President Donald Trump and his minions have only proved their callous disregard for human beings under the false claim of efficiency.

fficiency means doing the same work in less time or for less money. But by simply firing an entire generation of federal employees, the same work is not getting done at all. And the cost of the federal government will not be lessened either, due to his next proposed budget which includes a $4 trillion tax cut for the rich with an accompanying $4 trillion debt ceiling hike.

There is no a chance in Hades that he is saving money for the federal government. Rather than being efficient, he will make things spiral out of control. If he really wanted to help, he would raise taxes on the rich and pay down the debt, give the middle class tax cuts to increase its free cash for spending. So far, his efforts have only created pain and suffering for hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens and millions of USAID recipients. And there is more to come.

Republicans are targeting Medicaid recipients (again) — their favorite blame group; vaccine programs (their anti-science accelerating toward the cliff scenario); and every federal program.

And how will we be feeling when they go after Social Security and Medicare? Who votes for people like that? It is time to start a Deprogram the Brainwashed Office because propaganda is the only possible explanation for how this crook got into office. Why do we never read in any news outlet about Republican propaganda, or Democrat propaganda?

I see the Trump movement as a population of victims who cannot tell the difference between being told news and being told what to think about that news. The first is news, the second is propaganda. My advice for the gullible: Don’t let anybody feed you what to think. And if you cannot form your own good opinion, instead of simply retelling the crap you are told to think, if you cannot think for yourself, then you are reading the wrong news feeds and watching the wrong news programs.

Get smart, please. The country depends on your brain.

John Walter

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