One month today our nation held its presidential election where former President Trump was re-elected to the office for a second term. I don’t know about you, but in those thirty days I’ve seen a lot of potential cabinet appointments which don’t bode well for our future.
When I use the phrase “our future,” I’m referring to the possible fate of various groups in this country who are not among the top ten percent of Americans who hold the majority of wealth, much less the top one percent which holds a third of the nation’s wealth.
Think about it: One percent of our citizens owns 33 percent of our assets. In simple terms, it’s as if the country were worth one hundred dollars, and one person owns $33, while the other 99 people have to share $66.
Pursuing this analogy, the people who are being appointed to run our country, for the most part, belong to that one percent. They have no conception of what it’s like to get by on $.66 a day. Nor do they care.
Which means the various groups such as retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare, veterans who depend on health care benefits, parents and children who depend on various type of support, even the mentally ill and the homeless are all at extreme risk of becoming even more impoverished while the wealthy become wealthier.
There’s a term for this: It’s called “banana republic.”
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