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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Your government is the most corrupt in the world. It is also the most incompetent in history, refusing to perform the jobs for which they were elected. That said, a watchdog group claims that the Washington Mafia is hiding the truth about our national debt. Although it is reported as 39 trillion dollars, this group claims that the actual number is 170.3 trillion dollars. TRUTH IN ACCOUNTING CLAIMS THAT YOUR GOVERNMENT FAILS TO INCLUDE ALL OF THE COSTS INCLUDED IN THE DEFICIT [As of Sept. 30, 2025, the U.S. government had only $6.1 trillion on hand to pay for $176.3 trillion worth of incurred and promised liabilities, Truth in Accounting reports.] The following are a few of the debts unreported by your corrupt government. [Within that number, projected Social Security benefits for all Americans who have entered the workforce amount to $54 trillion, total Medicare benefits will cost $74.5 trillion, and military and civilian retirement benefits will be $15.5 trilli...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Another of Trump’s constant lies during the 2024 campaign is that his immigration policy would “only detain and deport undocumented immigrants who were criminals, including drug traffickers and rapists.” No surprise: he lied. Trump’s personal Gestapo, ICE, continues to kidnap and incarcerate anyone who is non-white, including citizens and others who have legal, temporary residence in the United States. There are multiple accounts when ICE has beaten, terrorized, and detained innocent men, women, and children. More recently it has murdered one woman in Minneapolis and mortally wounded a man and woman in Portland. These mostly poorly educated, white men wearing masks to hide their identity, claim to be law enforcement, when in reality they are Nazis, eager to cause harm and inflict pain on all non-whites, non-Christians, all women, the LGBTQ community, and anyone who resists their criminal and immoral actions. On Sunday, thousands of patriotic Americans in Minneap...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I have said it many times, and others have as well: “all governments are bad, some are just worse than others.” The sad truth is the federal government of the United States has devolved into the worst in the world. They lie constantly and are completely incompetent. In 1935, the “People’s President,” the Greatest President in American History, Franklin D. Roosevelt, sent a bill to congress called the “Economic Security Bill.” When he signed it, the bill had become the Social Security Act of 1935. It was a perfect plan to ensure every American worker had a retirement plan. The bill was funded by both employers and employees who contributed funds from every paycheck. The only funds coming from the federal government involved administration. The formula was simple. A designated percentage was deducted from the employee’s income, and employers contributed an equal amount. When the employee reached retirement age, he or she would receive a monthly amount based on his...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Every four years American voters choose our president. At least that’s what the media and politicians would like you to believe. The truth is, states choose the man or woman who will lead our country, and that will remain a fact as long as the unconstitutional Electoral College exists. That’s not what this article is all about. The first presidential election I remember was in 1956 when Dwight D. Eisenhower won a second term. I was 10 years old. Richard Nixon did not sign into law the right for 18-year-olds to vote until 1971. I was 22 in 1968 when I was eligible to vote in my first general election. I was a senior in high school when the only great president in modern history was murdered in Dallas on November 22, 1963. In 1968 I was excited. I strongly supported Robert Kennedy. However on a summer’s day in Los Angeles he was taken from us by a man named Sirhan Sirhan. I couldn’t believe that our country had lost two of the greatest men in our country’s history...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Since 1981, the former Republican Party consistently hides the truth about their party’s failures and “spins” facts in desperate attempts to hide the truth that their entire party is incompetent. Facts prove that our nation’s most recent history confirms that all Republicans are incapable of governing our nation. Clinton rescued the failures of Reagan and Bush 41. Obama saved our nation from the Bush 43 administration’s total incompetence. Biden saved thousands of lives with the creation of a plan to distribute the Covid-19 vaccine, and his plan to save our economy prevented a second Great Depression after the failure of Trump to take the lead in the fight against the deadly coronavirus. The first eight months of Trump’s disastrous second term reveal the greatest failure by any president in America’s 249-year history. His lack of knowledge, common sense, and experience, are destroying the very core of what made America a c...

