I wake up everyday and I’m pissed.
I’m pissed because this country is not working.
It’s working for the 1% and the 5% that want to be just like ‘em, but for me it’s not.
Please, if you feel all I do is complain, then go away.
Don’t read this site, because this is how I talk.
I’m pissed, people are pissed, it seems like the whole world is pissed.
So let’s get pissed off together. We can do that simply by discussing the issues.
What Will Trump Do?
Well…who else was he going to support?
I guess this is a way for MT Cowturd and Pogreba over at Intelligent Discontent to get their knickers in a knot, maybe some of their fans’ as well.
To me, I just don’t care.
I’ve been saying for the better part of a year that I’ll be voting for Trump should Bernie not get the nod. I keep saying it.
So what will Trump do?
There was a masterful comment over at the silly anti-Trump post the other day, one Pogreba simply could not bring himself to reply to.
I copied it to see its length and it’s 4 pages, with lots of good info. Please, give it a look.
When I was asked on Facebook today what I thought Trump would do, I said something like this here.
Currently we fund 23% of NATO so we'll stop wasting money there, which is only driving Europe closer to Russia anyways. We'll see this a lot more when the Brexit from the EU comes.
The Brexit is coming because Britain simply won’t take the refugee nonsense that Germany has foisted upon the continent. Angela Merkel, wow – history ain’t gonna be nice to that one!
Closer to home, we know that he'll create lots of shovel-ready jobs with the southern wall. Yeah, I haven't heard that term in awhile either - "shovel ready."
So how do we pay for this $10 to $12 billion wall?
I’d start by looking at the savings it’ll produce. Currently we know that it costs us $10,700 to deport just one illegal immigrant.
(In 2011 Customs figured it cost $12,500 to deport one person, but we’ll go with the lower figure today)..
We know that since 2009, Obama has deported 2.5 million people.
Doing some math for those 6 years, we find that 416,667 people are deported each year from America.
That costs us $4.4 billion a year.
If we want to figure that we’ll save half of that with the wall, then the wall will have paid for itself in 5 to 6 years.
So I like this idea. I love all infrastructure jobs and feel we should just plow most of our tax dollars into ‘em.
The country’s falling apart.
We know Trump doesn't much care about our neocon-globalist agenda so I have some hope that our 160,000 overseas troops will begin coming home.
Hopefully we can run many of them through a quick Army Corps of Engineers training camp to get them fixing our roads and bridges again (we're already paying them, we might as well have them working here).
I'd like to think that he'll start making large corporations pay taxes. The Columbia Broadcasting Corporation, for instance, paid no taxes in 2014 despite making $1.8 billion.
On top of paying no taxes on their income, CBS got a $235 million tax refund.
General Electric made $33 billion between 2010 and 2014 and paid no taxes, but they did get $1.4 billion in refunds.
I’d like to see Trump close those loopholes that allow mega-corporations to keep their money overseas to avoid corporate taxes.
It’s a shame that neither CBS nor GE care about America, it’s a damn shame.
It’s to be expected, however.
We know that civic engagement has dropped considerably since the 1970s, as has support from businessmen for the communities they live in and call home.
Well, many live in gated communities now, a form of privatization of the usual city services that ensures they feel separate, apart, and often better than.
Now businessmen are primarily concerned about supporting the corporate elite and the globalist agenda.
We see this in terrible trade deals with names like TPP and TiSA.
Haven't heard of that last one, have you? Well, that's the idea.
Those are just a few things I think he'll address.
How about Hillary? What do you feel she'll be doing come January?
I don’t think she has any plans to fix those issues because she and her corupto-squad of corporate stooges profit from the system as it currently is.
Hillary would be terrible for America, giving us more of the Bush and Obama years.
Remember, my life isn’t getting better.
- I don’t own property
- I don’t own stocks
- I don’t have a cushy job
So there’s no doom and gloom on the horizon for me.
To me, I feel we need to start stringing up the bankers, hanging them from trees, or executing them during the halftime shows of football games.
Only when the top 1% and the 5% that want to be just like 'em feel that there are consequences for their actions will they change.
When we rip them out of their fancy, gated community and pull them down the hallway as their wives and children scream in terror, throw them into that van and take them to jail, we’ll begin to see this country change.
Until then, the bankers and the Wall Street types will continue to steal from us and say they’re helping us.
Why do we put up with that?
This country is ours.
We pay the taxes, not the 1% and the 5% that want to be just like them. Hell, most corporations don’t pay any taxes and then put out their hand asking us for money.
Why do we give it to them?
Because we won’t change.
We continue to vote for D’s and R’s and at the local level we vote for who the party and their hangers-on tell us to.
Whether it’s the union or the rightwing organization, we follow the advice of others on what to do instead of leading ourselves where we need to be.
We’re the problem, our insistence that our current broken system will give us any kind of workable answer.
Don’t expect a broken machine to give you a workable object.
Our objective at this point is to get this country back.
I have $10.89 in the bank right now so you can’t expect much support from me financially.
I do have a head and two hands and a platform that 1,000 people a day read/visit, however, and that’s a start.
Don’t forget that most of our Founding Fathers got their message out the same way.
We need to start acting like them more, thumbing our eye at the establishment and those telling us ‘how it is.’
I’m pissed.
I wake up everyday and I’m pissed.
I’m pissed because this country is not working.
It’s time we make it work again, and this time, work for us.