copyright Rebecca Hamilton, all rights reserved.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWe have seen the Great Depression. Our parents and grandparents stood in bread lines, and some of their cousins and siblings died from malnutrition and starvation. The programs Franklin Roosevelt put in place such as Social Security, FDIC, stock market regulations, and Unemployment Compensation have kept us out of a repeat of that catastrophe for a hundred years.<\/p>\n
No matter what the market did, we came through because these programs kept a steady flow of money into our economy, prevented a mass banking failure and stopped people from losing everything and starving.<\/p>\n
Now, we\u2019re dismantling those programs. And at the same time, that crazy old man we made the mistake of putting in the White House is deliberately knee-capping our economy.<\/p>\n
There is a bright side to this. If Republicans in Congress will remove their heads from Trump\u2019s backside and join with Democrats to protect this country by doing their jobs, Congress can stop this. <\/em>They can take back the power which the Constitution gave them to control tariffs and deep-six this whole mess.<\/p>\nIt would take a few weeks. They\u2019d have to pass a binding resolution in both houses, which, if they\u2019re serious, they could do in three or four days. Then, Trump could spend two weeks \u201cthinking\u201d before he vetoed it. And it would take a few days for Congress to get it back and override.<\/p>\n
But they could do it.<\/p>\n
Republicans have a majority of both houses of Congress. This mess is on them.<\/p>\n
If the Republicans in Congress weren\u2019t such a bunch of worthless weasels, they would have never let it get this far in the first place. But they can still turn around and act like American Senators and Representatives.<\/p>\n
All it takes is for us to make them more afraid of us than they are of Elon\u2019s billions and Trump\u2019s besotted MAGA followers. Trump is a bully with a bully\u2019s instinct for weakness. He doesn\u2019t mess with those who are unafraid of him. But he clearly enjoys humiliating and castrating those who bend over for him.<\/p>\n
If Republicans in Congress will just stop being Trump\u2019s finger puppets and behave like Americans, they can give him a whole new outlook on life. They can make him start behaving like an American president instead of King Herod in the Bible or Caligula from the Roman Empire.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s up to We the People to send a message to these bozos in Congress to stop cosplaying at being Senators and Representatives and actually represent us for a change. They need to know that if they want to keep their jobs, they have to show us with real action \u2014 not speeches on right wing media \u2014 \u00a0that they give a care about America and about us.<\/p>\n
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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked man rules, the people groan.\u00a0Proverbs 29:2 Markets are melting down all over the globe. Instead of reciting numbers, I\u2019m going to show you a screenshot I took this morning. As my Daddy would have said, \u201cAin\u2019t that a dandy?\u201d Trump has issued […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":40805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900,4195,41,8332,7893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economics","category-free-press","category-politics","category-tariffs","category-trump"],"yoast_head":"\n
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