, for 80 homeless people for only 80 Million Dollars.  “WINK – WINK”.

P.S. I would like to give inspirational credit to Michael J. Fox and his long ago television series “Spin City”.

(Bob Bandy – September 2023)

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P.S. Take the above real life narrative and scale it up from a City Mayor to the level of our Governor and you will get some idea of the financial carnage being done to the State I was born in and admired for so many years.   What this governor is doing to California should be, if it is not, Criminal. 

Bob Bandy – August 2025

IN THE NEWS….. At the current time there is much in the news about possible/probable political corruption during the “Russia, Russia, Russia” investigations conducted during the first Trump Presidency.  Without speculating on the outcome here,  this investigation reminds me of an article I posted back in January 2019 reprinting a report which had been copied to me and I shared here on my own website.  The original author of the report is lost to me but the report is 100% accurate and easy to verify item by item, (a somewhat tedious but easy process if you have the inclination, patience and time to do so) as all the information it contains is historically accurate and verifiable by Google and published reports.  I again reprint it here below to give you a taste of just how incestuous and tangled Political Power and Corruption can be.  It may very well make you as angry and frustrated as it did me more than five years ago but is a worthwhile read.  Get yourself a cup of coffee, read and enjoy?  I republished the original article under my own title: 

HILLARY’S BASKET OF DEPLORABLES?

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Is there just a little corruption in DC? Read this. It explains all.

From 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation. A Grand Jury had been empaneled. Governments from around the world had donated to the “Charity”. Yet, from 2001 to 2003 none of those “Donations” to the Clinton Foundation were declared.

Hmmm, now you would think that an honest investigator would be able to figure this out.

Guess who took over this investigation in 2002? Bet you can’t guess. No other than James Comey. Now, that’s interesting, isn’t it? Guess who was transferred in to the Internal Revenue Service to run the Tax Exemption Branch of the IRS? Your friend and mine, Lois “Be on The Look Out” (BOLO) Lerner. Now, that’s interesting, isn’t it?

It gets better, well not really, but this is all just a series of strange coincidences, right?

Guess who ran the Tax Division inside the Department of Injustice from 2001 to 2005?  No other than the Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Rod Rosenstein.  Now, that’s interesting, isn’t it? Guess who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during this time frame??? I know, it’s a miracle, just a coincidence, just an anomaly in statistics and chances: Robert Mueller.

What do all four casting characters have in common? They all were briefed and/or were front line investigators into the Clinton Foundation Investigation. Now that’s just a coincidence, right? OK, lets chalk the last one up to mere chance.

Let’s fast forward to 2009. James Comey leaves the Justice Department to go and cash-in at Lockheed Martin.

Hillary Clinton is running the State Department, on her own personal email server by the way. The Uranium One “issue” comes to the attention of the Hillary. Like all good public servants do, you know looking out for America’s best interest, She decides to support the decision and approve the sale of 20% of US Uranium to no other than, the Russians.

Now you would think that this is a fairly straight up deal, except it wasn’t, the People got absolutely nothing out of it. However, prior to the sales approval, no other than Bill Clinton goes to Moscow, gets paid 500K for a one hour speech then meets with Vladimir Putin at his home for a few hours. Ok, no big deal right? Well, not so fast, the FBI had a mole inside the money laundering and bribery scheme.

Guess who was the FBI Director during this time frame? Yep, Robert Mueller. He even delivered a Uranium Sample to Moscow in 2009. Guess who was handling that case within the Justice Department out of the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland. No other than, Rod Rosenstein.

Guess what happened to the informant? Department of Justice placed a GAG order on him and threatened to lock him up if he spoke out about it. How does 20% of the most strategic asset of the United States of America end up in Russian hands when the FBI has an informant, a mole providing inside information to the FBI on the criminal enterprise?

Guess what happened soon after the sale was approved? ~145 million dollars in “donations” made their way into the Clinton Foundation from entities directly connected to the Uranium One deal. Guess who was still at the Internal Revenue Service working the Charitable Division? No other than, Lois Lerner.

Ok, that’s all just another series of coincidences, nothing to see here, right?

Let’s fast forward to 2015. Due to a series of tragic events in Benghazi and after the 9 “investigations” of the House, Senate and at State Department, Trey Gowdy who was running the 10th investigation as Chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi discovers that the Hillary ran the State Department on an unclassified, unauthorized, outlaw personal email server. He also discovered that none of those emails had been turned over when she departed her “Public Service” as Secretary of State which was required by law. He also discovered that there was Top Secret information contained within her personally archived email. Sparing you the State Departments cover up, the nostrums they floated, the delay tactics that were employed and the outright lies that were spewed forth from the necks of the Kerry State Department, we shall leave it with this…… they did everything humanly possible to cover for Hillary.

Now this is amazing, guess who became FBI Director in 2013? Guess who secured 17 no bid contracts for his employer (Lockheed Martin) with the State Department and was rewarded with a six million dollar thank you present when he departed his employer. No other than James Comey. Amazing how all those no-bids just went right through at State, huh? Now he is the FBI Director in charge of the “Clinton Email Investigation” after of course his FBI Investigates the Lois Lerner “Matter” at the Internal Revenue Service and exonerates her. Nope couldn’t find any crimes there. Can you guess what happened next?

In April 2016, James Comey drafts an exoneration letter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile the DOJ is handing out immunity deals like candy. They didn’t even convene a Grand Jury. Like a lightning bolt of statistical impossibility, like a miracle from God himself, like the true “Gangsta” Comey is, James steps out into the cameras of an awaiting press conference on July the 8th of 2016, and exonerates the Hillary from any wrongdoing.

Can you see the pattern?

It goes on and on, Rosenstein becomes Asst. Attorney General, Comey gets fired based upon a letter by Rosenstein, Comey leaks government information to the press, Mueller is assigned to the Russian Investigation sham by Rosenstein to provide cover for decades of malfeasance within the FBI and DOJ and the story continues. As of this writing, the Clinton Foundation, in its 20+ years of operation of being the largest International Charity Fraud in the history of mankind, has never been audited by the Internal Revenue Service.

FISA Abuse, political espionage….. pick a crime, any crime, chances are…… this group and a few others did it.

All the same players. All compromised and conflicted. All working fervently to NOT go to jail themselves.

All connected in one way or another to the Clinton’s. They are like battery acid, they corrode and corrupt everything they touch. How many lives have these two destroyed?

Let us not forget that Comey’s brother works for DLA Piper, the law firm that does the Clinton Foundation’s taxes.

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If for no additional reasons you can understand why some of us refer to the Clinton’s as the Clinton Crime Family and it would be even more accurate to perhaps refer to them as the Clinton Crime Syndicate.

For a companion article visit:   GRIFTER’S – THE CLINTON CRIME FAMILY (use search box in left column) or go to:

https://www.stoppullingthewagon.com/?s=CLINTON+CRIME+FAMILY

Bob Bandy – July 2025