Life in America has changed for the worse. Congress has long abdicated its constitutional powers as enumerated in Article 1, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.
Congress was granted the power to declare war (last exercised in 1941) but has stood by impotently, allowing all presidents since to send our military to fight and die in over 84 countries.
The power of taxation and duties was also given to Congress. They have cowardly allowed presidents to unilaterally set tariffs. Now they sit idly by while our lives are upturned at the random whims of an erratic, vindictive, unrestrained, unstable genius.
Does your life improve when millions lose lifesaving medical coverage? Does it make you feel better to know a bribe of a $400 million airplane and anonymous purchases of personal crypto currency help a self-proclaimed billionaire and his family expand their private wealth in foreign countries?
Is your life better when children born in the United States, citizens per the Constitution, are deported and deprived of lifesaving medicine and treatment? Is your life better when armed, masked thugs handcuff the entire staff of a restaurant in search of people with brown skin?
Are you comforted when billionaires are given trillions in tax breaks so they can buy more yachts, million-dollar wristwatches, jets, private space travel and remote islands? Is your life better when starving children around the world are deprived of food that has already been allocated by Congress?
Rhys Schrock
Durango
