grief and the darknes after

we all hear the old saying life will go on... well.. my father died suddenly almost two years ago.... I remember my mom getting the call at ten o` clock at night. and I remember before she ever hung up the phone... I knew.and I went into what can best be described as shock. as with most deaths... I had to go the next day to make funeral plans. and I have to say this.... the funeral homes take advantage of the fact you are not really able to think...it was surreal... talking about him being dead, and yet, my mind refused the very idea... it was thought it was a very bad dream. as I left, I was trying very hard to be brave for my sixty-five-year-old mother who just lost her husband of nearly forty-five years. when I got home, I went to my room... and all the weight of the fact my best friend has gone hit me.... I cried like a small child... I wanted my father...men are raised to not show their emotions, and we by doing so... put a handicap on them. we are human, we have emotions...my father never showed emotion... even though I knew he loved us. I remember my last words to him the day before....
   after the immediate death, there is always the crowd of well-wishers.... but with my father voice in my head, all I could think was ...why are you here? you did not care about him.... you never visited. and I do not want your pity. so,then comes the ceremonial funeral...... all these people dressed to a tee.... and all the "I am sorry for your loss"...do not get me wrong,some are really sincere... but,there are others who the death means absolutely nothing....as I stood there, looking at what know was my fathers resting place, I wanted to dig my way in there. if my heart could have ...it would have sunk from my body into the eath...
  after the ceremony.. you are alone... no one comes..they may call, or leave messages...but, it is just you in a house that is now for all pratical purposes..haunted.everywhere you look,,, your mind's eye sees them.m y mom cried for months.... I think I stayed in shock for three months.. I did not cry during that time... then, on my birthday... I became a blubbering crybaby... everything sent me to crying so. as i said,they say life will go on..... but,it will never be the same. give yourself time. allow yourself to be human.... and no..grief has no time limit... as my birthday approches... i find a dark cloud gathering around me...and grief is clouding a lot of my judgement....also remeber... you are not alone in grief.

the nra and the gop has the blood of innocents on their hands

 we all seen the tragedy. we all know the faces. but what is going on now is even worse. the GOP and the NRA have set out to discredit these kids who were targeted. and are trying to get Americans to forget it was president trump who signed a bill that allowed mentally ill people to own guns.
 they are blocking any kind of gun safety bill. they will be the cause of the next great American tragedy. they blocked the bump stop bill....which turns normal guns into automatic weapons.... they applauded trump signing his bill rolling back Obama's ban on the mentally ill owning a gun.they will not ban assault weapons...they will not limit ammo clips.why? the NRA is why.
 the NRA was formed to teach gun safety to the masses. but instead has become twisted by the fact it has money pouring in from gun manufacturers.it is no longer about safety...of hunters... itis about the ammosexuals. it is about the mega gun collectors...the alt-right militias.it pushed the lie Obama was coming for your guns... it is a terrorist organization.what else would you call an organization that puts money over the lives of kids?
  now they are pushing the idea of the good guy with a gun theory.the only problem... this has been proved false in several different attacks.... including the latest. there were four sheriff deputies that were armed who did not go in to confront the killer...so there is the proof that the good guy with a gun theory is insane.but, the GOP who is deep in the pockets of the NRA is going head first with this idea.... and what will happen when a teacher accidentally or purposely kills an innocent kid? .... the NRA will push to allow kids to bring there own guns to school of course...because it is not about safety... it is about money.
 so how do we stop this madness? boycott anyone doing business with the NRA until the NRA snaps back from its insanity.no one wants to ban guns altogether. but weapons of war have no business in the hands of civilians. and kids do not need to own them.

