{Note: this post reflects “Shaky politics make for a shaky economy,” by Edward Lotterman’s “Real World Economics”; St. Paul Pioneer Press; 2/16/25. -*** – read the entire column, a MUST read for ANY American citizen]
“Our nation is in the middle of a coup d e’tat, a civilian one..but a classic coup. An ill-defined but powerful group of people, most with no legal standing but with ample private funding, is making drastic changes in our nation’s politics and governing structures. Many of these changes violate existing laws and some our Constitution, but no one seems to have the means to stop this.” [NOTE: this is a damning thing to say – read every word, mull it over – YOUR job: discover WHY he’s making this statement – he’s an econ prof; what do numbers tell him?]
“..It is our elected president himself together with the shadowy “gray eminence” of Elon Musk who are most scornful of the law..many in the president’s own party are dismayed..yet few dare to speak out…
“Many committed Republicans understand that the historical GOP..Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan, is near death..” ]NOTE: WHY does he say this???]
“For decades, demagogues have lied to the public by asserting that federal budget deficits are caused by “waste and abuse”…Firing large numbers of civil servants is a supposed remedy. No, it isn’t….the number of civilian federal employees..has been roughly level for the past 60 years.. secondly..civil service pay ..remains a relatively small fraction of total federal outlays.” NOTE: re-read this!!! He just told you. THE ENTIRE ‘REASON’ FOR DOGE is one HUGE LIE!!! – like much else of the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY, it is based on, is a BIG LIE.]
“Non-military foreign aid is not a major factor in federal spending and deficits…is highly misunderstood and a subject of much demagoguery…our foreign aid spending is about $60 billion a year..eight-tenths of 1% of total spending… [NOTE: This is part of America’s “soft power”. – much cheaper than military power]
“International trade is not a zero-sum game. Nearly 250 years ago, Adam Smith and other economists showed how both nations engaging in uncoerced trade benefit…Donald Trump refuses to understand this simple truth…We are not subsidizing Canada.. [NOTE: Meaning Trump’s ENTIRE ‘ECONOMIC REASONING’ is based on NOT UNDERSTANDING what a MAJOR economist understood 250 years ago !!!!!!!!!!!!! His economic policies are based on IGNORANCE!!!!!!!]
“U.S. ‘sovereign wealth fund’ might be a joke or an enormous theft….the key question: From where would the money come?….On its face, the idea is ludicrous…
“..the key detail: “We will take assets the country already has, monetize them….”monetizing” assets we already have would mean selling off national forests, mineral & oil rights..hydroelectric dams…perhaps even locks and dams…And who would be better buyers than the 26 billionaires, in addition to Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Tim Cook, who gave over $1 million to the Trump campaign?…The potential is for the American people to be cheated both coming and going..” [NOTE: re-read this – in plain language – this could be a quid pro quo payoff to favored billionaires for supporting Trump – by selling YOUR national assets. The joke this will “..promote the general Welfare..” requirement of the Constitution; the joke that YOU are supposed to be stupid enough to believe something this “ludicrous.”]
AGAIN – do [real] research – from recognized mainstream economists. Lotterman has just told YOU Trump’s “economic thinking” is one BIG FRAUD; the ENTIRE “rationale of Musk’s DOGE is fraudulent; that the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY wants to PRIVATIZE government assets acquired 1789- ; that the Trump-Musk team is carrying out AN. UNPRECEDENTED COUP in plain sight – itself based on RADICAL LIES of constitutional executive powers.
Trump lied – SURPRISE!!! – when he denied any knowledge of or connections to PROJECT 2025. Now the Trump-Musk COUP. is carrying out “PROJECT 2025” plans. Trump’s administration is full of PROJECT 2025 authors.
For the last 45 years, the FAR RIGHT has been building a PLUTOCRATIC THEOCRACY over American “democracy.” It began with Reagan’s reactionary radicalism; continued with Bush II’s incompetence and destruction; and now – as John Dean warned in “Broken Government”, Trump Era Republicans are creating this nightmare: “..another four years, and heaven forbid not eight years, under Republicans, and our grandchildren will have to build a new government, because the one we have will be unrecognizable and unworkable.”
The evidence is in plain sight – it is there in post- January 20, 2025 news casts and mainstream newspaper, virtually every day. YOUR democracy is being dismantled and destroyed in plain sight.
Plato warned us 2300 some years ago: “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: Whenhe first appears, he is a protector.” [How many times has Trump said he is our “savior”??? – the latest being on 2/15/25: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Laws.” !!!!!!!!!!! ]
With Justice For All 