It has now been a full month since the government shutdown began. Soon, 800,000 furloughed workers will miss their second paycheck this year. Trump’s shutdown is now the longest in American history. The effects of this event have become pretty clear lately - many food safety inspections from the FDA have been haulted, Park Rangers all over the country are struggling to keep parks clean and cared for, and TSA + Air Traffic Controllers are calling in sick or quitting their jobs outright.
a vandalized Joshua Tree
Is all of this really worth it? Everybody knew that Mexico wasn’t going to pay for this stupid wall, but I don’t know anybody that thought it would turn out like this.
After the massive tax cuts for the wealthy, and all the rhetoric about being a candidate for the people, this is the costly temper tantrum that we get stuck with. We’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t here. If legislators fund this short-sighted, spendy, and ultimately ineffective project, the government goes back to work and taxpayers get conned into paying for this giant mistake. If the opposition stands its ground, then our Dear Leader will continue to hold our country hostage, making us less safe and prosperous.
They need to build the wall. Not sure why it is Trumps shutdown. The other side could do what was agreed on back when Reagan granted amnesty in the 1980's and build the wall. But to many politicians from both sides of the aisle get paid off by those who traffic in drugs, people and weapons. I have lived over half my life an hour from that border, and most of my blog deals with the human trafficking going on there. Just this last week they found cases of emptied out phosphorous warheads on a trafficking trail. Guarantee the contents quickly went the other way on that border and are in new warheads that can't be traced to the U.S.
The criminals running the spy agencies run these illegal operations and have most of our politicians on the payroll and fearful that they might take a dirtnap if they move to shut these programs down by building that wall. They use the innocent migrants as their cover.
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Well said.. i couldnt agree with you more. I knew it wouldn't work when he was running for president. I laughed when he said it. If he wants to keep immigrants from stealing our jobs he needs to change the laws. Not build a giant wall around the country. Not only is he holding the country hostage, but he is doing it to build a prison wall around us. Didnt we get upset when sadam held his country hostage? What about the other countries that do it. It always outrages us to the point of war. Hes acting like a terrorist. Actually, i think what he is doing is the definition of terrorism
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One simple law would fix everything. We imprison persons found guilty of hiring illegals. He dont want to do that though. That would be harmful to yhe corporations and therefore his pockets.
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"We’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t here."
On point!
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