the tragedy of parkland

 yesterday we had another school shooting. and of course the thoughts and prayers line got thrown around. and then the other line that comes from the gop.... it is to early to talk about gun laws... we need to respect those victims...
 I call bull shit. you do not care. the nra,which took money from russia in 2016... owns your soul.this is not about banning guns.it is not about your right to bear arms. it is the fact the nra and the gop has made it so easy to get a gun that a known mental patient ent and bought a ar-15 and several magazines.AND IT WAS LEGAL.
 it is about the fact in las vegas the perpatratior used a bumb stop.which turns a normal rifle into a automatic....once again...nothing to do with your right to bear arms.
the concealed carry and open carry laws..... that allow to many people with questinable backgrounds to get weapons.
 the fact the nra is pushing for anyone to have the right to own silencers.... silencers.my god if this maniac had one of them on his riffle.the dead count would be a lot bigger.
  many vets get on the internet and say guns like a ak-47 and a ar-15 have no buiessness being in the hands of civilians. these are weapons of war. why are people obsessed with these two?especially the maniacs?and why would we need one?
 this is the simple argument for senciable gun laws. but the nra does not care. it is happy...everytime there is a mass shooting,sales of guns jump. it is good for buiesness. it is not about the second amendment... it is about money.congress feruses to talk about meaningful gun laws because tens of millions of dollars have been paid to individual congress memebers.and it is simple to have meaningful gunlaws. most gun owners want them.... and we need them.you right to own a gun does not trump a kids right to live.it is not politicizing the tragedy. it is honoring it. lets do something instead of waiting for the next massacre.our leaders will not talk about laws for gun owners. we need to force them to our vote them out.

Russiagate

 MY my my....funny how things come around....last year at this time trump and company were yelling lock her up over hillary`s e-mails.now,we have the top brass of the trump administration on record foaming at the mouth for russian assistance in helping get the orange dictatior elected.and we are supposed to believe the lieing trump administration that nothing came out of this meeting.and we are supposed to believe that trump sr knew nothing about the meeting.yeah,and unicorns are real.
  But we all know that even with this revelation the cult followers will believe every fairy tale there gods tell them.and it is pathetic.this e-mails show that the trump administration was collaborating with Russia.and i guarantee you he said he would drop tariffs imposed by Obama.this is treason.Russia is our enemy.regardless what people think.and the fact a man running for president has gone through more than a year lying about he and his team talking and collaborating with Russia is more proof of how much of a puppet he really is.
  then in other republican we do not care about America news.....the repeal push continues...they want to kick twenty two million off health care.and they want us to buy this..it not about health care..it is a tax cut for the rich.this is all the trump administration is going to be about.getting the best deals for the ultra rich.if you go into the details,there will be no help for the working class...but the rich,they will get history busting tax cuts.they need to raise the debt ceiling.they went as far as shutting the government down saying we need a balanced budget when Obama was in office  and said we need to stop raising the debt.but yet,once again..republican president,raising the debt...proving they do not care about a balanced budget.
 then,we need to pour more money into the military budget at the expense of everything else.why is it there is always money for wars and the military but nothing else?the department of defense takes up a whopping 70% of our government spending.....yes that is right .and it needs more?no,it needs to spend wiser.stop buying aircraft that do not work.we need our roads bridges and infrastructure improved.it is crumbling .we need to fund education and health care.we can not keep giving every cent we get to a out of control military industrial complex,the nation is crumbling because of this obsession with war.

#trumpgate

Unless you have been hiding under a rock,you have heard there is a growing suspicion by any Americans over the trump Russian ties.but in the last couple of days ,some truly disturbing things have happened.first sally Yates testified before the congressional hearings and dropped several huge bombshells.one...that the Obama administration warned trump about Micheal Flynn and that he could easily be blackmailed and he should not be given any job with nation security clearance.then,that she herself warned trump three different times about Flynn,then it took three weeks before trump fired him....and this only happened after the press got wind of Flynn vulnerability....two..that Russia has transcripts and may use them to blackmail the white house at anytime...these are some truly eye opening things....no other president in the history of the united states has been under suspicion of having foreign agents in its cabinet,but to have as many as trump,is monumental.
   Then,an even more suspicious and baffling action was taken by the white house...they fired comney the director of the FBI.and the reasoning behind it is well...laughable...this has ignited a lot of theories that comney and the investigation was getting to close.the FBI had just issued new warrants    of trumps dealings with Russia business.there seems to be a pattern.anyone who even considers trump for investigation gets fired.there is plenty of smoke around the Russia trump scandal.and it smells of Watergate.and the firing of comney brings back echos of Watergate.
  Trumps surrogates have made their rounds saying the investigation is a false claim...and a waste of tax payer dollars.which many...including myself,find funny.look how much time they took looking into Benghazi.....look at all the time took into Hillary`s e-mails...but lets not look into what really smells of treason?why the sudden change of heart in defending our constitution?it smells of republican conspiracy to hide the Russian connection,,,and the more we learn,the more republicans are implicated.
  WE here in America must take a gut check.are we willing to allow what may be a Russian network in thee highest offices?are we willing to allow Russia to pull the strings?
  But this is what i see is more troublesome....the arresting of reporters for asking tough questions....this is straight out of a dictators handbook.the attack on the first amendment.with out it,all the other rights are meaning less.
 we must stand up and demand a fair and honest investigation...free from trumps meddling our he will be seen as illegitimate no matter what.

