Jan 26, 2017

Say what you want about Trump, he is doing exactly everything he said he would do, and is doing it pretty fast lol

 

Jan 26, 2017

Except getting Mexico to pay for that stupid f---ing wall.

 

Jan 26, 2017

THEY WILL PAY, BELIEVE ME FOLKS

 

Jan 26, 2017

What about this though:

1. Trump initially builds the wall using US tax money
2. Trump increases import taxes on goods being produced in Mexico that get shipped into the US.
3. Mexican companies pay the increased tax to export their goods across the border, resulting in additional revenue being generated for the US.
4. That additional revenue fills the gap that was initially used to build the wall in the first place.
5. Mexico (indirectly) pays for the wall.

...Yes, theoretically, if Mexico completely stops importing 100% of their goods to us, then we'll get stuck with the bill. However, I highly doubt that will happen.

 

Jan 26, 2017

Trump's first 12 executive orders

12. Border wall. In this order, President Trump states it is the policy of the United States to immediately construct a wall on the southern border. The order directs agencies to begin planning and identify funding for the project, including sending requests to Congress. It also directs agencies to construct or contract out for more detention facilities at or near the Mexican border.

This order also directs the hiring of an additional 5,000 border patrol agents, subject to funding. And it requires that all agencies identify any U.S. aid funds that have gone to Mexico in the past five years. (We are still awaiting an online link and will post when it appears.)

11. Deportations and sanctuary cities. This is also a longer order with several major pieces (as above, no public link yet). The president has directed agencies to step up deportation of those in the country illegally. First, he prioritizes seven groups of people for deportation. It is anyone: convicted of a crime, charged with a crime, who has committed a chargeable offense, has misrepresented themselves to the government, has abused a welfare program, who is under deportation order and who may “in the judgment of an immigration officer, otherwise pose a risk to public safety or national security.”

Second, the order also directs the hiring of 10,000 more Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, though it states that is subject to funding. Third, it states the U.S. policy is now to allow local law enforcement officers to act as immigration officers whenever possible. Fourth, it orders the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to block federal grants from so-called “sanctuary” cities which do not enforce some immigration laws.

10. Review manufacturing regulations. In this memorandum, the president ordered the Commerce Secretary to begin a 60-day review of regulations for American manufacturers, with the aim of finding ways to speed up permitting and all federal processes for them.

9. American steel in pipelines. President Trump directed the Commerce Secretary to come up with a plan to ensure that all pipelines built or repaired in the United States be constructed with American-made materials “to the maximum extent possible.”

8. Speeding up environmental reviews for all priority infrastructure. President Trump ordered that agencies and the chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality work together to set up faster deadlines and environmental approval for “high priority” infrastructure projects. It gives significant power and responsibility to the White House Council on Environmental Quality chairman, who will decide within 30 days if a proposed project is “high priority.” (The president has not yet nominated a new CEQ chairman.)

6 + 7. Speeding approval of Dakota Access and Keystone Oil Pipelines. President Trump ordered that permits for the the Dakota Access Pipeline be approved in an expedited manner, “including easements or rights-of-way to cross Federal areas.” (Army denial of an easement was a previous victory for pipeline opponents.) In his Keystone memorandum, Mr. Trump invited TransCanada to resubmit its application for a pipeline permit, and he directed the State Department to issue a final decision on that application within 60 days.

5. Federal hiring freeze. The president has told agencies they cannot fill any vacant positions nor open new ones, with two exceptions: military personnel and critical public safety positions.

4. TPP. This memorandum withdraws the United States from all Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations and from signing the trade deal.

3. Abortion. President Trump has ordered that federal dollars cannot go to organizations that provide abortion services.

2. Regulation freeze. The president has frozen all regulations now in process (but not approved) until they are approved by him or an agency after he took office. This means any regulation signed by former President Barack Obama in his final weeks in office — including some that deal with energy efficiency standards — are on hold until they’re reviewed by Trump’s administration.

1. ACA rollback. Mr. Trump has allowed all agency heads to waive requirements of the Affordable Care Act to the “maximum extent permitted by law.”

 

Jan 26, 2017

Like I'm sure a lot of his supporters thought that the Mexican Government was going to bend over and write us a $15 billion dollar check, but obviously that was never going to happen, lol.

 

Jan 26, 2017

Taxpayers paying for that stupid wall is where I draw the line. It doesn't need to be built in the first place. I mean come on Trump. I'm as optimistic as they come when it comes to Trump, but destroying the US's relations with Mexico over the wall is dumb as h---.

 

Jan 26, 2017

Very weird to hear a Republican President abandon the free market & sound like Bernie Sanders on trade.. Talking about tariffs and s---, some conservative Trump is lol.

 

Jan 26, 2017

I think it would have been fine to build the wall if his whole platform wasn't "f--- all those bad ombres to death", lol. Like there's already a fence down there so the initial separation has already been established. But yea, the way he presented it (mixed with the way the public reacted to it) is def hurting our relations with them.

 

Jan 26, 2017

Good old Merica', and Donald Trump's making it great again. /s

 

Jan 26, 2017

lol

 

Jan 26, 2017

 

Jan 26, 2017

This is what he's going to do and consumer goods are going to sky rocket due to it. Middle and lower class Americans are going to suffer at the cost of building a wall that won't even fix the problem it's suppose to address.

 

Jan 27, 2017

The Atlantic published a great piece today:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...orders-will-set-america-back-70-years/514730/

 

Jan 27, 2017

What do you really know about International trade? Would love to get your unbiased perspective lol

 

Jan 27, 2017

President Trump announced today that the U.S. will prioritize Christian refugees. How do you read something like that and still support this guy? How ironic that he announces this on Holocaust Remembrance Day too. A lot of countries refused to take in Jewish refugees during WWII as well. I guess we just don't learn...

 

Jan 27, 2017

We're paying for that wall and instead of being locked up Hilary got a standing ovation..... care to elaborate?