Trump Did What?

       A recent Daily Sun (our local, Right-slanted "News" paper) letter to the op-ed page urged anybody  having issues with Mr. Trump to withdraw funds and support from the stock market if they don’t like him. Yeah I know; "Say what?" 

       The writer’s apparent implication was that recent market increases are in some magical way attributable to an administration whose only actual legislative efforts in the area are reductions in consumer credit protection and easing of restraints on the very same commercial banks largely responsible for the credit and housing bubble collapse of 2008. These efforts have largely been of the "make it easier to fleece the sheep" variety. and hardly constitute any conceivable contribution to current market trends, which in truth, have been almost constantly upward following the housing bubble fiasco of 2008-2009. Like so many, the writer has spent too much time listening to Mr. Trump proclaim his stable genius and far too little educating himself regarding what the administration actually has (not) done.

       However, in the spirit of the letter writer’s “If you don’t like their politics, don’t use their programs” rhetoric, I have some additional suggestions regarding what he could do to put his money where his mouth is, as he himself suggests. This might also require him to extricate his head from its present locus as a first step.

        First, send back your Social Security checks, since that’s an FDR program enacted by an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress. This includes disability and/or  survivor's benefits (you know, those funds which helped Paul Ryan's mother, but which he doesn't think you should have?) Then, refuse any Medicare participation, since that program is a Lyndon Johnson initiative, passed by a Democratic Congress. Also return all, if any, Workman’s Compensation ever received, since that’s another almost entirely Progressive program. Also, return any and all GI Bill benefits, including the interest you saved because you got a guaranteed loan. Finally, if you have benefited in any way from the Veteran’s Administration, thank Harry Truman who signed the public law restructuring the VA into its current form, shortly before the Republicans regained control of Congress.     

        Also, stop using FDIC insured banks, never look at the weather forecast from the National Weather Service, don’t ever review your credit report as guaranteed by law, only buy unlabeled food and drugs, don't worry about the roaches and dead cats, if any,  in your local restaurant, and the list goes on.