RE: How has Trump impacted your life personally
May 13, 2017 at 8:06 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2017 at 8:13 pm by Aroura.)
What goes up, must come down.
Economists know that boom and bust are an inevitable cycle in our markets. Booms based on nothing but moving money around are false, creating no new money, so eventually result in a bigger bust.
Everything was on a fairly stable rise before 45 took office. I'm willing to bet 401k all over were improved as well.
But hey, we can look forward to having that 401k money taxed soon. That'll be good news, right Scoob? Then those wealthy folks won't have to pay as much taxes so they can make more jobs, or maybe buy a second personal jet. One or the other, who cares.
Seriously though, I'm with Ham, kt caused me to drop my rose colored glasses on humanity, and accept that humans are more flawed than I liked to think. And that progress isnt permanent, sometimes humanity moves backwards. I knew this historically speaking, but held a sort of fiction in my mind that we had learned from past mistakes. Fictional belief deleted. Thanks 45!
I admit mostly he has only caused me emotional distress. Can't open AF or FB or talk to another person without hearing about North Korea, climate change info taken off the .gov website, or 45 claiming he's good friend with dead people, or admitting he had no idea what he was getting into, or hearing that the elderly and poor might have to pay more for healthcare to finance a taxbreak for the ultra rich, etc ad nauseum.
Fortunately, 45 is more bluster than action so far, and incredibly inept, and a lot of what he says he's going to do isn't actually getting done. Yet, at least. So it's just an edge of the seat waiting game to see if he'll just say monstrously stupid things, or actually follow through and do them.
I can tell you that since the election there has been an upswing in aggressive driving locally. Also, way more rednecks driving down side streets at 3 am on weekends hollering and playing loud and being assholes in general. They did this before, too, but it has definitely increased.
I've also actually been lectured twice by Trumpsters while waiting in line at the local Safeway. Nothing aimed at me specifically. They just see a middle aged white lady in this same redneck town they live in and assume I agree with them. Those were both uncomfortable, but I'm a coward so I didnt piss off either of them. Still, ugh, disgusting.
Economists know that boom and bust are an inevitable cycle in our markets. Booms based on nothing but moving money around are false, creating no new money, so eventually result in a bigger bust.
Everything was on a fairly stable rise before 45 took office. I'm willing to bet 401k all over were improved as well.
But hey, we can look forward to having that 401k money taxed soon. That'll be good news, right Scoob? Then those wealthy folks won't have to pay as much taxes so they can make more jobs, or maybe buy a second personal jet. One or the other, who cares.
Seriously though, I'm with Ham, kt caused me to drop my rose colored glasses on humanity, and accept that humans are more flawed than I liked to think. And that progress isnt permanent, sometimes humanity moves backwards. I knew this historically speaking, but held a sort of fiction in my mind that we had learned from past mistakes. Fictional belief deleted. Thanks 45!
I admit mostly he has only caused me emotional distress. Can't open AF or FB or talk to another person without hearing about North Korea, climate change info taken off the .gov website, or 45 claiming he's good friend with dead people, or admitting he had no idea what he was getting into, or hearing that the elderly and poor might have to pay more for healthcare to finance a taxbreak for the ultra rich, etc ad nauseum.
Fortunately, 45 is more bluster than action so far, and incredibly inept, and a lot of what he says he's going to do isn't actually getting done. Yet, at least. So it's just an edge of the seat waiting game to see if he'll just say monstrously stupid things, or actually follow through and do them.
I can tell you that since the election there has been an upswing in aggressive driving locally. Also, way more rednecks driving down side streets at 3 am on weekends hollering and playing loud and being assholes in general. They did this before, too, but it has definitely increased.
I've also actually been lectured twice by Trumpsters while waiting in line at the local Safeway. Nothing aimed at me specifically. They just see a middle aged white lady in this same redneck town they live in and assume I agree with them. Those were both uncomfortable, but I'm a coward so I didnt piss off either of them. Still, ugh, disgusting.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
