Living Large, In the Great Swamp of Trump

THE GREAT SWAMP OF TRUMP, it would seem, has not yet been fully drained. Whether the drainage process has even begun, or the swamp has become even more murky, is questionable. The Secretary of health and Human Services, Mr. price, demonstrated his devotion to human services, in the form of his own comfort, by treating himself to every conceivable amenity during travel, spending hundreds of thousands of your money, tax payer dollars, on his own comfort, got found out, and resigned his position, slithering away into the void. He was but one of several cabinet members who don't seem to be terribly concerned about the particular purpose of their cabinet positions, as indicated by their stated values prior to their appointments. The EPA director, for example, Mr. Pruitt, who before his EPA appointment filed dozens of law suits against the EPA, has expressed little interest in environmental protection, and a great deal of concern for the business community and coal industry. He intends to eliminate Obama's clean energy plan, and force coal to make a comeback, whether it wants to come back or not. Even as natural gas prices coal out of the free market, the Trump administration will force coal to come back, kicking and screaming if necessary. One way or another, we are going to enhance the carbon content in the atmosphere under this administration. Most of the cabinet, including Mr. Price but not limited to him, who have demonstrated great faith in the free market, seem quite disposed to use tax payer money to travel luxuriously, burning fuel all the way, and to use their government agencies to damage the causes for which they were established. In essence, Trump's cabinet members are billionaires who are accustomed to living high on the hog, so to speak, and enjoy it immensely, at tax payer expense, while flying around devising ways to destroy their own cabinet departments, which were designed to protect we the people, and are therefore antithetical to the free market process of dog eat dog. Too many pigs as the hog trough, as Abraham Lincoln put it. Billionaires, serving Trump's agenda of corruption and destruction, for their own personal gain. It sounds almost too crazy to be true, but unfortunately, it isn't.