Since I’ve been banned off of pretty much every mainstream Reddit political news sub and discussion board for pointing out inconvenient facts I’m making one last ditch effort at an election post mortem (maybe) write up in an attempt to bring the obvious to light. 2020 has been an epic wave of relentless propaganda. I argue that the vast majority of what the typical American sees in the mainstream news is basically lies and most of the “crises” that we’ve been dealing with are either totally overblown of completely fake and the media has a direct hand in all of it. So let’s start with the first big fake crisis that has been going on since Trump was elected.
Russia Russia Russia
The “Russian Collusion” narrative is one of the most fraudulent stories ever concocted in my opinion. If you love or hate Trump is fundamentally irrelevant. The notion that you can accuse a sitting President of being what amounts to a Russian agent is egregious slander if you don’t have exacting, precise proof, which they never had. It was a non stop show on the nightly news programs with child like news anchors spinning tales of how Czar Putin has Trump on strings, dictating his every move while continuously hacking everything. It was mostly fiction asserted by the Democratic apparatus and the Intelligence Community. All presented evidence was flimsy at best. So how did they pull this off? Easy, by relying on the average person’s complete ignorance of technical details. I see this tactic used over and over again to great success with the now uninformed, vapid and narcissistic American public. In this case the details are of the Information Technology nature. Let’s start with the DNC “hacks”. It’s the most obvious example.
When looking at this, bear in mind that operators
purported to be based in China hacked both the 2008 Obama and McCain campaigns. But in the instance of the DNC hacks they were never even considered to be suspect. Odd, isn’t it? Very odd indeed actually, just like the whole story of the DNC breach. The DNC lost 300 gigabytes of “sensitive” data from their systems. It was reported by the intelligence Community (IC) that
Russian actors breached the system and made off with that massive amount of data without anyone noticing until it was too late. And that even more data was lost after the initial breach and during remediation actions by the third party security firm that was called in to respond to the active threat, which was Crowdstrike. The narrative is that Russians broke in using software that the GRU uses. I’m not going to rehash the whole thing as it’s too long but the bottom line is that the IC and Crowdstrike asserted these findings and
Crowdstrike claimed to have direct evidence of it. The reality is that they actually didn’t have direct evidence, and any evidence that they did have has never been publically released for secondary analysis by any other independent security firm.
In the Senate hearing report Shawn Henry was asked point blank if hey had direct evidence that the data in question was moved off the network (exfiltrated) via the internet, and shockingly he answered “no”. Bear in mind that every single day the media was reporting that there was concrete evidence that Putin himself was responsible for this breach. But in reality there was no definitive evidence that the data moved off the DNC servers via network access. This report wasn’t released for two years and then was only finally released under threat of action by another Senator. So what happened?
In my opinion if there was no direct evidence of exfiltration then there leaves two main possibilities:
The attackers had tools that were so sophisticated that they covered their tracks completely. This is virtually impossible though in my opinion given the timeline and the size of the data being moved. Even if the attackers tunneled into the system throughput is still throughput.
There is also the fact that the files that were leaked contained metadata that indicated that they were copied at very fast rates of speed, too fast to have been moved over the internet . The DNC’s systems, and/or their ISP would detect a data transfer that large, especially at the denoted transfer rates. If they didn’t it would have to mean that they had no NIDS (Network Intrusion Detection System) in place whatsoever, which is absurd. So that leads into the next possibility (which I happen to agree with), which is:
It was an inside job. If there was no data exfiltration then it had to be a local disk to disk copy. In other words, someone plugged a USB drive (or other portable storage media, like a cell phone) into the system and had admin privileges (whether valid or escalated through a hacktool) and did a local disk to disk transfer. This makes the most real sense. No data exfiltration occurred because no data moved off the network. This is basically what
Chelsea Manning did. Also,
Julian Assange has repeatedly stated that the DNC data did not come from a Russian source. Once it was transferred it could be packaged for transport on another network, thus retaining the original metadata. And don't get me wrong, I may well have believed that it was the GRU that was responsible if it wasn't for the DNC's very odd response to the hack.
