Dear Mr. Trump,

Forgive my absence. I've been busy trying to find my limit of astonishment with the things that have been happening in the American government as a whole since you took office. I must say that I have found that if I wait until I reach my limits of being astonished, I may never write another blog post the entire time you are in possession of the White House.

I must say that there have been so many subjects to talk about over the first 76 days of your time as the leader of this country, that I've felt quite a bit overwhelmed. I've spent many, MANY days and nights screaming at my TV due to a lack of ability to understand how the things you are trying to accomplish will “Make America Great Again”. 

Trump-care is a thinly veiled tax break for insurance companies, and an open insult to poor and middle class Americans by saying that we are too ignorant to understand that this bill would do nothing positive for any of us, and that we aren't worth helping, and that you and several of your fellow Republicans and other supporters believe that “Making America Great Again” includes killing off anyone in this country that makes less than a mid six figure income annually.

You put forward a budget plan that will do nothing good for anyone in this country. You cut funding to every environmental group we have, cut funding for programs to feed poor children and elderly including a large number of American Veterans. You cut funding for housing assistance, medical research, and education. You cut money from infrastructure and inner city revitalization programs, and even an area you've exploited yourself, the arts. 

I can't even begin to say how many of these things you campaigned on across this country. Time and time again you said that we needed to spend money to fix our roads and bridges, that we needed to take steps to fix situations like the drinking water situation in Flint, MI. You said we needed to actively work on helping people with serious addiction issues get the kind of help they need. But instead you stabbed the majority of Americans in the back by cutting any and all programs that would accomplish any of those things. You put up a budget that would fund an overwhelmingly large and highly unnecessary military spending increase, and of course, your completely illogical Mexican border wall.

Breaking news just now tells me that you are trying to get us into a war with Russia. You've approved an attack on Syria due to the chemical warfare they deployed on their own people on Tuesday. While I completely agree that chemical weapons are a horrible thing to use in any situation, and I agree that Syria has broken human rights law, it wasn't our place to act on this crime at this time. The United Nations has an ongoing investigation regarding this attack, and until that investigation is completed, and the UN decides what the appropriate course of actions should be, no one has the right to punish the Syrian government. In 2013, when it was President Obama in office facing this situation, you were VERY vocal about your opinion. You made it clear that you did not support military action against Syria. For the past six years Syria has been killing their own people using many different methods up to and including chemical weaponry. Where has your outrage been during this? Where was your support for the Syrian people who were being killed? Where was your charity for the struggles these people have lived and died through for the past six years? Nowhere. It didn't exist. You chose this event to flex your muscles in front of the visiting Chinese President, but what will be the repercussions from Russia? Once again I have to ask...HOW IS THIS GOING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN?

Dear Mr. Trump,

I've wanted to write down my thoughts on your election and subsequent term in the White House for a while now, but only recently have I reached my limits of idiocy and ignorance coming out of your administration and, most especially, you.

I want to start with your election campaign. I feel this is fair considering you, for some unknown reason, seem to think you're still campaigning. You talk a great deal about “making America great again”. Well I agree with you. This country has fallen as the best country in the world. When you compare the United States to other first world countries in the world, we fall well below the bar that has been set for us by countries like the UK, Canada, Norway, New Zealand, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Finland, Denmark, France, Australia, Russia and many others. What is putting us below these countries? They all offer some form of Universal Healthcare to their citizens. Some of these countries have been offering it since 1912! There is something seriously wrong with America when countries like Cuba, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Serbia, Botswana, Bhutan, Croatia, Rwanda, and many other third world countries have universal healthcare yet we still don't. Universal Healthcare will make America on par with the majority of the world, so it's time to embrace it. Universal Healthcare is one of the steps we need to take to “make America great again”.

Another thing we should do in this country to “make America great again” is to offer free post secondary education. Again I deffer to several other first AND third world countries that offer it to their citizens. Why are we not? Do we not want to support our citizens having all the best opportunities to do what it takes to succeed? Why do we keep it a 'pay for' system? Do we want to make sure the only people in this country to succeed are the already rich and powerful?

Another necessary step in making America great again is to increase the minimum wage to a livable level. It's sad that in a country as rich as this one is, that our citizens have to work 2 to 3 jobs to live. It's shameful that a person working 40 hours a week still doesn't make enough money in a minimum wage job to afford to live independently. Canada, a country ranked 19^th in GDP versus our 9^th place, has a higher minimum wage than we do. The lowest minimum wage I found in Canada was $10.50 an hour, and the highest is $15.00 an hour. We were once considered the land of dreams. Anyone could come here legally and make their dreams of finding work that paid enough to support their families true. Not anymore. 99 % of our citizens can't find the “American Dream”. The “American Dream” is now the “American Fantasy”. I am 46 years old at the writing of this, and I know only one person who has managed to reach a level that I would consider affluent, and my standards aren't really that high. Yet you say we should do away with the minimum wage all together? That we should go back to a time when there was nothing preventing an employer from paying his employees $1.00 a day or less? How can you justify that? Anyone who bothers to look can see the levels of greed prevalent in business today. There isn't a business in this country that would willingly pay people what it would take to be able to support themselves. No, I think that the minimum wage laws in place now are the only thing preventing employees from total desolation. We need to keep the minimum wage laws firmly in place and raise the minimum wage to at least $15.00 per hour. It would save the economy in this country. People would actually have money to put back into the economy. They could afford to pay their bills AND have a few nicer things. It would increase spending in almost every market across the country, and across every industry. It could be the saving grace this country has needed for years.

I have a lot to say on the subjects of Terrorism, and Immigration as well, but for now I will end this blog post. I need time to calm down and gather my thoughts on those subjects as well. But I think there is enough here to give you something to think about. I know how important impressions are to you and what I've said should help to show you that we are indeed not the greatest country in the world, but not for the reasons that you seem to think are important. We're not the best because so many other countries in the world are offering better treatment to their citizens than we are. They have a far better standard of living in their countries than we do. If you truly want to make America great again, you need to make this country at least equal to other first world countries, and then you can look into making other improvements, but let's aim for making America even again first.