Regular people need to vote to take back country from elite scoundrels

Editor:

Take out the AI boom and the US economy is already in recession. That is a hidden fact.

The Fed resisted raising interest rates but since our bonds sold for less this in effect raised the cost to pay them off just as much as a rate raise would have. 12% of our bonds are held by buyers in the Cayman Islands haven of secret  tax-free accounts.

Rich tax cheats have increasing power to manipulate our finances. (Truthfully though the only way to afford to cut taxes is to have the Treasury print money which foreigners buy as debt instruments. Our debt is a monstrous amount and we depend on them to keep buying. We very much need want friends as creditors at this point.)

FinCEN just announced it will end reporting beneficial ownership interests in organizations involved with fentanyl sales. Talk is cheap when at the same time you make it easier to hide and profit.

Current Commerce regs require in return for R&D funds the government in return takes equity interests in the corporations doing the research. (Definitionally that is socialism). MAGA, not progressive capitalists, are socialist culprits.

Our ships near Iran are unharmed they can not be repaired or restocked as our ports in the Mideast were targeted instead. Iran is playing for the long haul while my grocery bills and fuel bills are still going up. And Iran refuses to negotiate with real estate moguls we sent instead of diplomats.

Muslim lists are not being proposed again, like they were 2017, but a high school football star (with a MD and PhD) is being called the central figure in a “jihadist” plot to take the Senate. (Loose words like that must be reserved for our true enemies!)

My point is that there is stuff going on which is being hidden by headline grabbing daily rants. When the Iranian press irritatingly proves to be more accurate than the Secretary of Defense we have a self-defeating  problem with credibility.  When the President demands neither he nor his family can ever be prosecuted for “tax fraud,” it’s clear thoughts about inflation and how we are doing are things he “really doesn’t care about.”

This is not the US I grew up in and love. Regular people need to turn out to vote and take it back from elite scoundrels. Short of seizing ballot boxes, turn out will make it harder to steal the election.

Conrad F. Cropsey

Albion