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Hands-off Dallas

Dealey Plaza,

April 5, 2025

Dallas, TX

I've never protested for nor against anything my entire life. As a Boomer, I know that many of the benefits I enjoy today, stemmed from non violent protests by people who believed in civil rights, the end of the Vietnam War, and Women Rights (both in the workplace and the birthplace). It's a sacred first amendment right to assemble peacefully when we do not agree, and want change.

Today, the government is waging a class war against the average person and households of four earning less than $100,000. Families simply trying to pay for groceries and keeping their jobs. We've not seen this antipathy towards the average person since the 1920's and Herbert Hoover. We have an administration that claims it is smarter than economists on Wall Street and definitely smarter than folks on Main Street who voted for Trump and his congressional sycophants. Simply put, they've lied their way into power by dividing us by our fears, religion, and even bigotry. We were baited by hatred. Not since the 20's have we seen such an effective playbook used.

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The irony of all of this is that they want to play Robinhood with Tariffs to pay for the extension of the 2017 tax cuts which were supposed to be temporary. They are not worried about the deficits nor the inflationary impact of these policies. Tariffs are a tax on consumers. Pure and simple. Wall Street is baffled by the financial impact it will have not only on consumers but corporate supply chains. Economists know that this will not work and it will impact US workers and the American farmer worse. In the meantime, the same administration guilds the Oval Office with gold trim takes golf outings that cost have cost us more than $22 million since he has come into office and ordered a new AirForce One. We may be poor but we are not that stupid.

Our economy is being tanked over an antiquated believe that tariffs will provide some discomfort and prosperity down the road. We know from history, that's not the case. This is bogus and why we would believe anything this man say's when he said publicly that "they are eating our pets". Hello that was a huge clue that he's deranged. Unfortunately, this time he's surrounded himself with only people who agree with him. We've been duped.

There is outrage in America today and rightly so. This is not about red or blue, this is about US. We The People. Congress, if you are listening, repeal the tariffs that tax the American consumer. If you are that concerned about deficits restore the old tax rates. We don't need to stimulate the wealthy and corporations. If you want to create jobs, provide small businesses with less than 100 employees tax credits, if you want inexpensive labor, create a sensible immigration program go ahead and charge immigrants they are already paying coyotes $10-15K to come into our country illegally and risk being deported. Charge them $25K and cut out the traffickers and provide them with a revocable "Visa" card. Vet them. We can do this our demographics point to a declining population and we need the labor pool to be competitive.

There are solutions, but we need to think again. We need politicians who work for us and not special interests. We certainly, don't need billionaires with no emotional IQ about us.