by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
King Donald John Trump ascribes to the old business model of "to the owner (or boss) go the spoils, and screw everybody else." He has always been disrespectful and even scornful of his employees - everyone from hotel housekeepers to contractors to even his own lawyers and accountants - and if any of those bottom-feeders dared to ask for a raise or any other improvement in their employment situation, then they were scheming to take something from him. In Trump's worldview, all of the little people that he employs should consider themselves fortunate just to walk in his shadow - and they are all very, very expendable.
And they'd better not shoot any of his deer, either!
It should not be a surprise to anyone that King Trump entered the White House two years ago with much the same attitude toward the employees who work for the federal government. A new king was in town and they were now officially his serfs.
The new king took care of himself by keeping his own private businesses flourishing, often through activities generated by the federal government or by foreign governments seeking to ingratiate themselves to the king. He found paid government positions for some of his relatives, and used government money to fund an almost endless string of vacations and golf-outings to resorts that he owned. Then, to frost the cake, the king lobbied for and signed an enormous tax-cut bill that benefited himself and all of his wealthy courtiers.
The king said that the new tax bill would ultimately benefit the little people, but he knew better. King Trump, in his whole kingly life, never had any interest at all in helping little people. The lot of little people was to serve their betters - and nothing more.
After two years of ceaseless bragging over how well the economy was doing thanks to his kingly leadership, King Trump suddenly changed his tune this week and sought to cancel planned pay raises for federal employees based on a statutory authority that he has to do so in cases of a "national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare." The across-the-board raises of 2.1% were to have gone into effect in January.
The country was doing wonderfully, but if the pay of the serfs who operate the government was raised, it would apparently create a national emergency. Cancelling those paltry planned raises would save the economy and right the ship of state. Raises for the little people, the king said, were "inappropriate."
And now over 2 million federal workers will begin next year just like they began the last, struggling to make ends meet with no hope of an increase in salary - or even respect. And the king, meanwhile, will usher in the New Year at Mar-a-Lago playing golf and eating the world's best chocolate cake. The king, you see, had the foresight and good judgment to be born rich - and living well is his divine right.
Citizen Journalist
King Donald John Trump ascribes to the old business model of "to the owner (or boss) go the spoils, and screw everybody else." He has always been disrespectful and even scornful of his employees - everyone from hotel housekeepers to contractors to even his own lawyers and accountants - and if any of those bottom-feeders dared to ask for a raise or any other improvement in their employment situation, then they were scheming to take something from him. In Trump's worldview, all of the little people that he employs should consider themselves fortunate just to walk in his shadow - and they are all very, very expendable.
And they'd better not shoot any of his deer, either!
It should not be a surprise to anyone that King Trump entered the White House two years ago with much the same attitude toward the employees who work for the federal government. A new king was in town and they were now officially his serfs.
The new king took care of himself by keeping his own private businesses flourishing, often through activities generated by the federal government or by foreign governments seeking to ingratiate themselves to the king. He found paid government positions for some of his relatives, and used government money to fund an almost endless string of vacations and golf-outings to resorts that he owned. Then, to frost the cake, the king lobbied for and signed an enormous tax-cut bill that benefited himself and all of his wealthy courtiers.
The king said that the new tax bill would ultimately benefit the little people, but he knew better. King Trump, in his whole kingly life, never had any interest at all in helping little people. The lot of little people was to serve their betters - and nothing more.
After two years of ceaseless bragging over how well the economy was doing thanks to his kingly leadership, King Trump suddenly changed his tune this week and sought to cancel planned pay raises for federal employees based on a statutory authority that he has to do so in cases of a "national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare." The across-the-board raises of 2.1% were to have gone into effect in January.
The country was doing wonderfully, but if the pay of the serfs who operate the government was raised, it would apparently create a national emergency. Cancelling those paltry planned raises would save the economy and right the ship of state. Raises for the little people, the king said, were "inappropriate."
And now over 2 million federal workers will begin next year just like they began the last, struggling to make ends meet with no hope of an increase in salary - or even respect. And the king, meanwhile, will usher in the New Year at Mar-a-Lago playing golf and eating the world's best chocolate cake. The king, you see, had the foresight and good judgment to be born rich - and living well is his divine right.
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