The American class system

They're now saying that Trump wanted to release his tax returns for a couple of years to brag about how little he played, because to harken back to one of his debates with Hillary Clinton, when she suggested he paid nothing on his taxes and he said, "That makes me smart."

The rich are often quoted as saying that the government would squander their money anyway, but the reality is that we need a functioning government to survive, and when the rich- who can afford to part with some of their cash- skip out on their taxes, the burden falls on the rest of us, for whom every tax dollar takes away from our daily lives. And we suffer for the government not functioning well because we don't have enough money collectively to do that.

The people at the top control so much without realizing the huge impact they have on the people down the class system from them.  But when the lower classes thrive, so do the upper classes. Maybe not at such an extreme wealth gap, but in other ways the benefits pile up.

I remember the 1990's. There were real jobs. Trump keeps talking about how great the economy is, but the jobs suck. The wages stagnate. There's something wrong here. There's a huge working-poor class that's replaced the middle class.

As long as billionaires think of themselves as exempt from the system that the rest of us are part of, the class divide is going to get worse.

Newspaper tea leaves

Let's just say I had a rough week. Something I should probably not talk about here happened and really triggered me, and I reported it to police. My body is going through the auto-immune reactions to stress that I have, despite my best efforts to stay relaxed. Or I'll try to focus on homework, and I can't stop thinking about what happened.

But it doesn't stop with the basic crisis. News reached the Senate, where I have several people interested in my issue. Senator Wyden brought it up again: FBI surveillance abuses in the rights of Americans caught up in the Russia investigation.

Please tell me I'm interpreting the newspaper tea leaves correctly, and the government is preparing to actually talk to me. I feel like I deserve that much, at the very least.