Watch out my Trump-supporting friends. Don’t read any further. There are actual facts and data right ahead here about how much the programs you think are so expensive actually COST you per year. But just keep listening to your Leader.
Then again, why would you listen to Time Magazine? It must be some liberal conspiracy, right?
Take my $1.37… I want my PBS.
Take my $.46… I am all for federal funding of art programs.
Take my $.46… I love my museums, colleges, and libraries.
Take my $.11… I support developing minority businesses.
Take my $.66… I am for entrepreneurship and innovation.
Take my $1.60… I want us to export more goods overseas.
Take my $0.43… I would like to see more American manufacturing.
Take my $0.88… I think community policing needs vast improvement.
Take my $1.48… I support programs for women.
Take my $1.55… I believe in due process for all.
Take my $0.48… We need a civil rights division in the justice department.
Take my $0.38… I think we need to defend our Mother Earth.
Take my $0.03… I know more work needs to be done for climate change.
Take my $8.95… because we need more sustainable energy.
Take my $2.71… we should reduce our carbon footprint.
If saving these programs means I’m out $22.36 a year, I’m good with contributing my $.07 a day to save American jobs and these federal programs.
Numbers taken from a report in Time about what the roles of the 17 federal agencies DT has threatened and how much they cost the average taxpayer.
This series of datum is making its way around social media. Let’s accelerate its trajectory.
for living in a civilized society.” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Fred Rich LaRiccia
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Then, I think that he went on to say that a civilized society is maintained by forcibly sterilizing “imbeciles” though that part of the quote is less fun.
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Many of these people are immune to facts, especially ones involving numbers. Just let them know things they like or use personally will be negatively affected by this clown.
This falls into “necessary but not sufficient”. Yes, short term your way is probably more effective, but what bugs me is that the political “atmosphere” if you will always seems to be conservative. That is by default conservative arguments are easier to remember and are more likely to “feel right” than liberal ones. It may take more than one election cycle, but we need to beat stats like this to death in the public dialogue to the point that many have them memorized. Only then will the over all atmosphere change, and yes I mean the people who are more open to new info; obviously some people simply don’t need no stinkin’ facts and like it that way.
Except at the margin.
There won’t be any realization that Trump delivers the opposite of what was promised, when, say, a trade war kills US farmers or when his promise to use his extreme negotiating prowess to deal with the US pharmaceutical industry is dumped overboard (as it was today).
They’ll never be able to acknowledge that they were profoundly stupid. They’ll be like people in a cult– when the Dear Leader promises doomsday on Monday, when Tuesday morning comes they will invent a reason to continue to believe Dear Leader, rather than recognize that they have been duped by a charlatan.