In just a matter of days since winning through a technicality while losing the popular tally by almost three million votes, President-elect Donald Trump is corrupting on behalf of the highest levels of corporate power more than two centuries of democracy.
He is doing that principally by filling out a cabinet with people ignorant of, or hostile to democracy and, not surprisingly, with people like ExxonMobil CEO and Secretary of State-designee Rex Tillerson who has in common with Trump life as taker.
Trump who has through contacts and privilege and enablers and special-interest favors mooched a selfish share of the people's money to get what he wanted for himself, his family and the Trump empire:
These people don't hate government. They need and use government.
Trump isn't going to make America great again.
As Tillerson has done across much much of the planet, Trump is going to take America again - - and pocket it.
He is doing that principally by filling out a cabinet with people ignorant of, or hostile to democracy and, not surprisingly, with people like ExxonMobil CEO and Secretary of State-designee Rex Tillerson who has in common with Trump life as taker.
Trump who has through contacts and privilege and enablers and special-interest favors mooched a selfish share of the people's money to get what he wanted for himself, his family and the Trump empire:
He used his father’s, and, later, his own, extensive political connections, and relied on a huge amount of assistance from the government and taxpayers in the form of tax breaks, grants and incentives to benefit the 15 buildings at the core of his Manhattan real estate empire.
Since then, Mr. Trump has reaped at least $885 million in tax breaks, grants and other subsidies for luxury apartments, hotels and office buildings in New York, according to city tax, housing and finance records. The subsidies helped him lower his own costs and sell apartments at higher prices because of their reduced taxes.Trump appointees like HUD Secretary nominee Ben Carson have no government experience, while US EPA administrator-designee David Pruitt are out to disable that agency, but Trump and Tillerson have been milking government it their entire adult lives, and the next four-to-eight years will be a slot machine stuck on all 7s.
These people don't hate government. They need and use government.
Trump isn't going to make America great again.
As Tillerson has done across much much of the planet, Trump is going to take America again - - and pocket it.
