Quote:While he's using the building of the wall as a distraction tactic, here is a list of all the cuts/unethical actions he has made.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the DOJ’s Violence Against Women programs.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Minority Business Development Agency.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Economic Development Administration.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the International Trade Administration.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Legal Services Corporation.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Fossil Energy.
* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered all regulatory powers of all federal agencies frozen.
* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered the National Parks Service to stop using social media after RTing factual, side by side photos of the crowds for the 2009 and 2017 inaugurations.
* On January 20th, 2017, roughly 230 protestors were arrested in DC and face unprecedented felony riot charges. Among them were legal observers, journalists, and medics.
* On January 20th, 2017, a member of the International Workers of the World was shot in the stomach at an anti-fascist protest in Seattle. He remains in critical condition.
* On January 21st, 2017, DT brought a group of 40 cheerleaders to a meeting with the CIA to cheer for him during a speech that consisted almost entirely of framing himself as the victim of dishonest press.
* On January 21st, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held a press conference largely to attack the press for accurately reporting the size of attendance at the inaugural festivities, saying that the inauguration had the largest audience of any in history, “period.”
* On January 22nd, 2017, White House advisor Kellyann Conway defended Spicer’s lies as “alternative facts” on national television news.
* On January 22nd, 2017, DT appeared to blow a kiss to director James Comey during a meeting with the FBI, and then opened his arms in a gesture of strange, paternal affection, before hugging him with a pat on the back.
* On January 23rd, 2017, DT reinstated the global gag order, which defunds international organizations that even mention abortion as a medical option.
* On January 23rd, 2017, Spicer said that the US will not tolerate China’s expansion onto islands in the South China Sea, essentially threatening war with China.
* On January 23rd, 2017, DT repeated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing him the popular vote.
* On January 23rd, 2017, it was announced that the man who shot the anti-fascist protester in Seattle was released without charges, despite turning himself in.
* On January 24th, 2017, Spicer reiterated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing DT the popular vote.
* On January 24th, 2017, DT tweeted a picture from his personal Twitter account of a photo he says depicts the crowd at his inauguration and will hang in the White House press room. The photo is of the 2009 inauguration of 44th President Barack Obama, and is curiously dated January 21st, 2017, the day AFTER the inauguration and the day of the Women’s March, the largest inauguration related protest in history.
* On January 24th, 2017, the EPA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to freeze all grants and contracts.
* On January 24th, 2017, the USDA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to stop publishing any papers or research. All communication with the press would also have to be authorized and vetted by the White House.
* On January 24th, 2017, HR7, a bill that would prohibit federal funding not only to abortion service providers, but to any insurance coverage, including Medicaid, that provides abortion coverage, went to the floor of the House for a vote.
* On January 24th, 2017, DT ordered the resumption of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, while the North Dakota state congress considers a bill that would legalize hitting and killing protestors with cars if they are on roadways.
* On January 24th, 2017, it was discovered that police officers had used confiscated cell phones to search the emails and messages of the 230 demonstrators now facing felony riot charges for protesting on January 20th, including lawyers and journalists whose email accounts contain privileged information of clients and sources.
How much of a chance do we need to give? Seriously. Tell me.
U mad bruh?
Quote:U mad bruh?
He is upset Trump is cutting off funding for his "science" experiment.
Quote:He is upset Trump is cutting off funding for his "science" experiment.
I'm more mad that Trump let that guy get stabbed!!
Quote:What US related wars would those be?
Were you busy in the 2000s?
The lefty hate sites are just loving them some Trump right now. Their traffic has risen exponentially. The down side is their content is used without proper attribution, and may even be offered up as a particular poster's actual thoughts.
I don't mind cutting unnecessary items from the federal budget.
What I do mind is starting a trade war with Mexico, which would damage our economy and raise prices for American consumers.
Quote:Were you busy in the 2000s?
Yeah, working for the DoD during one of the lowest military budgeted times in modern times. Question still stands.
Quote:I don't mind cutting unnecessary items from the federal budget.
What I do mind is starting a trade war with Mexico, which would damage our economy and raise prices for American consumers.
Guess I won't be getting Guac at Chipotle anymore.....
These are the reasons Trump was put in office.
Quote:I don't mind cutting unnecessary items from the federal budget.
What I do mind is starting a trade war with Mexico, which would damage our economy and raise prices for American consumers.