So how did he DNC respond? Immediately call in the FBI as would be standard procedure in a case like this?
Nope, try again. They instead called in Crowdstrike, and refused to allow the FBI to examine the actual physical hardware even though they requested to repeatedly. Gee, that’s kind of weird. But it is what they did. It's as if they wanted to keep it quiet because they had an internal problem they didn't want anyone knowing about. There was a standard excuse that I saw being given ad nauseum for this very strange course of action:
They need the hardware to continue operations, it's critical infrastructure. Er, no. In an enterprise IT environment there should be multiple levels of failover protection. In the event of a serious show stopping event critical server infrastructure should have timed backups. The affected systems should be able to be taken out of service and timed backups that are isolated from the event can be brought online. Furthermore, even if this isn’t feasible for some reason the affected systems can be cloned to identical fresh systems and put online in their place. This is basic IT infrastructure management. The DNC declined to turn any hardware over to the FBI. Instead they gave them system “images” to look at. What are those? The easiest way to explain what those are is to think about the “recovery disks” that used to come with PCs. If you got a virus on your PC and it corrupted your Operating System and you couldn’t boot the system you could either hire a tech to try to repair the OS and recover the data or you could bite the bullet and reinstall the OS from the disks. That’s because when they configured the system at the factory they would then take a “snapshot” of it, hence the word “image”, that was basically a complete byte for byte copy of your brand new system. They would put that on a DVD with an embedded program that would erase your system’s hard drive (thus eliminating all previous data, including your personal data, any programs or viruses, etc.) and recopy the original factory hard drive data to the system thus restoring it to the state when you first took the PC out of the box and turned it on. However, as with all things, the devil is in the details. This is especially true when it comes to system imaging.
When you delete a file on your computer unless you use an “eraser” program (a data destruction algorithm like Bleachbit) the data you erased is still there. You simply “unlink” the “pointer” to the data that the OS created to be able to see and access the data when it writes the data to the drive. If you use an “eraser” program when deleting files it will write random data in place of a file that you delete so as to make it irrecoverable. You can also erase entire hard drives using this method. There are varying methods of system imaging. If you take a “forensic image” of a hard drive then you are copying the whole drive, including empty space and fragmented and deleted data that still exists on the drives. If you take a standard image it only copies active data that the operating system can see and access. All empty space and deleted data is ignored during the copy process. The only reason I can think of why the DNC didn’t allow the FBI to look at their hardware is because they’re hiding something. To me there’s no other plausible reason. I don’t know what types of images were turned over to the FBI but even if they were forensic images they still aren’t the actual hardware and it is not standard practice to do this in regards to this type of breach event on government affiliated systems. This is shady to say the least.
The Podesta email “hack”.
John Podesta had his entire Gmail account copied. Yes, it was a Google Gmail account that he was using for official business. This happened, quite frankly, because John Podesta is careless and understands nothing about computer security. He was a victim of what’s called a “Spear Phishing” play. This is when you get sent a fake email by someone with nefarious intentions in order to trick you into giving them something, typically your password or a credit card number. A phisher created an email that looks like a Gmail password reset request. Podesta clicked on a link in the email and input his username and password. As soon as he did that a program logged into his Gmail account and downloaded all of is emails. Make no mistake this is an absolutely baseline attack that no one should fall for, especially someone with high level security clearance. The phisher probably couldn’t believe it actually worked because yes,
even a 14 year old could have pulled it off. Email protocol works a lot like regular mail. You can put whatever return address you want (The “from” or return email address) on an email just like on a regular letter. It’s up to the email provider’s security algorithms to analyze the email origination data and determine if it’s malicious or not. It’s also extremely easy to make emails that look official. This is because they’re basically just html web pages being sent using the email protocol. You can design emails to look like any webpage on the internet using basic tools built into your web browser that you probably don’t know are there. I don’t fault anyone for getting phished but Podesta was about to possibly become a high ranking official in a Presidential administration. He should have known better on multiple levels.
