“Whenever I had anything and saw a fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor man to this day.”
-----Davey Crockett
Today, the United States Senate passed Donald Trump's so-called Big Beautiful Bill on a split vote, with Vice President J. D. Vance casting the deciding vote. Cudos to the three Republican Senators, Susan Collins of Maine, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Rand Paul of Kentucky, who voted against. This cumbersome bill designed to help the rich get richer now goes back to the House of Representatives, but it is doubtful enough Republicans care about their constituents to block it from becoming law.
The greatest redistribution of wealth in history has been occuring here in America over the decades since Ronald Reagan first took office in 1981. The disparity is remarkable. The top one percent control over 30% of the wealth. The bottom 50 percent control just 2.6% of the wealth in our country. It's only getting worse. The new tax cut extensions outlined in the BBB will give someone earning five million dollars a year a tax cut equalling the living wage estimate for four families of four. Trump's BBB will make certain the super rich get richer and richer, and so will Trump in the bargain, at our expense. If you voted Republican thinking you would slide up the scale, you were lied to and tricked. They are greasing the pole from the top in Washington, and I fear not enough Congressmen will remember the words to live by, spoken 200 years ago by Davey Crockett: “Be always sure you are right – then go ahead.”
A vote for the Big Beautiful Bill is not only wrong, it is immoral. Worse, it is amoral. Abandoning those in need is certainly not what I consider Christian or American. In Washington, it is only two things: convenient and cowardly. Davey Crockett said, “I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than be elected and be a little puppy dog.”