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| Comb-Over Trump Not Our President |
Dear Donald Trump:
Today, January 20th 2017 you are the President of these the “United
States of America”, but you are not the President for most Americans, we do not
see you as elected in a “Free and Fair” election, believe you cheated to put
yourself into the highest office in the land, committed treason with the help
of Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin.
Most of us cannot and will not ever see you as President, do not respect
you, or your agenda that has painted a target onto the backs of almost every
person in what, till you took office was a great nation.
We do not fear you as a person, but fear what you are going to do while in office, and that has us loathing you and your
administration with every fiber of our beings. Let’s go over some of the issues we have with you and your agenda for
America.
79 Million Americans have paid
into Medicare and Social Security our entire working lives, counted on and
factored these social programs into our retirement plans, benefits we bought
and paid for, and hearing that you are now willing to break your “Campaign Promise” to preserve these programs, are willing to give the GOP controlled
congress free rein to eliminate them is simply unacceptable. We are
not asking for a handout, but demanding that we receive benefits that we have
already paid for during our entire working careers. Taking those benefits away, or reducing them
is equivalent to robbery, and we are not going to allow you and a Republican
Congress to steal from us what we have already paid for…just because you got
away with fraud with your Trump University, does not mean you get to screw
millions of Americans in the same fashion.
For most senior citizens, cutting
back or eliminating these important Social Programs will leave us broke, destitute
and living shorter lives than God above intended us too. For these reasons, we will fight you at
every step of the journey as you attempt to roll back benefits we have already earned. Furthermore,
any attempt at reducing or eliminating these benefits will cost the
Republicans dearly in the 2018 midterm election, and see you (if you have not been impeached) going down to the greatest defeat a sitting president has ever
suffered should you decide to run for re-election in 2020. This is not a threat sir, but a promise…we
can speak our peace during elections with our votes, and we learned in this
past election how easily a vile monster like you can take power if we take our vote for granted by staying home. NEVER AGAIN.
Your attitudes and plans for both
immigrants, and Muslims is not only unacceptable, it is both racist and
illegal. Your campaign of instilling
fear in us as Americans is deplorable, and if you think you can force your
edicts on us because we think you will keep us safe, think again. You
live in New York (sadly), have the ability to look out into the harbor and see
the “Statue of Liberty” standing proudly, a symbol to the World that America’s
arms are open to its huddled masses. Yet, other than your back door that opens into
the employee’s entrance at Maralogo, you want to shut that door in your wrong
sited desire to isolate us from the rest of the world, turning America’s back
on what is and will continue to be a Global Society and Economy. What we in the majority want and expect from
the person who is supposed to represent ALL AMERICANS:
1. Valid, not extreme vetting that allows those escaping from war and oppression too find both a safe haven and home here in America. It is who we are as a nation. We all remember 9/11 and its aftermath, and no one wants a repeat of that day, but we also don’t want to give into terrorist, don’t want them to be successful in destroying our free and open society from the inside out. Your agenda and tough guy talk is setting the stage for just that reality, and the various and assorted tainted Generals in your cabinet seem to signal your willingness, even eager desire to beat the drums of a war that “We the People” do not want. War kills people in the name of jump starting corporate profit taking…we are not interested in dying for your Billionaire Friends.
2. Most Americans support some kind of Immigration Reform which provides some kind of a pathway to eventual citizenship. What we do not support, is the rounding up and deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants, the vicious tearing apart of families, many of whom have called America home for decades, and multiple generations. If you want a wall, build it around your estate properties, not around America.
Nothing during the campaign was
more offensive than your taped voice saying, “Grab em by the pussy” and most
women fear that one statement personifies your complete and udder disrespect
for women, and their rights. Keep your
dirty filthy hands and Republican aspirations that try to legislate their
perverted Morales into law off of women’s bodies, and out of their rights
as EQUAL CITIZENS of these United States of America. Leave Roe vs Wade alone, and stop harassing Planned Parenthood, stop trying to destroy an organization that has done so much good for women in their fight to be seen and
treated as equals in our American Society.
Those in the LGBT community whom
most Americans both love and respect are under attack more than ever before,
and that reality lies at your feet Mr. Trump.
You have stoked the flames of racism and bigotry in this country, and
that action has made both POC and the LGBT targets of the Alt. Right, which is
nothing more than a politically correct way of saying Neo-Nazi Nationalist bent
on belittling and/or destroying anyone unlike them…which means anyone
non-white, anyone who does not fit into their rigid misguided views of
morality. In short, well over half of
the citizens of these United States fail the Republican purity test, and so are
now targets of their hatred and you have
empowered them. We the people
believe in marriage equality believe in a workplace devoid of discrimination,
and a nation that bestows “Equal Rights” upon all citizens regardless of their
Race, Creed, Religion, Sex or Sexual Orientation.
In so many ways, you have spoken
out against minimum wage; have suggested at times you feel it is too high. You and others living in Ivory Towers seem
to think there is nothing wrong with paying people a starvation wage, keeping
them in what amounts to a situation of life long servitude to the rich and elite. Rich people may create jobs, but it is those
toiling day in and day out at subsistence wage jobs that create the product and
services that create the wealth enjoyed by the few. That is morally and ethically wrong, and it
is time for a living wage. Ten dollars an hour with a large number of
exclusions for certain jobs is not a living wage. $15 dollars an hour is barely a minimum wage,
so let us start there, and make it universal with no exceptions in certain
industry such as restaurants. If a
company such as Waffle House cannot survive while paying a fair wage, let them
close their doors. Slavery supposedly
ended over 150 years ago, starvation wages is the modern day equivalent that
must end, indentured servitude being tossed into the dumpster of bad ideas we
as a nation find morally repugnant and reject as unacceptable.
Global Climate Change is real…we
do not need less environmental protection, but more of it. We do not desire to go back to a time where
Sarah Palin’s chant of “Drill Baby Drill” is the law of the land, a time where
Big Oil can run rough shod over economically depressed communities in their
quest to suck every last ounce of fossil fuels out of the ground to benefit
only their corporate bottom lines. Your
cabinet picks instead of protecting the environment, and slowing Global Warming
will accelerate it, and put our planet in grave peril. That cannot and must not happen, and again we
will fight your wrong sited ideas and plan for America.
If you and the Republicans want
to fix what is wrong with Obama Care, we have some very workable
solutions. If instead it is your
intention to take Health Care away from 22-30 Million Americans we oppose the
plan, and all those including you who will attempt it. Have you considered what your Presidency will
be like if Republicans lose both the House and Senate in 2018? You will be a neutered fool, president in
title only, all but powerless for the last half or your Presidency.
We the people oppose massive tax
cuts for corporations and the uber rich…instead, how about raising their
taxes. Take that money and do three
things with it. One third can go to
rebuilding our military, and properly taking care of our Veterans. Another third can go to paying down the debt
which is out of control. Let the last
third be used for social safety net programs such as Social Security, paying back
the money which was stolen from it, used to strengthen Medicare/Medicaid, and
putting more people in a position of having coverage.
Perhaps you can find the time to
read Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” and learn from that reading. You and your policies want to take America
backwards, rather than forward, and “We the People” must oppose your efforts at
every step.
It would be nice if you
changed, and became the people’s president, but that is not going to happen as
you are far to vain and self-centered to truly care for America and its people. So, on this your day of Inauguration, we the
undersigned citizens of this great nation are informing you that you are NOT
OUR PRESIDENT, and probably never will be.
Respect is not demanded, but instead is earned, a lesson you should have
learned long ago. We will not stand with
you, will not stand behind you, but instead will be the resistance that works
to stop you are every turn.
We the Opposition
