Laid Off Workers Against Donald Trump

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Farmers lose their farms when they cannot pay.

Working men and women who once lost their jobs because American billionaires moved them to China and other parts of Asia, are very happy Donald Trump doesn’t have a mere half a billion dollars to pay New York State.

Working men and women are not lawyers but they know the word foreclosure intimately. Banks swooped in and repossessed their homes and vehicles, which never ‘belonged’ to them, because they bought them with bank loans. That is why they want Donald Trump to feel the same pain, to lose his properties, which technically, are not his, because of a myriad of thorn bushes called credit. It’s not personal. It’s business. It is capitalism.

Working men and women know the script. Banks give you a car and a house because you have a job, and you’ll be able to pay interest on loans. Then 'billionaires' like Donald Trump decide to move factories to China, where labour is cheap and not organized. American workers lose their homes and they have to explain to kids why they must vacate their home with a small backyard, a front lawn and two-car garage.

Working men and women are mad about one thing. Donald Trump has grown-up kids, so he will never see the fear in his kids’ eyes, when they arrive at the new neighborhood full of high rise buildings and see kids whose eyes died a long time ago, when their parents lost their jobs. Donald Trump has never been a farmer, so he doesn’t know the pain of attending an auction to sell off your planters and other machinery the bank encouraged you to buy, but it didn’t rain. It just didn’t rain.

It is the capitalist way. You cannot stay in your property if you can’t pay. That is why they want Donald Trump to pay. He must find the money Letitia James is expecting in her capacity as the New York Attorney General.

Nonqaba waka Msimang

Executive Blogger

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