Op-ed from TheWiseOldFart Fact: Trump lies constantly. Fact: the dictator is placing our nation under Martial Law using the fake and fraudulent excuse of “law and order.” Another violation of the Constitution. Fact: Trump is closely following his fascist manifesto called ‘Project 2025.’ Fact: the corrupt federal government of the United States is allowing our nation’s biggest traitor to end the dream of our Founding Fathers. Why isn’t anyone doing something? Every day, Trump has been allowed to violate the Constitution. He has already used the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments as toilet paper. [Asked about plans to expand ICE operations in Chicago specifically, Noem told CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” “We’ve already had ongoing operations with ICE in Chicago and throughout Illinois and other states, making sure that we’re upholding our laws, but we do intend to add more resources to those operations.”] The very existence of ICE, the Patriot Act, and Trump’s illegitimate presidenci...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I am not afraid to tell the truth. Your illegitimate president, Donald John Trump is a sexual predator, a lifetime criminal, a traitor, a malignant narcissist, and to sum it up, a Nazi. These are the nicest things I could say about the worst man in the world. Unfortunately, most Democrats and every organization which is part of the mainstream media, carefully step around the truth, offering the American people a less than complete description of the facts. The situation our nation is in today began in Moscow in 2013. Trump used the Miss Universe Pageant as an excuse to visit the Russian capital. The events which took place during those few days involved interaction between Trump and Vladimir Putin were documented by former MI-6 agent Christopher Steele. Not a single word of his dossier has been proven false. The primary conclusion was that Putin and Trump conspired to win the 2016 presidential election. This is the first fact unreported by the media, and ignored...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart When I was very young, I believed the lies politicians continue to tell us today: “America is the greatest country in the world.” Our nation is young, and continues to have problems which must be addressed before anyone can consider that claim valid. The fact that not only the worst president in history won two ‘rigged’ elections, but also the worst man in the world, proves that our country is far from ever becoming a great and respected nation. Our government began its decline in 1981, and today is the worst and most corrupt in the world of developed nations. This situation began with Reagan and the destruction of the dream of our Founding Fathers was completed in 2017 with the inauguration of Donald John Trump. Stop pretending: you know what I know. Not a single person willing to tell the truth can find anything good to say about the obese 79-year-old man pretending to be your president. It is an undeniable fact that between 2017 and 2021 Trump committed crime...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart You heard the term and probably dismissed it. It doesn’t apply to or interest you. However, age discrimination is one of the most serious and overlooked crimes in America. America was a capitalistic society, but has become a plutocracy: rule by the super-rich. If a group of Americans do not produce commodities, which result in outrageous profits for their corporations, they are of little or no importance in the 21 st century. I’m not saying that I, or any other older American has no use after the age of 65 or 70. Quite the contrary. Personally, I have become physically disabled, but my mind is as sharp or sharper than it was 20 years ago. However, I know for a fact that if my physical disabilities did not exist, no one would hire me at the disgusting age of 79. But Trump is your president, and he is three weeks my senior. Millions of Americans support an elderly man who is clearly suffering from dementia. In 2009 I was hired by the Decennial Census. After I com...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart It’s much easier to ‘rig’ an election than you might think. In a world which continues to experience advances in technology at supersonic speed, the best men and women in this field are the true leaders of a military force which has the ability to dominate the entire planet. I believe that Vladimir Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine is a smokescreen. It is no secret that Russian hackers are the best in the world. “I know not with what weapons WWIII will be fought, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones.”-Albert Einstein In the 21 st century, the world has changed but it cannot move as quickly as the advances in electronics and technology. I sincerely believe that WWIII has begun and the most frightening and powerful weapons are the minds of a select group of computer geniuses. Months after the 2016 election, our government finally admitted that Vladimir Putin interfered in our election in support of Donald Trump. However, our leaders lied ...

