Bigdog wrote:Obama refused to stop the open border between us and Mexico. That's a FACT...ok give it the old democratic denial....Any attacks here can be directly blamed on him. Just another failure for his administration. Trump wants to fix it to keep America safe.
No infrastructure upgrades...another failure..
Republicans trying to keep the democrats from bankrupting the country with all the FREE vote buying stuff...sure blame the Detroit water problem on the republicans... Who pays for all the free stuff after everyone is broke.. I'm not ok with my tax money funding people that are perfectly able to work but refuse to.. I'm not ok with my tax money funding illegal aliens stay here..
No wall is going to keep migrants out, the Mexican Drug Cartels have proved this, they still move large amounts of drugs into this country through tunnels beneath the barriers. If there is a reason mostly financial someone will figure out a way to get around any type of defensive system, remember the Maginot Line in WWII. A little discussed fact that most Latinos know is that the current administration has deported over 2 million undocumented migrant workers in the two terms of Obama. There is no way physically you can seal off the border short of deploying the military along it, something we haven't done since the Mexican Revolution of the early 1900's. Both parties are guilty of not settling the problem for a long time now. There was a chance for comprehensive legislation pushed ironically in the Senate by Little Marco Rubio. Recently he has back tracked on this position, and even wants to end the free Federal benefits given to his fellow Cuban exiles. The simple and most direct way to control the border is to enforce the laws we have on the books holding employers responsible for hiring undocumented workers. If we were to do this however I doubt there would be enough people to fill many jobs; especially in the harvesting of crops. Not too many citizens want to work in the fields for low wages, doing stoop labor, anymore.
The President did want to have a comprehensive jobs bill passed by the Congress, that would have included money for infrastructure improvements. He sets the goals, but he does not control the power of the purse, that is under the control of the Congress. The Republicans already had egg on their faces because of the big government bailout of banks started by Bush II. Despite their opposition the unemployment numbers have been going down steadily under Obama. Most of these jobs are low paying service related, Republicans did not want him to get credit for the high paying construction jobs that would have made the economy look even better. They have been working too hard to make him a one term failure. They are the one's that have dragged their collective heels, and have really hurt all of us, in the process.
What is bankrupting this country bigdog is not the free stuff given to ordinary citizens, but rather the corporate welfare given to big business, and also the massive amount of money that goes into defense, oh and fighting wars and not raising taxes to pay for them, just adding them to the National Debt. We spend more than our nearest 10 rivals put together on defense. We maintain troops in 120 countries, and bases all around the world. We contract out to private industry even the feeding of our troops, when I was in the military we had our own cooks and bakers. Kinda smart since these contractors hire local people that could slip anything into the troops chow today. I would think that with all of the aircraft carriers, jets, tanks and other expensive weapons systems we buy and maintain, we should also be able to insure that drinking water is safe for children. My father only had a 4th grade education to begin with and had to teach himself how to read and write, and eventually math all from books. Back in Oklahoma where he came from if you were too poor to buy your textbooks, you couldn't go to school. People call them the good old days really? He once told me that children had to be well fed in order to develop properly and learn. This was before any school lunch programs, or food stamps, he knew this in his gut before any medical study was ever made. The reason the Republicans are blamed for the water situation is because they took over the city administration from the mayors in Flint and Detroit and imposed city managers that could override the duly elected officials. They set themselves up as overlords with absolute power, when they make choices about policy who else is there to blame, please tell me?