That also brings us to Hillary’s email server.
I’m not going to deep dive on this but there are three undeniable facts about this debacle:
She used a private email server, and this practice is frowned upon for security reasons. Anyone can set up an email server, as long as you have a computer and an internet connection it can be done. All the software to do it is free online. Linux distributions have it built into it.
She erased large swathes of data off of the server when it came to light that she was using a private server that may have been compromised.
The email server had no encryption protection for roughly three months because the security certificates were expired. This is just crazy. It’s beyond incompetent. It essentially means that the server was out in the open and low level hackers could snoop her emails and compromise the system with relative ease. It’s totally unacceptable and denotes a level of carelessness that’s mind boggling.
With all that being said, let’s get into how “The Russians” actually operate. There was something back in the day called the RBN, or “
Russian Business Network”. This was server infrastructure that the Russian mob leased to cyber criminals that they could use to run hacking and phishing ops with impunity and the Russian govt tolerated it. Putin was, and still is, the Godfather. Any hacker from any country could use the RBN but if hey hit a big enough score they needed to render unto Caesar what was Caesar’s (Putin’s) or face his wrath. The GRU (Formerly KGB) is an active threat, no doubt about it. But so are other state actors and individuals, especially North Korea and China. Just because an attack originates from Russia, or uses hacktools with a Russian signature doesn’t mean that it’s the GRU and that Putin directly ordered it. It simply means that Russia IT infrastructure, either belonging to the state or the Russian mob, was used at least in part to carry it out.
Brian Krebs wrote about the difficulty in defining what attacks come from where in regards to Russia. I simply feel that viewing Putin as this boogeyman that controls our sitting President like a puppet is disingenuous at best and pure opposition propaganda at worst. Russia is not some mythical super villain. China has far more money, influence, technological and military power that Russia does right now,
and commits espionage against us daily even though our economies are tightly intertwined.
Putin is not a nice guy in any sense, but to continuously call a sitting President a traitor and a puppet without any prosecutable proof is crazy and juvenile in many ways. So why all the Russia hate then? Other than the fact that Russia has always been our enemy in whatever governmental form it has taken? Well, you could just follow
Glenn Greenwald or
Matt Taibbi to figure that out but if you want it boiled down to a single word then here it is:
Snowden.
Edward Snowden was a computer science prodigy and was recruited by the NSA to run several IT surveillance campaigns, including illegal domestic spying programs. He leaked top secret information and has bee a fugitive ever since.
Julian Assange ran
Wikileaks and was also a fugitive until his relatively recent arrest. Snowden is still at large and is being harbored by Putin on Russian soil, and may soon achieve citizenship. The bottom line is that until Putin turns Snowden over to US intelligence agencies he will be super villain #1 to the NSA and CIA. His continued defiance angers a lot of not nice people in our government. I find this somewhat amusing given how many crimes the United States government commits against its own citizens and citizens of other countries on a daily basis. “Do as we say not as we do”.
And last but not least there is the laptop of the illustrious Hunter Biden. This whole ordeal is the most obvious sign of blatant media hypocrisy to date. The mainstream corporate media has run with virtually every
unsourced anti-Trump conspiracy theory ever concocted. And yet they implemented what was essentially a total media blackout regarding his laptop, or rather the contents of it. You can claim whatever you like regarding how the data was obtained. Whether the computer repairman story was actually true or if it once again was “The Russians”. What is actually incontrovertible is that:
The media has shown rank hypocrisy in refusing to cover the story.
Irrespective of whether or not the emails leaked are authentic or not the videos and images leaked of Hunter Biden are real and paint a very disturbing picture of him. Especially since he recorded his behavior without consideration of what it could do to his father if it was discovered.
The Biden’s legal counsel has never denied the validity of the leaked information.
