We all had one, at least one, and usually there was a sidekick or two to go along. It was the kid who always had the best, the most, the largest, the whatever superlative he could think of and even if proven wrong, why never you mind. The truth did not matter. The boasting made this kid feel better than anyone or at least soothed his need, his either tiny and fragile ego or matched his megalomaniacal personality. One could not talk to this person, at least not with reason.
We have all met this kid years later and sometimes he has outgrown the problem but at other times, nope; in fact, it has gotten worse but what is even worse than that is the fact that somehow he has worked himself into a position of power and the more power the better he feels and the worse he acts.
So locally, we have our David Israel, our personal albatross of Century Village, he who casually hands our money out almost as a carnival prize. He will die before ceding any of his illegally accumulated power and will take the Village down with him. When the pleas for volunteers go unanswered there is a place to look for the reason why. It is nigh unto impossible to work with this man unless one is a sycophant of the first order. Hence, no volunteers and the negation of the elected officials who will not cede their souls and minds to his control.
What will happen with this man? Who knows. Perhaps one day he will get his just reward and in the meanwhile we will keep on pointing out his misdeeds and different ideas that we have that are better for the Village. Many is the time when he has appropriated these ideas as his or has even had to change direction due to our interference with his plans. Remember DSL? Remember his pushing for Atlantic Broadband - which he is still trying to sneak in? Remember what he is doing now with the A/C. Remember the money he has wasted.
But this man is a petty tyrant, ruling his fiefdom here in the Village and there is a bigger dictator out there who will have more influence on ruining our lives than David Israel. That man is Donald Trump, the reality show host who has wandered into a place where he has meant disaster for so many millions of people Those who voted for him are now either in a fog of denial or are questioning themselves and him. What is he doing to them? What is he doing with their community help organizations? What is he doing with the Meals on Wheels which feed their parents? What about the SNAP for their children? What about funding for after school so they can work at their jobs and know the kids are watched? What about the lunch program at school? What about the healthcare they just signed up for and where the hell are those promised jobs such as the ones that never showed up in coal and what about the air and water? And why are there no more safety regulations at their places of work anymore?
The answer to all these questions is simple., Donald Trump NEVER had the welfare of others in mind. He never cared for the working class, the poor, the middle class. Nope. He lied. Shocking!!His concerns were all for the Fat Cats and the richer the better, the bigger the tax breaks. Even the vaunted childcare proposal from Ivanka fits right in with the poor people between $500,000 - $1,000,000 income getting big breaks on their child care costs. Why I am so relieved for them!! I was so worried!
Next question. Who can think of some good uses for 21 billion dollars? Job training. The retention of Big Bird? Community help? Legal Aid? Food programs? Educational funds for public school? How silly we all are. Why it is far more important to spend that on a ridiculous wall that will never be paid for by Mexico and why should it be anyway? And why build the damn wall in the first place? And gee, where could we spend that money on infrastructure instead of a wall and hey, do not forget that there are many miles of land that will have to be taken from private people and yes, here we go again, from Indian nations. Return to the future? Stealing land again? But why not, and since Trump likes to compare himself to Andrew Jackson, let us keep the comparison going and remember that Jackson was the cause of the Cherokee Trail of Tears as they were ripped away from their land in the mountains of North Carolina even though they were well integrated into the community. But, you see, some Fat Cats of the time wanted that rich land so they had to go. Sound familiar? It should.
So what about democracy? What about the rights of the people? What about the huddled masses, the refuge America has always given to those who need it. Evidently it depends. For example, it was okay for Pence's grandfather to come from Ireland since Ireland was never a land of terrorism. Uh huh. Love to ask the people who were killed in the bombs and shootings and killings for so many years between Catholic and Protestant and between the Irish and the British. But nope, we must be disremembering. So Pence's family could come but as for these of today. Nope. I guess too bad for them.
As for law and order, well, it depends. We are going to flood our streets with Border Police and ICE and just rip these people away, never mind the lives we are ruining and the productive members of society we are flushing away. And as for the courts that disagree with that and the travel ban, why off with their heads! Trump says they should be torn apart!! Yup, law and order - fascist style.
So what to do? Are we going to allow this to happen? Are we ready to give up? Are we ready to cede control to the rich and watch our rights fade away? NO!!! Do as many others did over the past few days and donate - be it to Meals on Wheels or any other project imperiled by Trump's proposed mean budget.Join Indivisible. Join a protest. Attend a Town Hall. Ask questions and demand answers with truth in them. Go on Facebook to make connections. Ask around and by the way, for those of us in CV, on April 1 there will be a Town Hall in Room C in the Clubhouse between 11 and 12 with Congressman Brian Mast. Have your questions ready. Hear his answers. He appears to be good for the climate but dear me, what else might we ask? Hey, what about repeal of Obamacare? What about loss of Meals on Wheels and aid to those in need? Come listen. Come attend and behave so we can get those questions answered. All are welcome.
For other links and email addresses, check with a prior post from two days ago and they are all there.
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