June 16, 2024 -B

The Fight for Light — Flat Branch Preserve/Greenway, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Greenway, North Carolina
Ghetto Economics will be Trump's calling card
if he is re-elected,
stealing from the poor
and giving to the rich.

The Billionaire foundation paving Trump's way
is composed of people in a Money Bubble,
aware only of what they stand to gain
with Trump in office,
and oblivious to what the people
outside that bubble stand to lose.

That would be,
for all practical purposes,
everything.

Me, for instance.
Trump has promised
to take away my Social Security--
taking away what I amassed over
40 years and 6 months of salary deductions,
but which, nevertheless,
Trump declares to be an "entitlement program,"
when the actual entitlement program
is the tax cuts going to the people
and corporations already afloat in the Money Bubble.

Trump will take away my Medicare,
and with that goes my healthcare.
He will take away family benefits
necessary for food and medicine
and financial encouragement
to people he never notices,
knows about
or cares about outside the Money Bubble.

The catch is that the welfare
of the people inside the Bubble
is directly connected
to the welfare of the people
outside the Bubble.

The people inside the Bubble
live under the illusion
that their money makes them secure.
The truth is that their money
is completely without value
everywhere but in their imagination.

When the people outside the Bubble
are crushed by Trump's "entitlement" attacks,
and cannot meet their obligations
or pay their bills,
who is going to prepare the food
and serve it, etc,
in the restaurants where
the people inside the Bubble go
to celebrate their wealth?

Etc., throughout society and culture and world.

We will have a Money Bubble
with no means of support.
Money cannot buy what isn't there.
And money cannot produce what Trump
will destroy in order to make more money
for his friends.

There is a tipping point Trump ignores.
You have to feed those who serve you,
and take care of their basic needs
by creating an environment that enables
them to take care of their own needs.

Destroy that environment
and you light the fuse
that blows up your Bubble,
or makes it valueless,
which has the same effect.

Creating a worldwide Ghetto
in which no one can thrive,
and few will be able to survive.

Ghetto Economics.
That's what you are voting for
when you vote for Trump.

Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

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