I just opened my health insurance letter and its up about 30% next year, over $1,000 per month for a single person. I’m a single male, 59 years old who lives in Washington, DC. Thanks to rising rent too, up over 500% percent in the last 8 years I will soon move back to the midwest. After 27 years in the same apartment, I’m being evicted. Not becuse I’ve ever been late on rent but because my yuppie landlord wants to convert 3 of 4 units in his 4 unit apartment for his “personal use.” That means he is going to gut my apartment, add a little granite and rent the place for something like 10 grand a month, only slightly above market around here. It’s worse than Manhatten.
This is Trump’s America. This is Washington, DC . Two bedroom townhouses with paper thin walls but with “amenities” like a treadmill in a dark corner somewhere, go for over Two Million dollers, yes $2,000,000 for something that might fetch 150K in St. Louis or Memphis.
I’m lucky. Think of the millions of people who are about to be kicked off Medicare. Trump is in the process of repealing every progressive advance in this country over the last century. I’m white, though poor by some standards. I do have a heck of a lot of privilige. I’ll probably be able to move to the midwest and make a decent living. I’m not going to be detained by ICE. I’m not going to be denied the right to control my body as many women are. I’m not going to be deported. I don’t have to beg for work every morning outside some suburban 7-11. I don’t work as hard as most immigrants. No one in my family was ever enslaved. I don’t worry about being shot by “law enforcement.” Unlike many people I know, I’ve never been imprisoned for drug use.
I offer an apology to Hillary Clinton because my life would be different if she had become President. I did’nt do hardly anything to elect that great person other than proudly voting for her. I’m sorry that even I was fooled at times by Bengazzi baloney and private server bullshit. I won’t get fooled again….