ECONOMICS

I do not profess to know as much as I should. My colleague, who knows a lot, has already told me the Trump presidency will force her to work a few more years, and she is now already past 65. Our pensions will suffer, she has told me, and I believe her. In Friday's NYT, Stephen Ratner, a Wall Street economist, has said TRUMP Economics: FIRST: DO HARM. Interest rates on treasuries have already risen.The Affordable Health Act-gone-but what will it be replaced with-Medicare. Where is the money coming from? He will not tax the rich, since many of those are his core voters. Do not forget, he has not paid taxes for how many years? And then he quotes: "Mr Trump's single issue was immigration, where he promised deportation. Immigrants, including undocumented workers, play an important role in our economy, doing jobs that many native born won't, and PAYING TAXES. His deportation plan will cost four hundred to six hundred billion."

Aside from the clear and apparent DAMAGE he is doing to our economy, I want to ask his voters: were you a child or grandchild of an immigrant? What if post War-War II-or after the Russian programs-your family was told there was no room for you on American shores? That was, after all, the LASKIN legacy. My grandpa Sol, bless his soul, was a Zionist and a Socialist.

But my grandfather was lucky, that the world was a kinder, more compassionate place then. Now? If not for my very wonderful immediate family, I would leave this country. My money would be better served somewhere else.