Millionaire congress lavishes on their month-long vacation as
Donald Trump visits the hellholes they’ve made in Milwaukee, Detroit and Baton
Rouge
Congress is enjoying a month-long
vacation while Louisiana is under water, Detroit is poisoned and Milwaukee is
burning. Yes, it’s a good life if you
can get it. With the worst natural
disaster to hit the United States since Hurricane Sandy President Barack Obama
and congress are languishing on yet another extended vacation. They are unwilling to address the problems
facing our nation, and they are many.
Job protection
And, why should they it’s not as though they have to worry
about re-election. After redistricting
the country to ensure they can’t be booted out by an angry electorate our
pampered, coddled politicians feel entitled
to a lengthy vacation. Sure they’ve had
trips paid for by private interests to vacation destinations available to the
rich and famous but that’s business baby.
Greased palms, insider trading, quid pro quos it’s all legal for
congressional members and their staff. Like Paul Ryan said, there’s makers and then there’s takers.
Congress engorges
their billionaire donors who give millions to their campaigns and receive
trillions in return. Where does the
money come from you may ask? Stealing
from pension funds, making trillions off student loan debt and slashing healthcare
and nutritional assistance. And the
American people, they are the takers, they have no choice but to just take it.
No accountability
Think you can vote the bums out? Think again.
Paul Ryan can slash Social Security, Medicare, veterans’ benefits, guaranteed
pension benefits worry free when it
comes to his re-election. According to
Urban Milwaukee, “Ryan’s district Ryan’s district includes the Milwaukee County
communities of Oak Creek, Franklin, Hales Corners and Greendale.”
The 2010 redistricting has Milwaukee County chopped up into
four districts, effectively diluting the
minority vote. The voter ID law
passed by Wisconsin GOP has disenfranchised blacks and Hispanics in
Milwaukee. But for white, privileged
citizens like Ryan the voter ID law is no problem. If Ryan can’t find his ID to cast a ballot he
can get a new one at the Register of Deeds office, four blocks from his 5,796
square foot Georgian Revival mansion in downtown Janesville.
Trump visits Milwaukee, Baton Rouge and Detroit
While Paul Ryan languished on vacation as Milwaukee burned, Donald
Trump visited Milwaukee. As Barack Obama
enjoys another taxpayer funded vacation golfing
in Martha’s Vineyard, Donald Trump was touring flood-battered
Louisiana. Trump, reaching out to the
black community in Detroit said, “What do you have to lose?” Trump asked. “You’re living in poverty, your schools are
no good, you have no jobs, fifty-eight percent of your youth is unemployed.
What the hell do you have to lose?”
But the media chose
to fixate on the small number of people
of color in the audience of 3,000. Kendrick Hodge, an African-American who
attended Trump’s rally rejects media claims Trump is racist. “What has he done that’s racist? What has he
done that’s bigoted?” asked Hodge going on to say, “Just because other people
say it don’t mean you repeat it. You’ve gotta have some proof.”
According to David Wasserman of Cook Political Report, the
GOP has the House so rigged through redistricting it is impossible for the GOP
to lose, the redistricting was built to withstand even a landslide loss. So if you are drowning in Louisiana, poisoned
in Detroit or living in Apartied Milwaukee, you’re shit out of luck. For our
rich and famous congress, you don’t
exist.
By Patricia Baeten
While Obama and congress party, hardy America disintegrates.
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