by Linda Schmitt, Corvallis
It’s hard to keep up with Trump’s efforts to upend our democracy. I believe most of his attacks are intended to distract us from his economically damaging tariffs. Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve, said, a “possible tough situation developing for the Fed in which inflation is pushed higher by tariffs while growth and potentially employment weaken.”
Great. Just great. Tariffs, inflation, depressed growth and lower employment, nice work, Donald! The icing on his distraction cake includes:
• US citizens told to “leave immediately.” Including a US-born immigration lawyer
• IRS employees fired – you know, the ones who audit the billionaires
• An “erroneously deported” man with legal documentation who was shipped, without cause, to a Salvadorean prison. Trump refuses to bring him back.
• The SAFE Act, to prevent women from voting: those who changed their last name when they got married. So no sweat! Buy a passport! $160. Such a deal. In order to vote.
• Trump scrambling to get an Iran deal because he’s afraid of their nuclear capabilities. After he trashed the carefully negotiated Iran deal in 2018. Nice work, Donnie.
• Unleashing Elon Musk’s rats into your knickers. Sorry, into your Social Security and IRS protected data. Protected no more, under Trump!
• Caving to Pharma on prescription drug prices, calling it the “pill penalty.” What garbage. He’s bending over backwards to undercut the hard-fought price reductions Democrats achieved.
• Last but not least, last Sunday he said he’d be eager to send “home-grown terrorists” to foreign prisons. Who would that be? I’m guessing anybody who disagrees with him. So much for free speech, for liberty, for democracy.
When you write your family history of this time, don’t forget to look in the mirror.
Bill Cavanaugh says
What a pack of lies and propaganda. And, Jerome Powell is Clueless. Where was he when inflation hit almost 10% under Biden? Oh that’s right…. He and Janet Yellen didn’t see it coming. Meanwhile every one on Wall Street and anyone with an Econ 101 degree predicted it.
Kevin says
Trump has it right. With the Death Penalty off the table in most states, sending killers and harsh criminals to foreign countries is a marvelous idea. Foreign countries treat criminals with punishment unlike the United States. As for the financial complaints you speak of, did you ever consider Elon or any Auditor for that matter seeking accountability as a positive? I would agree that keeping one third of the new IRS Biden Hires, considering they were restricted to auditing only Federal and State elected officials bi-annually.