Political Rodents Want Public to Pay for Ballroom

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Last October when the historic East Wing of the White House was demolished by the Trump administration with no prior warning or approval from Congress, Donald Trjmp announced that the fresh pile of rubble would be bulldozed away and replaced with a gilded, 90,000 square-foot ballroom that would seat 999 people.  Trump assured the public that the glitzy edifice to himself would be paid for entirely by his rich oligarch friends in their never-ending quest to purchase influence with the government.  The cost would be $100 million.

Trump being Trump and Washington, DC, being Washington, DC, the estimated cost quickly doubled to $200 million, and not long after that it doubled again to $400 million because . . . well, why the hell not!

It's always easy and fun to spend other people's money.  The political rodents in Washington, DC, know that very well!

And when it comes to spending other people's money, nobody does it better than Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina.   Earlier this year Senator Graham was a cheerleader for getting the US involved in a war with Iran and stated that he would have no problem in asking South Carolinians to send their sons and daughters to fight in the Middle East.  It was no skin off Lindsey's wallet - and now, just over two months later, the US has already sunk more that $25 billion into that war and we appear to be stuck in it indefinitely, and the price of gas, thanks to the GOP/Trump/Graham War on Iran, has jumped from less that three dollars a gallon to more than four dollars a gallon, and, well  . . .  Lindsey's still good with it because it's other people's money!

But Lindsey's not done yet.  Not only is he still hosing our money - yours and mine - onto the dumpster fire in Iran, he has also decided that the public treasury (your money and mine) should be used to pay for Trump's gaudy ballroom - still a steal at just $400 million!  

Senator Lindsey Graham (R,  SC), Senator Eric Schmitt (R, MO), and Senator Katie Britt (R, AL), have collectively shown that they have no shame and introduced a bill in the US Senate to have US taxpayers foot the bill for Trump's big, beautiful ballroom!  Was that the plan all along?

Lindsey, you need to dust off your bubble wand, head back to Disney World, and share your global insights with Goofy - and Eric, you would do well to return to Missouri and spend some quality time visiting with your constituents at a few gas stations and grocery stores - and bring Jason Smith with you!

America needs healthcare for all, affordable housing for all, daycare for working families, quality public education for all in safe schools, renewable energy, quality mass transit coast-to-coast and border-to-border, safe jobs that pay living wages, free post- secondary education, and so much more.  What America does not need is another endless war or a damned vanity ballroom!