When the Titanic hit an iceberg, everyone on board hardly heard anything but a thump. Everything looked good for a while. The ship was making good speed ahead of schedule. You know the rest. Today, the US economy is looking…
Author: Ron Anthony
Eulogy for Donald someday maybe
He was supposed to Make America Great Again, but…. We needed to be united. He divided us. We needed a vision to go forward. He showed us the way backwards. We needed explanation of complex issues. He gave us short…
An update on Donald’s sanity
On Black Friday morning former Reagan budget chief, David Stockman, had an interview with Fox Business host, Charles Payne. The discussion started with the stock market decline then the unexpected happened. Payne: How far down do we go from here? Stockman: I…
Not in the Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade 2018
Trump is going to make climate great again!
Donald is back to being a know it all who knows nothing. He blames California’s forest management for the terrible fires. According to Donald, the President of Finland told him that they rake their millions of acres of forestland of…
The Great Wall of Trump
Donald wants to build a wall across the southern border of the U.S. to keep out immigrants. In Tijuana, Mexico it is not doing so well.
The elections of 2018: good news and bad news
The good news is that the dark side of the universe, the modern Republicans, have been pushed back and are limited in the new future damage they can do. The bad news is: The deficit will swell. Their tax cuts…
Voting isn’t enough
We have a mentally and emotionally ill President and a dysfunctional Congress because we have a democracy that is so flawed it may be better not to call it a democracy. We have to fix the following for a real…
Republican deficits will ruin us
Donald Trump has told his department heads to cut 5% from their budgets to deal with the explosion in the deficit for fiscal 2018 to $793 billion. This is happening in a time of prosperity that started in the Obama…
Trump’s first war
Trump has gotten us into a trade war. His “first strike” tariffs have not crippled the enemies into submission, but only sparked retaliatory strikes. We are now in a war of attrition that could go on indefinitely. Escalation of the…
What ever happened to the “R” word?
All the ten year federal budget forecasts assume different GDP growth rates, tax income and spending to come up with deficit estimations. For hundreds of years capitalism has gone through economic cycles of boom and bust. Although recessions are inevitable, none…
Business as usual
Donald Trump is proposing another tax cut on top of the fiscally irresponsible one already passed by his mob. This shows a number of things about Trump: He doesn’t understand economics. We are already experiencing rising interest rates from an…
Only a scrap of paper
Adolf Hitler once said that treaties are mere scraps of paper. Donald Trump has the same mentality. In scrapping the Paris Accord, trade deals and now the agreement with Iran, he is showing the world that making agreements and treaties…
“Mission Accomplished”, What mission?
Donald Trump has accomplished the mission of propagandizing himself as a strong leader and humanitarian, but the facts point otherwise. With his Syrian attacks, Donald Trump has treated the U.S. Constitution and international law as scraps of paper. He has…
Trump’s beginning of the end
Trump and his cult are aiming to add another bankruptcy to Trump’s score of five. This time the U.S. federal government. While other aspects of his economic irresponsibility get the media’s attention like starting trade wars, the deficit balloons to…
The evil and illegality of the Winner-take-all Electoral College system
In 2000 and 2016, the U.S. had election miscarriages for President. The losers won twice. One of the most evil, incompetent and mentally and emotionally ill Presidents, Donald Trump, became President after losing by a large margin. As previously pointed…
Trump won’t do anything about mental illness care or gun control
There are two reasons for the recent Parkland, Florida massacre. A 19 year old nutcase who is not allowed to buy a beer in Florida, but was allowed to buy semi-automatic weapons with loads of ammo clips. He then massacred…
Trump’s tax deform and the coming economic disaster
The rich own about 98% of all the outstanding stock. The market has been soaring as they look forward to increasing their wealth by paying less taxes. The Republican tax “reform” is more of a “deform” for the rich. We will…
The road to recession
The so called Republican tax cut will point us to recession and not the growth they are promising. By capping the mortgage interest and property tax deductions on homes, it will dampen higher prices in areas with higher local taxes.…
Trump: the golden wrecking ball
Sarah Palin once lovingly called Trump “the Golden Wrecking Ball”. He is on his way to being that to the country. Trump and his mob want to give the better off Americans “the biggest tax cut in American history”. Free…
Donald’s trough of lies
As usual, Donald is feeding his supporters at his trough of lies. He implies the Puerto Rican workers are not doing anything. They just want the government to give them welfare. Sound familiar? Sound Republican? He accuses the mayor of…
Donald’s tax cuts: fiscal irresponsibility or con game?
Donald Trump and his flock of sheep known as the Republican party (minus the 3-5 Senators who actually read and voted against the mass murder known as “Trumpcare”) are at it again only this time they want a big tax…
Legal stealing?
As much wealth as he allegedly has about $10-12 billion, Donald is compulsive. He must grab more and more. He funnels government business into his businesses and advertises his pathetic egotistical “USA, 45” hat that he sells. He can’t stop.…
Trump capitalizes on Hurricane Harvey
Hurricane Harvey, one of the greatest tragedies if not the greatest hit the U.S. in Texas this week. True to character, Donald visited those suffering from it like he was going to a political rally. He wore a “USA 45”…
The making of a megalomaniac
Paula White, Donald’s spiritual adviser, said “God says that he raises up and places all people in places of authority,” she continued. “It is God who raises up a king….” God raised Hitler and Stalin too? Donald would like to be…