Author: thingstomthinks

I wrote this in November. It was posted on Facebook. The feedback I received was positive. It was at the suggestions from those that appreciated the post that I started this blog.

Read. Enjoy. Bare with it. I have not edited it from it’s first posting. state.


It is truly amazing. Every day, more people realize they screwed themselves. They did not do even basic research before voting.

So, lets help out the remaining few so that in the future (2026) some of these insane wrongs can be corrected).

1) Tariffs are fees levied against imports, with the actual fee being paid by the consumer.

Example: A TV from China costs $200.00. A tariff of 25% is added to the cost of the TV. The cost of the tv to the distributor is now $250.00. The distributor still needs to make money, so they charge the store $300.00, keeping their $50 of profit. The store needs their $50.00 profit, so they now sell the TV for $350.00. The consumer who was only going to have to pay $300.00 is now paying $350.

End result – the US Consumer pays the 25% tariff that was placed on China.

(FYI.. Based on the Tariff treaty of 1974, the president can only increase a tariff by a maximum of 15%. It can only be imposed for 150 days unless extended by Congress. Should not take 150 to see the crippling effect higher tariffs will have on the average American or the US economy)

2) Immigrants account for 68% of the farm workers in the US.

Immigrants account for 29% of the construction work force in the US.

Immigrants account for 21% of the food supply work force in the US.

Immigrants account for 19% of the total workforce in the US.

Undocumented Immigrants account for $96.7 BILLION dollars are year in federal taxes collected.

Immigrants average a year salary of $37,585.

There are not enough “other” people to fill the gap. Current salary offerings do not offset the deportation of 11,000,000 immigrants.

The cost of a onetime mass deportation of immigrants would cost the US over $350B.

(Other people being American Citizens, especially white people. You cannot find a teenager working in fast food place now at $17 an hour, you will not find one in a filed shucking corn for $10)

Add the deportation cost of $350B to the loss of $96.7 billion in collected taxes and the US would be out over $446.7 BILLION.

That’s simple math. You would have to back out the savings of not providing services to undocumented immigrants to get the final number. The rough estimate would be a loss of well over $200 Billion.

3) With 19% of the total work force eliminated, 68% of the farm workers, and not having people in line to replace them at what works out to be $10.74 cents an hour, production would go way down for consumer items such as eggs, dairy products, fruit, vegetables. Demand for those products would remain high, supply would be reduced, and the cost would then go WAY Up.

Example: 10 people need a dozen eggs. There are only 3 dozen eggs available. The value of the eggs would increase up to 1,000%. Why? No reason to sell something for $2.00 when desperate people would pay $20 for the same thing.

4) Projected tax breaks for corporations, the top 1% of earners, the elimination of over-time taxes, the elimination of taxes on tips, the tax cost by the removal of 19% of the work force and an additional reduction of 1,000,000 well-paying government jobs, the increase costs of food and other items due to supply and demand and the added consumer burden of paying a 25% tariff, the bottom 99% would see an out of pocket increase in yearly expenses of over 15K a year, minimum (The current international tariffs treaties, etc. save the average American $7,000 a year. That savings goes away, clearly)

5) With a lack of workforce, more business close, adding to the unemployment line. With the number of workers out pacing the number of jobs, salaries and wages go down, while the cost of living goes up (everything from housing, food, clothes, entertainment, etc. will see substantial increases).

Your total costs go up 30%, your salary goes down 30% you are now pretty well screwed. Say goodbye to your home, your car, our insurances. Say hello to Good Will, shelters, park benches and dumpster diving.

6) When welfare programs are cut (Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment, food stamps, house subsidies, etc.) additional cost burdens fall on the heads of the consumer. These cost burden will lead to greater poverty, homelessness, and push current non-profits to the brink of closure. No one will be safe from being hungry or sleeping outside.

Health care related costs are already the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the US. The number of people that end up bankruptcy will only increase.

7) With more poor people, big ticket items will not be selling at current rates, if they sell at all. Fewer American made items being sold, means fewer American made items being made, means another reduction in America jobs. No company will keep on a workforce that cannot pay for itself through productivity and sales.

Higher taxes, higher costs, lower wages, reduction of services …

The only thing that will trickle down is poverty.

These are just a few of the painfully obvious concerns every American should have. Even the most obtuse can understand these simple facts.

Does not mean any or all of these things will happen. It just means that there is a good probability that they may. Just means that far too many Americans voted with their hate, not their head and certainly not their heart.

So what happened on election day due to the lack of individual education and people following their hate?

* Legal immigrants voted to have their families and friends exported.

* People in poor health voted to have their care reduced or eliminated.

* Average Americans voted to increase their financial burden so that the top 1% could become the top .05%.

* People with middle eastern roots voted to have Gaza leveled and a people eradicated.

* People voted to have individuals in-charge of their wellbeing who they would not want as neighbors (known felons, sexual predators, con-men, racists)

* Americans voted to have their mothers, sisters, daughters, nieces suffer neglect and prejudices not seen for over 150 years.

All because the price of eggs was too high (They are not).

All because the cost of gas was too high (it is not, especially on the world scale and the US does not set fuel prices so people voted for things other countries control)

All because the LQBTQ communities were being treated with the barest minimum of respect, their contributions acknowledged and narrow-minded people could not accept pro-nouns.

If you want to dispute this, do not. Showing your stupidity will not do you any favors. I will not waste my time trying to educate you about things you can easily learn yourself; even if it took you three times to pass the GED.

I had a discussion with someone tonight. They let their hate and intolerance flag fly under the guise of “I know what prejudice I’ve faced, and I am sick of being called white”.

Everyone has faced a degree of prejudice at one time or another, white, black, brown, straight, gay, trans, tall, short, fat, smart, stupid, fast, slow, wear glasses, don’t wear glasses, is in the band, not in the band, plays a sport, doesn’t play a sport, so on and on.

The only way that ends if we all decide that we do not want others to feel as we were once made to feel because of something that made us appear to be different on the OUTSIDE.

Life is not complicated. Just because you are unhappy or were once a “victim” of a bad break a time or two does not mean you heal by treating others worse than you think you were treated.

Voting to destroy your own life and the lives of others was not the solution or the “gottcha” you think it was. In the end, you won’t be better off and you will be even more bitter. You will also be out of people to blame – well, except for putting blame where it belongs – yourself.

Congratulations, America. You became the world’s lowest common denominator.

You do not like it? Read a book (before they get banned)