Donald Trump: A Cancer Diagnosis For The US

The US has just been given a cancer diagnosis.

I now know what it’s like to get a cancer diagnosis.

The bottom drops out of your world.  You’re stunned and numb.  You’re horrifically frightened.  You can’t think straight. You wonder if there’s anything you can do. Physically you feel like you’ve been beaten with a stick.  Nothing matters any longer. Everything is on the line.

America just got a cancer diagnosis.  So did the entire world.

Donald Trump was elected President.

Until last night I had hope for this country.  I thought for sure that like an airplane in a nosedive, we’d pull up at the last minute.

We didn’t.

I honestly thought we were better than this.

The cancer of ignorance, fear, xenophobia, bigotry, lies, bullying, hateful nationalism & racism exploded across the United States in a red wave.  Where once I had hope for this nation that surely we’d defeat this demagogue, it slipped away with every announced result.

Repression, regression & suspicion are a part of this cancer, too.  Right-wing Christianity has gotten its foot in the door, as have the racist hate groups. Our Vice President-Elect, Mike Pence, is a fanatical anti-gay, anti-abortion Christian conservative and Tea Party supporter.  Republicans won the House and Senate.  I fear that we will see the demolition of all the progress we’ve made in women’s rights to choose, marriage equality, rights and advancements for people of color, immigrants, the environment and climate change, worker rights, consumer protections, healthcare – this list goes on and on.

The only hope I have at the moment is that some sense of sanity remains in the halls of our government. Hopefully the checks and balances put forth by our Founding Fathers hold sway against the desires & actions of  this mentally  and emotionally unstable man, this political ignoramus, this cancer, and his cronies.

Like all diagnosed with cancer, I desperately hope there is some treatment, any treatment, that works.

Fiscal Cliff = Economic Extortion By GOP

GOP and GREED: Don’t push U.S. Economy & the 99% off the fiscal cliff!

The so-called “fiscal cliff” that we’re going off in January is what some call economic extortion.

It sounds about right.

The President is attempting to do the least amount of damage to the middle and lower class and the economy.  On the other hand, we have John Boehner & his GOP cronies,  corporate CEOs & the Tea Party trying to preserve the entitlements of the top 1%.

From an economic standpoint, many  say that GOP demands will stomp on the economy, flattening whatever progress has already been made.

Significantly changing Social Security will hurt those presently in the system, those about to enter (read younger “Boomers”) and have little effect on solving the fiscal cliff problem.  Gutting Medicare & Medicaid without addressing the real problem  will only hurt its recipients and not rein in the abuses which are its cause.  Corruption, billing fraud, corporate lobbying, exorbitant hospital charges, insurance & drug company abuses: these need microscopic scrutiny and a good dose of revision!    In other words, without total reform of the existing system, it will still be business as usual for the crooks in the system.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!  To the corporate CEOs, millionaires, billionaires, Wall Street élite, as well as our politicians in both parties: stop whining about  the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts. You can afford to pay your share! Shame on you corporate executives  for your greed in sending jobs overseas to avoid paying taxes in America, skirt  environmental safeguards and bypassing U.S. wage and labor laws by creating jobs in China and  3rd world  countries ~instead~ of right here at home!   Because of you our manufacturing industry has been decimated in favor of cheap junk made in China!

Economic extortion, the threat of the “fiscal cliff” is just another smokescreen that the Republican party and corporate America can only benefit from.  Instead of closing tax loopholes for the nation’s wealthy, GOP and the mega-rich have it in mind to create secret loopholes included in the Fix the Debt initiative. Part of this is allowing exemptions of taxes for profits declared abroad.  Can we say:  “Global tax haven?” The ghost of Mitt Romney is alive and well in corporate boardrooms!

The Republican party lost the election because WE THE PEOPLE spoke out.  Thankfully there were enough of us who read, watched and researched Mitt Romney during the campaign. We saw through his veneer; his ties to corporate America.  He may be a brilliant business person,  but to run this country his way, as the GOP is currently attempting to do, will surely push us off that fiscal cliff.

GOP:  get real and serious about helping the 99% instead of corporate America. We are human beings struggling to keep our heads above water in this fragile economy. We’ve lost jobs, homes and our retirement money has been spent. Barack Obama still has more work to do to undo the Bush legacy that brought this country to its knees.  Realize, too, that you work for the American people and not corporate America.  Know that as we voted you into office, you can be voted out just as well.  Work with the President.  Make some concessions for the good of the American people.

GOP:  Help get us back on our feet instead of throwing us off the fiscal cliff!