I often think 45 has no concept of where the money comes from. Like it just “pops up” from the soil like weeds? We spend billions on a useless wall to make sure we have an even more ignorant population than we already do. I have lost my ability to even talk about this without getting crazy!
Last Friday afternoon, The Shinbone Star took a quick shot at Dangerous Donald’s alarming order to misappropriate congressionally mandated funding from allegorical Peter to pay undeserving Paul.
But what really stood out was Trump-appointee Secretary of Defense Mark Esper’s decision to deny American military dependent children living overseas a decent education in order to deny brown children a chance for a better life. His disgraceful decision typifies the venality of the Trump regime.
In this event, pitiful Peter is trapped in the arbitrary Pentagon money pit while predatory Paul lounges against Trump’s disastrous wall. In between are the children of powerless young service members living life overseas in near Spartan conditions.
It’s a particularly rotten deal for the kids, whose pennies their soulless president has purloined from their housing and school budgets to pay for his pretentious wall.
Since Thursday, after Trump’s fixation with weather forecasting waned, reports of Trump…
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Marilyn, may I just add this link which I think explains the matter a bit more clearly? It says specifically what he’s taking the money from. Just lunatic. This man is like a pit bull. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/09/08/esper-diverting-military-construction-funds-border-wall-will-boost-efficiency-not-hurt-it.html
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Thanks for posting this. It brought it to my attention!!
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There’s so much going on, it’s easy to miss stuff. Not like we can change anything, but we can at least remain aware.
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I may use the link myself. I spent all day in bed today — I think the first time in my life I’ve ever spent the day in bed when I wasn’t in the hospital so I have not had a lot of time to write or even comment.
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I find it unconscionable to divert 400 billion dollars from Puerto Rico which is still a mess from last year. One more storm and it will be unlivable.
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I know. I shuddered when I read that. And there are people who are letting him do this. He’s not the only culprit!!!
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THAT is what I mean by there is no middle ground. We have come to a point where there’s no way to pretend you don’t know what is going on. You have to pick a side. It’s that simple. You can’t sit on the fence and think that somehow let’s you out of it.
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There’s too much going on, it’s hard to keep on top of it.
Leslie
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It is hard. I kind of piece it all together from a lot of different sources.
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That’s the best way to do it…
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