Saturday, May 23, 2020
The French, Russian and Newest American Revolution
When I find a small pocket of lucidity, usually lying in the bed trying to go to sleep or shortly after waking up, my life is transformed from a humid, dark, depression to a normal, thinking, problem-solving life. This is the thought I had this morning in a brief five minute two step of my synapses. We received a debit card today from some financial institution. It purported to be my mother's stimulus payment, and after a little scrutiny indeed it turned out to be just that but in plastic form. Has anyone heard about this method of payment from the Treasury? I called the number, input the necessary information, created a PIN, and she had $1,200.00. Why the debit card from an unknown financial institution? The answer please Chuck Woolery. The answer is Washington does not have the money. They Bob Doled it out all ready, thusly my mother received her stimulus money from a federal loan. It is borrowed money. So I ask myself again this. Why would an American president knowing that America is twenty trillion dollars in debt and knowing that stagnant wages will not allow the middle and lower classes to be able to pay more taxes knowingly cut tax revenue? Washington needs money. They need money for things like stimulus checks, Social Security, Medicare, the Pentagon, and the rest of the federal government. Washington needs money adequately to run the country. That is their job. Congress, the White House, and their supporting agencies are a public business owned by the American people chartered to manage America. It is a moot point that they are elected by or rather chosen by common citizens. This is the way the Constitution is written, and two hundred and fifty years later America attempts to abide by its doctrine. Our country has strayed far from the Constitution's principles. I ask again, when Washington so direly needs money to function, why would a sitting president cut tax revenue by twelve percent? Because the common people in common jobs and with common wages have no ability to increase revenue, wouldn't the obvious focus of income for Washington be the affluent and the corporations? I'll ask the question one more time. If I hear the anecdote again that President Trump hates the post office, because he thinks its Amazon's whore, then he deserves to be shackled, publicly branded, and left in the public square. One more time, SHOUTING, if our president had not cut corporate taxes from thirty-five percent to twenty-three percent then Washington would be taking thirty-five percent of Jeff Bezo's income. This is why we have taxes. Taxes from the public and largely from the rich and corporate America must pay for our government. Before Ronald Reagan became president, the tax rate for the rich was seventy percent. Seventy percent of the income from the upper class was allocated to Washington to manage America. Ronnie changed that, and the Eighties began. Many people I know loathe Reaganomics. They are staunch opponents of Trickle Down Economics. My experience during the Eighties was that culture was at an all time high point. Film, music, art, and commerce were at a pinnacle in America. It was a beautiful decade, even if it was one of excess. Films were epic and masterful. Music was inspiring and human. Commerce, business for the common people was flowing. These were small businesses. Fashion, clothing, jewelry, appliances and more were innovative and useful. It was an artistic time, and beauty was key. Fully I understand things cannot be beautiful forever, because what goes up must come down. Now we are down, and mostly it is because America has no money. The money we have isn't worth much, because we don't have much. America has been feigning making money from Wall Street moving money around mostly in illegal ways. Hedge funds, misleading mortgages, cheap money, and greed lead Washington into the hole. In the hole they will remain as the guard changes. The guard are the same people as the people making the mistakes on Wall Street. This was the choice of our Elector College. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by over two million votes, and she should be president. Somehow our Electoral College, appointed representatives by the guard, the same people in Washington and corporate America, squeezed the Donald into the presidency. Fully I believe they were bribed. We do not know who these electors are. They are appointed by local politicians, friends of friends, of friends of the president. It was a bigger ruse than Al Gore losing to W. in the Florida court system. We all know it. The American president should be elected by the people. The Republicans have spent their entire tenure finding ways to manipulate the constitution in their favor instead of managing America. Managing America is a boring job. It does not exist in country clubs, expensive restaurants, and brothels. It is an office job, but we have turned it into something else. This president has turned it into television. President Trump gave corporate America twelve percent of Washington's operating budget, because they asked. For whom is he working, when America is twenty trillion dollars in debt and the Treasury does not have enough money to finish the stimulus checks? What kind of president would do such a thing? "Hey Donald, here is twelve percent to help run America. We know you need it and a lot more. Instead of looking for money for America, working for America, and investing in Americans, the Donald is loyal to the mob.