Donald Trump,populism,and the end of human decency.

 while have the United states may love and support Donald Trump,i do not......he is stands for everything the America i grew up with and love does not.he is for building walls,i believe America should be about bringing walls down both here and abroad.he and his followers want to end obamacare....i think we did not go far enough.we should have universal health care..it should be a basic human right.he and his followers are all for cutting aid to the elderly,disabled,and worse to children.this goes against every decent thing i was taught.to attack the weakest among us is barbaric.it is inhuman....and is a kin to Hitler.it was not that long ago i was one of those kids.i did not eat at home,i got my meals from school.and if it had not been for the school lunch program,i would have starved.the problem with a "populist"moment is that it is like a wild beast...it does not think things through.it cares not who it hurts,why it does.it has no ability to.rarely have populist actually done anything to help the people that follow it.what this country needs is not a wall.....not a Muslim registry,hate .......we need a return to teaching our kids what they need,not what the populist want.because if the populist had there way....kids would only get a fifth grade education,and would work for sweat shops and mines.and our water and air would be poisoned again.
  Donald trump wants to pull out of the united nations.....this i can not get.this has helped the united states in a lot of ways.no,it is not perfect....but it has helped us.
  And then their is the out right lies.....that there was wide spread voter fraud...debunked by everyone...but yet,he wants an investigation...why would i believe anything his administration?he has already proven he will lie and use propaganda,and have a paid cheering group follow him....why would his investigation not find what he wants?
   The final blow and death of American decency is torture.THE UNITED STATES SHOULD NEVER USE TORTURE.it has been proven over thousands of years to be ineffectual.and what is worse innocent people wind up being tortured.and you do not make things better,you make them worse.we are not the Nazis,we are not the soviet union or Russia.....we have always stood for human decency.i hope we come to our senses.

bias in the fbi and the media against hillary

 When the FBI director went on national tv and said he was investigating Hillary Clintons emails,he violated protocol...and proved just how bias Washington has become.he did it to give his mentor in chief trump a boost......but...there is nothing there....just like there was nothing before...so why now?
  And what is infuriating's is that he also has gone to great lengths to keep from saying what the cia,doj and others have....there is clear evidence of russia trying to influence the election in favor of trum...and he has been queit on the fact the fbi is pprobing trumps campain advisor and some others in his campain for ties with russia.he would not even speak about the fact russia was behind the cyber attacks.....if this does not seeem to be bias,then your are part of the trump cult.
  Then there is the media bias.....all you hear is Clinton's e-mail......nothing about the fact trump is going to go to court for bribery....or the fact he has multiple fraud cases pending....or how he is accused of taking part in a sick gang rape of a thirteen year old girl......the media remains silent....
  and yet republicans accuse people like me of not caring about this country...that we put a party of the nation's best intrest....funny.with their nominee getting money from russia...he is the benefactor of the Russian attacks....he is the benefactor of keeping secret his ties to russia...and keeping the fact he is not a good businessman ...and the fact he is a pedophile....yeah...i am the one not thinking about our nation.

the U.S. supreme court nomination..

 Today,president obama announced he will nominate a person for the supreme court.now,the gop has said they will block any nomination until after the election.this is unprecedented action.but,should not be unexpected.every since obama won the first election,the gop has become a party of obstruction,racism and hatred.the rise of the tea party has caused some damage to the government.they have caused more problems than they have solved.but,this,is unconstitutional.to do so,forces a constitutional crises of epic proportions.....but to hear the every more broken gop,it is not...that a president can not nominate a justice.the gop has for seven years sat on there buts and done nothing.America look at the gop...the government does not work.and the reason is the gop.