We hear about it all the time: national security. Stories about espionage, computers being hacked by foreign nations, individuals selling national secrets, and more, spike the interest of our nation’s people who are concerned about events which might affect themselves and their loved ones in the future. Politicians, attempting to hide their crimes and the crimes of their fellow congressmen, constantly claim that we, the people, don’t have a right or need to know, “for reasons of national security.” Our government will never tell you about the number of spies our country has around the world in key spots to learn information critical to America’s survival. However, the number would surely surprise most of you. It’s one of the oldest military tactics in history. Is all of this a cover-up for things more sinister and frightening? I ask this question because events over the last 10 years appear to reveal just that. The major policy of our government has become the prevention of our nation’...

  One look at Trump’s residence inside Trump Tower on 5 th avenue in New York City, and it is clear that the malignant narcissist has delusions of grandeur. Gold paint is everywhere on everything. It is gawdy and unlivable for any normal human being. The only differences in Trump 2.0 and his original illegitimate presidency in 2017 is that he is exacerbating his destruction of American values at a much faster pace, and is finding ways to spend more of your tax dollars, while reducing the amount of revenue necessary to slow or end the rising national debt. Between 2017 and 2021 Trump averaged more than six million dollars each month using taxpayer money for personal pleasure. He is on pace in 2025 to increase that unfathomable number to ten million each month. Once again, he is reducing taxes for the super-rich, using funding allotted for Medicaid and other necessary funds to justify his homage to those who don’t need it. He hasn’t talked about his most moronic idea, yet, his unnec...

I have long been aware that the first meeting between Trump and Vladimir Putin was in Moscow in 1987. The 41-year-old business failure was desperate to save his future. When he received an invitation from the KGB to come to Moscow, he and his first wife, Ivana, eagerly accepted the invitation. As you would expect, there are no records of the time they spent in the Russian capital. However, we do know that in the late 1980’s Putin was a high-ranking member of the spy agency, and a rising star in Russian politics. Between 1987 and 2013, there is no proof that the two men met again in person. However, when Trump’s real estate business began to fail during the time he was in Moscow, and continued into the 1990’s, Russian oligarchs began to invest in his New York and Florida properties and he was rescued from a bankruptcy and the likely demise of his “empire.” Then, in 2013, under the guise of taking the Miss Universe Pageant to Moscow, Trump once again traveled to the Russian capital. A fo...

Everyone who claims to “work” in Washington is useless, corrupt, and a waste of taxpayer money. However, there is a single thing we can always count on from these cowards: they will never “do the right thing.” Let me use two examples of how I learned that the government of the United States of America would be overpaid if they worked for nothing. One month before the 2016 election, a meeting was held in the White House. The meeting came at the request of the leaders of all 18 security agencies. In attendance were President Obama, Vice-President Biden, Moscow Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi. The purpose of the meeting was to confirm the fact to our nation’s leaders that Vladimir Putin was interfering in our upcoming election in support of Donald Trump. However, our gutless leaders decided that the voting public had no right to learn the truth. The result was Trump becoming our 45 th and illegitimate president. Our government has ignored the fact that they ar...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   I was recently diagnosed with high blood pressure. All that is needed is for me to take a single five-milligram pill every morning.   My wife and I cannot afford Medicare part “B” and belong to a group wh ich finds medical services for people without insurance at a reduced cost when we pay for services rendered in full.     A Perfect Example of how F**ked Up our Healthcare System has Become   I picked up my prescription at a loca l, large, chain, pharmacy. I paid $25 for a one-month supply. We are also Costco members. We called their pharmacy and inquired about their prices. The y do not have an agreement with our medical services company. However, a three - month supply of the same medication would cost me only $8.99 if we did not have insurance . We picked up my new prescription on Friday.   The Moral of this Story is “ Don’t Trust Government Sponsored Programs”   There is some hope in America that some of our corpor...