A friend on Facebook shared a post from Feminist News this morning about Kristi Noem, Department of Homeland Security secretary. I've edited it a bit for less snark and for one inaccuracy:
While her boss gets a $400 million luxury jet, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is poised to receive a brand new $60 million Gulfstream V jet, paid for by American taxpayers.
The thing is...[Noem] already has a Gulfstream jet, but she's complaining because it doesn't have the luxury features of a 2025 model like massage chairs and a jacuzzi.
The other thing is that Noem already got in major trouble for misappropriating (stealing) $190,000 in South Dakota taxpayer money for personal trips and expenses, including [collagen] injections for her cheeks. [And, I would add, fixing her teeth.] South Dakota let the embezzlement slide, so now Noem's taken her grift to a whole new level, hoping taxpayers just don't notice.
Now mind you, Homeland Security Secretary is a LOW LEVEL cabinet position that didn't even exist 20 years ago. George W Bush set up the agency because he was asleep at the wheel on 9/11 and had to put on a show. As every American knows, TSA and Homeland Security exist mostly to harass Americans to take off their shoes, and occasionally molest them.
Have you noticed Homeland Security has never arrested a single white domestic terrorist? Have you noticed Homeland Security hasn't stopped even one school shooting? .... Basically, the more Homeland Security fails to provide a rationale for existing, the more taxpayer money Congress throws at it.
The reason you can't get healthcare and the reason 60% of Americans can't afford basic necessities, as a new study released this week shows, is that your taxes are providing a luxury lifestyle for cabinet members who historically traveled by Amtrak and flew economy. Now they want Gulfstream V jets that are used by Saudi royalty.
You lose your Medicaid and Social Security. Walmart raises prices. You're up at night worrying about your retirement. All so the people who shoot dogs in the face can live it up on your dime.
Robert Reich shared that same fact about 60% of Americans not being able to afford the basic cost of living, as reported by CBS:
60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
Here's how New Yorker cover artist Barry Blitt visualizes it, in the Trumpian version:
They take us all for suckers.
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