The Republicans Are Shattering the Nation, Honestly

Besides the fantastic leaders the Republicans have foisted on us---think Nixon, Trump and Greitens, as just 3 quick examples--it seems we just keep getting yet more gifts from these people. This news story broke today.

The US's national debt spiked $1 trillion 

in less than 6 months

So they railed against big budgets and too much spending for 8 years while a Democrat was in the White House but when they get their own man in there, what do they do? Do they slash spending and whittle down the deficit they hate so much?

Heck no!

They've done quite the opposite, as we keep seeing!  First it was with their budget giveaway for the already-wealthy and corporations.

The Senate Budget Sets Up A Tax Giveaway 

To The Rich

The Trump Budget Is Full of Giveaways 

to Coal and Oil Companies

Tax bill: Ample tax cuts for business, wealthy 

in new GOP tax plan

Not done there, they also did their best to increase other spending and unnecessary, at that.

A disconcerting $70 billion increase 

in defense spending

Then look what they've done to "Obamacare" and health care in the nation, folks.

The stupidity of Trumpcare: Government will spend $33 billion more to cover 8.9 million fewer Americans, as premiums soar

They wanted to make sure they undid President Obama's legacy on health care, for sure. So we'll all be paying more for health insurance, fewer will have coverage and so, access to health care and then the nation will spend more to get it all.

Fantastic, no?

Finally, here are just two of the results of their tax plan.

CBO: Senate tax bill increases deficit 

by $1.4 trillion 

Why the GOP Tax Bill Will Make 

Wealth Inequality Worse

They famously, even infamously did it in and to Kansas, as we all watched, right next door, from 2012 to today with Governor Brownback's and the Republican Party's tax cuts for the already-wealthy and corporations.

Did anyone learn?

Oh, heck no. So here we go again. Some more. But on a larger, national scale now.

God help them if they go after Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and other budgets.

For the love of God and all that's good, someone, someone tell me why anyone but the wealthy votes Republican.

New President and Congress Show For Whom They're Actually Working, Already

Check out what the Republicans in Congress have done and are doing for the already-wealthy and corporations--and against the people, ultimately, against the nation and the nation’s best interests since they took over the White House and got back in Congress only two weeks ago.

--Scrapping Dodd-Frank so the big banks can be yet more unregulated and take us ever-closer to one more economic, national and possibly, if not likely, international melt-down

--Scrapping rules against coal companies dumping coal ash into streams

--Scrapping required background checks for the officially mentally unstable

--Scrapping rules that require financial advisers to act on their clients best interests. Those clients would be you and me.

--Scrapping methane rules so corporations can pour yet more methane into our atmosphere

Don't believe it? See for yourself.

Trump Team Promises To 'Dismantle' 

Dodd-Frank Bank Regulations

Trump Moves to Roll Back Obama-Era 

Financial Regulations

'banking caucus' ready to rip apart 

Dodd-Frank

Congress just killed a rule restricting coal companies from dumping waste in streams

GOP rolls back gun control rule that limits sales to mentally disabled people

Trump Takes Aim At Dodd-Frank, Investor Protections Rule In Executive Action

Congress ready to roll back federal methane flaring rule

And then this sort of Republican President, Trump, wants to further erode the separation of church and state by letting churches be political. Ironically, he said it at the National Prayer Breakfast a few days ago.

Trump vows to 'totally destroy' restrictions on churches' support of candidates

Want to see a real beauty? Want to see who this new President Trump and his Republican colleagues are really working for? There's nothing any more telling than this little exchange that took place this week, just a few days ago.

Donald Trump breaks Medicare promise after meeting with Big Pharma lobbyists

Finally, here's another. One last, late breaking example of who Mr. Trump and all the Republicans in Congress are actually working for. And it's not you and me, Mr. and Mrs. middle- and/or lower-class America.

G.O.P. Hurries to Slash Oil and Gas Rules, Ending Industries’ 8-Year Wait

During the campaign for the office he now holds, Mr. Trump said we Americans pay too high prices for drugs and pharmaceuticals in the nation. Like he had to tell us, right? Now? Now that he's President and in the White House and has the power to do anything?  Yeah, well, never mind...

Mind you, this is only the first two weeks, ladies and gentlemen. Who can even imagine what they have in store for us even this month, this year, let alone the next four or six years, depending on the length of their respective terms in office?

We Join Less, Get On Technology More

The future holds very little socializing, I think. At least in person. I believe we will be a nation, if not most of the industrialized world, of people looking down, into our phones, mostly, and laptops, secondarily.

First, what we're doing.

Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital

Fewer American Workers Join Labor Unions

The military's real problem: Fewer Americans are joining

Younger Generations Less Likely to Join Boy Scouts

Masons, other service groups fight membership declines

Moose, Elk Joining The Endangered

NASCAR Is In Trouble And Nobody Wants To Talk About It

There are a lot of reasons for the NFL's ratings slide

So long, televised football: Millennials are so over you

Americans becoming less religious, especially young 

U.S. Public Becoming Less Religious | Pew Research Center

And now, for the problems...

People Spend Too Much Time on Smartphones

U.S. Young Adults Admit Too Much Time on Cell Phones

Britons spend more time on tech than asleep, study suggests

Putnam, "The Strange Disappearance of Civic America."

Amount of Time Spent Playing Video Games Influences Kids' Behavior

When Tech Is a Problem Child

How parents fight back against their kids’ obsession with smartphones and social media.

Doesn't seem like it portends good things for us, as a people, as a society, as a nation. A not very united states.