| AUGUST 1, 2025 -- We have all heard the following: “Figures can’t lie, but liars can figure.” Since the last article, Congress has passed the “Big Beautiful Bill” budget for this upcoming year. They say it is full of tax cuts for the middle class, and cuts wasteful spending as found by DOGE. Yet, it’s full of cuts to SNAP, Medicare, Farm Aid, Education, Children’s programs, Social Security, State aid, and a scale back of FEMA funding.
At this time Elon Musk was leaving the White House after DOGE fired and cut funding for Social Security, VA, and Federal Agencies. The tables were turned as a school drama erupted between Musk and the President.
Mr. Musk rejected claims the “Big Beautiful Bill” was full of pork and would raise the National Debt by 2.6 trillion dollars, urging the Senate vote down the bill. The drama continued to the breaking point that Mr. Musk said that if it wasn’t his money buying the election Trump would have lost, and as he was shown the door, the last blow was Mr. Trump is on the Epstein List. The moral to the story is “When you bring in clowns, you get the circus.”
Immigration has been affected by ICE removing undocumented immigrants from the U.S. Trump promised to remove violent criminals and gang members. Instead, ICE is taking mothers with children, students with Visas, dairy farm laborers, farm laborers in strawberry fields, day laborers from Home Depot parking lots and meat processing plant workers. Many have been deported without due process. This is not the United States I live in. Many protestors have taken to the streets and in Los Angeles to protest ICE from taking day workers from a Home Depot. The National Guard was called out by the President, without the Governor’s request and violence broke out. Media reporters were shot with rubber bullets and flash bangs and tear gas was used against the crowds. Attacking the media was witnessed during the Black Lives Matter protests in Washington, D.C.
June 14 was the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army, and it was also the birthday of the President. A parade was planned for Washington, D.C., a military parade. The last time a military parade was held was following Desert Storm in 1991 to welcome back the troops. The parade was prepared, at a cost of 45 million dollars. It was a cloudy, showering day and the event started at 6:30 P.M. The only media coverage was Fox News, News Nation, Newsmax, and CNN. Attendance was listed as 25,000 people, many empty bleachers, and the troops representing all of the armed forces from the American Revolution, Civil War, Spanish American War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and new military. All these media outlets provided biased coverage of the event. The troops presented themselves as they do at a Memorial Day parade, not a high-stepping show parade as in North Korea, Russia and China.
June 14 was also the “No King” protest with over 5 million people in all the states gathering to protest the policies and actions of this administration. We need to keep up the protests because if we don’t, they will continue. |