Yet this warrants no media coverage whatsoever by the obviously in the tank corporate media.
And after all this anyone who questions their current narratives are labeled “fringe” and “conspiracy theorists”, or my favorite: “
A Russian Asset”, which you can do without any real proof whatsoever these days.
EDIT: Someone pointed out to me that the GRU is not formerly the KGB. This is correct. The KGB is now defunct and has essentially been replaced by the FSB. The GRU has always existed, even though it changed after the fall of the Soviet Union. I made that general statement to try to give context but it is inaccurate. For full explanation look here:
https://themoscowproject.org/explainers/russias-three-intelligence-agencies-explained/ submitted by Intro
So last week, we discussed some root causes behind how the Brexit vote came to be; Britain’s frustrated voter base could have become disillusioned with the pundits, economists and politicians constantly bombarding them with the guidance that they knew what was best for Britain. I blamed it, “the Exit victory”, on collective mistakes generated by successive governments and the lack of a system, that’s able to catch these mistakes – ultimately the British people said “No” to EU mistakes generating costs and debts for the UK government. The big problem is that governments worldwide keeps making decisions, with some leading to mistakes and sometimes these mistakes are counted in the billions of dollars. In this week’s article, we’ll temporarily put aside discussion of the EU, and we’ll look at the smaller economy of Ontario whose market size is $750B (around 38% of Canada’s total economy and comparatively smaller than the EU economy which is around $14.3T). Costly mistakes keep seeming to happen in Ontario, that means the system is missing something, some type of feedback that stops those mistakes from happening in the first place. I will first talk about the current political scene, then go into detail about the political history of Ontario, until finally presenting a solid argument for what qualities a leader should have to lead a political party.
The Scene – it’s members
For those of you not in know, the Liberal Party of Ontario has been anointed the ‘centre-left party’ in Ontario and has dominated the political seen for well over a decade; the right end of the political spectrum is occupied by the Progressive Conservatives (henceforth denoted the PCs) and the left wing, by the NDP, who don’t even get an acronym explanation. The Liberals have been in power since the 2003 provincial election, which granted them a majority government and have basically been in that same position since then; outside of a 3-year window, where they were still the biggest party, but in a minority parliament situation. It’s safe to say they’ve been given ample time to prove their policies out.
Growing up in Ontario, I can tell you that it’s very clear from the election time ads that the Liberals have the support of the public sector. This is clear because in each of the last 2 elections, the Canadian version of superPACs, have bombarded our airways with scare campaigns that the right wing party (PCs) will take away all our rights and sell off public assets to satisfy their ideological viewpoints. Now this is reasonable for them to say because the last time the PCs were in power they passed the single most damaging piece of legislature that any party in Ontario has passed – the privatization of the 407; it’s basically given the Liberals a monopoly on politics for the last decade.
Why the Liberals have had a Monopoly on politics for the last 13 years
To put it into perspective why this was such a damning piece of legislature, to drive ~100 km from Hamilton/Burlington border (where the 407 starts) to Markham (where the 407 ends), it costs anywhere from $20-25 dollars one-way! Depending on if you have a 407 transponder, a $5 surcharge applies whenever you enter the highway with no transponder. Bullshit with a capital B. So let’s say you live in Burlington and get a job in Markham, you can do any one of the following (the number in parentheses is annual cost of each decision with the breakdown followed below):
Take the non-privatized highways ($4,000) Take the 407 ($10,400) Move or rent ($16,800) Cost breakdown – Take the non-privatized highways ($4,000)
Now let’s say you want to stay in Burlington and not pay any toll fees, then option 1 is your course of action. But here’s where things get complicated because instead of paying out of pocket, you’re paying with your sanity. To drive that distance every day non-toll, (which people do) you’ll end up spending at least an extra 8 hours a week in traffic. That ends up being an extra 400 hours a year (if you work 50 weeks a year) that would get completely wasted. Let’s just say you’re getting paid minimum wage – which you won’t be because then you’d actually be crazy to drive the 401 to Markham from Burlington – that’s around a $4,000 annual cost + the opportunity cost of not using that time more productively.
