Texas

Warning: political post. Scroll by if you don’t want to read it.

I saw where the president fired the head of the Bureau of Labor statistics because he didn’t agree with her numbers. He agree with them while they were in his favor though. He basically tries to slant and obfuscate everything that doesn’t paint him in a positive light. As Mary Chaplin Carpenter once said in her song “I Feel Lucky”: “The stars might lie, but the numbers never do”

I’d point out a rebuttal for his need to obfuscate. This morning three businesses in Tennessee closed, putting almost 1000 people out of jobs: Perdue Farms in Monterey, Monaghan Foods in Dickson and Prarie Farms in Gallatin. These come on the heels of several other plants closing in Tennessee earlier this year in the automotive industry. All this while Tennessee governor Bill Lee is spending millions unnecessarily calling out the Tennessee national guard to help ICE. He wouldn’t take federal money earlier this year to help feed hungry kids this summer though.

I personally thought that the immigration enforcement program was going to rid the country of convicted criminals, and I saw no problem with that, but arresting and deporting people who are working jobs and paying taxes? I saw a post from a contractor in Alabama who can’t build because he depended on immigrant workers to fill his work force.

I have to mention also, the ridiculous situation in Texas, where their governor Abbott is trying to gerrymander the state map to give Trump his request for more seats in Congress. He’s threatening to send the FBI out to arrest democratic legislators who have left the state. All this will do is force democratic states to reciprocate…..and there we will go, in a cycle of tit versus tat, none of which will benefit the American people.

I could go on, but I’ll save it for later.