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Now let me preface this next thought with this - as a person of faith I have no additional knowledge than anyone else as to what God is trying to do with this great country of ours. BUT, I do know that He uses and has used some pretty pathetic characters (at least in the eyes of society) to turn situations around for good. Having said that, I choose not to be the judge of our President's character and instead choose a wait and see approach based on actions and outcome. I hope that this at least helps in answering your question. |
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I agree with all of it except the part about Trump. I, also had visions of him despite my feelings, of overcoming and doing what is best. Those visions are history.....he is the son of a Klan member, and spent his professional live as a racially divisive person, and after 7 months, he appears to be going back to the white nationalism he espoused for so many years. BUT, everyone can change, right ? Let us just pray that God continue to bless our country, because the trend is not a good one at all. AGAIN thanks for honesty. |
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I do get your point and don't like it from either side. It is nonproductive and very irritating, especially if you're the one being targeted. Not sure if it's because I'm still in the workplace and have to deal with a lot of negativity and insult dealing with the public, that I tune it out better than you do, or that I've just had to learn how to not take everything so personally. In other words, not worth my time to engage because it will only drag me down. You can always put the repeat offenders on ignore. As much as I didn't want to resort to that, I decided to try it with one person on here. When I realized I wasn't missing a thing by avoiding that person's posts, I decided to keep it that way. |
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As the OP my intent was to point out that this nation, and in fact, the world lacks inspirational leadership.
Why all of the threads on Political Talk quickly move solely to Trump is part of this nation's problems. Why aren't we ( collective nationally) devoted to keeping all of our politicians, government employees, educators, etc focused on solving America's problems? Why aren't we demanding they do their jobs ? Surely we didn't elect them to create division? How can we devote such energies to this task if we ourselves remain so divided? Personal Best Regards: |
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The President ALWAYS THROUGH HISTORY is the one we look for leadership, tone and action. The President is supposed to be the man who leads the pack. Who do you suggest is discussed on a political forum ? There is no legislation, no movement to legislation and the administration is setting the days headline each day. If the headlines are not about him, he will make it so. This is the job he ran for. Every President is the subject of minute study, every word parsed, looking for something...some leadership as to where he is leading. That is the way it is. This is not even a out of office party causes stirs....the Democrats have no leader, no agenda so all the road blocks are placed there by the administration. |
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I have been busy crisscrossing the country on important matters. How can I help you?
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Well stated. If the American people supported or simply in a good faith effort seriously debated the Republican platform we may accomplish something. Many people dismiss out of hand the number of outsiders who are hell bent on removing this nation as the number one and only super power. George Soros leading globalist comes to mind and those who have followed the money trail find it leads them back to the very groups marching in the streets. The Russians are infamous for creating chaos in other countries. The radical wing of the Democratic Party is so wrapped up in identity politics it can't and won't see the forest for the trees. Indeed Trump does not do himself any favors and in fact provides opportunities for his enemies to attack him. Is it a strategic play by Trump ( ie headfake?) but the MSM Deep State will continue their false narratives because they want back their power and control. Ergo my desire for good faith effort at logical debate which is non-existent now. the losers in all this the American people Personal Best Regards: |
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The federal law enforcement agency has already hit its limits for agent salaries and overtime after just a few months of protecting Trump, his family and his homes. Secret Service Director Randolph (Tex) Alles told USA Today that Trump’s family has blown through a budget for more than 1,000 agents that was supposed to last for the rest of 2017. The First Family has overwhelmed the agency with its constant trips across the country — and its extravagant lifestyle, Alles said. The Secret Service has spent about $60,000 alone just to rent golf carts to follow Trump around his courses in New Jersey and Florida." Trump and his family have already depleted Secret Service budget - NY Daily News |
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"Alles said the Trump presidency has called for unprecedented protection. Trump requires 42 people to have Secret Service protection, including 18 members of his family. Former President Barack Obama, by comparison, needed protection for 31 people through his two terms.
Trump’s family has also been exhausting the agency’s resources by its constant travels across the nation and the globe. Trump has traveled to one of his properties nearly every weekend of his presidency, spending about a quarter of the days from his short presidency away from the White House. Each of those weekend getaways is estimated to cost up to $3 million for travel and protection. The Secret Service has also had to follow all of Trump’s children during their trips abroad for vacation or promotion for the Trump Organization and related businesses. Agents have in some instances paid tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to Trump properties to protect the children during business trips there." http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...icle-1.3429167 "Trump's other sons, Trump Organization executives Donald Jr. and Eric, based in New York, also are covered by security details including when they travel frequently to promote Trump-branded properties in other countries." Exclusive: Secret Service out of money to pay agents because of Trump's frequent travel, large family "In March, security details accompanied part of the family, including Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner on a skiing vacation in Aspen, Colo. Even Tiffany Trump, the president's youngest daughter, took vacation to international locales such as Germany and Hungary with her boyfriend, which also require Secret Service protection." Keeping this in context, understand that most of this is mandated by law...not the travels, etc but the protection service. |
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"Overwork and constant travel has also been driving a recent exodus from the Secret Service ranks, yet without congressional intervention to provide additional funding, Alles will not even be able pay agents for the work they have already done. The compensation crunch is so serious that the director has begun discussions with key lawmakers to raise the combined salary and overtime cap for agents, from $160,000 per year to $187,000 for at least the duration of Trump's first term. But even if such a proposal was approved, about 130 veteran agents would not be fully compensated for hundreds of hours already amassed, according to the agency. "I don't see this changing in the near term,'' Alles said." Exclusive: Secret Service out of money to pay agents because of Trump's frequent travel, large family "A special investigative panel formed after a particularly egregious 2014 White House breach also found that that agents and uniform officers worked "an unsustainable number of hours,'' which also contributed to troubling attrition rates." |
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NOT if the dream is to drop an anchor baby and live here for free. The "melting pot" everyone talks about, on the stature of liberty, etc. Was a melting pot of WHITE people...Europeans. There was NO black/Hispanic immigration to speak of. That changed in the 1960s when Johnson started letting in all the black/brown people... Quote:
Black and brown people are like that...THEY are becoming the majority. As the percentage of whites goes down...so does the quality of the country. We left the path towards greatness in the 1960s when we started lowering standards and making quotas. Quote:
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The left insists on misusing many terms, another being "racist" and another "bigot." Please work on it, because you folks are becoming boorish in your accusations. |
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