Throughout the trump campaign in 2015 and 2016, only problems were spoken of, and of course heaps of blame. Insults were tossed against countless persons, all viewed as enemies of trump.
Nowhere were programs offered to solve the problems discussed. Only criticism and blame suggesting that the candidate had a plan for all of it. Funny thing, no plans ever came forward.
Waste in government grew; it did not decline. Immigration problems grew with no solutions offered. Only bungling bureaucratic stumbling was evidenced in this mess. And it continues without a plan.
On May 16, 2019 trump unveiled a few bones of an immigration plan. No program, though. Just some ideas tossed about. No programs, no policy clarification, no anything that would work. Just platitudes. Of course, everything was built on having a wall from sea to sea. A wall. A thing easily breached, sailed around, flown over or tunneled under. A wall. A symbol to a man’s little mind. A real program to solve our immigration problem will require a lot of minds working with a lot of resources to become effective. No such teamwork is evident within the trump administration.
Trade imbalances among nations is part of the free trade machinery. It is a natural byproduct of free markets finding their points of equilibrium. Constantly shifting as one market surpasses another in competitiveness and creativity. Playing games with tariffs bolloxes up the free markets. It is anti-free markets. It is anti-trade. It is anti-transaction. Period. And it tends to harm the very people it claims to help.
Protecting the planet is not defined by deregulating the very behaviors that polluted the planet. That is not a program. Same with ‘fixing’ the income tax policy. Rewarding selfish behavior, monopolies, oligopolies and greed only rewards the wealthy at the expense of lower income people. That was the projection and that was the result. No program here, either.
Reforming public education doesn’t happen by building elite private schools out of the financial reach of the people of our nation. It doesn’t happen by underfunding public schools, either. Nor does it happen by making teachers and school staff responsible for parenting all of the students. That is the business of the family, not the school.
Helping the poor doesn’t happen by finding them jobs paying $8 per hour. That only causes them to work 3 jobs simultaneously to draw in survivable household incomes. And everyone in the household has to work if they are of age. Poverty is not solved. A new form of slavery is born.
Reforming religious liberty does not mean pushing Christianity on every single person. We do not have a national religion. We respect and accept all religions in our nation.Even those without religion. None have hegemony over another. And we certainly do not make laws that have their core in one’s religious belief. Abortion and respecting life will always be a heavy issue to live with. Each to his/her own. Allow people the dignity to live their lives without giving up their own bodies to their government’s regulation.
Programs are helpful amalgamation of policy, action and resources that are designed to produce a desired outcome, a result that is so far not yet acquired. Like peace. Comity. Respect.
Let those programs come forth. Now. Let us not waste time on meaningless posturing and a do-nothing congress.
May 21, 2019
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