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America Literally Cannot Afford Trump

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  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...

My Personal Distaste for the Military

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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   I’ll get right to it. I enlisted in the USAF on September 11, 1964. I told my recruiter that I had severe migraines, but he told me, “not a problem.” I was forced out of the Air Force on March 9, 1965 under a general discharge, which kept me from receiving certain benefits, including medial for my military service. The recruiter and the USAF committed fraud and I continue to pay for their crimes today. The draft was in force in the 1960s and recruiters received bonuses for their record of enlistments. Our military is another corporation, not an organization formed to protect our nation from foreign interests. Those who work in the Pentagon waste at least fifty cents of every dollar they are allocated playing with toys they will never use. Wars will not be fought on the battlefield in the future. To make matters worse, America has lost every war it has fought since WWII. The draft was eliminated by Richard Nixon. However, a volunteer army is expensive, and ...