Cost breakdown – Take the 407 ($10,400)
Your next course of action is to just suck it up and take the 407. Let’s see, assume you’re paying the lower end of the spectrum @ $20 per way. So that’s $20 * 2 (times a day) * 5 (days a week) * 52 (weeks in a year) which is $10,400/year. Ouch. That’s why I’ve hardly ever been on the 407, even when I was working construction, I genuinely felt bad expensing it and I woke up early to avoid having my boss pay that out of pocket.
Cost breakdown – Move or rent ($16,800)
Finally moving costs or renting. Rent in Markham can be expensive and typically you won’t find a ‘nice place’ for less than $1400/month. That ends up being $16,800 annual cost. Remember this is the economic cost, we’re not even taking into account social cost.
Decisions have consequences – Why the PCs are STILL paying for this today
Again, I touched on the ramifications of traffic in my last article and how traffic limits skills to a constrained geographic areas. It brings about inefficiencies to the Southern Ontario labour market because it effectively makes it so people work less in a day – a time tax. But forget people, think companies. This one piece of legislature has made conducting business in Ontario more expensive. It’s also effectively lowered the house prices all along the 407 corridor – again this is in theory, house prices in Ontario have just shot through the roof, and we haven’t been able to really understand precisely why. Btw the fact that policy makers don’t have this data already on hand is kind of embarrassing; the fact that they’re now getting to the data shows me government is in for a data revolution. The governments we currently vote for, react to problems that come up and are not active in observing where risk fundamentally lies. But you get what you pay for and currently I don’t know what exactly I pay for. This criticism of government has to lay dormant until government adopts control plans and PFMEAs, so we can know where we stand from a efficiency standpoint.
But back to the catastrophe which was the privatization of the 407. Let’s see, sold off to a foreign company in 1999 for $3B on a 99-year lease! Now it’s worth ~$10B and that means Ontario lost out on $7B since the PCs decided to sell it.
We did the math. We lost out on $7B.
What’s even worse is in the contract itself. Ontario cannot build any competing highways in a certain geographic area that would take traffic (revenue) away from the 407 (aka converting Highway 7 kind of deal) and the fact that we have 80+ years on the lease, makes it even harder to digest; a politician, who I didn’t vote for, had such a colossal f*** up in asset valuation, that he literally screwed his GREAT GREAT grand kids (who are probably not going to be living in Ontario). I know of Native cultures where the elder statesmen of the tribes consider the effects of a decision seven generations down, but someone should have told Mr. Mike Harris that those policy decisions were supposed to have positive, not negative effects on those downstream generations. I’m also glad that I didn’t vote for the mess that was Tim Hudak either. He was a cabinet minister under the PC government who sold off the 407 and the fact that he wasn’t sly enough to realize his government had been had means he’s not worth my vote. If he was just some backbencher, fine ignore it, but he was a cabinet minister. Moral of the story, if you’re a cabinet minister and your government does something dishonest or proves themselves to be incompetent, then there should indeed be a halo affect that rubs off on you. As I mentioned above, with the increase in pay, the cabinet designation should carry forth added responsibility that your government does not do anything foolish.
Punishing politicians for bad decisions should also carry over in the USA as politicians who voted for the Iraq War should have that badge of dishonor hurt their future ambitions. Such obviously terrible decisions need to be punished and as an electorate our only voice is our vote. If you disregard morally reprehensible actions by politicians by continuing to vote for them, you’ll continue to get that kind of incompetence from your elected officials.
