TheWiseOldFart

  Trump spends more taxpayer dollars in one month then all social programs need for our nation’s people. Every time he travels to Mar-a-Lago, his business makes a profit while he wasted nearly $3,400,000 on each trip. During his first illegitimate presidency, Trump Corp. made 1.7 billion dollars while he violated the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause. In the first month of his second illegitimate presidency, he spent 10.7 million dollars of taxpayer money playing golf. That’s just one situation in which he throws your money away. Between 2017 and 2021, Trump wasted more than six million dollars each month of your money. That adds up to at least $288,000,000 during his first term. His failed fiscal policy of trickle-down economics added 7.8 trillion dollars to the national debt. Who in their right mind would have voted for this lifetime failure in 2024? The answer is simple: uninformed voters and those who chose ignorance over fact. Trump wanted to win the...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart In the United States, a single night’s stay in a hospital will cost $2607. A normal birth of a child, $14,768. The least expensive heart surgery: angioplasty: $28,200. Open heart surgery with a highly rated surgeon: $200,000. Care for Leukemia: annually, $156,000. And the list goes on and on. These are all costs to patients like me who have no healthcare. When my wife and I were eligible for Medicare, healthcare we paid for all of our working years, we could not afford the monthly cost and keep our home. Now we cannot afford the penalties because we couldn't afford it several years ago. Is Medicare a viable option for all seniors? I don’t think so. I believe that no senior American should be required to pay anything for healthcare. I fail to understand politicians when they claim that America is the richest country in the world. I don’t live in that country. If this is true, there is no excuse why the United States is the only country in th...