Have you seen it yet? Donald Trump and the GOP are making America Great Again.
The first thing Trump is doing to Make America Great Again is to ensure that nobody listens to people who criticize him. The media publish unflattering, but often accurate, stories? Fake news! Judges determine his policy is unconstitutional? The courts are politicized and biased! Climate scientists say that global warming is real? Better defund the EPA!
In Trump’s Great America, the only source of the “truth” is Trump and his administration. From crowd sizes to wire taps, Donald is the only one who knows the truth. It’s great that we have him to share it with us, lest those photos and experts lie to us! Don’t question our leader!
Another way Trump is Making America Great Again is to team up with Paul Ryan to pen the American Health Care Act. This plan, which U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik describes as a step in the right direction, fixes many problems with the Obamacare.
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, this policy will result in 24 million people, young and old, losing their insurance in the next decade. Health care costs for the elderly may go up as much as 750 percent. If you lose your employer’s insurance because you get sick, that’s OK. You’ll just have to pay 30 percent extra.
What, you can’t afford these cost increases? The GOP knows what to do: The new plan just needs to give each member of the richest 1percent a $200,000 tax cut while the bottom 80 percent see none of those cuts. This policy will reduce costs for everyone. In a decade. After short term premium increases of 15 percent to 20 percent. This is great news. MAGA
But wait, there’s more! Have you seen the budget? Trump is cutting 31 percent to the EPA! We didn’t care about protecting the Adirondacks anyway. 29 percent cut from the State Department? Who needs diplomacy!? Cuts to Health and Human Services? Labor? Agriculture? It’s not like those did anything to help our local workers, farmers or health clinics to manage mounting problems of poverty and unemployment anyway! Know what else needs to go? Meals on Wheels.
Your grandma doesn’t deserve to eat; she made bad life choices like buying an iPhone! No, you know what needs a boost to undo this American carnage? The military! America will be great or it will be dead. Get over it.
Matt Manierre
Potsdam