"Hate Your Next Door Neighbor....But Don't Forget To Say Grace"

             If this were on the drawing board....starting from scratch....then the subsidies....or lack of them....would be....or rather might be....logical and worthy of consideration. The same principle would apply to the number of employees in a government department. The same would apply to a grand design for the number of immigrants accepted into the country. It would all be so very simple....apply logic and economic common sense....and even compassion to the plans.
             That scenario....unfortunately....is not the reality that we face today. For better or for worse....wise or foolish....the die has already been cast....time has passed....the population has increased....stark and even frightening class economic divisions exist. Multitudes are already dependent on subsidies....some existentially dependent....people are employed and dependent on that employment.....and millions of immigrants....whole families....are assimilated.....paying taxes....serving in the military....new born and aged....are already here and established.
              Republicans are cutting these subsidies through the Big Beautiful Bill....(which was anything but beautiful)....and threatening cutbacks on Obamacare subsidies. Multitudes were summarily fired from their jobs....lives totally upended by a man like Elon Musk....(with an emphasis on traditionally Democrat occupied jobs)....and Medicare benefits are disappearing....(but the blame would go to the states....who made the cuts....because reimbursements were cut.)
               And this is only the beginning. Insurance premiums have to go up....probably drastically. A friend the other day commented to me....in a conversation that had absolutely nothing to do with politics...,that his son was astonished at the increases in insurance premiums that he will have to pay. I couldn't help myself....and told him that that was what Trump's Big Beautiful Bill did.
               You won't like this analogy....but it's only the method at achieving a goal that I'm referring to. The commandants of German concentration camps were pressured to show numbers of human beings....that were exterminated. If they didn't get their ten or twenty thousand a week....they were in trouble. The Trump administration wants numbers....big numbers....of deportations! It would be great if they were criminals....but not necessary. The irony here is that all of the illegal immigrants could never be deported.....for we are talking millions.....but that doesn't matter because this is all political. The numbers are the key. Trump needs the numbers to keep his poll numbers from flagging. He needs....more than he has ever needed anything....Republicans to hold the House of Representatives in 2026....or he will face a dozen or so special counsels....and more impeachments.
                 Thirty years ago or so....we republicans and conservatives and evangelicals took job applications for the position of President of the United States....we wanted less regulations and less taxes and a stronger national defense.....among other things....unfortunately we did not want any character references. Trump has applied to city governments his whole life for permits to build. He knows how to fudge the figures and plans. He applied to us....we bought his interview....and he got the job....and now he acts like he put out applications and hired us! Over time he stole our identity. We are republican in name only....no longer conservative....and certainly no longer evangelical!
                  We were once the party on the high ground of ethics....but no longer. As incredible that it was in the Old Testament....after Israel had gone after the Baals....and Judah saw it.....and saw what God did to them....they.....Judah....actually had gone after false gods more than Israel had! That is what we did....as we saw the irresponsibility of the modern Democrat Party....and the consequences....but we doubled-down on our own greed!
                   Referring back to the first paragraph....this is not an economic model on the drawing board for a new country. These are real people....millions and millions of them....many at basic subsistence levels....victims and not predators....simple people who....once again for better or worse....wisely or foolishly....find themselves living on a budget that relies on subsidies....while the elites....who see great profit ahead for them....(new billionaires are being made all the time)....are going to cut back subsidies at enormous levels....hurting tens of millions....even in some cases unto death....all the while trying to make us believe that they are merely being good shepherds of the economy....when it is their fortunes that are top priority....or their next election?
                   All of this came from the mind of Donald Trump....who has a history of making money at the expense of others....but then he is the one who applied for the job without having to give any character references....thus all of us have been torn apart....and many tormented....compassion for our fellow man and the alien in our midst abandoned....and the gospel of Jesus Christ turned into a political campaign....all this for an entire decade....and now we just want more money in our pockets....to blazes the multitudes who would be hurt....or as the lyrics admonish on Barry McGuire's 1965 hit song....Eve Of Destruction...."Hate your Next Door Neighbor....but Don't forget To Say grace."