Goodbye FEMA. Trump is dismantling it. Truth will come when we have back-to-back hurricanes in 2025. He says the states are well equipped to handle natural disasters. No way, I say.
Goodbye storied Voice of America. For decades, citizens from around the world have listened intently to what democracy sounds like. It gave them hope and fervor. Not any more, to be sure. Adios to America’s low-cost propaganda machine, which triumphantly and accurately broadcasted morsels of humanity, trust and American goodwill.
Goodbye National Weather Service. Trump has gutted that vital meteorological agency. No way will they be able to help pinpoint impending disaster.
Remember, in his first term, Trump took a Sharpie to diagram where a hurricane was supposed to hit along the Gulf Coast. Of course, he was dead wrong.
And he will be wrong again — as time will show that our communities are more vulnerable with the lack of this technological expertise to gauge and try to get the upper hand against an ever-meaner Mother Nature.
Goodbye to the Department of Education. Students? We don’t need no friggin’ students, paraphrasing Trump, aided by his wrestling crony, who has no education experience. None. Nada!
In the midst of an exploding measles outbreak, his nutty buddy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., bids a nasty farewell to our health-protection agencies: the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, with thousands more firings at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Many people at that agency learned they were terminated when their security badges were pulled at the door as they showed up to work.
This whole alleged cost-cutting and rooting out abuse is a bridge too far. It is a dodge, a fraud perpetrated unto We The People.
Speaking of people, paltry little has been said about the rampant abuse to our federal work force.
And don’t buy into any ugly Trump trope. Civil service has been their calling, and they are experienced and competent — loyal to their jobs and these United States of America.
In these calamitous times, they have been subjected to hateful and passionate indignities. But adding more context: The people hired to protect us, in one way or another, are being let go.
Unceremoniously.
These mass firings will tear apart families and communities throughout the land, as breadwinners no more come home with the news.
Countless terrible stories are on the horizon with the loss of federal workers. Try making a call to the Social Security Administration. Wait times at Veterans Administration clinics and hospitals are sure to increase exponentially with the proposed hacksaw to the VA. How many veterans will suffer due to the lack of care? How many more will commit suicide with their support gone?
And don’t wonder whether that forklift operator or farm equipment assembly worker, or a hospital janitor will get workplace protections even after an accident. The occupational safety inspectors are gone, too.
Consequently, Americans will perish because they work in hazardous conditions with federal oversight absent.
In the fourth month of this moronic U.S. presidency, Trump spews rapid-fire hurt. Daily, sometimes hourly, his policies impact working Americans, our vital student population, our old, and the most vulnerable.
In this era of White House Big Mac Attacks, it really doesn’t matter what’s on a new menu.
Just get me out of this vomit.
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