THE WHITE HOUSE FAILURES – NOTHING FOR AMERICANS

Money that was supposed to go to American individual citizens was skimmed off as payola, stock market schemes, insider padding and pure theft by big political machines.

75 Percent of $800 Billion Paycheck Protection Program Never Reached Employees

A new report by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis revealed that American taxpayers ended up paying $4 for every $1 in wages and benefits that workers received as a result of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

Just The News reports that the study also revealed how the PPP ultimately did not protect jobs that were at risk of disappearing during the pandemic, and that money overwhelmingly went to wealthier households rather than middle- and low-income households.

The study, titled “Was the Paycheck Protection Program Effective,” was written by co-authors William Emmons and Drew Dahl. They concluded that, while “the PPP was a very large and very timely fiscal-policy intervention, saving about 3 million jobs at its peak in the second quarter of 2020 and distributing $800 billion well within two years of the onset of the COVID-19 crisis,” the program ultimately “was poorly targeted, as almost three-quarters of its benefits went to unintended recipients, including business owners, creditors and suppliers, rather than to workers.”

“Due to differences in the typical incomes of those varied constituencies, it also ended up being quite regressive compared with other major COVID-19 relief programs, as it benefited high-income households much more,” the report continued.

The PPP was first created in early 2020 as a temporary program under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump. The program was intended to aid small businesses that were ordered to either slow down or stop operations altogether as part of the initial lockdown measures. Low-interest loans could be made for up to $10 million, without collateral, for businesses with fewer than 500 employees.

The report by the St. Louis Fed ultimately found that small business owners spent $3 out of every $4 in PPP loans on paying back suppliers and paying other expenses. Overall, 72 percent of PPP funds went to households with incomes in the top 20 percent, according to the report.

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The Promised Optimizations To Social Security For Seniors And The Disabled Were Never Delivered

The White House was supposed to deliver

Extend the solvency of the Social Security trust fund 75 years, through 2096, by requiring the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share into the fund, just like everyone else. This legislation would lift the income tax cap and subject all income above $250,000 to the Social Security Payroll tax. Under this bill, more than 93 percent of households would not see their taxes go up by one penny.

Expand Social Security benefits across-the-board for current and new beneficiaries. Under this bill, Social Security benefits for someone turning 62 next year would be $200 per month higher.
Increase Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLAs). This bill would more accurately measure spending patterns of seniors by adopting the Consumer Price Index for the Elderly (CPI-E), which would change the formula to reflect what seniors spend a disproportionate amount of their income on such as health care and prescription drugs.
Require millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share into Social Security. Currently, workers have 12.4 percent taken out of each paycheck and contributed to the Trust Fund, half paid by the employer and half by the worker. This bill would require the wealthy pay the same 12.4 percent on their investments and business income by increasing the net investment income tax by 12.4 percent and applying it to certain business income not already covered by payroll taxes.
Improve the Special Minimum Benefit for Social Security recipients. This bill will help low-income workers stay out of poverty by updating and increasing the Special Minimum Benefit and indexing the benefit level so that it is equal to 125 percent of the poverty line or about $17,000 for a single worker who had worked their full career.
Restore student benefits up to age 22 for children of disabled or deceased workers if the child is a full-time student in a college or vocational school. This legislation restores student benefits to help educate children of deceased or disabled parents (these benefits were eliminated in 1983).
Combine the Disability Insurance Trust Fund with the Old Age and Survivors Trust fund to help senior citizens and persons with disabilities.

Yet it delivered NOTHING even near these promises.

Housing Affordability Got Worse And Homelessness Increased To The Worst Levels In History

The White House lost as much money on bungled efforts as was needed to fix the entire housing crisis.

COVID money to the tune of trillions of dollars went missing under White House control. It was enough money to save the housing market.

