Today is International Women’s Day. On this day in 1917, protests began in Russia by women demanding food. The protests grew as men joined by the tens of thousands. Police were confronted. The people couldn’t be silenced. The people had reached a breaking point.
The revolution was begun by women.
Russians were suffering losses in WWI and the families of soldiers were starving. As the royalty continued to live luxurious lives, people had no bread. The protests spread widely and led to the abdication of Czar Nicholas.
In 2023, 14% of children in the United States lived in poverty, which is nearly 10 million children.
”According to a recent HuffPost story, taxpayers have to shell out an estimated $3,383,250 for each golf trip to Florida. And, due to the frequency in which the president has played, the site estimated that meant that taxpayers paid out at least $10.7 million for the president to hit the links across the first month of his second term.
It puts Trump on pace to spend well over $100 million golfing in 2025. HuffPost reported that he spent an estimated $152 million, golfing 293 days at his own resorts, during his first term.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/08/womens-protest-sparked-russian-revolution-international-womens-day
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2025/03/trumps-golf-game-taxpayers-cost-for-the-president-to-play-at-mar-a-lago.html
And don’t forget his trips to the Super Bowl and Daytona 500 cost us, the taxpayers, an estimated 10 to 20 million.
Great contrasts, Bill. I think we should also point out that while other Presidents were also golfers, none of them profited from golfing on their own personally owned gold courses, nor profited from charging enormous rates for secret service agents to stay at their personally owned facilities.