The Congress of the United States, run by mostly white millionaire men we admittedly voted into office, has created and/or is ignoring the following grim problems America faces today:
- A national debt at $21,000,000,000,000.00 and counting.
- A Republican tax bill that adds $1.5 trillion to the national debt because it gives huge tax cuts to individuals and household earning more than $1 million per year
- Congressional dysfunction which results in the waste of millions of taxpayer dollars spent on salaries, benefits, and expenses consumed voraciously by members of the House and Senate
- Costly, disruptive dismantling of America’s decades-long alliances with nations around the world
- Global climate change that has caused and will continue to cause glaciers to shrink, sea ice to fade, sea levels to rise, heat waves to become more and more intense, and creates more hurricanes, tornadoes, and droughts than ever
- Inequities in the criminal justice system that lock up more than twenty-five percent of the world’s prisoners even though America has only five percent of the world’s population
- Millions of women, men, and children now face the loss of affordable health insurance
- Pointless tariff wars designed to puff-up the president’s tender ego as he strives to be the world’s ‘strong man’
- Regulation rollbacks which increase cases of asthma, cancer, heart disease and other illnesses by allowing corporations to arbitrarily pollute America’s air and water
- The top one-tenth of one percent of American families own as much accumulated wealth as the bottom ninety percent of the entire population
- Thousands of men and women continue to be killed and maimed while more and more billions of taxpayer dollars are spent on foreign wars
- Unchecked social and political upheaval caused by racist attitudes and policies issued by and supported by the Trump administration
And we now see that many of the same white millionaire men who gleefully created and/or ignored these problems are busily working their little old hearts out trying to convince America that Christine Ford is just another ‘mixed-up’ woman who isn’t smart enough or honest enough to tell the truth about whether or not Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh attempted to rape her.
If these facts don’t tell every voter everything they need to know about whether or not white male millionaires in Congress really care, I don’t know what will.
Do you?