Trump's
so called jobs saving effort convincing Carrier Air Conditioning not to
ship its American jobs to Mexico is a sham. Yes, jobs were saved as
Carrier says it will not move BUT at what expense? Trump achieved the
agreement at the expense of the Indiana taxpayer when Vice-President Elect
Pence remaining as governor of Indiana until the January swear-in saw
to it that "Indiana taxpayers will pay $700,000 a year and Pence will
approve the expenditure on the 13th. It does not need to go through any
review or voting process." [citation unknown.] It is essentially a
bribe using state taxpayer money so Carrier would not relocate from the
US to Mexico. Where is Trump's fabulous business negotiating skill and
promise NOT to use taxpayer money but rather to make the corporation
pay? It's shocking -- NOT!
Trump
said he was going to drain the swamp but, as I have said repeatedly, he
IS the swamp. He said he was going to make companies that take their
jobs overseas pay a hefty tax when they want to sell their goods back
into the US and screamed against the DC legislators' swamp when it uses
taxpayer money written into one bill or another as a bribe for
corporations to get what they want but that is EXACTLY what he did this
time at Indiana taxpayer expense. If a Democrat did that the uproar
would be cacophonous! Can you spell LIAR? So what else is new? Trump
and his minions lie by the carload.
Will
Nancy Pelosi, the newly re-elected Speaker of the House and Senate
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer do something so that we in the progressive
majority of the nation are not crushed by the Republican national
minority which has sought power and gotten it through the gerrymandering
of state districts and suppression of minority votes especially black
and Hispanic votes? Persons of color should vote no matter what
obstacles unethical Republicans put in their path. That is easy for me
to say but it must be done, in truth, to save what remains of a
democratic middle and working class nation. Democratic leadership
should ensure it be done. Democrats loudly and unbowed must hold
Republican feet to the fire!
The
Democratic National Committee and others who care about justice should
help minorities vote if the hardship is too great for one to bear and
bring all the power Leader Pelosi's and Senate Minority Leader Schumer's
Democrats may have to bear (1) to elect Democrats to both federal and
state offices (2) to scream loudly and clearly for investigation of
soon-to-be President Trump's Constitutional Emoluments Clause (Article
I, Section 9, Clause 8) violation that his massive foreign business
holdings incur (3) implore the Democratic National Committee to do what
it can to help Democrats vote upending Republican vile, nefarious and
unethical voter suppression of persons of color in both state and
federal elections.
Trump
is doing what he said he never would and that is placing in high
cabinet positions the lap dogs of Wall Street most especially the oft
hated by Trump, Goldman Sachs. I am SO surprised -- NOT! If Democrats
held even one tier of Congressional power Republicans and Trump would
NEVER be allowed to do what they are starting now to do even before
Trump is sworn in. The House under the contemptible Republican say one
thing but do another Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Judiciary
Committee, refuses to allow investigations into Trump's massive
conflicts of interest his national and most especially problematic his
international holdings present. Chafetz held House hearings galore into
everything Hillary which went nowhere but cost the taxpayer MILLIONS!
Surely, the obviousness of Trump's flouting Constitutional law demands
scrupulous investigation. If this doesn't then nothing does.
Where is the public outrage at Carrier Swamp? Welcome to Brave New World!
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