I just returned from the supermarket. Was in the produce section checking out the lemons. A shopper was nearby, a 60 something woman who was dressed like myself in a strictly working class attire . I remarked how the lemons were highly priced and ” You need a microscope to find them.” She was oblivious to my statement, so I went on:” With this guy running things we’re going to be in the poor house soon!” She answered quickly ” Well, if Harris got in we would have the same problems.” And that was that. No room for trying to ‘school’ her on all that Trump has done to screw so many things up. I speculate that this woman, living in an area where less than 5% of people of color live, doesn’t feel the emotional or moral effects of Trump’s attack on the undocumented. To her, and millions of lily white Americans who reside in areas like mine, the rhetoric of the right wing is working: ‘The illegals are mostly criminals and drug mules who want to live off of Uncle Sam’s teat.’
This new Fatherland, oh sorry, Homeland Security know it all, Kristi Noem, should be bagging groceries in South Dakota. First off, Kristi revealed in front of Congress that she did not know what Habeas Corpus meant. Now her big Kahuna boss calls out the National Guard to LA, an act Governors are mandated to be able to do. Meanwhile, while Kristi was governor of South Dakota, she railed and ranted about States’ Rights when Biden wanted to call out the Guard to our nation’s border in 2024. Perhaps the Senators at her hearing last week should have asked Kristi for her definition of the use of the Guard and who is supposed to do that, by law. Another example of an Apologist for Evil.
Now they want to go after Medicare as well as drastic cuts for Medicaid. You see, it is all about fraud, as with those Ronald Reagan 1980 campaign commercials about ‘ Welfare Queens’ sucking up all our tax money for welfare. Obviously there has always been fraud whenever there is a government program. I can recall, in the 80s, when I worked for a software service for medical claims at doctors’ offices, the things I encountered. I was given appointments by my company to make presentations throughout Brooklyn NY. I would go to and fro to medical offices to pitch the service and sign up free trials. I cannot tell you how many so called medical clinics I went to that were disgusting fraud mills. These were in very low income areas where most of the residents were on Medicaid. The clinic ( mill) would have its own pharmacy inside. The doctor would examine and then issue a prescription, which was filled up front. Guess who partnered in the pharmacy? Guess who made out like a bandit after billing Medicaid for the visit, lab tests never taken and the medicine? Now that was fraud, and not by the patient or Medicaid recipient. Yet, the right wing wants to punish the patient for the sins of the crooked doctor.
Did you ever ask yourself why the Trump Cabal is pushing for soldiers patrolling city streets? You see, they know that by cutting the Safety Net and granting tax cuts for the very wealthy will translate into a massive financial downturn for the poor and working stiffs. With too many high rents and too many low paying jobs and less and less employment opportunities more Americans will be out on the streets to protest. By using this draconian technique of the Guard into LA the true purpose should be understood by more Americans…or else 1933 Germany is around the corner folks!
PA Farruggio
June, 2025