The Attempted Genocide of Flint Michigan

 W e all have seen the head lines.the lead in the water of flint Michigan. the "accidental" poisoning of thousands of poor people.
 But was it?there were concerns raised from the very start.the epa warned about toxic levels.then the university study  showed toxic levels.did the gop controlled government listen?no.they all blowed smoke of it was all party politics...for months...then epa alerted them again.the water was well above the levels considered toxic.but,one woman decided to go public.that is why we know what is going on.....not because the governor went public to help.
 and the bigger problem.......flint is a very poor community  and is predominantly black.,would this had happened in a white community?would it been allowed to continue for as long as it did?
  The answer of course is NO.so...why was it allowed?there are a lot of people claiming it was accidental...but,i believe it WAS A COLD CALCULATED ATTEMPT AT ETHNIC CLEANSING .by  a gop who sees the poor and the minority as sub human.the gop has become the nazi party.one only has to listen.they talk,walk like Nazis. they claim to want a smaller government....this is code for .DICTATORSHIP. An government of all older white gop minded people.and the stripping of the rights of men.they already try to strip the tight of free speech...and they yell Obama is coming for your guns while they are doing this.along with stripping you of your right to privacy.
 The governor  should be tried for the wanted poisoning of flint Michigan. and so should other gop officials.

active and open rebellion

 The gop congress basically told the states to not obey federal law...one question comes to mind ,why?...here is the answer..the billionaire agenda...all politicians must answer to them.the gop does more so than Democrats,but money is the problem...the billionaire agenda is this..#1 do away with the Federal government...rule by state..why?...states are smaller,easier to control...most states are dependent on federal dollars,do away with that,they will do whatever you want.#2.. population control...even Oprah Winfrey has been reported to have been in on this idea...kill off those whom do not support the initiatives...through,making cheap foods more expensive...a.k,a..the "organic movement"anyone with a brain will tell you...they need bees to thrive,bees move between farms cross pollination...there is no way to say something is without human growth hormones,pesticides,some of this farms products are less appealing in taste then no organic....#3 stop people from eating meat...science will tell you man evolved to eat meat...that jump helped his brain become larger....while the rich tell you its bad...they will eat what they want..#4 control the markets....to a far extent they already do.if they decide a new businesses could threaten their empire,they will use all kinds of unfair practices to put them out of business....it is supposed to be illegal,but i seriously doubt the government in its current state would object....#5 put the masses in a dream like state by controlling what they hear,and see...this is already a reality...most people do not see it..every tv station,news paper,online entertainment,is owned by a billionaire.....you see what they want,you hear what they want....
  So,we are st the cross roads....will America survive capitalism ,and an open rebellion by republicans?i doubt it.the gop has been brain washing people to love the old ideas...racism,sexism,extremism...how?the church is in bed with the politicians...we were warned in the 50`s..if the christian "conservatives"take control,this will become a nightmare scenario....we knew......and yet,here we are.

YEAR SEVEN: SAME OLD GOP

For all the chest thumping,trash talking here we are year seven.... so now that the GOP has complete control has anything in there bag of tricks changed?no.... they still are not doing anything...they still sit on there behinds getting paid .there only way of governing-shutdown. they now threaten to shutdown the dept. of homeland security....and of all times when Isis,al queda is threatening to attack America malls....are these guys serious?are they actually willing to take the risk that if something happens Americans will be to dumb to put the two together?is bohner mentally ill?they now say Obama actions were illegal....so was it illegal when bush,Regan did the exact same thing?....and here we go again...lets get rid of obamacare....even though it is actually doing everything it promised in states that allow competition....it has lowered cost,and has caused a hiring boom...except in die hard gop tea party states which tie the system down...why?the gop and the tea party are in the pockets of the Koch brothers...and they can not allow there cash cow..big pharma...to be tamed....if people who back the gop are still so blind they can not see there party as racist,sexist old men...even after all the racist,sexist comments there leaders have said..then they do not want to see the truth...yes,i will admit the democrats have problems,but they are better than the gop.then there is Jeb Bush...when asked would he be willing to start another war...he said he would...when pressed about the other two "bush wars" he said he would be willing to start a third bush war....the last thing we need is another bush lad.

good old days.

