President Joe Biden repeatedly said during his time in public service:
“Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.”
Well after seven months of the Trump/Vance regime, it should be very easy to determine what their values are and, newsflash, they are not about protecting and helping you unless you are a member of the Fortune 500.
According to Rolling Stone Magazine, Mr. Trump wasted ten million of American Taxpayer dollars journeying to Scotland and giving the likely unconstitutional bill to the American People while he opened up a new Trump golf course.
Since his return in January, Mr. Trump’s forays to Trump Properties where he cheated at golf 47 out of his first 195 days of his second term on the American Taxpayer dime has amounted, according to the latest reporting, to about $68 million
People should ask, how much of that 78 million could have funded food assistance for needy children.
How many Rural Hospitals would be able to remain open?
How many people could have received housing assistance for that amount?
Then there is the announcement of a $200 million White House Ballroom expansion that would supposedly be paid by Mr. Trump and private donors who suck up to him.
How about those private donors donating to Head Start programs or Salvation Army and other local food banks? That would be a better use of private donor and eventually, taxpayer money, than building a “Let them eat cat” ballroom that is not needed for the White House.
Finally, there are the billions approved for tax cuts for the rich that they do not need and the construction, by private prison donors to the Felon in Chief, of concentration camps to house illegal immigrants and potentially others to be determined by Trump, Tom Homan, and Kapo Stephen Miller where no one is allowed to see what is going on inside them without giving the guards a 72 hour heads up.
Are you scared yet?
You should be.
All those dollars to those misplaced values at the expense of people about to be pushed off Medicaid, the Obamacare-Affordable Health Care Marketplace, and SNAP-Food Assistance.
All those dollars to those twisted and sick Fascist values at the expense of good clean energy blue and green collar jobs, mostly in red states.
All those dollars to those twisted and sick Fascist values at the expense of people about to get shoved out of their rural hospital beds and about to lose their number one source of information: their local PBS station.
All those dollars to those twisted and sick Fascist values at the expense of people who can not get disaster relief funding because the current regime thinks FEMA and Weather Warning Systems are unnecessary and climate change is not real.
The American People have to ask themselves: Are these your values? Is this what you want the country to be all about?
If not. There are elections to do something about it.
Vote for the people that share your values. Not the ones who spit on them.
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