Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Agreeing With Trump, Amazingly

TRUMP'S PLAN (I think its Trump's plan) to start a one thousand dollar savings account for every American baby born soon and everafter is one instance in which I wholeheartedly approve and agree with Trump. What a wonderful idea, and Democrat rather than Republican sounding to boot. One might even wish this had started much sooner, say, in 1955, the year of my birth. Since something like forty thousand births occur daily in these United States of Amorous, the math indicates an expense of forty million dollars daily to the American people, our much strained national treasury, and our out of contril national debt, now north of a mere thirty two tril. Forty million federal dollars a day to start kids off prosperously. The greatest risk? What's to prevent greedy ole mom and dad, other than the law, from raiding little Suzie or Johnnie's piggy bank while said infant slumbers in a federally subsidized crib? Lock the money up in a bank or wherever ma and pa can't get at it, one might suppose. Penalize parental pilfering preciously, perhaps. Like all ostensibly good ideas, there would seem to be a few bugs to work out. Don't conservatives, like Trump, usually object strenuously and vigorously to precisely this sort of government intervention in people's financial lives? If some feel good liberal Democrat dared concoct such a mandatory transfer scheme, you'd expect Trump and the MAGA mob to rise up in outraged righteous indignation, no? Doesn't one expect this blatant pandering to the very young potential Republican future voters and their panhandling parents to meet with harsh, vociverous resistance in the congressional Republican caucus, which is not known for its generosity towards anybody not wearing a uniform and dropping bombs on some poor unfortunate foreign enemy of the month country? We'll soon see whether Congress turns Trump down flat. If they don't, look for hell to freeze over.

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