He’s gonna bring the price of groceries down. And gas. He’s promised it for months. So no more expensive eggs or panic at gas stations. Just wait till he’s sworn in. Then you and the ultra-wealthy will get what you deserve.
WAIT…the ultra-wealthy? Yeah, Trump and his new buddy Elon Musk need their taxes cut. I know they’re millionaires. Wait, I’m wrong. Musk is a billionaire, the richest billionaire on earth.
But their jobs are so stressful. Look at what Trump said last week for the first time – it’s gonna be really “hard” to get the price of groceries down. We can’t expect Trump and Musk to get that done without some relief.
That’s why they wanted the debt ceiling raised. That would let Trump renew the big 2017 tax cuts for the rich that he signed into place when he was president the first time.
But wait a minute. Trump told you those tax cuts would trickle down and create jobs. Just what President Reagan said in 1982 when he signed the “trickle down economics” bill. But it flopped big time. Since 1980, income inequality has soared. You feel it every day at the grocery store and the gas station.
Yet Donald Trump, and Elon Musk urged a lot of Republicans to vote against a government shut down just before Christmas that would have kept paychecks going to millions of Americans along with benefits they needed.
Why did Musk and Trump do that? The shut down plan didn’t raise the debt ceiling. And it was way more important to Musk and Trump than American salaries and benefits.
One benefit that got trashed stands out - cancer research to help sick children. The National Children’s Cancer Society reports that roughly 1 in every 389 American children will be diagnosed with cancer before the age of 15. Today there are more than 11,000 children between ages 0-14 suffering from cancer. That’s a lot of innocent babies.
So Bandera, let me ask you this. What does it say about Elon Musk, a billionaire immigrant who hasn’t even been elected a dog catcher but who can get cancer research for babies and grandbabies trashed to get his way? That funding should have been the very last thing cut from the shutdown bill. And what does it say about Donald Trump who campaigned on his love for you and the benefits he’s get for you if he got elected? That’s love?
The good news is that cancer research funding was rescued. Just before the midnight on Friday December 20, 5 days before Christmas, Republicans and Democrats in Congress got together and voted for a plan to prevent the shutdown. And they trashed Trump. The bill they voted for didn’t raise the debt ceiling. And it included money for cancer research for little children.
Jodie Sinclair is an award-winning writer who holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and resides in Bandera.
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