Trade war? There is already a $1trillion trade deficit with Mexico. The US has been more than fair. Time to reel that crap in for US prosperity.
Quote:Close to half of all discretionary spending is miltary.
<a class="bbc_url" href='https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/'>https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/</a>
discretionary spending is a tiny piece of the whole. That stat is entirely misleading.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/...ternet-mi/
Quote:So does education, science, food safety, agriculture, public health, and environmental sciences.
You're right, I should've said, "Constitutionally mandated purpose unlike all those other things Snake is gonna list."
Quote:Trade war? There is already a $1trillion trade deficit with Mexico. The US has been more than fair. Time to reel that crap in for US prosperity.
A trillion dollars? I don't think so.
We export $236 billion to them. We import $295 billion from them. That looks like $59 billion to me. A long way from a trillion.
An import tax on Mexican goods would be passed on to the American consumer. That's the whole purpose of it, isn't it? To raise prices of Mexican goods so American consumers buy less of them?
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/d...li=BBnb7Kz
Now go ahead and list Obama's unconstitutional doings.
Quote:Now go ahead and list Obama's unconstitutional doings.
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Quote:A trillion dollars? I don't think so.
We export $236 billion to them. We import $295 billion from them. That looks like $59 billion to me. A long way from a trillion.
An import tax on Mexican goods would be passed on to the American consumer. That's the whole purpose of it, isn't it? To raise prices of Mexican goods so American consumers buy less of them?
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/d...li=BBnb7Kz
I should have been more clear in stating a cumulative since NAFTA. What you have to also consider is the rise in deficit each year. This is a far cry from trade surplus recognized prior to NAFTA. The whole idea is to make American goods and Manufacturing more desirable than to rely on another country. Close to 90% of Mexican goods come to the US. The import side is severely lopsided and if it wasn't for the resources required for the American companies within Mexico, it would be even more so. There needs to be some adjustments in the trade sector, not just with Mexico, but globally. America first!
Quote:Guess I won't be getting Guac at Chipotle anymore.....
Most Haas Avecados are from Gautemaula anyway.
Quote:I don't mind cutting unnecessary items from the federal budget.
What I do mind is starting a trade war with Mexico, which would damage our economy and raise prices for American consumers.
I don't think so. Mexico has basically no impact on our exports as they don't buy many (think weapons/advanced medical equipment) basically only things that we are best in the world at and they couldn't get anywhere else (and are also already expensive). So them tariffing us won't have a major impact because they already only buy what they HAVE to buy from us (i.e. what we have expertise in that they simply cannot match). Whereas we buy many things (cars will be my primary example, but also air conditioners etc) that we also make here.
As far as us tariffing them, its a different story. They don't make anything that we cannot. Therefore their prices can only go as high as US competition will allow. Raising prices on some vehicles manufactured there would happen somewhat, but really it would just cut margins (a truck isn't more valuable, even if FCA had to pay a import fee). Perhaps this margin cut would be enough to stimulate companies to come back. FCA would be an example of someone who would get hurt. Ford and GM? Not as much. They make more of their trucks here.
The South will disproportionately be advantaged due to lower wages and more business friendly laws. Next would be the rust belt. This would be an undoubted net benefit. Once again, tariffs on Mexico do not affect consumer cost if there are businesses here that do the same thing. Companies that import from Mexico cannot charge a premium for Mexican products (LOL, why pay more for a worse product?), so their price cannot go up if someone else makes it. This is a unilateral WIN for the US.
I'm still trying to figure out how any of that is unconstitutional. The government funds way too much crap. If organizations need funding then they need to learn the fine art of fundraising. It's been going on for decades and decades. The government also funds way too many countries. We have our fingers in so many pots it's unreal. I'm pretty sure most of the time the government has absolutely no clue where the money actually goes or how it's actually used.
I do like PBS and NPR for being public access to everyone. On the one hand say I say leave them alone because they are funded by grants and such and are not subject to a particular ideal to push like they would be if funded soley by private corporations. On the other hand they are absolutely subject to a particular ideal because they are funded by grants, member stations' dues, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, government agencies, foundations, corporations and private citizens who all have the same agenda. I would rather the government agencies take themselves out of it and let the rest do the funding. There is no reason the government should fund these.
In other countries this is and would be considered propaganda tools.
Typical james_fried_chicken post. Fling poo against the wall and never return to respond.