It’s been a month since Prez #47 grabbed the reins and began strangling every function of government. Raise your hand if you didn’t notice. Raise two hands if this was what you voted to have happen.
Recently, DJT’s latest idea to reduce government waste was eliminating the penny which costs 3.7 cents each to produce. The deed would cut the $85.3 BILLION coinage cost losses immediately.
Quick! Find those penny jars and cash them in. Help save our economy!
The nickel may also be in question, but Congress holds the authority to approve vanishing either. Rubber stamping #47’s every wish would end with a 52-48 vote, thus skewering the world monetary system like a shish-kebab.
Now I am all for cost saving, being the original family penny pincher. “But how can he do this?” the columnist shrieked. “My Two Cents” just found a new home and DJT wants to erase pennies! Then offering a penny for readers’ thoughts makes this unaffordable!
But upgrade? Would a column titled “My Two Bits” work?
Those of you who’ve never gambled, even behind the garage or barn, are reminded of the jump rope ditty “Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar!” Hello mathematicians -- a bit is a quarter.
Not sure if these words are that priceless!
I’m being silly but the many financial changes now being hurled at citizens is not. Our gutless legislators gave then-felon candidate Trump carte blanche to continue campaign rallies and sidelined his path to jail until the November election played out. See what happens when voting districts are gerrymandered? Half the voters’ voices are silenced.
George Washington declined the opportunity to become King of the 13 colonies after the Revolution, but DJT couldn’t wait to don his emperor’s robes. What’s humility?
Back to money. There’s no doubt that budgets and economies should have been adopted decades ago. Clinton was the last president to balance the budget in the 1990s. Every president since had their fingers in the American kitty, so budgetary bloat happened under both parties. Under #45 however, tax cuts for the upper income added trillions to the debt.
Still, that’s no reason to toss the baby with the bathwater as #47 is trying to do now. The recent approvals of every cabinet secretary and the questions they have raised risked - Education? Health? State? Justice?
Sadly, nowhere did an adult with math skills step forward and try to steer the ship into responsible waters. Nor did a president nominate one. Constant partisan bickering and savage strategy kept goals an impossible dream.
Now the US budget has more zeros than anyone understands. Currently the uncertain money policy affects world markets so inflation has skyrocketed. That’s the jolt that sent the world gold market to a record $3,000 per ounce price.
Since World War II every nation on the planet has looked to the USA for help, support, and yes, for as many bucks as possible. Now USAID leadership has been withdrawn. The world is wobbling on its axis.
Winning became vicious. Candidates promise everything to get elected, but working to make promises happen?
Not so much. Maybe after the mid-term elections in two years. The grip to retain the power of the newly-attained position tightens.
Prez #47 is a power addict, throwing shade at every corner of Washington, DC to scare people into obedience or filing suits and other delays when impeded.
The changes begun a month ago are the punitive ones to prove how totally p’ed off he is at the judiciary and most all federales who have denied his wishes since 2016.
A mean man is like an angry bull in the china shop.
The strongmen enforcers--billionaires Musk, Crow and Zuckerberg--are not leaders but their money talks. And #47 has always admired bullies with deep pockets.
You didn’t vote for those guys either.
If you aren’t registered to vote, better hurry. Eggs are $10 per dozen elsewhere. Who knows where this inflationary rollercoaster is going?
Shelly has worn more hats in the communications field than Carter has pills but forgot to retire when she closed her promotions business. She earned a BA in Journalism at NTSU (before it became UNT) and has never lost her love of words.