Yesterday or today Trump tweeted that the House of Representatives didn’t have the power to impeach him. Instantly I thought of the standard triangular graphic that appears in absolutely every high school government or civics textbook.
There has never been a public school student who sat in one of the aforementioned classes and didn’t see something that closely resembled the attached graph. And, as they saw the graphic,
Every American needs to put down whatever they’re doing, put aside their political and religious biases, open up their brains, and listen carefully to how the youngest member of the US House of Representatives is demonstrating the absolute truth about money in our government. If this nation cannot agree with what we’re being shown, there is no hope.
Here are a few of today’s interesting factoids that are worth noting:
RISING DRUG COSTS: Californians have been notified that the cost of generic glaucoma drugs will rise by 64% and one asthma med will increase 50% on May 1. How can such increases be justified and explained?
SINCE COLUMBINE (April, 1999) 185,000 American students have been exposed to school shootings.
FACTOID: As the new Congress feverishly works to undo 
Obamacare a recent study strongly suggest that the majority of Americans know little about the law. That is even more true of those who oppose it. The post-information era at its best.
UNINFORMED VOTER: According to Pew Research 54% of 
Americans know nothing, “about the alt-right white nationalist movement that gained prominence during Trump’s campaign for the presidency.” And 30% of the people who had heard about it weren’t sure what it was about.
WHAT’S THE PRICE: What does it cost to be nominated to a cabinet 
leader position in the Trump administration. Well, six of his current nominees contributed about $2 million each to help get Donald elected. Looks like power still goes to those who can buy it.
NURSES: “An annual U.K. survey asking people whom they trusted 
most found nurses absurdly credible, with 93 percent of people trusting them.” (Source – The Guardian)
$100,000: That’s the expected cost to NYC each time Trump goes 
home for a visit. Since he plans to go home every weekend it becomes major dollars. Plus, each visit means a significant gridlock as his motor brigade travels to and from airports. Maybe this is why he only carried 10% of the city’s vote.
SCARY THINGS: Don’t know who keeps count of such things or 
what it means but, Donald Trump Halloween masks are selling slightly better than Hillary Clinton masks. Maybe Hillary just isn’t as frightening as Trump.
ANTI-SEMITIC: “The Anti-Defamation League identified 2.6 million 
tweets containing anti-Semitic language, 19,253 of which were sent to journalists. More than two-thirds of the tweets directed at journalists came from 1,600 Twitter accounts.”
FEAR MEETS FACTS: Politifact says between 2004-2014 303 
Americans killed by terrorist, including overseas. During same time 320,523 were killed by fellow Americans.
FACTOID: The US dropped more bomb tonnage on Laos during the Vietnam War then it did on Germany and Japan combined in WWII.
FACTOID: According to the IRS the average American pays 13.6 cents out of each dollar in federal income taxes, with those just below the 1 percent paying 18.4 percent and the top 1 percent paying 27 percent. In perspective the average American earns $54,000 a year. A person in the top 1% earns at least $4 million annually. While their tax bill is double the average American’s their income is 74 times greater.
