Okay, read this.
If you’re not into weird political-speak and don’t follow how the CBO works and all that, here’s the simple reduction:
A bunch of people will lose their insurance, but we’d save around $120 billion over several years.
21 billion of that is for the wall that won’t work that we might never complete.
You can bet the other $98 billion won’t cover the tax cuts I’m sure Trump is about to roll out. And if we get into one of the eight or nine new wars that seem to be bubbling up, the saving will be nothing at all.
Meanwhile, there’s the expense of protecting Trump Tower since the First Lady won’t come to Washington, not to mention the price of protecting Trump when he’s in Florida and covering his children’s business trips. The math on protecting Trump Tower for 4 years=$213,160,00. That’s not the total cost of protecting the President. That’s the cost of protecting ONE of his buildings.
One day of that would pay off my student loans. A second would pay off my wife’s loans. A third would pay off our house. The change from the three days could buy an expensive car (not Trump expensive, but more expensive than the Hyundai I drive). A day of protecting Trump Tower could finance 11 years of college (from undergrad to PhD).
I hope on some level those numbers seem imaginary, because to the average American, they cannot really be fathomed. To put it in perspective, I will likely spend the next 30 years of my life paying off my student loans and my home (the 10 year relief from my loans looks to have been a lie from the government). That means that I will work nearly my whole life to earn less than a week of protection for Trump Tower (assuming the price of protecting that building doesn’t go up, something that one rise in the terror level would surely cause).
The sum total of the value of my labor for my entire life is less than a week of excess protection for the President.
I told a group of students a few weeks ago about how whales work for in-application purchases. In the process, I had to point out to them the reality that there is more than enough money in America. No one has to suffer, go hungry, live under poverty. But the 1% of people with all the wealth don’t want to share. They have more than they could ever spend, could ever need, but they still want more while keeping the working masses from getting more.
You can very easily say that I’d like to see our country move to a socialist system. But unless you’re part of that 1%, you need to understand Socialism before you judge me for that. State Socialism is bad. Actual socialism is actually quite good. We’d be better off.
But if we aren’t careful, and we don’t mobilize, the President of the 1% is going to make sure that life is unbearable for some of us. If you need Medicaid or know and love someone who does, the President is basically proposing that person’s death by illness. The life that they are so pro as a party is being marginalized to the point that the “death panels” that people rumored during Obamacare’s approval process will actually exist under President Trump.
Know your enemy, readers.