Every poor American gets about $1600.00 a month for rent, yet HUD makes it impossible to use that money to buy or build a home. Yes, certainly HUD has a note in it’s records that you “could” use the $1600.00 a month to buy a build a home under Section 8 Home Ownership but nobody can use that money because HUD makes it impossible for citizens to get approved.

The Government has over 100 times as much land as is needed to solve all of the housing crisis issues put it won’t give it up and when it does, no citizen can get it.

Building concrete towers of gangster controlled ghetto housing blocks only makes the matters worse. NOBODY wants to live in a concrete tower.

The biggest part of the housing crisis is “not enough homes”. 50% of citizens have the skills to build their own homes yet they are blockaded from doing so. Even prefabricated homes are blockaded.

90% of the housing crisis would be solved if the White House gave plumbed government land to individual citizens and easy permits to build their own homes and an easy way to use the $1600.00 per month HUD money to pay for those homes. Special interest groups prevent that from happening, though, by bribing White House staff.

The White House Has Done Everything It Can To Keep Corruption Going As Filthy As Possible

White House family members are on public record with their hookers, sex addictions, drug problems, infidelity issues, sell-outs to China and other horrific abuses of the public trust. The staff turn-over is at record levels. Seriously: The public should, today, demand the resignation of the current Administration. Here are the things that the White House has refused to do to end corruption in their government:

Silicon Valley pays for the White House political campaigns in exchange for kick-backs yet every Silicon Valley executive has been caught in Money Laundering, Sex Trafficking, Family Alcoholism, Political Bribery, Stock Market Manipulations, Hookers, Media Censorship, Misogyny, Dynastic Family Manipulations of Public Policy, Election Rigging, Search Engine Bias, Monopolies, Recession Causing Market Trusts, Racism, Brotopia, Secret Offshore Shell Corporations, Venture Capital Black-Lists, Patent Thefts, Payola, Graft, Corrupt Lobbyists and Their Use of Our Democracy As Their Play-Thing. You would think that the White House would order those companies to be shut down but, instead, they party at their homes and allow them to write federal laws.

The White House refuses to ban individual stock ownership by Members of Congress, Cabinet Secretaries, senior congressional staff, federal judges, White House staff and other senior agency officials while in office. Prohibit all government officials from holding or trading stock where its value might be influenced by their agency, department, or actions.

Here are the other things that the White House refuses to do to stop corruption:

Apply conflict of interest laws to the President and Vice President through the Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act, which would require the President and the Vice President to place conflicted assets, including businesses, into a blind trust to be sold off
Require senior Department of Energy government officials, employees, contractors and White House staff to divest from privately-owned assets that could present conflicts, including large companies like Tesla, Google, Facebook, Sony, Netflix, etc., and commercial real estate.
Make it a felony to not respond to a filing by a citizen within 48 hours. Former White House and Energy Department staff use ‘stone-walling’ to intentionally delay responses for a decade, or more.
Apply ethics rules to all government employees, including unpaid White House staff and advisors.
Require most executive branch employees to recuse from all issues that might financially benefit themselves or a previous employer or client from the preceding 4 years.
Create conflict-free investment opportunities for federal officials with new investment accounts managed by the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board and conflict-free mutual funds.
Close and lock the Revolving Door between industry and government and stop tech companies from buying influence in the government or profiting off of the public service of any official.
Lifetime ban on lobbying by Presidents, Vice Presidents, Members of Congress, federal judges, and Cabinet Secretaries; and, multi-year bans on all other federal employees from lobbying their former office, department, House of Congress, or agency after they leave government service until the end of the Administration, but at least for 2 years ( and at least 6 years for corporate lobbyists).
Limit the ability of companies to buy influence through former government officials.
Require income disclosures from former senior officials 4 years after federal employment.
Prohibit companies from immediately hiring or paying any senior government official from an agency, department, or Congressional office recently lobbied by that company.
Prohibit the world’s largest companies, banks, and monopolies (measured by annual revenue or market capitalization) from hiring or paying any former senior government official for 4 years after they leave government service.
Limit the ability of companies to buy influence through current government employees.
Prohibit current lobbyists from taking government jobs for 2 years after lobbying; 6 years for corporate lobbyists. Public, written waivers where such hiring is in the national interest are allowed for non-corporate lobbyists only.
Prohibit corporate outlaws like Google, Tesla, Facebook, Linkedin, Netflix, Sony, etc., from working in government by banning the hiring of top corporate leaders whose companies were caught breaking federal law in the last 6 years.
Prohibit contractor corruption by blocking federal contractor and licensee employees from working at the agency awarding the contract or license for 4 years.
Ban “Golden Parachutes” that provide corporate bonuses to executives for federal service.
Publicly expose all influence-peddling in Washington.
Strengthen and expand the federal definition of a “lobbyist” to include all individuals paid to influence government.
Create a new “corporate lobbyist” definition to identify individuals paid to influence government on behalf of for- profit entities and their front-groups.
Radically expand disclosure of lobbyist activities and influence campaigns by requiring all lobbyists to disclose any specific bills, policies, and government actions they attempt to influence; any meetings with public officials; and any documents they provide to those officials.
End Influence-Peddling by Foreign Actors such as that which occurred in the ENER1, Severstal, Solyndra and related scandals.
Fire the Fed officials that own, trade and pump stocks using the Fed itself for profiteering.
The most senior officials in the U.S. Government are the worshipers of Elon Musk, investor’s in Elon Musk’s companies and suppliers, deciders of the financing for Elon Musk, suppliers of staffing to Elon Musk, recipients of political campaign financing by Elon Musk and Musk’s covert Google And Facebook partnership, social friends of Elon Musk and the attackers of Elon Musk’s competitors. Make this a felony.
Combat foreign influence in Washington by banning all foreign lobbying.
End foreign lobbying by Americans by banning American lobbyists from accepting money from foreign governments, foreign individuals, and foreign companies to influence United States public policy.
Prohibit current lobbyists from taking government jobs for 2 years after lobbying; 6 years for corporate lobbyists. Public, written waivers where such hiring is in the national interest are allowed for non-corporate lobbyists only.
End Legalized Lobbyist Bribery and stop lobbyists from trading money for government favors.
Ban direct political donations from lobbyists to candidates or Members of Congress.
End lobbyist contingency fees that allow lobbyists to be paid for a guaranteed policy outcome.
End lobbyist gifts to the executive and legislative branch officials they lobby.
Strengthen Congressional independence from lobbyists and end Washington’s dependence on
lobbyists for “expertise” and information.
Make congressional service sustainable by transitioning Congressional staff to competitive salaries that track other federal employees.
Reinstate the nonpartisan Congressional Office of Technology Assessment to provide critical scientific and technological support to Members of Congress.
Level the playing field between corporate lobbyists and government by taxing excessive lobbying beginning at $500,000 in annual lobbying expenditures, and use the proceeds to help finance Congressional mandated rule-making, fund the National Public Advocate, and finance Congressional support agencies.