  What the political parties want you to forget, and so would all the wealth is the fact that every since this country became independent there has been some type of corruption. Politician who are only out for themselves, or corporate money buying leader's. It has been the virus that has threatened this nation. From the concept of our constitution the wealthy hated it.they wanted it to be like England. And they made it know,they bought leader's and yes presidents.some of the earliest political cartoons speak of this.and the poor have always felt left out.it was not until Teddy Roosevelt that a president took on the plight of the poor.and he made enemies of Rockefeller and several other baron's but it was needed.the working conditions were hell.child labour,sweatshops. The average. American family went hungry.but what is different now is the wholesale selloff of America. The supreme court in America is a joke.it has given company rights.our forefathers would never allowed this. Travesty.our senators and representative are on the company payroll. And until this stops,america can never be free when we bow to the barons in the balcony.

Executive orders/immigration

 Everyday on the news,internet you here some republican whining that president Obama is abusing his power by way of executive orders.If this is true,why did not the republican majority say the same about the republican messiah Ronald Reagan? He issued nearly three times as many executive orders as Obama... and several were on guess what gopers... immigration.and yet,all these whine republicans hold him up as a perfect president.then ,there is the constant republican name calling.i had some respect for the gop until they became a classroom full of babies.whom instead of working decide name calling was better.i mean really... anyone whom has tried to have a grown up conversation with a republican on the internet or tv ends up listening to a child throwing a fit and calling people names.then there is the ignorance.... a socialist,fascist.... if you do not know how a type of government works,shut up.if this is a socialist state,then George bush ran a damn dictatorship.
   and here is the reason the gop is blowing so much smoke.... they can not even pass a bill they want passed.they are so dysfunctional and scared someone might say the president worked with congress to get a bill passed that they will not let anything pass.they do not even try.in the now going on seven years Obama has been president,the gop has not done anything.unless you count the fact they shut the government down in a fit.of cutting veterans benefits.or maybe the three hundred times they tried to repeal obamacare or had meetings on Benghazi. they can not lead.
  if bohner wants to do something.why does he not force his fellow republicans to actually work.work and try to pass comprehensive immigration.if he is so mad he wets his pants ,then do something.

Congress is falling all over themselves to get out of Washington.

 It is a sad sate.we have a country in crises.a possible war,and terrorist threats.we need a real budget... corporate reform..... and yet,congress spends over 200 days a year out.and when they are in a group makes it to where they are useless... what good is congress?if war,economic problems are not enough to keep them in what is?they no longer do as the people wish,they do what the corporations wish...and then bam....they are on vacation touting what they have accomplished...
 This is a national disgrace.the founding fathers would give them a tongue lashing that would last for days... taking corporate money,bribes in essence,... doing nothing.... i can see Thomas Jefferson standing there saying you are not worthy of this privileged... these people have no worries... they will get re elected. no term limits,Jerry rigged districts.... no matter what they are set.we as Americans need to demand better ...

the problem with the prisions in america.

 the united states has more people in jail than any other country.and we are failing to protect our own people.so what do we do?number one,get business out of prisons.it makes it into a slavery system.we find you guilty in order to fill a order.and put you in a private prison where the inmates are not protected,and they have the worst record for murders,and violence.they use the inmate to make money.it is a cash for inmates....the county where i was born has been on national television for having a school to prison policy...and has not changed.some say it is worse.what kind of people do that?and question then becomes has our judiciary system become so corrupted by money that it no longer matters if your innocent?case and point....a 38 year old man follows a woman and her son from one store to another.....then attacks her 34 year old son....then he attacks this 65 year old woman who is disabled....the police arrest him.then,he files charges on her and her son,,...at the hearing the police testify,the clerk testifies...the man hired someone to say he did nothing.all that were there said this man was not present.....the judge decides to find the 65 year old woman who did nothing guilty of assault,the son guilty of assault.now,here is the ringer,he decides the man who stalked them not guilty of attacking the disabled woman,but guilty of attacking her son....and makes the woman go on probation for 6 months,which means,she had to pay hundreds of dollars in probation fees....even the probation officer that watched it could not believe the verdict...so,are they finding people guilty just to make the state more money?and if you cannot pay the fees,you end up in jail,then back on probation,racking up more fees...the truth is plain to see,we have a judiciary system geared to make money for the state...and your guilt or innocence is not the overriding factor,money is.then,there is the double standard.poor people are getting harsher sentences then rich.the rich rarely do actual jail time for something a poorer person would get years for.once again,money talks....we need to get together and demand equal justice.a rich man raped a child and never,never went to prison....how the hell can that judge say that was justice?but if it had been a poor man,he would be in jail for life,righteously so.

