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Trump promised Americans $5,000 each for the election: buckwheat has never been sown like this before
Trump said he would pay every adult American $5,000 if the Republican Party retains control of the House of Representatives and the Senate following the November midterm elections.
Was that even possible?
Yulia Tymoshenko started crying. Partly out of pride for her protégé. Her school.
And Volodymyr Zelenskyy has probably instructed the government to investigate why we can’t replicate the U.S. president’s success. Although it’s all pretty clear over there anyway. When your pension might not be enough as early as October—because parliament isn’t voting on important laws, which is blocking international aid—you can’t exactly be throwing money around. At stake by the end of the year is $23 billion. You can either take it or create a financial crisis out of thin air. The choice has never been so easy.
Although, on the other hand, there are those Chinese packages so dear to lawmakers’ hearts—and their own attorneys general…
Even Trump has a record-breaking budget deficit. Yet he still thinks he can print as many dollars as he pleases. So why not? Yet something tells me that the day of reckoning is coming soon. Whether it’s the yields on U.S. debt that are signaling this, or the record number of Americans who can’t afford a mortgage amid extremely expensive housing…
They’ve never sown buckwheat like this before.
On the other hand, Trump is risking almost nothing. He’ll most likely not have to make this payment. He could have even promised 10. At least with oil prices back at 100—much to Putin’s delight—and diesel prices breaking records and getting on the average redneck’s nerves. And anyone who goes to the store for groceries instead of growing them in their own garden.
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Volodymyr Fesenko political scientist
All materialsUkrainian political scientist and chairman of the board of the "Penta" Center for Applied Political Studies. Winner of the 2020 Celebrity Awards in the "Political Scientist of the Year" category.