Boogeyman of affordability
Steve Rossiter , Bio and Archives--September 25, 2026
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There is another false liberal boogeyman that the socialist liberal intellectuals and politicians are trying to hang around the necks of President Trump and MAGA conservatives. Ironically, this boogeyman is only a major problem in liberal controlled jurisdictions and is a left-over problem from the Biden/Harris/Obama/autopen (BHBA) administration. The issue had not even been identified until after November 2024 when President Trump 47 cleaned the clock of the socialist Democrats a third time. That boogeyman is affordability.
In four years of the BHBA administration, they ran the national debt up by almost 10 trillion dollars, which accounts for 25% of the current national debt. Prices on every commodity increased during that four years BHBA and nobody brought up “affordability.” When I see cars lined up five or six deep in two lines at a coffee kiosk waiting to pay up to $9.00 for a cup of designer coffee, nobody is going to convince me that America has an affordability problem. When I see young people spending hundreds of dollars getting exotic body tattoos, nobody is going to convince me that America has an affordability problem.
Having said that, I have no doubt that the people living in California, New York, Oregon, Washington, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and other Democrat run jurisdictions have an affordability problem. However, the affordability problem is a self-inflicted wound because the citizens of those places have elected socialist morons who have implemented policies that drive up the cost of everything. The socialists try to hang their woes on Trump and Republicans, but it is a damn lie. There are no affordability problems in Republican run cities and states. And that is why people are having to flee the above-mentioned states like rats leaving a sinking ship.
The participation trophy generation of young people of today have horrendous college tuition debt and expect to immediately have what their parents accumulated over 30 or 40 years. They don’t have an affordability problem, they have an attitude problem, and a badly twisted understanding of how the real world works. In reality, the socialist doomsayers and their useful idiot minions in the mainstream media are trying to project the problems they created onto somebody else because that’s what socialists do.
President Trump, in only 20 months, has given Americans the most opportunities in the history of the nation. He has and is kicking out illegal aliens who have been cheating Americans out of jobs, out of reasonable housing, and not to mention the illegal alien criminal elements.
The murder rate in America is the lowest in over 125 years, crime against American citizens is the lowest in many decades, and making America safer again. The poverty rate is the lowest since records have been kept. The average salary in America is over $82,000 per year. The unemployment rate is the lowest in half a century. The highest number of Americans in history are employed today.
There are jobs available for any American who is willing to work. Is there a first-choice job for every American? Of course not. That is not how the real world has ever worked. A person needs to go to work, do his or her job well and over time seek and find promotions as his or her skills develop.
However, I am sorry to say I have some bad news; as an employee, a person is only worth what his or her employer sees as the value added that can contribute to their company. Employers will never pay top pay for an unknown quantity, which is what every new employee is. So people, get over yourself, get a job, work hard, and the whole unlimited world is open to you.
President Trump and his policies have provided more opportunities for Americans than any President in our lifetime. The haters in America and their useful idiot minions in the mainstream media may scream otherwise, but they are lying. Trump has delivered the Golden Age of America he promised, and it is up to each and every one of us to take individual responsibility and make the most of it.
Remember, the reason professional politicians hate what is going on is that Trump, his team, and diligent private citizens have exposed the reality that “the professional politicians” have been grossly negligent for decades and allowed cheating at the voting booth, and unbelievable levels of corruption, fraud, waste, and the abuse of trillions of dollars taxpayers sent the government each year. The cat is out of the bag. There is no real boogeyman called affordability except where people voted it in. The booming Trump economy is the cure if people take advantage of the opportunities.
It is up to patriotic Americans to make sure the Golden Goose called the Trump Agenda doesn’t get choked to death at the November 3, 2026, elections. Reject all Democrats and give President Trump a massive majority in both houses of Congress so this new American Golden Age will continue.
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After a 55 year career as a professional pilot in the military, in law enforcement, in the private sector, and in federal civil service, I am now retired.
In many of these positions I repeatedly took an oath to defend the United States Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.