Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
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.
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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