De-politicize the rulemaking process and increase transparency of industry efforts to influence federal agencies.
Require individuals and corporations to disclose funding or editorial conflicts of interest in research submitted to agencies that is not publicly available in peer-reviewed publications.
Prevent McKinsey-type sham research from undermining the public interest by requiring that studies that present conflicts of interest to undergo independent peer review to be considered in the rule-making process.
Require agencies to justify withdrawn public interest rules via public, written explanations.
Close loopholes exploited by powerful corporations like Google, Facebook, Tesla, Netflix, Sony, etc., to block public interest actions.
Eliminate loopholes that allow corporations, like Tesla and Google, to tilt the rules in their favor and against the public interest.
Restrict negotiated rule-making to stop industry from delaying or dominating the rule-making process by ending the practice of inviting industry to negotiate rules they have to follow.
Restrict inter-agency review as a tool for corporate abuse by banning informal review, establishing a maximum 45-day review period, and blocking closed -door industry lobbying at the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Limit abusive injunctions from rogue judges, like Jackson, et al, by ensuring that only Appeals Courts, not individual District Court judges , can temporarily block agencies from implementing final rules.
Prevent hostile agencies from sham delays of implementation and enforcement by using the presence of litigation to postpone the implementation of final rules.
Empower the public to police agencies for corporate capture.
Increase the ability of the public to make sure their interests are considered when agencies act.
Create a new Office of the Public Advocate empowered to assist the public in meaningfully engaging in the rule-making process across the federal government.
Encourage enforcement by allowing private lawsuits from members of the public to hold agencies accountable for failing to complete rules or enforce the law, and to hold corporations accountable for breaking the rules.
Inoculate government agencies against corporate capture such as Google undertook against the White House.
Provide agencies with the tools and resources to implement strong rules that reflect the will of Congress and protect the public.
Boost agency resources to level the playing field between corporate lobbyists and federal agencies by using the proceeds of the tax on excessive lobbying and the anti-corruption penalty fees to help finance Congress-mandated rule-making and facilitate decisions by agencies that are buried in an avalanche of lobbyist activity.
Reform judicial review to prevent corporations from gaming the courts by requiring courts to presumptively defer to agency interpretations of laws and prohibiting courts from considering sham McKinsey studies and research excluded by agencies from the rule-making process.
Reverse the Congressional Review Act provision banning related rules that prevent agencies from implementing the will of Congress based on Congress’ prior disapproval of a different, narrow rule on a similar topic.
Improve judicial integrity and defend access to justice for all Americans.
Strengthen Judicial Ethics Requirements.
Enhance the integrity of the judicial branch by strengthening rules that prevent conflicts of interest.
Ban individual stock ownership by federal judges.
Expand rules prohibiting judges from accepting gifts or payments to attend private seminars from private individuals and corporations.
Require ethical behavior by the Supreme Court by directing the Court to follow the Code of Conduct that binds all other federal judges.
Boost the transparency of Federal Courts.
Enhance public insight into the judicial process by increasing information about the process and reducing barriers to accessing information.
Increase disclosure of non-judicial activity by federal judges by requiring the Judicial Conference to publicly post judges’ financial reports, recusal decisions, and speeches.
Enhance public access to court activity by mandating that federal appellate courts live-stream, on the web, audio of their proceedings, making case information easily-accessible to the public free of charge, and requiring federal courts to share case assignment data in bulk.
Eliminate barriers that restrict access to justice to all but the wealthiest individuals and companies.
Reduce barriers that prevent individuals from having their case heard in court by restoring pleading standards that make it easier for individuals and businesses that have been harmed to make their case before a judge.
Encourage diversity on the Federal Bench.
Strengthen the integrity of the judicial branch by increasing the focus on personal and professional diversity of the federal bench.
Create a single, new, and independent agency dedicated to enforcing federal ethics and anti-corruption laws.
Support stronger ethics and public integrity laws with stronger enforcement.
Establish the new, independent U.S. Office of Public Integrity, which will strengthen federal ethics enforcement with new investigative and disciplinary powers.
Investigate potential violations by any individual or entity, including individuals and companies with new subpoena authority.
Enforce the nation’s ethics laws by ordering corrective action, levying civil and administrative penalties, and referring egregious violations to the Justice Department for criminal arrest and enforcement.
Receive and investigate ethics complaints from members of the public.
Absorb the U.S. Office of Government Ethics as a new Government Ethics Division tasked with providing confidential advice to federal employees seeking ethics guidance.
