“They used to tell me I was building a dream And so I followed the mob When there was earth to plow or guns to bear I was always there right on the job. They used to tell me I was building a dream With peace and glory ahead Why should I be standing in line Just waiting for bread? Once I built a railroad, I made it run Made it race against time Once I built a railroad, now it's done Brother, can you spare a dime?” (Brother can You Spare a Dime/ E. R. Harburg) From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Brother can you spare a dimeˌ Brother can you ˌspare a ˈdime the title of a song written about the Great Depression of the 1930s in the US. In the song, a man who had been rich and respected before the Depression asks people to give him money, as he is now poor.
In this nation, OUR country, the United States of America, a new statistic arrived, one indirectly related to COVID-19 (the now unimportant pandemic, according to the Trump Administration, who also states, YEP, a lot more people are going to die…but let’s open the economy up because I want to win a RE-ELECTION, (oops I mean, because it will make America strong again!) 1 in 5 mothers, have reported that their children are going hungry because they do not have the resources to purchase food. In this nation, today, STILL ignoring his ability to sign a Wartime Production Act, to assist in food services, and providing the necessary federal actions to feed all of America, going hungry, Trump did find time to have the Justice Department drop charges against an admitted Russian Asset, named Michael Flynn, and to tweet about late-night talk show hosts as well as the nasty folks of The Lincoln Project is an American political action committee formed in late 2019 by several prominent Republicans. The goal of the committee is to prevent the reelection of Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. And instead of actually having the Senate present another bill to support the hungry those on food stamps, and Small Business’s Moscow Mitch placed as a priority the on and off again nomination of, Judge Justin Walker to sit on the powerful Appeals Court, yet another Activist Far-Right Judge. And in the middle of high unemployment, and no real concern to create jobs, Trump also insisted that his own personal Attorney (Willie Barr, who as Attorney General is supposed to be the People’s attorney, continue the fight in the Supreme Court to completely kill Obamacare! And We The People, are just chump change in Trump’s desire to make our Democracy into a Dystopian Dictatorship.
