If I was a Jihad Johnny, I would be smiling now after two federal judges overruled President Trump’s immigration order. The order excluded some Middle East country immigrants from entering the United States for a certain period (90 days), until proper vetting takes place and they are deemed not a risk to enter.
The executive position of the President as commander in chief allows the office to issue such an order. It is constitutional and proper to do so. The two judges ruling it wasn’t should be removed post haste and possibly be arrested as subversives, trying to allow possible enemies of the state to enter by their rulings.
I’m not a legal scholar, but I think the president is on firm ground with the order, and if he is, the judges making such asinine roadblocks should be excoriated, disbarred, fired and sent packing. If it were President Obama, he would just ignore their squawking. President Trump should do the same.
President Trump has released his budget and has a good grasp on what should be done. Cut off foreign aid, using that money to help build the wall. Cutting money from public broadcasting (it is no longer needed as there are tons of TV and radio stations available). If you want that type of broadcasting, it should be self-supporting by viewer contributions desiring such programming.
A machete should be taken to the federal government, either eliminating entire departments or at least overlapping and competing programs that are duplicitous. Eliminate the departments of Energy, Agriculture, Education, Commerce and give the states responsibility for those programs, where it did before the federal government stole them from the states. Slash budgets in all departments (except Defense) by at least 10% and have management figure out how to do it. Those let go (fired) in the aftermath must understand it was for their own good. This is just the tip of the proverbial layoff iceberg.
State and local governments can do more with less without meddling by the feds. Nobody in the federal government ever supplied energy, food or education to anyone you know. Those were supplied by local businesses and schools at the local and state level.
The debt of the United States is now equal to the entire yearly GDP (gross domestic product(ion)). We as a country cannot exist with crushing debt and unfunded mandates and retirement debt. What is the one of the largest expenses by local schools? Retirement debt. What are the largest expenses by local and county governments? Retirement debt.
That is one of the snakes in the weeds, so to speak. The federal college loan program is in trouble. There are now 4.2 million student loans in default (up 15 % from last year). See the problem? Who’s on the hook for all these loans? Look in the mirror. We are looking at the enemy, and he is us.
We spend too much, save too little and never see the dark clouds on the horizon. The storm is just about upon us and we are thinking the waning sunlight will come back. If you’ve heard of the Great Depression, that era might be considered “good times” compared to what may be upon us soon. We are due a financial (read that stock market) correction, but since the Obama administration, in collusion with the Federal Reserve, kept rates low, there was essentially scant or little growth during the Obama years.
Having no fiscal discipline “spending like a drunken sailor” (my apologies to sailors), did us no good as a nation. Having no interest to save money encouraged would-be savers to spend their money on depreciating assets or investing in the risky stock market in equities to gain anything on their hard earned money.
The Obama administration masked the underlying rot with more easy money – college loans, cash for clunkers, investment in “green” technology that went bust, making Elon Musk a multi-millionaire, and every other stupid investment that had little or zero return for the money spent.
The worst is yet to come – hate to rain on your parade – but the day of reckoning is coming. I surely hope I am completely wrong, but history repeats itself. And it is never wrong.
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