Tim Cowan

Julian

Think of the United States of America as that big, beautiful blimp, the Hindenburg airship in 1937, admired by everyone looking up to it everywhere it passed.

The whole world admired the innovation and accomplishment it had come to represent. A spark ignited the gases that kept the big, beautiful blimp aloft and it was destroyed along with more than half of the people aboard.

The big, ugly, destructive, Republican budget bill is like the spark that started the fire that destroyed the Hindenburg.

The structure is consumed and no longer supports the lives of the people dependent on it. The lifelines like healthcare and food assistance and Social Security connecting families and elders to a secure future fail and fall away. Millions of children go hungry and people with serious health issues die senselessly. Everyone’s lives are diminished.

The devastation is complete, and no one will ever build another blimp as big and beautiful or another United State of America as innovative, supportive and inclusive.

That’s what is happening to our United States of America now. The Trump administration is destroying our country and our place in the world. Everything that makes America great is on fire.

Horrifying, isn’t it?