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My Hope for 2025
Please protect the people
Yes, I’m worried about my husband’s and my Social Security and our Medicare. Mine pays the mortgage and other big bills each month; his buys the groceries, including the food for four dogs and a cat. A cut or total loss would be a crisis.
But there are many people who are far more vulnerable than we are. We are relatively comfortable. What about the people who are just making it? How will they feed themselves and their families when food prices go up? Tariffs will raise the price of food. T-rump loves tariffs.
Tariffs will increase the prices of everything that is imported into this country, and, let’s face it, most things we have are imported. Too many of our manufacturing companies moved all the jobs overseas for the cheaper labor but kept one office here in the United States so they could claim to still be an American company and get government subsidies (which is our tax money. The government has no money except what they get from us taxpayers.)
And what about the people in the rest of the world? The Ukrainians and the Palestinians? The NATO nations? The climate? Will T-rump care about them? Of course not. He does not care about people. He cares about money. Mostly his money.
Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. How much money does one person need? He could…