go broke

Some said "Go woke, go broke".

“But he’s one of the most effective presidents we’ve had since Roosevelt or at least since Johnson. Trump’s an authoritarian. Why would anyone want to live in that bleakness? Republicans have brought on seven of the last eight recessions. I don’t want to go broke.”

“Go woke go broke,” one user on Facebook commented on news of the changes.

I could go broke buying books explaining different ways to interpret the Constitution.

I’ll save that aspect for another column, because as I’ve already reported, in one of the great unanswered crises of our time, millions of people either can’t find care as they age, or they can’t afford it, or they go broke paying for it.