Why does a billionaire ask poor people for money for his criminal defense? A better question to ask is why are poor people so willing to pay a billionaire their hard earned cash for the billionaire’s criminal defense? Many of the people who are sending him money are people that don’t have a “pot to piss in” for some reason think that Trump has and will make their lives better. Most of them, he would not even let in the back door let alone the front door of his resort home. Trump is a billionaire, why does he not spend his own money on his defense? He was the one that had the affair with a porn star not his supporters. He was the one that paid hush money out of campaign funds. I read a report that he has raised four more million dollars. Maybe that is why he is a billionaire because, what he does is spend your money instead of his own. Trump may just be the ultimate salesman. He is having you buy something that is just thin air and when he is done it will just disappear.

I keep seeing these memes on Twitter of Trump as some warrior ready to do battle with these six pack abs and chiseled features. He has never been a warrior his entire life. He has been a grifter. In many ways a very corrupt grifter. Those memes are not there to lift up the nation. They are there to divide and spread more hate. He is not doing battle for that guy living in the trailer scratching out a living. He is going to fight for a system that keeps you in that trailer. He lets you blame someone else for your misery so your hate is not channeled at the direction of the people that want you in that trailer instead at the different races, in reality, who are in the same boat that you are it. He is not one of you. You will never see him at the corner pub playing dice and shooting pool with the next guy challenging the table. If you really think that he is speaking to you then you are just hearing what you want to hear because the only thing he wants from you is your Money, your loyalty and your hate. Trump has never worked for the poor or the middle class. These are just people he feels that should serve their King Trump. What he wants is your money and your Blind Loyalty. That is what we rebelled against. That was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence. We were rebelling against having to give our loyalty to a King that gave us nothing in return.

I swear we have not had as big of an income disparity in this country since slavery. Of all the G7 countries the United States has the highest income inequality. A whopping 61 percent of Americans think that there is too much economic inequality. The wealth gap between the poor and the wealthy has doubled since 1989. Middle class incomes have grown at a slower rate than the upper income groups for the last 5 decades. Think about the old saying, “the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer”. We are creating our own nobility class that has gotten there on the backs of the working man more so than any time that I can remember. Who actually needs a billion dollars to survive? I do not begrudge anyone that works hard for a living and is successful as long as they have done it fairly rewarding those that have helped him get there. The CEO of Starbucks in a prime example of what I am talking about. He is worth 3.7 billion dollars. To him he is an example of the American Dream. He makes it seem like he fought and clawed his way to his wealth all by his little lonesome. Yes, he did lift himself up from the lower income class and is a great success story. I hate to burst his bubble but very few people claw their way to wealth like that all on their own. Most of them make it on the backs of all the hard working people underneath them that have worked to make companies like Starbucks the success that they are. No one does it alone. He has great wealth and those that are actually making and selling his product he is not sharing enough financially in the success of their work. As I have stated I do not begrudge anyone of their success and their wealth as long as they have rewarded the people properly that have helped make them that wealth. The CEO of Starbucks deserves to be wealthy but he needs to share it with the workers that help make him wealthy. How about being a billionaire one time over instead of three times over.

As I write this it is one of the Holier days of the year for the Christian Church. It is Palm Sunday. Days before Jesus was crucified. We are supposed to be thinking about his great sacrifice for all of mankind according to the Gospel. Those words ring pretty hollow today. I have written many times that the Church has turned its back on the teachings to Jesus and now worship at the feet of Pontius Pilate. I know that a few Christians will be a little annoyed by that but, I will say that actions are always louder than words. What actions have we seen from the Church? Have we seen actions that lift people up or have we seen actions that suppress? Have we seen topics that Jesus never talks about dominate our political landscape? Have we seen topics that Jesus did talk about be completely ignored? That may be a subject for a future article. Maybe Good Friday.