about tariffs than about government foolishness, as Richard noticed. Sarcasm. The businesses to which Trump especially owes some fulfilled campaign promises are in strong disagreement with him as to almost every aspect of his plan- if that's what it is.
B.G. as a topic covers a lot of ground. (Like "Trump" and "BO" do for others.) A large part of it is the polarization of society, which many notice with concern, on which I commented in reply to another person. Just when mankind's problems are growing in number and intensity it's losing whatever ability it had to cooperate in solving them. Mankind. That includes tax-payers, who hope and pray for solutions to their myriad problems, and tax-receivers, who are paid to find and implement solutions.
I made my list thoughtfully.
The existence of the Yemen situation should shame anyone who claims to be a highly evolved human. Disgusting. Women and kids! Once, wars were fought by grown men, facing each other. Now, mass rape and destroying relief supplies are militarized. The US? Allied with the Saudi government in fighting the Houthis, who are at least homies. Not that their own brutality is excusable. The heavy weapons- and their collateral damage- are almost all in the hands of the 'good guys'. At least this one may turn a profit, if Trump gets to sell more hardware to his friends in Riyadh.
N. Korea and Iran. How much is being spent, lots of it from classified funds, in surveillance and intelligence of those two countries? Both are possible flash points for shooting wars. (At least two of the three countries have leadership that seems not to be playing with a full deck.)
Not "China Seas", but The South China Sea, mapped. Lots going on there. Perhaps it escaped your attention. How much does it cost y'all to deploy task groups to there and the Straight of Hormuz? You and your son can be thankful Xi is sensible, patient, and doesn't face an election campaign. (He's also a thug, for the record.)
Any war is expensive, armed or not. In fact there have been suicides linked to depression in the corn belt, if you need bodies. (I don't.)
Bad government and the solutions proposed all come from the class that caused the problems, directly or by unintended consequences. The folks in our mirrors.
New Yorker drawing: God and an angel are on a cloud, observing the earth from a distance.
God: 'Oh, wait, it will be all right. They're having an election.'
Cartoonist's sarcasm.
Oleo is not the question. Please Google "guns and butter" or "guns or butter" and you'll get my point.H