Consolidate anti-corruption and public integrity oversight over federal officials, including oversight of all agency Inspectors General, all ethics matters for White House staff and agency heads, and all waivers and recusals by senior government officials.
Remain independent and protected from partisan politics through a single Director operating under strict selection, appointment, and removal criteria.
Provide easy online access to key government ethics and transparency documents, including financial disclosures; lobbyist registrations; lobbyist disclosures of meetings and materials; and all ethics records, recusals, and waivers.
Maintain a new government-wide Office of the Public Advocate, which would advocate for the public interest in executive branch rule-making.
Enforce federal open records and FOIA requirements by maintaining the central FOIA website and working with the National Archives to require agencies to comply with FOIA.
Strengthen legislative branch enforcement.
Expand an independent and empowered ethics office insulated from congressional politics.
Expand and empower the U.S. Office of Congressional Ethics, which will enforce the nation’s ethics laws in the Congress and the entire Legislative Branch, including the U.S. Senate.
Conduct investigations of potential violations of ethics laws and rules by Members of Congress and staff with new subpoena power.
Refer criminal and civil violations to the Justice Department, the Office of Public Integrity, or other relevant state or federal law enforcement.
Recommend disciplinary and corrective action to the House and Senate Ethics Committees.
Boost transparency in government and fix Federal Open Records laws, public official and candidate tax disclosure.
Disclose basic tax return information for candidates for federal elected office and current elected officials.
Require the IRS to release tax returns for Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates from the previous 8 years and during each year in federal elected office.
Require the IRS to release t ax returns for Congressional candidates from the previous 2 years and during each year in federal elected office.
Require the IRS to release tax returns and other financial information of businesses owned by senior federal officials and candidates for federal office.
Require the IRS to release tax filings for nonprofit organizations run by candidates for federal office.
Disclose the Cash behind Washington Advocacy and Lobbying.
Prevent special interests from using secret donations from corporations and billionaires to influence public policy without disclosure.
Require nonprofit organizations to list donors who bankrolled the production of any specific rule-making comment, congressional testimony, or lobbying material, and to reveal whether the donors reviewed or edited the document.
Require individuals and corporations to disclose funding or editorial conflicts of interest in research submitted to agencies that is not publicly available in peer-reviewed publications.
Prevent sham research, like that from DNC shill McKinsey Consulting, from undermining the public interest by requiring that studies that present conflicts of interest to independent peer review to be considered in the rule-making process.
Improve the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Close the loopholes in our open records laws that allow federal officials to hide tech industry and Silicon Valley oligarch industry influence.
Codify the default presumption of disclosure and affirmatively disclose records of public interest, including meeting agendas; government contracts; salaries; staff diversity; and reports to Congress.
Require all agencies to use a central FOIA website that is searchable and has downloadable open records databases with all open FOIA requests and all records disclosed through FOIA.
Strengthen FOIA enforcement by limiting FOIA exemptions and loopholes, and by giving the National Archives the authority to overrule agency FOIA decisions and to compel disclosure.
Extend FOIA to private-sector federal contractors, including private federal prisons and immigration detention centers, and require large federal contractors to disclose political spending.
Make Congress more transparent by ending the corporate lobbyists leg up in the legislative process. The public deserves to know what Congress is up to and how lobbyists influence legislation.
Require all congressional committees to immediately post online more information, including hearings and markup schedules, bill or amendments text, testimonies, documents entered into the hearing record, hearing transcripts, written witness answers, and hearing audio and video recordings.
Require Members of Congress to post a link to their searchable voting record on their official websites.
Require lobbyists to disclose when they lobby a specific congressional office; specific topics of visit; the official action being requested; and all documents provided to the office during the visit.

Do these seem like common-sense rules that should have already been in place? They are!

These anti-corruption rules have been blocked by your own elected officials because they work for themselves and not you!

You need to PUNISH any public official who does not put these changes into effect!

The Fuel Crisis For Your Car Was Entirely Caused By White House Favors To Energy Special Interests

There are over a thousand government reports over the last 100 years stating exactly what could be done to eliminate the possibility of the current gasoline crisis. The White House listened to none of the those reports. It only listened to the special interest lobbyists who are paid to bribe White House staff and push short term greed for their clients.

Bad leaders get kicked out of office. Citizens need to demand resignations: NOW!