why the recent SCOTUS ruling on campain finance should not surprise you

 A lot has been made of yesterdays ruling by the scouts saying anyone can give as much as they want to whomever whenever they want,but think on it....why is it a surprise they would not agree?the scotus is the only court allowed to essentially take bribes on things before the court...such as vacations can be given anything ,name it,they can have,and it is legal.you go before them against one of these big shots,you have no chance,what can you offer?legal briefings?please lady justice may be blind,but she knows the smell and sound of money.and that`s why,corporations now have rights.because money is the new puppet master,and our government is just a hand puppet.it no longer even surprises me that when you say something like this to some republicans ,they say you are just rich bashing,no....i do not care ,as long as they pay there part,and have the same rights as me.but lets face it they do not pay,and they have a different set of laws...so it should not surprise you.nor should it when we no longer are allowed to elect government officials,when one gets appointed a king.

Injustice-stand your ground law ,and the "thug music"trial

 A man hears loud music,he does not like the music.also he is a racist,he goes over confronts some teens in a car.when he can not get them to do what he wants,and after feeling like he was "disrespected"he shoots into the car with three teens.
  Now,lets pause this....these kids were doing what i also was guilty of at that age,...playing music loud.and i am sure some of my neighbors did not like hearing Ozzy Osbourne,Metallica,etc ..but they never came at me and shot at me with a damn gun.and they would have been arrested,and put in jail no questions asked.so,the question is why is it now ok that this man not only shot at these boys,but killed one?
  Then there is the verdict.guilty on two counts of attempted murder,and not guilty of the killing of one of the boys.how the hell do you logic that?if he was guilty of trying to kill two boys who were in the damn car with the one he killed ,how is he not guilty of the killing of that one?then there is the stand your ground,or what i call the liscence to kill ,law.all you have to do if you do not like someone is provoke them,then shoot.and yet,when it is a black man,doing the same thing,it is murder.and the big fox news people have the nerve to say this law is not racist.bull.we as a nation have become a bunch of scared little kids.
       THIS IS FOR ANYONE WHO READS THIS...
       DO NOT BE SCARED OF SOMEONE WHO IS DIFFERENT.
       DO NOT BE SCARED OF OTHER RACES,RELIGIONS.
       WE ALL WANT THE SAME.TO LIVE IN PEACE AND TO BE ABLE TO DO WHAT WE CAN.
       DO NOT LET POLITICANS SCARE YOU WITH THERE SCARE TACTICS.

the high court says we have to pay for inmate sex change.

 Once again the high court sticks it to the taxpayer.a man kills his wife,gets convicted of murder,then sues for a sex change.and what is amazing wins!it is not cruel and unusual punishment.he was born a man.he is a man.i know the argument,but he is not entitled to have a surgery if he is not in danger of his life.the court has swung so far that we know have to do elective surgery?whats next?breast implants?liposuction?when does the taxpayer have the right to say,i can not afford it ,and i working ,so why is it a convict has the absolute right?if they do then everyone has the right to have the state pay for any surgery,elective or other.this is ridiculous.we have people trying to make sure universal health care never happens,so why is it a right to have an elective sex change?

executive action,And the gop continuing to desmantel the empa.

 the gop has got the supreme court in on something that every president has done.....appointing people while the congress is out.all have done it,but because of all the hate and bitterness the gop has they are going to make an example.good.this means when they get in power,they will not be able to pack the bench and fill up with their cronies.
  Then we get to recent problems,like the one that many in WV are dealing with.the fact the empa no longer has any authority to protect us from companies and there reckless actions.this was just waiting to happen.decapitated holding facilities,and toxins.it is just big business does not care.and their gop friends are continuing to gut the empa.when they do,we will all be in trouble.

In Equality

 the great minds in Washington have demonized the poor.and recently cut the food stamp program.this is part of the farm bill.this bill which is a wind fall for billionaires,was cut leaving many Americans to go hungry while making it to where the billionaires get millions and millions of tax payer money.this is used by many.and it was meant for small family owned farms that sell food.not big money to use as a way to get billionaire welfare.but over the years it has moved away from family farms to being a bill strictly to help billionaires.and i hate when some fool demonizes a poor person who is on food stamps and fails to say anything about millions of dollars going to the billionaire welfare system.