The government is shut down and, who is at fault? Congress. Both parties. The DNC, the RNC, K Street and a bunch of people and organizations can be grouped in with Congress. Trump? No, the problem has simmered and progressively become worse as time has passed. One third of the people of El Salvador are reportedly in the US now. They didn't just show up 1 week. Does this sound like a recent issue?
Are Americans heartless or racists, because they would like to slow, cease or limit cross border movement? I think not. What about the 300 million Indians, who would pile in immediately, of we opened the gate? Half of Africa, much of Europe and other parts of Asia would like to come as well. That is, until enough came to destroy the country by changing its philosophy and overwhelming its physical and financial resources. This issue totally threatens the middle class in the country, mainly the bottom half, which has been suffering living standard declines for decades, much due to the dilution of the labor pool with millions of unskilled immigrants, willing to undercut the domestic worker.
The press and the left needs to open their eyes and they will see why Trump has received so much support. For more than 20 years, there has been discussion about immigration, amnesty and border security. Much of the current Democratic resistance has voted for a border fence, wall or some kind of barrier, but never funded more and a pittance of the costs. Most of them are on the record in policy or campaign speeches, taking Trump's current position. 20 years and nothing of count has been done. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OF COUNT.
It is becoming obvious that instead of doing something to solve the problems here, the parties have chosen to make the situation something to talk about during campaigns, checking the breeze enough and using it to divide during the sessions, the press then dividing the country. They all know what comes over the border, drugs, human trafficking, people looking for a better life and now, welfare seekers. The later overwhelm a part of government services that are already in peril, as American education and medical care are way out of bounds in cost, due mostly to political solutions.
20 years and nothing done. I will expand, as the entire Federal Government mechanism is about talking points and nothing about reasonable solutions. They can't pass a budget, they can't move on immigration, amnesty and border security. They merely let the problem get to a crisis point. The border has been a crisis for decades, a 3000 mile crisis. Again, 20 years of talking and nothing done, except brainwash the kids in school. We are a nation of disabled humans, from birth to grave and the most disabled are the people running the 2 parties.
I am of the opinion, after observation that if we merely put the names of 100,000 people at a football game and drew 435, we would do better than the crap we are being fed by the parties. The same is true for the Senate, draw them out of a hat. There are Senators from major States that shouldn't be running the animal shelter in a mid sized town, much less making rules for the country. They are a pile of political talking points, full of schemes to unjustly enrich themselves and others at the expense of a population being enslaved by coercion. They find their political issues and block other solutions or create solutions that barely work at prices 100 times what should be allocated. We could wipe out the entire group and never miss one of them.
There is always talk about people paying their fair share from politicians. The Federal government spends $4 trillion a year and there are around 125 million private jobs in the US. I don't count government jobs, because they all draw out of the private sector and are part of the political class. In any case, Federal spending is over $30,000 per private job. Let that sink in. A high percentage of private jobs pay no more than $30,000 a year, so those jobs have to go to pay 100% tax to pay their fair share. The rich can't pay it, as a couple years of deficits are enough to drain the top .1% and take a bite out of the remainder. So, adding to that drain isn't doing anything but dragging the country down farther.
Immigration and border security are on the front burner right now. We have had a war in Afghanistan drag on for 17 years. No solution. The swamp wants to stay and I think Trump is about to leave. 70 years in Korea. Imagine that, the iron curtain came down, the Chinese modernized and became our biggest source of imported goods and we can't solve a regional skirmish in 70 years? I'm sure we could have built housing for half the country with the costs of these fiascos.
Let's move from wars to trade. China is destroying the American middle class, but it is a Congress, executive self inflicted wound. They just sit there for 20 years, while the financial position of Americans get to the point way over half don't have a months income in savings. $800 billion has to be paid somehow, debt and asset liquidations, being the only methods, besides bankruptcy. Where did the equity seniors used to have built up in their homes go? Excess government spending and unrestricted monetary policy are to blame, as much as the people themselves.
We can go on and on. The border issue has been a crisis for years. It has spread across the nation, weakened families, diluted earning capacity of the working middle class and destroyed finances. These resources have been replaced by disability, welfare and drug addiction of a disillusioned group of people. Know it or not, these people pay the salaries of the pious leftists who reign above them. The whole stack of cards id coming down.
Trump was elected, because Congress and the 2 political parties became self serving outfits with nothing to show but self interest in the end. There are all crisis. The press is the lapdog and the people are lied to with every news story. We are listing to the solutions of idiots, pushed by another group of idiots to the point that only people who can think for themselves are able to fend off the nonsense. There are a lot of anti Trump politicians because they are anti American and have little interest in the long term stability and prosperity of America.
20 years of talking and we still have the same bullshit border security with millions coming over from places all over the world, drugs, terrorists, human trafficking, disease, pestilence and massive social and financial costs. Kids are growing up with illegal aliens and socialist teaching and most have dim prospects for their futures. They can't see the truth. Congress would rather not deal with this problem, because it would spoil their next campaign, for or against immigration, for or against free trade, for or against war. All the while, their comrades in DC and on Wall Street and in the bureaucracies get rich or secure and the people get continually poorer in worse conditions.
Trump is going to make something happen. Stop the flow and deal with the effects. We can't solve drug addiction when the supply keeps pouring in. We can go on with this nonsense and go down the drain or do something about it. Pelosi and Schumer have been playing footsies with this issue for decades. Paul Ryan did nothing. Boehner did nothing. Obama did nothing, but take actions without law to make the situation even harder to solve. Bush, Clinton. The last attempt was Reagan, in the 1980's and he was double crossed by lying Democrats.
Before Trump, the domestic United States was left to rot, by a complicit Congress. Pelosi is worth tens, if not hundreds of millions. She has been in Congress for decades. Maxine Waters lives in a multi-million dollar home, not in her district. Washington DC get richer and more crooked and less trustworthy, as the majority of the rest of the country sinks. It is all unsustainable and they are fiddling while Rome is burning and plotting their escape. Build the wall and lets start solving problems. Most good ideas are simple. Congress has none. In the end, I have to believe he Democratic Party is involved in more than politics.
