The Economy is a Shared Resource

And your share just got a lot smaller

The news cycle has been dominated by talk about tariffs. For good reason, the roundly criticized 10 commandments of tariffs the regime unfolded last week only makes sense in the alternative reality of Maga.

Drunk on power, the regime is attempting to strong arm the rest of the world into submitting to its need for a reason why our national economy is about to tank in a spectacular implosion of greed and stupidity.

Even our so-called business leaders who welcomed a second regime and its anti-regulation, anti-tax, anti-worker, and pro-big profits for stockholders couldn’t conceive of anything as damaging as double digit tariffs applied with the precision of a middle school math class.

But it gets worse, since Congress is preparing to enshrine $4 trillion dollars of tax cuts for the wealthy while SIMULTANEOUSLY cutting social safety net programs that benefit poor, working families right here in rural Georgia to pay for it. This double slap in the face to our rural economies, tariffs that raise prices for small businesses and individuals, tax cuts that enable the wealthy to get richer on taxes paid by what’s left of the middle class, and a reduction of social programs like food stamps, Medicaid, temporary relief, and grants for non-profits are just the beginning of the pain many of us here in rural Georgia are going to feel.

These actions have nothing to do with ideology, it’s just simple greed and power grabs. As resources become scarcer, people will jockey for position and hope to grab onto something for themselves. If you think it’s a dog eat dog world now, just wait for the suppression that’s coming. Municipalities left with scarcer resources will have to pick and choose what they fund as citizens are crushed in the grip of stagflation (simply means inflation+high unemployment); something I experienced in the 1970’s and aren’t looking forward to repeating.

The real stupidity of all this is that these so-called policies are coming from people who profess themselves to be masters of the business universe. I spent over 40 years as a business executive and I can’t make sense of what they think they’re doing to our economy.

So, if the economy is a shared resource, your share just got a lot smaller unless you’re a member of the wealthy elite in this country. In Georgia, according to a Kiplinger analysis, approximately 6.07 percent of our population are millionaires. That leaves a WHOLE LOT of people out of benefitting from big tax cuts, raises their cost of living in real dollars, and closes doors to the assistance they’ll need to feed their families, train for work, and/or get healthcare.

That’s what we are facing in this country. These negative trends will effect our ENTIRE POPULATION. Poverty knows no political party. Illness and death know no ideology. Despair is not blue or red.

This past weekend, hundreds of thousands of people all over the country, in large and small cities and towns showed up and SHOUTED OUT to our elected officials that we are not going to stand by while a tyrant and his band of bros tears down the largest, most successful economy in the world. Perhaps that’s why the regime is doing this, so their lies about how bad our economy was can actually come true and they can declare victory!

But, it will be just like standing on the deck of the Titanic and declaring oneself captain. Enjoy your moment; it won’t last long.