Thursday, January 18, 2018

This is the ideology that is stalling the CR.

This is not the discussion any legislator should be looking at now. The government needs to be funded and the stalling is simply an excuse for brinkmanship and politics. 

Enough.

To begin, there is not a word about where these numbers come from. It is a known fact DACA is good for the USA economy. Any expense is due to the bureaucracy required to maintain the program. There needs to be a blanket acceptance of the DACA folks without any ICE involvement in their lives again. They need a Green Card to proceed in citizenship in the USA.

I wish the ideologues would finally bury the past. The Plutocrats can afford all this mess, but, the majority of the country cannot. Reality demands attention that ideology does not satisfy.

Get a clue. At the time of the birth of the USA from 13 colonies, leaders were difficult to find because few came from wealthy families that could afford an education. The Plutocrats ideology is hideous to the reality of the year 2018.

January 18, 2018

Henry Clay was a Whig. (click here) That should say it all. The Whigs are not represented in the current Congress.

Compromise. (click here) The word elates many when brought up talking about Congress; but is it truly great? If the compromise on DACA and the border wall goes through it will be detrimental to the United States economy and the American taxpayer. Every year the DACA program costs a total of $54.5 billion a year. If Trump gets the border wall he campaigned on, it would cost America an estimated $70 billion initially, with a further $150 million a year indefinitely.

By 2020, at the time of the presidential election, this compromise will cost the American taxpayers nearly $234,000,000,000. The current yearly budget has a nearly $700 billion deficit, and this program will increase the deficit by almost 34% yearly. Over ten years, this compromise will add $616.5 billion to the debt. DACA alone will cost 545 billion over ten years, while the wall is expected to cost 71.5 billion over ten years.

The issue is the increased spending with this compromise is coupled with the recent tax cuts in the Trump Administration. It doesn’t take a genius to realize cutting revenue and raising expenditure, while already spending more than revenue allows, will increase the debt....