Have you noticed the motor in your car making strange noises lately. It is called spark knock and it is caused by using inferior fuel. Trump wants people to start using E85 in their cars even though they were not designed for that type of fuel. Trump's superpower is lying would he tell people they were buying good gas when it was be watered down with more alcohol? The national reserve has been pumped down to it is nearly empty by Trump and experts are warning we will soon be experiencing gas shortages where you spend six hours in line waiting to buy gas only to find out they ran out before you got to the pump. It happened before I worked at one of those stations when there was a war in the Middle East. Could it happen again? History repeats itself especially when you have a complete idiot as president.
My wife claims her Jeep is spark knocking and wonders if the gas has already been downgraded. Cars now have a device to retard the time when they start to spark knock, but performance suffers. If the war continues, we will all be buying E85 whether Trump tell us or not.
Why does Trump want to meet with the head of Iran in person? Most people would not want to be in the same room with the son man he severely injured and just killed his dad. Trump believes he can use his hypnotic techniques in person. Hypnoses is real, as the 25 victims of the divorce can attest, and there are many other techniques that bring results.
The American people recently found out that more taxpayer money is now being spent to defend Isreal than is being spent to defend the United States. Isreal is in a perpetual state of war with its neighbors. The expensive anti missel system used to protect Isreal are provided by American taxpayer. As America goes trillions in debt under the Trump administration cuts had to be made somebody, has to bite the bullet. The outlay to Isreal has been radically increased while the republicans made massive cuts for to health insurance for Americans, food programs for needy Americans were also cut. Of course, the war of fools that Trump is waging means that we must spend billions more to defend Isreal.
The basic needs of the United States needed to be funded with taxpayer dollars. A list of all the things that we are borrowing trillions of dollars to fund should be listed so the taxpayers know what his credit card is being used for. Say that we are spending $200 billion to defend Isreal. This is money being borrowed and taxpayer will be required to pay it back. In this country we get to vote if a local government wants to borrow money. The taxpayers should have the ultimate power to stop the government from borrowing massive amounts of money with a vote stopping irresponsible spending.
Trump wants to borrow a billion for his ballroom let the taxpayers who must pay the money back decide. It is no different that when the local government here wanted a build the Civic Center. They wanted $7.5 million levy from the city and another $7.5 million from county residents.
The city voted for it and the county voted it down. Instead of congress raising the debt ceiling taxpayers would be required to approve large debt for specifics projects. Just raising the debt ceiling takes the specific oversight needed away. If Isreal realized that American taxpayers could take the billions away that they are using to bomb their neighbors and American taxpayers would no longer fund their missel defense system. They would have to make peace. As long as Isreal has a blank check they could care less how far American taxpayers go in debt.
They say we carry the seeds of our destruction from the moment of our birth. It is that way with governments also. Battle plans seldom survive the first shot. Like it or not times change and our founding fathers gave us the ability to change to meet emerging threats. The barbarians are now storming the walls they are not armed with spears and swords it far worse they are armed with billions of dollars. They are corrupting every government organization with huge amounts of money.
Let's say Isreal has lobbyists to secure $300 billion for their defense. Isreal pays the lobbyist 33% for their hard work. The lobbyists pay of the senators and House members a few million each in "campaign" contributions. The lobbying firm are American companies, so the huge campaign contributions are laundered and don't show as coming from Isreal. What if the American people knew that Isreal used $100 billion of that $300 billion was used for bribing our senators and House members?
I had issued several arrest citations to a contractor for failure to buy permits He could be jailed for 30 days for each citation. He took me out in the hall and said I don't mind buying permits, but he did not want to pay the business and occupation tax. The tax was many times the permit cost 2% of the job. The cost on the permit was used to levy the B&O tax. I told him that he needed to figure the tax in just like any other material cost. That is what is happening with the bribes the lobbyist makes, and it becomes a vicious circle.
Currently mega money controls Washington. you can call them campaign contributions, but they are just thinly disguised bribes. Lobbyists hand out millions in hopes of getting congressmen to vote for the bills they are pushing. We need to dilute the power of money.
As I have pointed before there needs to be to pools of money. One pool would contain all the taxes paid by American taxpayers. The other pool would contain all the money the country borrowed to make up the difference. All taxes pay by Americans would be dedicated to paying domestic bills. The borrowed money could be used to cover a deficit in the domestic budget, but the rest would need to be approved with the idea it was being borrowed. You look closer at making big credit purchases than small cash ones.
New technology will make it possible to vote by cellphone with a fingerprint. Local government need levy to spend large amounts of money. Federal governments should need permission from taxpayers to borrow large amounts of money. What happens to the lobbyists if instead of having to bribe 548 people they would need to bribe 300 million Americans?
Of course, we could not approve every purchase, but large blocks of money could require voter approval. This government was meant to be a government of the people, by the people but it has become a government of the rich, for the rich, by the rich. At the time our government was founded the founding fathers could not put all the power of government in the hands of the people, but technology has changed that. At one time senators were appointed by governor now they are elected, things can change.
It would be interesting to let the American people vote on whether to borrow $300 billion to buy missiles for Isreal to blow up their neighbors. If Isreal wants to blow up their neighbors, they should raise their taxes to pay for them. I don't believe the American people would vote for it especially since we are already $36 trillion in debt, but Congress will continue to okay more and more money for Isreal because it is extremely profitable for the congressmen. The beauty of the scam is our congressmen's bribes are being ultimately paid by the American taxpayer.
Money ultimate ruins everything. The supreme court decision that ruled that money is free speech and therefore cannot be limited open the floodgates to corruption. I wonder if the founding fathers when they came up with free speech meant that it would be unlimited campaign contributions. Those that take unlimited campaign contribution from a company or a country should be prohibited from voting on any bill that benefits that company or country.
It used to be after an election you had a winner and a loser but now you have a winner and a republican that won but was cheated out of it. Have any democrats lost an election and claimed they were cheated out of it? Same story different day Trump's favorite candidate in LA lost the election and sure enough Trump is claiming that his favorite candidate was cheated yet again. We can only look forward to primaries when Trump will claim yet again that his candidates were cheated and will have absolutely no proof. Trump proof will be like his attorney Giulani said in court "well it could have happened that way."
