Trump has shut down the government and has no interest in opening it for “weeks, maybe years”. Why should he? The Republican Party has been working diligently with the billionaires and the corporations for decades to get to this point. “Lower taxes, smaller government” has been the mantra of the Republican Party since FDR put his policies in place to end the Great Depression. What the Republicans really mean is they want NO taxes and NO government, (they are the party of NO), they are so close to their goal that they are foaming at the mouth. Of course they support THEIR “president”, he has given them what they’ve wanted since WWII. Capitalism hates regulations that keep them from running wild, unchecked capitalism leads invariably to Fascism. Criminalillionaires know the damage they are causing and they take great pleasure in watching everyone suffer while they fill their money bins with glee. Trump’s vanity wall is just the distraction they need to finish the job.
Notice, if you will, every budget the Republicans have passed in the last few decades, have had massive tax cuts for the filthy rich and cuts to government services to “pay” for the tax cuts. Trickle down economics, they call it. As you may know, taxes are the government’s income. It is every American’s duty to pay a percentage of their earnings to our government to provide for the common good of our country.
In exchange for your tax money, the government provides services such as police, firefighters, refuse removal, infrastructure, resource management, to name just a few. The government is the main job creator, (the rich are NOT), government contracts are sought after to build the infrastructure and provide the services the people require. The government sets regulations to ensure the safety and well being of the people and provides for the defense of the country. The government provides so much more than I have space to include. Yes, the government’s job is to protect and provide for the people in so many ways.
So how does “trickle down” economics work? Let’s look at it from an “average” household point of view. The rich say “we are the job creators, give us all of your money and we will create jobs”. So, you put in your 40 hours a week and on payday, give your check to the boss (the tax cuts) just because he is “the job creator”. Then you go home and tell your family that “we have to cut costs”, (services), because there is no money for food, health care, rent and utilities. This only makes sense if you are rich enough to be that “job creator”, but doesn’t work so well for the worker.
The filthy rich long for the days of the dark ages with only 2 classes, the nobles and everyone else. in the dark ages, only the nobles had any kind of education, the people had to fight each other for scraps. That’s the way, uh huh, uh huh, they like it! Of course they don’t want a democratic government, it’s their birth right to rule!
Yes, the Republicans have been dreaming of “smaller government” for nearly a century and they haven’t quite pulled it off in at least the last couple of attempts (1890 & 1920), so they have enlisted the help of our other enemies, like Putin, for one. There is a vast conspiracy among the few very, very rich, using the corporations they own as tools and allied with the likes of Putin and his bunch to see the demise of democracy, the destruction of our country and the deaths of the citizens. McConnell is their man and Trump is their puppet of distraction.
Now, I don’t want to name names, like Koch, Walton, Adele, Murdock, DeVos, but certain persons like to consider themselves as the nobles and everyone else as disposable serfs. They want to return to the dark ages of the 1400’s where only the nobles had an education, only nobles had wealth, only nobles had food and all of the serfs lived in squalor. Mitch and his party of NO have been working diligently to this end, defunding everything, deregulating everything, destroying our government and removing the prosperity America enjoyed after WWII.
There is nothing “noble” about these people, they are criminals, their behavior proves it even when the paperwork doesn’t show it. All these nobles deserve is to be locked up and stripped of their ill gotten gains. It is my hope that when/(sadly if) we regain our country we can investigate every one of these conspirators and bring them to justice. Just think, instead of just complaining about paying taxes and spending their tax cuts to buy more politicians to get more tax cuts, they go to jail and all of the money and assets that are confiscated by the government would run our country for many, many years. That would be justice!