In summary, unless politicians hold a plebiscite, they should be held responsible for major unnecessary cost decisions (e.g. Iraq War for USA & Highway 407 privatization for Ontario) that have negative effects on their countries. We live in a world of unlimited debt, where bad politicians can just mask their incompetency with social program or other promises to effectively selectively bribe the portions of the population they want to vote for them. By the way, this happens with both parties, no matter the level of government. I was disappointed in Stephen Harper and all his selective tax breaks (e.g. income splitting), rather than across the board tax breaks. Earlier in the article, I talked about some type of feedback that stops big mistakes from happening; voting out bad politicians is this feedback. Politicians should put a lot of thought into their votes and should understand that poor decisions have ramifications. This entire 407 debacle is also the primary reason I do not vote for political parties who privatize government assets (cough * Hydro One * cough). They’re not effective asset evaluators and they pay the people who will make the asset evaluation – screams corruption. But don’t worry I’ll write a Hydro One article too. Not this time though.
Liberal Ascension to Power
Now that we’ve kind of covered the primary reason behind why the PC party of Ontario has suffered for so many years, we’ll touch a little on what the Liberals have done since being elected. Since 2003, debt has grown by 230% with no clear end to annual deficits, in sight. The government says they’ll be back in the black by 2019, but who knows. In my mind, they don’t seem focused, and haven’t adopted important private sector efficiency tools. The rest of this article will discuss the three major spending scandals + one non-spending scandal from their checkered past. The scandals are as follows:
Spending scandals
E-Health Scandal Ornge scandal Gas plant scandal
Non-Spending scandal Deleted email scandal
Computers and doctors do not mix
Let’s start this story off with the E-Health Scandal that rocked the Liberal majority government in 2008. E-Health was supposed to be exactly what its name infers, that is an electronic health record system for every citizen in Ontario. I guess it was supposed to replace some of the bureaucracy present in the current day healthcare system – all told it was supposed to save $6B dollars a year. Whatever that means and how those cost savings would have come to fruition are uncertain. What is certain is that this was a scenario where the auditor general brought up government incompetence as the root cause of $1B being wasted over a 6-year window (2002-2008). Everything from no-competition contracts being handed out, to clear evidence of corruption in sourcing those no-competition contracts, to over relying on consultants (auditor generals words not mine), to effectively giving an incompetent person a blank checkbook as the CEO. But the greatest error of judgement was the lack of accountability at the top – McGuinty (old Premier) did not go to jail over this, and neither did his Health Minister. Clear negligence and someone (ex-CEO) only got fired – McGuinty would go on to be Premier for another 5 years.
Ornge on the outside, rotten on the inside
The Ornge scandal was not one that was in the $1B ballpark, it was only in the tens of millions of dollars but it goes to show another case where control plans and PFMEAs could have saved the taxpayer money. In 2011, it was “uncovered” to the shock and dismay of the government that someone who headed the provincially funded air ambulance service, was hiding his salary from the public “sunshine list”. It’s been documented that there were examples of misuse of procurement in the Ornge scandal as well, specifically an inflated payment for helicopters whose owners provided an odd payment of nearly $7M to one of the CEO’s other companies. Who knows how much the CEO actually managed to extort from taxpayers (this is unknown) but again another scenario where the people at the top, found a scapegoat and a way to breathe another day. McGuinty did not take the fall and neither did the Health Minister, I’m surprised to see that the CEO got the axe but again, why don’t these guys go to jail. I could be sent to jail for stealing milk from a corner store, but steal millions from the taxpayer? Just hope the party in power has your back.
