WAUKEE Life is overshadowed by two big concerns.
There is not enough money in the grocery store for the old model. In addition, there is an uncontrollable flow of people across the border into the country.
This is what a couple living in the middle of the USA state of Iowa says. Fortunately, they know the solution to the problems.
– Both of us have even gotten to shake his hand, says By Kevin Arrowsmith.
His spouse Jolene Rosebeck showing on his cell phone how close they got. A picture of a smiling Trump remained as a memory.
Arrowsmith works as a communications specialist and Rosebeck as an elementary school teacher. The couple is an example of educated and middle-class Americans who support Trump’s election as president.
Trump is the overwhelming favorite to be the Republican Party’s presidential candidate for the November elections.
Rosebeck and Arrowsmith attend Trump campaign events whenever possible. Arrowsmith reckons he’s seen Trump live seven times already.
The restaurant lunch changed to dinner bread
Against Mexico in December crossed the border about 250,000 people illegally. It is more than ever before as long as border crossings have been recorded.
– The number one problem is the border. You just shouldn’t come here to make a living like that, says Rosebeck.
In Rosebeck’s opinion, helping migrants with tax funds seems unreasonable, because his own salary has not kept up with the rise in prices.
The price of food has risen again faster than other prices.
– The economic situation is terrible. In the store, I buy it as before, but I don’t even dare to look at what everything costs anymore, says Rosebeck.
Restaurant lunches have also become so expensive that Arrowsmith packs sandwiches at home for the workplace.
Rosebeck, 61, and Arrowsmith, 58, live in a detached house in an affluent suburb.
Waukee is located west of Des Moines, the capital of Iowa.
People have jobs here. For example, a billion-dollar investment, Apple’s data center, is being completed in the city.
However, success is clearly visible as an increase in real estate tax.
Although income taxation is relatively light in the United States, property tax is much stricter than in Finland.
The local administration maintains schools, the police department and other public services with the income from the property tax.
The average property tax for a detached house in the county is almost 4,400 dollars, or more than 4,000 euros per year. The couple thinks it’s too much.
– When you look at the schools, they look like great universities, Rosebeck says and believes that the Republicans would stop the waste.
Arrowsmith: Trump would end the war immediately
Trump has told his supporters that the United States blames Ukraine for spending too much money in the war against Russia. Trump is even claimed to end the war in one day.
– I have no reason to doubt him, Arrowsmith says.
But how Trump would end the war, neither of them can say.
In Rosebeck’s opinion, supporting Ukraine has been left too much on the US account anyway, and Europe should bear more responsibility for it.
The preference for electric cars is annoying
After all, you don’t waste too much money on one thing – gasoline is particularly cheap these days, when Rosebeck last filled up, it was only 0.68 cents per liter.
To keep gasoline affordable, Rosebeck and Arrowsmith want the U.S. to continue drilling for oil. Trump’s old election slogan “Drill baby drill” or in Finnish “drill baby more oil” is repeated in both speeches.
They don’t even start with electric cars. They encourage their purchase tax reliefs just annoying.
– It’s a green scam that you should get an electric car. There’s nothing to it, says Rosebeck. He refers above all to the fact that the battery life of electric cars has been put to the test in severe frosts.
Trump opposes cars emission restrictions and not based on climate change, even though scientists say climate change is human-caused.
Rosebeck also dismisses warnings about climate change as speeches by the international “elite”. He doesn’t want anyone to tell him what he can or can’t do.
The couple has three adult children from their previous marriages. They support the Democrats, as do the majority of young Americans.
Therefore, politics is not discussed with the children when the family gathers, for example, for a traditional Thanksgiving meal.
God bless America, reads the wall in the lobby. The couple’s circle of friends has started leaning towards Republicans.
– I don’t talk about politics with my Democratic friends because I know what the consequences would be, Arrowsmith says.
“Trump’s charges are a political witch hunt”
Rosebeck blames the inflammation of the discussion atmosphere on the Democrats, who, in his opinion, are always moralizing and blaming the Republicans.
According to Rosebeck, all charges against Trump are just “political witch hunt”.
– I’m so angry. All charges are fabricated. All the judges are Democrat Trump haters, Rosebeck downloads.
Now the couple is doing everything they can to get Trump back in power. If Trump is elected president again, maybe they’ll even be invited to the White House as a reward for toiling in front of Trump.
Then you could get an even more handsome cell phone picture of Trump.