It’s become very hard to live in America under the current President and his administration – albeit an ever-shrinking administration, it’s still got it’s key assholes in there making things worse by the day. Tillerson has been dismantling the state department; eliminating women, people of color and anyone left from the Obama administration. And he’s not re-filling the positions, he’s just leaving them empty. The “plan” it seems, is to shrink the government.
Smaller government is not a bad thing, but when you do it like it’s currently being done it becomes a real problem. We are left without key positions filled. Ambassadors to foreign countries for one example. We have very few ambassadors left. Trump tells us that we don’t need anyone but him, he’s enough and he’s it. He is trying to “micro-manage” every aspect of our complex democracy and we are suffering from his narcissistic need to do it.
He’s cutting back or eliminating some very key departments, like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), any agency working on LGBT issues, women’s issues, minority issues. Some of them are: Planned Parenthood, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), Minority Business Development Agency, Economic Development Administration, International Trade Administration, Office fo Community Operated Policing Services (COPS), Office of Violence Against Women, Legal Services Corporation, Environment and National Resources Division of the Justice Department, UN Governmental Panel on Climate Change, Office of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Fossil Energy. All viable agencies that serve and protect America and us as citizens. (reference article in Time.com) He is also now seeking to cut millions from counter-terrorism funding…right after the attack on NYC. Yes, deep cuts to funding to our Department of Homeland Security…just doesn’t make any sense!!!
Trump is a creepy, authoritarian moron. He’s hell-bent on erasing ANY trace of Obama’s presidency. He is the #1 consumer of FOX News (which is now banned in the UK and Canada for false/fake information distribution), and Brietbart. The man is so entangled with the Russians that he can’t even piss without Putin’s permission. He’s under MAJOR investigation for collaborating with the Russians to win the election of 2016. As are most of his close allies and staff. The man is a clear and present DANGER to the United States. He obstructs justice, he violates the emoluments clause daily, he verbally promotes violence, he says racist and bigoted things, often tweeting them to the world. He insults foreign leaders and ridicules our long-time allies. He has moved America into last place in the arena of world respect. And his #1 trait: HE LIES CONSTANTLY. He seems to lie so much that even HE believes his own lies!
Right now Trump is trying to jam a new “tax reform bill” through our Congress and Senate and into law. The bill is horrendous to say it mildly. It’ is completely geared towards making the wealthy even MORE wealthy, by eliminating tax deductions for the rest of us, and giving HUGE tax breaks to the wealthiest individuals and corporations. The bill eliminates deductions for teachers buying stuff for the classroom, eliminates the deduction of state and local taxes (resulting in double taxation), eliminates deduction for interest on student loans – and makes them claim the loans as income!!! And that’s just SOME of it…I can’t even go into everything here….I am furious.
In the bill they have hidden a repeal of Roe vs. Wade, naming a fetus as a viable human being – thus redefining the start of life. They have hidden a break that now will allow churches and religious groups to donate to political campaigns and candidates, and making their donations deductible!!! A serious breach of the division of church and state! He’s snuck in steep taxation on renewable energy sources, such as solar and hydro power – he claims coal is “clean”, proving how very ignorant he truly IS. There are also tons more of these little “sneak ins” in the new tax scam bill. It’s not just a big fat tax break for the rich, but it’s a giant attack on the middle class and poor here in America.
AND this “tax reform” will increase our federal deficit by $1.4 to $1.7 TRILLION dollars over 10 years.
Less than 20% of this country even “likes” this tax bill. And even they aren’t understanding just how horrible this will make things here in the USA. It could cripple our country, plunge us into a huge recession and cause much unnecessary suffering by millions of people.
People making $40K a year will see a tax hike. While people making $1M a year will see a huge tax cut. HOW does that make any sense? How is that fair and equitable??? Even our Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says this bill is NOT GOOD.
All Democrats will vote against this new “tax reform bill”. It will be passed into law – IF it is actually passed as is – by ONLY the Republican party. THEY WILL OWN THIS PROBLEM. It’s the Republican Tax Attack. And they are DETERMINED to RAM this through, making it law before the end of the year. Trump claims it’s going to be a “Big, beautiful, very beautiful, Christmas present.” HE LIES!!! And LIES some MORE!!!
They are rushing this bill through so that it cannot be properly vetted and debated as it should be. They don’t want people to figure out just how sneaky and conniving they are being with this bill. They don’t want us to know how bad things are. It’s trickle-down economics. We have tried it before with Reagan, and it resulted in a recession during the 80’s, remember? This bill should NOT be passed into law.
If you have read me this far and are as angry as I am take some time today to CALL YOUR SENATOR!!! Google your Senator and speak up against this Republican Tax Attack!!!
I’m done.
Peace. ~MB
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