Trump budget seeks cuts to domestic programmes, Medicare, favours military and wall

[Becker]

1 hour ago, mrwebb8825 said:

Got any facts to back that up or do you just have gas? 

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/22/trump-budget-cut-social-programs-238696

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-welfare/trump-push-to-scale-back-welfare-programs-has-republicans-on-edge-idUSKBN1ET1AG

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/gop-base-poverty-snap-social-security/516861/

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/16/trumps-core-supporters-are-about-to-be-handed-the-bill-for-tax-reform.html

 

Anything else I can help you with?

[FritsSikkink]

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Perhaps you can inform the Israelis who love their wall that it makes no sense then. They are even building a new one as the old one works so well.

 

If they just use increased technology now, a future government can just stop funding it and back to square 1. A wall is there to stay.

 

America used to be a capitalist country and far as I know is still supposed to be. If the people want a socialist country, they should have voted for a socialist government.

Regardless, the Federal government is doing far too many things that should be done by the states, and it is time to return them to the states to look after. The feds shouldn't be involved in social welfare programmes anyway, except for federal employees.

Never heard of a tunnel, did you? 

[thaibeachlovers]

1 minute ago, FritsSikkink said:

Never heard of a tunnel, did you? 

Never heard of sensors, did you?

[FritsSikkink]

17 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Never heard of sensors, did you?

They don't do there job in Israel and:

Edited February 15, 2018 by FritsSikkink

[Morch]

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Perhaps you can inform the Israelis who love their wall that it makes no sense then. They are even building a new one as the old one works so well.

 

If they just use increased technology now, a future government can just stop funding it and back to square 1. A wall is there to stay.

 

America used to be a capitalist country and far as I know is still supposed to be. If the people want a socialist country, they should have voted for a socialist government.

Regardless, the Federal government is doing far too many things that should be done by the states, and it is time to return them to the states to look after. The feds shouldn't be involved in social welfare programmes anyway, except for federal employees.

 

Other than the example cited involving different circumstances and conditions - you do realize that the "wall" part in the "Israeli wall" is about 10%-15% of the overall projected construction, right? The rest being fence. That's why it's more correctly referred to as a "barrier". Of course, it doesn't sounds as cool as Trump's promised mighty wall. And oh, yeah...construction started in the early 2000's, with a projected total length of about 700km (the actual border is about half as long) - only 65% completed, so far. For reference, the US-Mexico border is over 3000km long.