Gas plants & how we deleted how we talked about it
And here’s when we get to the straw that broke the camel’s back and finally saw Premier Dad (McGuinty nickname) leave the highest office of the Ontarian land. The Gas plant scandal and the deleted email scandal go hand in hand, adding much needed drama to the 2014 election. One (deleted email scandal) happened after the other (gas plant scandal) and they were directly tied to each other. They should have taken out the current premier (Wynne) along with the last premier (McGuinty). The current premier was able to apologize in a debate on public television and somehow that was enough to convince Ontarians that the Liberals were fit to lead. This scandal was so big that the government went to the extent of wiping email servers (not just hit delete on the email), so that it wouldn’t get around to the public that the government was fully aware of how it had lied about the cancellation costs. Long story long, power plant was supposed to be built at the Oakville/Mississauga border (south of the Ford plant), and after much debate the Liberals finally decided to cancel it, for purely a political means, might I add. Liberals blamed it on re-analyzing the supply & demand and seeing the plant really was unnecessary but it’s been basically proven they cancelled it because the Party knew it would lose 3-4 seats in and around where the gas plant was being build. How it got to the point that the province was still on the hook for $1.1B before having this realization is still not explained – partially deleted emails and partially politicians just straight up lying to our faces. During a transition of one government to the next (aka Premier dad quitting because the opposition pressed him into admitting that the cancellation costs were misrepresented), someone who didn’t work for the government, logged into “the system” and just so happened to delete emails related to the government cancellation of the plants. Forget that when initially asked how much the cost of cancelling the plants was going to be the government said $40M – the cost ended up being $1.1B (a mere 4% of the grand total). I don’t get how politicians (Premier Dad) can just claim that they didn’t know what was going on and allow for that to be an adequate reason for criminal activities going on. This is the biggest reason why we need control plans and PFMEAs, to stop mistakes like this from happening again. Imagine knowing what our politicians actually do and where their responsibilities begin & end. We need to know those types of things so citizens can better direct their input to the right person so that actual work gets done. There also needs to be a log of open action items so issues don’t linger. We shouldn’t allow for situations like the gas-plant cover-up to happen again. Due to a transition period between governments, we’re supposed to believe that that made it okay for someone who didn’t work for the government to log into the government system and delete sensitive emails? Really? This is where it’s important for young people to realize that if you want government to change to work for you, instead of you working for it, it’s essential to vote corruption like this out. Just like how the PCs got voted out for the 407 issue, we need to vote in parties that utilize the private industry tools of efficiency.
Moral of the story
For the reasons listed above it’s important for Conservatives to not put up with bullshit from our Conservative parties. Last time we voted (Canadians & USA) Conservative, our governments just flat out kept being dishonest (Bush & Harper) and it burnt us with left wing glory boys following them up. We (Canadians) elected someone who if he hadn’t previously resided in an ex-PM’s ballsack, would have barely been qualified for the substitute teacher position he started his career off in; especially in today’s day & age where teaching school grads are forced to take up jobs overseas or substitute for many years before landing a full time gig. For left wing party supporters – you’re getting fooled, unless costs are controlled, the government can’t really do anything because they spend a ton of your money on non-value add tasks. Government is bloated and has services implemented that solved problems from 10 years ago with the technology present 10 years ago. You shouldn’t be solving problems and designing processes (essentially what government does) unless it’s the most efficient way to solve it or if you at least have efficiency tools set in place to optimize processes down the immediate line. Think about it… if we want more problems solved (World Peace, Space Travel, Global Warming etc.) we have to free up the capital & labour from the problems we already have solved (e.g. BUREAUCRACY) and re-train our public sector as this will carry over to the private sector. But we also need to document and make sure that the problems we currently solve do not fail the “quality/$” relationship. When I vote for right wing parties who are not going to implement control plans and PFMEAs, I worry that this “quality/$” relationship will not be maintained. In this article, I spoke to the water catastrophe in Flint and how by utilizing Control Plans and PFMEAs, poisoning innocent lives could’ve been avoided. Right wing politicians should be cost cutting using those tools (as well as Pareto charting) since this is the way private industry regulates costs. Utilizing control plans and PFMEAs, will be the key to creating innovation in the workforce and society. Learn, if a politician f***s up. Punish them by not voting for them. Tell people about it so those politicians are unable to make poor future decisions. Politicians will stop doing a shitty job because they understand that one poor decision means they’ll lose their job.
