State of the Union

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(01-31-2018, 12:11 PM)Benton Wrote: That’s what he inferred but not what he said. That’s pretty good by trump standards. I don’t think calling out ms13 and other gangs is racist, not when they’re almost entirely composed of one race and members are committing terrible acts.

Not racist. But he failed to mention that they are rounding more people who aren't gang members than ones who are. And certainly not "thousands and thousands" of gang members either.

I don't have a problem with going after a group like MS13. But I know he was just using them as a scare tactic to reinforce his wanting to get rid of all immigrants.

Like his use of the misnomer "chain migration". No such thing. And he completely misrepresented how it works and what it does. But his base doesn't want to hear that so he blows the whistle for them.

(01-31-2018, 12:11 PM)Benton Wrote: But if it makes you feel better, I was pretty bummed by his call for increased spending. Republicans are spending money faster than we can print it, and now he wants to ramp up infrastructure spending? Wtf? We need it, but bridges aren’t cheap. You can’t jusy say “give me a trillion bucks cause it’s the best thing to do.”

AND he wants to "finally" fund our military. I must have missed the bake sales at the Pentagon to pay for the latest, greatest missile.

(01-31-2018, 12:11 PM)Benton Wrote: And I thought it was naive when he was complaining about permitting holding up bioding projects. There’s only two ways to fix that: spend more money hiring enough civil engineers to get studies done quicker, or loosen regulations. As a developer I’m sure he’s leaning towards the latter, which is a horrible idea. I don’t know about federally, but in Kentucky a lot of our construction regulations came along in the early 90s after shoddy development left municipalities in some places in the hook for millions of screwed up, shoddy cobstruction projects.

He sounded like the non-businessman he is. Anything that stands in his was is "unneeded" and stupid.

(01-31-2018, 12:11 PM)Benton Wrote: But it is what it is. Trump is trying to relive the 80s, along with the war on drugs that led to our prison population growth. It amazes me that the party that sticks with “guns laws don’t stop gun violence” also adheres to “drug laws stop drug abuse.”

And that's why I would never vote for him and I didn't take much last night seriously. He set his views going on 40 years ago and he's not the type of guy to read or learn or grow.

I lived through the 80's once. No desire to do it again.