Should we really be spending more on a fake crisis than the real ones??
Will the Democrats proposals help the less privileged??
Is it appropriate for Trump’s children to be talking about ¨working for what we have¨??
Thursday, March 14, 2019
The Border Isn’t The Actual National Emergency by Marissa J.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/11/opinions/national-emergency-is-economic-inequality-and-greed-love/index.html
Trump’s ¨crisis¨ at the border is not an actual emergency and CNN describes it as ¨ Donald Trump´s manufactured crisis.¨ This is exactly correct. In the U.S., income inequality and economic greed are our real problems so we have no need to manufacture any more. President Trump is planning to ask for $8.6 billion as well as a 5% cut across federal agencies, besides defense, in the 2020 fiscal budget. Millions of americans rely on government assistance to help meet their needs. Ivanka and Eric Trump decided to talk about how people should earn what they have, something that they have almost never had to do. Ivanka reportedly said that, ¨ I don’t think most americans, in their heart, want to be given something…. I think this idea of a guaranteed minimum is not something people want...¨ Trump’s other child, Eric Trump, said that, ¨The notion that people should be given things and not have to work hard for them is almost an anti-American message.¨ These comments make a bad outlook on social programs. People rely on programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and SNAP to help eliminate some of their insecurities. The government shut down already left many federal workers without pay and in line for food pantries which just goes to show that many americans are only one paycheck away from poverty. Trump is trying to cut many of these programs. Democrats are responding with lots of proposals. Many of the proposals will help more americans be successful.
Should we really be spending more on a fake crisis than the real ones??
Will the Democrats proposals help the less privileged??
Is it appropriate for Trump’s children to be talking about ¨working for what we have¨??
Should we really be spending more on a fake crisis than the real ones??
Will the Democrats proposals help the less privileged??
Is it appropriate for Trump’s children to be talking about ¨working for what we have¨??
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This is not a fake crisis. This blog is strongly biased. I would like to hear you say this face-to-face to someone who lost a family member due to sex trafficking or murder by an illegal immigrant. In the last eight years just in the state of Texas, there have been 33,082 assault charges against illegal immigrants. Two days ago an illegal immigrant was arrested for the rape of a twelve year old girl. These news sources can bring up the children in cages constantly, but don't talk about the American children that can be punished by the government because of their denial of the crisis. Keep in mind the same people didn't bat an eye when Obama did the same thing to illegal immigrant children. The Democrats want the poor to rely on them. The idea of having a minimum income for everyone is absurd and goes against capitalism. It would result in people losing a motivation to work, which would kill the economy. The economy is currently doing great, with a high GDP and a low unemployment rate. Ivanka Trump is not lazy. She started a successful fashion brand and hasn't just set back and taken money from her dad as far as I know. It is appropriate because they are supporting Capitalism and should be able to express their ideas even if they dad is very wealthy. I believe their grandpa, who didn't start out rich like his children or grandchildren, would agree with them.
ReplyDeleteWell, for starters, biased much? I prefer to use the term hard working, not privileged. Government assistance programs are not a bad thing at all. However, people abuse the system constantly. Just come to work with me for a day and you will see first hand. The border crisis is an emergency that should be taken care of. Donald Trump's children work just as hard as their dad does, so not everything they have is handed to them. Also, the "A" in American gets capitalized.
ReplyDeleteI agree that this not a manufactured crisis. This IS a crisis. A humanitarian crisis, an economic crisis, and a corruption crisis. Our president has used this wall to further his own political gain and some even say his business relations. He is re-instituting a way of thinking that objectifies and singles out one race of people, building metaphorical and literal walls between people instead of building bridges, and outright lying to the American people; how is that not a crisis?
ReplyDeleteI'm not even going to respond one the above comments that contains inaccurate information, but I will provide you with a link so you can further research before making assumptions and pulling things out of context. https://qz.com/1227461/trumps-immigration-claims-debunked-texas-data-show-us-born-americans-commit-more-rape-and-murder/
I don't really think Trump's children know what the meaning of hard work really is to be honest, let alone them being able to speak for the entire population of the American people. They are the definition of privileged and arrogant, and I don't know about you, but I do not want them telling everyone else what the American people "want" when they haven't had to work for anything essential in their lives.
What information was inaccurate?
DeleteDismissing the "national emergency" issue without any argument is mere rhetoric. I thought this blog was biased until I saw the opinion piece it was based on, which in its first two paragraphs calls Trump's wall idea a "vanity wall" and refers to "economic greed" (whatever that means) as a "true" national emergency. The writer says that the Trump administration and its supporters "ostracize those in need", which again is defamatory rhetoric, especially since unemployment rates have been going down under Trump. I feel it's important to note that this is an opinion article and not a typical CNN report, but this article is definitely biased.
ReplyDeleteThere will always be a poverty problem in America, but artificially giving more money to people is not necessarily the most productive way to attempt (and fail) to fix that. The writer of the article makes the absurd assertion that "The myth of the land of opportunity where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps is just that -- a myth" despite the, shall I say, "wealth" of examples of people's lives that directly contradict that claim. Meanwhile, he also acts as if cutting funding to social programs is inherently a bad idea despite substantial counter-arguments to their use, and that moving some funding from public schools to other educational institutions (like charter schools) is such an evil thing to do. If the writer made a single argument in his lengthy hit piece, I'd give him more credit.
So what do the current Democrat proposals suggest? Reparations against innocent whites because of their race for blacks who were never victims of slavery, many of them who have undoubtedly risen past any obscure effects of their ancestors being slaves by bettering their lives themselves, as anyone in their position should. Then comes concepts of "free" college, "free" healthcare, and so on, none of which are anywhere near free and only add to the growing entitlements our youngest generations expect from their government. People are increasingly expecting to not have to earn these things while endlessly assaulting the higher classes until they run out of money to take. Even if it was sustainable, which I don't think it is, I would argue that it is not the government's job to parent the citizens; if people are on the government's paycheck, how could they be expected to hold the government accountable? I don't know if "the Democrats want the poor to rely on them", as Daniel says, but the current Democrat propositions would definitely do just that, whether they intend it or not, and for the reason I just mentioned, the government would benefit greatly from it. And even if these solutions were sound ideas, they are far from appropriate at a time when government spending is already completely unsustainable--just take a look at our national debt and you'll see why I'm generally opposed to even more federal spending on pandering projects that may just be expensive enough to bankrupt our country.
As for Trump's children, I don't know how they make their money, and the writer of the article certainly doesn't bother to explain that part, but I would think that they probably have some sort of job, meaning that they likely do earn at least some of the money they have. And if we're going to say that they can't speak for hard workers, then how can the radical CNN opinion writer who acts as if he knows and is right about EVERYTHING be trusted anymore to speak for them? Because he certainly appears to try to.
I do not believe this is a "fake crisis." As for your other facts, your statement about millions of Americans needing government assistance has many flaws. Government assistance is meant to be temporary, not for someone to live off of permanently. So if people living of government assistance were affected by the cuts or shutdown, they might actually benefit by being forced to go out and be a functioning member of society. I also do not ever recall seeing any federal worker waiting at a food pantry to survive during the shutdown, and if they were, it's probably their own fault for not having any savings whatsoever. As for Trump's children, they both own and manage their own businesses, so yes it is appropriate for them, as entrepreneurs, to discuss "working for what we have."
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