“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people
coming behind you, and you don’t, you are wasting your time on this earth.”
Baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente, who died in a plane crash attempting
to provide relief for earthquake victims
1] “How many cards do you hold” [Stephen Young; Minnesota Star-Tribune; 3/4/25]: “On Friday, President Trump let slip his truth: That life is just a game; that you win or lose depending on the cards you hold…Trump revealed himself as a hedonist…Hard work, sacrifice, dignity, integrity and idealism do not seem to be high cards in his estimation.”….
“…the curtain has been pulled open and we have seen our Great Oz as he really is: a huckster…Fifty percent of Americans own only 2.5% of our national wealth.”…
“The political consequences for Trump in letting the cat out of the bag about his approach to life are adverse and will be lasting. He has trashed his reputation for prowess. Now, everyone will test him. Few will trust him.”….
“Trust cannot happen where there is dissembling on either side is going on, and without trust, nothing good and lasting can be put in place. Thinking of the American presidency as a game of poker or blackjack will never Make America Great Again.”
*** “The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public…The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order…ought never be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined…with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men…who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public.” [Adam Smith]
2] “It is hard to describe Trump’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.” [Jamelle Bouie: “The Revenge Tour Has Found Its True Target”; New York Times; 3/9/25]: “THis fact of Trump’s indifference to most Americans – if not his outright hostility toward them, considering his assault on virtually every government function that helps ordinary people – suggests another dimension to his revenge tour: It is almost as if he wants to inflict pain not just on a specific set of individuals but on the entire nation as well.”…
“Under the cover of an audit, he has empowered Elon Musk, his de facto co-president, to take an axe to any and every program that helps ordinary Americans. the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has stripped funds or personnel or both from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the National Park Service, the National Weather Service, FEMA, the Department of Veterans Affairs. and the Social Security Administration…It has degraded the federal government’s ability to deliver critical services to tens of millions of Americans and is endangering payments to millions more.”
*** “THe greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loves to paint..but is conceived and ordered..in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.” [C. S. Lewis]
3] Below, just SOME of the Musk-Trump DICTATORSHIP stupidity, corruption, cruelties:
– “White House firing FAA radar, navigation workers.”
– “Another $20B is stripped from IRS..could thwart efforts to investigate wealthy tax cheaters”
– “W.H.O. Withdrawal May Hurt Americans on Many Health Matters”
– “Farmers are out millions After Trump freezes USDA funds”
– “Don’t the Lives of Women and Girls Matter?” [N.Kristof; New York Times; 1/12/25]
– “Report: Trump Would Drain Social Security”
– “With U.S.A.I.D. Cuts, Africa Faces Crippling Losses”
– “New Press rules leave Americans less informed” [J.Rash; Minnesota Star-Tribune; 3/11/25]
– “Trump job cuts gouge civil rights protections”
– “Domestic violence services at risk”
– “FDA firings decimate teams on medical devices, diseases, food safety”
– “Feds end program to plant needed trees in anti-DEI push”
– “Treasury won’t enforce rule meant to combat money laundering”
– “Lacking rationale, sudden firings of senior officers will reduce security” [J.Stavridis; Bloomberg Opinion; 3/2/25]
*** “…the rich have the temperaments of lizards..their indifference to other people’s joy or sorrow bears comparison to the..stars of Orion.” Their worship of money “results in..depreciation of all values that do not pay” and the definition of freedom “as the freedom to exploit.” “Such values give “rise to a system that puts a premium on crime, encourages the placid acquiescence in..dishonesty..proclaims as inviolate the economic savagery [of].. the free market or freedom under capitalism.” [Lewis Lapham, in Sexton’s “War on Labor and the Left”}
With Justice For All 