The Real American Problems

Our Congress needs to learn from Little League especially since this is Baseball season. They act more civil and with ethical humanity than our highest elected officials. Now more than ever we need a collective Congress to do what is right for this country especially since we are being taken hostage by Trump with his ever changing ideas for this country that usually ends up in more protesting. People even tried to take the baseball shooting into a political football. Blaming one party or another for the violence didn’t change the violent act.

In Little League we teach the kids that losers don’t whine and winners don’t gloat. You don’t question a call by the umpire’s heritage. Why do adults forget these early lessons? We need to try something new in this country with something old before our frustrations destroy all of us. After every game the little Little Leaguers line up and shake hands no matter who won the game. We need to make all Congressmen do that after they pull their all-nighters to try to pass some legislation. Both parties should line up and shake hands after every State of the Union Address where all Americans usually can see just how divided this nation of leaders really are.

They don’t have to change their positions or views. They don’t even have to compromise but let us all see some civility in our government! We like to see when our children behave in an upstanding way. We need to see more of it in our government. Just because Congress is in the big leagues, doesn’t mean they can’t act like good kids. This administration isn’t even serving the people. It is the very wealthy billionaires in top government positions and then there is the people protesting and getting at each other’s throats over just about anything. While we are cutting each other’s throats and getting arrest records the billionaires come and go after lining their pockets with even more money from our countries influence.

As Congress and the American people battle over issues Trump’s billionaire advisors clean up big profits. Most recently Trump advisor Carl Icahn who was named “special advisor” on Regulatory Reform. He is a refinery owner who was betting on himself. He was betting that the price of oil would drop. So of course once he got the government job he saw that the price of oil would drop. He made even more money in the stock market on oil. So the billionaire bets in the stock market that prices of oil would drop. Then he joins the Trump Administration to insure that the prices would drop. He advised Trump to make regulations on oil that he was personally invested in.

This is just out in the open corruption that other elected officials are simply looking the other way probably they all have their fingers caught in other lucrative pots of their own. Should elected officials make the rules in our government that will benefit their pockets? Hell NO!  December 7 Scott Pruitt was picked to run the Trump’s EPA who agrees with Icahn’s ideas while biofuels credits were trading at $1.20 cents. December 21 Carl Icahn gets Trump’s advisor job and shares go down to 80 cents; February 27 the White House receives the new Icahn Biofuels Plan and the stock is down to 40 cents per share. Every time those prices dropped, Icahn made more personal money as he set the policies for that to happen. Don’t we all wish we can make our own rules to benefit out pocketbooks?

Icahn raises ethics flags with his dual roles as an investor and Trump advisor. So the stock of Icahn’s refinery company CVR Energy has soared. By this past late December the shares of the company doubled generating a windfall, at least on paper, of $455 million dollars for HIM. So the next time Trump boasts that the stock market is up it is probably because of insider deals like this for his buddies. Congress needs to shake hands Republicans and Democrats to get after these thieving bastards that do NOT include the American people in their high profiting deals while we are all literally beating each other up out of frustration over stupid statues that a century of people have looked at.

Last week Carl Resigned as Trump’s Special Advisor. Yes, he cashed in his chips and left the poker table with his loot. Where is the criminal charges for this thief? There are laws that say that “it is illegal for Executive Branch   Employees to work on any matter which they might have a direct financial interest.” The Public Integrity   Department of the Justice Department should be investigating this! Carl Icahn should have NOT accepted the special advisor position that involves his company and his profits. Ok, now I need to go into the streets and protest this and try to strangle some Trump supporters but I won’t because I saw a Little League game today and I must behave like those kids. SIGHHHHHHHHHHH!