I couldn't stand President Trump before he was elected. The hate and hysterics of the left make we want to defend him.
Shockingly ( to me ), President Trump's is a better conservative than Senate and House leadership.
I enjoyed some of the apprentice competition and the concept of the show, however the arrogance and self importance part always bothered me. I am not an in-your-face northerner personality. Over the years, I have had many east coast friends two of whom grew up in the Bronx. And several in Queens. More loyal and great LA transplants compared to other misfits who arrived in LA. Most of the state always seemed to have people from “somewhere else”, few born there. California was once a great place, for me never will return with the idiocy I read about.
Trump rubs people the wrong way sometimes with his brash and tactless behavior. His “getting things done” attitude is someone sorely in politics and since Ross Peroe I lost interest. The usual promises during campaign and later in office forgetting them. Ann Coulter keeps reminding him of the wall, so he has hurdles to get support to build it. My view has always been employer sanctions instead of that. If no jobs, then less illegal aliens. But better yet is investment in the Americas instead of low priced non tarriffed crap from China or all this war debt madness in the Middle East.
In fact, regarding the wall.... the irony is you get deported immediately if caught working illegally in Latin America if your gringo status is “restringida” or on a passport without permanent residency residence or special work permit. I have seen it happen first hand. Met convicted US felons unemployable in the US, hide out south of the border, work illegally, etc too. Nobody talks about that. The US gets bombarded with all the negative publicity too from latin mouthpieces on the CNN news about the wall is some racist symbol, yet all countries have borders and all are penetrable all up and down the hemisphere and they do random checks for illegals everywhere in Latin America. Arm chair DC politicians have little or no idea about what really goes on south of the border. Policy change and help to boost economies investing in all of the Americas would be a wise investment to increase trade in the Americas, not so much elsewhere. Especially the EU and most of all Germany, they should be sanctioned for not paying NATO and buying from Russia more than the US, lol.
Yet so much attention is made on wasting money on the middle east, where a totally foreign culture with idealogical and religious differences exist, they have been fighting among themselves for 2000 years anyway so makes no sense to me to allow mass migration of those people to the states. Let them go to Merkel and Macrons backyard.
I have met Plenty of former illegal or 90 day visa people go to the states and actually return too after finding the US is difficult to live in and expensive. Life is less stressful in Latin America. Colombians, Mexicans, Venezuelans, El Salvadorians, Nicaraguans, Hondurans many who leave go to other latin countries illegally like Panamá to work. They are exploited there just like the states.
They leave because of no economic activity or where there is Foreign or US businesses exploit them locally. $2 a day to roll cigars in Nicaragua it is hard to imagine, but thats the pay rate that US owned companies pay or fake cuban mfgers exploit people for, then resell at huge margins to US customers.
Just like the Chinese iPhone “labor” camps. Apple sells for $1,000. Or Nike Shoes in Bangladesh for $4 and sold for $150.
Sorry got off tangent, but imo the US problems are really cultural in nature. Too much importation, Greed, too much national and personal debt, both parents working, latchkey kids, food stamps (they dont hand those out in latin America), too many spoiled entitled people, too much govt, etc. too much tax of the middle class, too many mergers and acquisitions and large companies, None of this will change unless American reprioritize their life styles.
Trump can’t change that unless he leads the country to a self sufficient, “non import from china based” and better manufacturing economy. But unless small businesses and not large businesses are given a chance, its an Amazon only world. I like the optimizism on Wallstreet, but to me its really a bubble and stocks are bid up way too high, with P/E ratios so idiotic. Its partially because of artificially low interest rates so savers are “forced” by their own greed to take money from fixed assets into the worlds largest rigged casino- wall street. Low interest rates have again pushed up to hyperinflate home values too in coastal places like Silicon Valley and Washington. Even in Colorado I read of high prices.
Trump is not the solution nor the problem, its America looking at itself in the mirror.
Guns are the least of US problem, its developed into a sick, violent culture and one focused on easy living, excessive “stuff”, divisive hate and the “getting ahead” at any cost mantra while at stomping all over your neighbor or other countries.
