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With the Help of President Trump, the Elites Are Coming For Your Retirement.

The greed is not going to stop unless we force it to.

Lauren Elizabeth
4 min readJun 16, 2020
Photo by Huy Phan on Unsplash

Here in the United States, lawmakers and the wealthy overlords they are beholden to taking advantage of crisis situations to rob the American people in some form or another is nothing new, and the current crisis has fostered the perfect climate for them to do so once again.

In the midst of a pandemic that has cost almost 120,000 lives and left over 40 million people unemployed with criminal inaction on the part of our lawmakers only adding to the widespread misery, despair, and uncertainty, naturally they will take advantage of the situation to leech off of workers once again. As many of us might already know, 500 billion dollars of our taxpayer money has been handed over in “loans” to undisclosed businesses in yet another people-funded corporate bail out. Unfortunately, that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how the Trump administration has taken advantage of the chaos to further the agendas of the rich and powerful.

Now, they’re coming for your retirement.

Syndicated columnist and former Bernie Sanders senior advisor David Sirota writes:

“As news cycles were consumed by Trump deliberately inflaming social unrest

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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