Taking From the Poor, Giving To the Rich

THE FIRST THING TRUMP DID when he took offic was sign an executive order eliminating funding for America's foreign assistance agency USAID.The food and medical care USAID has distributed all over the world over the years has been estimated to have saved the lives of millions of people. But now, because of Trump, it shall save no more lives, at least not until Trump is gone, if ever. He did this within mere moments after taking the oath of office. This was entirely appropriate; the new president getting right down to his highest priority, taking from the poor and giving to the wealthy, without needless delay. Since January 20, 2021, precisely how many children around the world have died from starvation or lack of medicine? Is anybody keepting track? How many more will die over the next few months and years, or until we the American people finally elect a decent human being, aka Democrat, as president of the United States, along with a Democratic congress? Trump's plan seems to be to cause as much chaos as possible, and to incite as much fear and anger throughout the population as possible. He also seems to have a marked proclivity for dispensing widespread misery. Trump's budget for this year, eagerly voted into law by his sycophantic, cult-like Republican congressional majority, gives the wealthiest Aemricans massive tax cuts, eliminates huminatarian spending, greatly increases military spending including weapons procurement, and plunges the country into ever deeper national debt. Its a budgetary disaster, but entirely aceptable to Trump's MAGA mob. And yet, there's more. As if the administration hadn't already done enough damage to the poorest of the poor, the Republican congress and Trump have promoted a bill to drastically cut funding for UNICEF, the United Nations organization founded shortly after World War Two which has, over many decades, saved an estimated one hundred and fifty million lives globally. Once again, lives saved will turn into lives lost, as countless numbers of impoverished people die due to lack of the assistance previously rendered by UNICEF. Unspeakably cruel. And again, make no mmsitake; this cruelty is not the idea of a single, malign, evil tyrant such as, say, Donald Trump. Far from it. This particular act, and the Trump tendency to attack humanitarian spending and to cut taxes for the wealthy is an agenda fully and wholly supported by the Republican Congressional majority, the Republican party, MAGA, and evangelical conservative America. Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt stood in front of cameras and proudly proclaimed that UNICEF is "crap". House SpeakerMike Johnson described the international agency and its work as "wasteful" and "harmful". Maybe some resources have been used inefficiently in UNICEF. Some of that happens in nearly all human organizations. There's always room to cut waste. Precisely what harm UNICEF does or has ever done the extreme right winger did not say. Trump's war on cooperation and compassion, like all his other harmful policies, will have to be endured during the remainder of his time in office, and reversed, and the damage done repaired, when he mercifully is gone. Within limits. We can only estimated the number of people lost instead of saved by the perversity and cruelty of American conservatism. But we know that there are many, will be many more, and that no amount of future damage control and repair can or will ever change this tragedy.