Primary reason I wrote this article
The primary reason for this article was to communicate that conservatives need to reject Donald Trump as the Republican candidate. The man is a racist & bigot and his election will lead to the public at large rejecting Conservative political parties. He has slip-ups and when those slip-ups occur, it shows his true character. I thought being a businessman, growing up in NYC, I thought that would’ve made him a non-racist person but the positions he eschews are not those of a President. The President controls an army. Obama did one great thing during his presidency and that was he did not start wars. He was diplomatic. I love Obama for this, even though he doesn’t know anything about the economy. I’m thankful for no new wars. I’m thankful for relative world peace and Trump’s antics from the previous few weeks have turned me from a full on Trump fan, to someone who would vote Gary Johnson (even though he has some precarious views) in a heartbeat. It’s disheartening as a voter when no new wars is looked at as a redeeming quality from a President. Obama got elected on so much of a promise for transparent and responsible government and 8 years later, trillions more in debt, there’s still no semblance of a transparent government.
At the end of the day, I don’t want a war and if you vote for Trump, I now no longer believe he would not start one. In my article from two weeks ago, I don’t think he can responsibly “ban all Muslims from entering the USA” either. He will push forth with a ban but he certainly won’t do it responsibly and I predict he’ll empower racists across the USA, if he’s voted President. Additionally, there’s a trend of disturbing things happening at a few recent Trump ralleys. Specifically there was violence and it wasn’t met with stern disapproval, Trump did not even condemn it on the spot. Conservatives do not need someone like Mr. Trump representing us. Trump should’ve at least said “no violence here please”; the fact that he didn’t disappoints me, along with the combination of his reaction to the Orlando shooter being gay, to how he talked about the Mexican judge, who was overseeing the Trump University case. It bugs me to the point where I’m not going to defend a person who I’ve never known before (outside of Celebrity Apprentice) just because he won the Repub primaries – as far as I’m concerned, I’m perplexed how this trust fund baby has been able to somehow finagle his way to the top of the Repub party. This shows me that the Republican voters of the USA are not ready to transform government – they got swayed by a tacky marketing campaign, forget the chance for real change. If I had my ideal President he wouldn’t be bringing people down and he certainly wouldn’t be advocating for violence at his ralleys. Trump will introduce inefficiencies in millions of American’s lives, forget about making America great. In the case of the Mexican judge, he shouldn’t be talking about race Period. If he wants to talk about how he thinks the judge will be biased, present thorough arguments and let people decide for themselves. The fact he defaulted to race as ‘a publicly held view’ makes me question him and certainly question his ability to be president. This is because Trump WILL make a major mistake and for the consequent 15 years, we’ll have a person even more left wing than Obama in office. Trump will fuck up. It’ll be royal. Then you can usher in the age of Left wing problem solving and see humanity crumble because that’s what Ontario just went through for the last (almost) decade and a half. It’ll happen if Trump is elected President & it cannot be stated that Trump is a racist and that’s why people shouldn’t vote for him. Urge Bernie to come into the race, and organize republicans to force Trump to run in a 1-on-1-on-1-on-1 otherwise it’s Shillary or the NYC Trust Fund Racist.
Future Articles
No more Trump articles, I promise. I’ve said all that needs to be said and I hope I’ve been able to effectively communicate why Conservatives shouldn’t want to associate with him. I also thought I’d make a little summary of important topic of conversation that need to be discussed in the near to immediate future. I hope to have articles on all topics listed below completed within the next 6 months.
Pareto Charts – how they’re used alongside Control Plans & PFMEAs to control costs Fishbone Diagrams & 8D decision making – where they’re used, why they’re used Toronto Public Transit Summary Hydro One Privatization – timeline and what Ontario ACTUALLY got Green Energy Act – from the view of a Mechanical Engineer I’ll also sprinkle in some articles on the NBA and cold showers in there as well but hopefully I can present great articles in the time period I’ve mentioned above.
Article was written by gtareguy (Greater Toronto area real Estate guy) . I release a new article every Friday and I write about economics, the nba and real estate in the GTA.
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