Letter to the editor

Trump budget un-American

Donald Trump’s actions seem random. They are not. His proposed budget makes it clear that his ideas are united by their disregard for working class people and his support for the wealthy and privileged. If Trump has his way, we may be on the verge of one of the greatest transfers of wealth in the history of the world.

From public schools to for-profit schools.

From meals on wheels to those dining at Mar Lago.

From working class taxpayers to the billionaire class.

From those who cannot afford medical insurance to those who can afford Cadillac insurance policies.

From environmental protection to defense contractors.

From public media to extreme right-wing commercial media.

From women’s health to weapons of war.

From people of color to the privileged.

From weatherization, low-income energy assistance and renewables to profits for oil investors.

From aid to build support for America around to world to walls to keep out those who share the American dream.

From community development to community abandonment.

Simply put, from those who have inherited little or nothing, to those like Donald Trump who inherited an estimated $40 million.

It is a budget proposal that creates adversaries and ignores the needs of ordinary American citizens. This is a budget that funnels the hard-earned taxes from working class Americans to the super wealthy and their global corporations. It is cynical, dangerous, provocative, shortsighted and heartless. It is un-American.

Trump cares about working class people as much as he cares about the contractors he stiffs to build his empire. We cannot stand for this.

HARRY CHAUCER

New Haven