“My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day. April 2, 2025, will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America’s destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to Make America Wealthy Again.” ~ President Donald J. Trump
Times are still tough as we knew they would be. Trump and his people can’t turn the economy around all in one fell swoop in only a matter of a couple of months, but he’s off to a pretty darn good start, especially in regard to his energy policy and his new broad sweep tariffs in a take-no-prisoners fashion.
Trump’s Liberation Day has essentially razed the old economic order and way of doing things to the ground. We’ve seen a not-so-subtle shift in the American economy that has resulted in a bunch of piss-poor paying jobs that make it so people have to work a full-time and a part-time job or even two full-time jobs just to provide the necessities for their family these days.
If nothing else, Trump’s recent actions, Liberation Day specifically, should go down in history as the time that finally killed the myth that Donald Trump only cares about the rich. His economic policies reveal the exact opposite, as he and his people wage a class war of sorts on Wall Street for the sake of America’s working class folks. And in retaliation, to punish him, Wall Street is literally just shorting him and his agenda, as they bet against America and the President of the United States.
The oligarchs and so-called “elite” of the upper class of 5th Avenue and Wall Street are betting against President Donald Trump, because they can’t stand the notion that there exists a person with power in America who is not on his knees and bowing in front of the great Wall Street Grand Poo-Bahs and asking them, “And what would you like next?” the way both parties have been doing for sixty years or so now.
Trump’s plan is to take the country back to the days when a man could actually make ends meet on one paycheck and still manage to take his family on a vacation every so often. A lot of things could still go wrong, but for now, he’s got Wall Street and the world set back on their heels.
As Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary has noted:
“The top ten percent of Americans own eighty-eight percent of the stock. The next forty percent owns twelve percent of the stock market. The bottom fifty percent has debt. They have credit card bills. They rent their homes. They have auto loans. And we’ve got to give them some relief.”
The problem isn’t just the inequality and the massive income gap between the extremely poor and the extremely wealthy. It’s the overall lack of any real sense of a unified country, regardless of income, largely because the wealthiest Americans today don’t seem to care about the poor, or even the middle class who are barely making ends meet and struggling to keep poverty for themselves and their own families at bay.
Creating more purchasing power for the poorest Americans would be good for the growth of America’s economy, not bad.
It’s not a one-size fits all analysis, but for a multitude of different reasons, America’s system hasn’t worked too well for the bottom fifty percent of Her people. Most of their stumbling blocks have been created by the crony-capitalist/ fascist protectionism that is prevalent in our society and facilitated by lobbyists and our own Congress. What so many tout as “capitalism” today, just isn’t; it’s capitalism hollowed out by the Marxist ideology to create a fascist economy which is simply a bad system, and so, it is up to us now to fix the system, which is very near imploding upon itself as the nation rapidly approaches $37 trillion in national debt.
Americans want good jobs. We all want our children to have better lives than we had. Everyone wants and should be able to own their own home in this country, full of so many available resources and so much potential yet untapped. And all responsible Americans who are worth a shit want to pay off their debts rather than ride the welfare system. This isn’t really so hard under the right set of circumstances, and our nation should be able to make some great headway in this direction over the next four years or more, depending on who and what comes after Trump.
April 9, 2025
Justin O. Smith – author
~ The Author ~
Justin O. Smith has lived in Tennessee off and on most of his adult life, and graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 1980, with a B.S. and a double major in International Relations and Cultural Geography – minors in Military Science and English, for what its worth. His real education started from that point on. Smith is a frequent contributor to the family of Kettle Moraine Publications.
