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Promises Promises

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

The spending bill doesn’t fund The Wall.

The Republican strategy appears to be “remove everything that might be objectionable to Democrats so we can get the bill passed and keep government running – otherwise, we’ll get blamed for the shut-down.”

That strategy is indistinguishable from “let the Democrats run the country.”

Look, there were a dozen Republican candidates.  Trump won the nomination on a single issue:  Build The Wall.  That’s his signature issue and it’s the only reason he’s President today.

The spending bill doesn’t have to cover the entire cost of The Wall – a symbolic down payment of even a lousy $1 would be enough to show he was keeping his promise to his base while rebuilding the military and draining the swamp.

If the Never-Trumpers in Congress won’t fund The Wall, President Trump should refuse to sign the spending bill.  Shut down the government and take the heat from the media.  Tweet everyday “Democrats willing to spend your dollars to kill babies but not protect children.”  “Democrats replacing Americans with Mexicans on your dime.”  “Democrats, party of KKK, still keeping Blacks out of work.”  “I earn a dollar, Democrats won’t let you earn that.”

Joe Doakes

All is proceeding as foretold.

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58 responses to “Promises Promises”

  1. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    You can’t control or improve spending with political will under a discretionary central bank regime. It starts a death spiral of credit growth no matter what the credit is for. Voting just makes it worse.

    Mises.org is right about everything.

    There is nothing else to know.

  2. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    P.S. Mitch’s Howard Root interview this weekend was spectacular. Must listen.

  3. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    Get on your hands and knees and pray to God for the prompt collapse of the bond market so we can be saved from these idiots https://reason.com/blog/2017/05/06/suderman-repeal-and-replace-bill

  4. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    The wall is a vanity project, pure and simple. It is an applause line for Trump and only him. The wall may become a metaphor for his entire presidency.

  5. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    TFS;

    I’ve heard Howard Root several times when he’s been on KTLK.

    He is great!

  6. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    Razor wire and land mines. Problem solved.

    So much poorly modulated immigration in a non-libertarian economy lacking in disbursed prosperity is a disaster. All it does is cause all manor of social problems.

  7. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    I could listen to Howard Root talk about anything. Very gifted speaker. The GOP would be wise to use him as an educational resource.

  8. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    The purpose of a wall is to control immigration.
    There is no other country on the planet that accepts the level of illegal immigration that the United States accepts. We are the outlier in immigration lawlessness.

  9. Alt-Good Swiftee Avatar
    Alt-Good Swiftee

    If these cucks wont get with the program, primary them. If no one steps up to challenge them, vote for none of the above.

    Mitch has ling been a proponent of the “champion of the perfect is the enemy of the good” political apoligism. You in Minnesota have seen the dismal result of that enough to see it’s fatal flaw.

    Its time the rest of the country, and country club Recucklicans get the message.

    Build the damn wall. No excuses, or no office.

  10. Alt-Good Swiftee Avatar
    Alt-Good Swiftee

    Oh, and if they need a refresher on what honoring your promises looks like, here’s an excellent example.

    http://m.startribune.com/former-u-law-professor-nominated-to-eighth-u-s-circuit/421580033/?section=%2F

    Once again, Trump shows me my vote was correct.

  11. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    The last president we had who managed to actually stop and reverse the momentum of Leftism was RR. I did not vote for Trump (Darrell Castle was my guy), but if Trump can convince conservatives that the tide is turning, he will win in 2020.
    The panic I’m seeing on the Left certainly looks as though they are feeling the tide turning. All of their ‘victories’ against Trump are accomplished non-democratically.
    Also, it’s ridiculous for establishment figures like Hillary and virtually all of the MSM and the cultural elite to call themselves “resistance.” They are Nurse Ratched, not McMurphy.

  12. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    I’m disappointed that the wall isn’t being funded, but if the delay means we think through what is really going to make a big difference, I’m all for waiting. We’ve had eight years of not thinking through things; isn’t that enough?

    Given my looks through Google Maps at the border region, I would dare say that we ought to have a different approach in New Mexico, California, and Arizona (perhaps just a vehicle barrier in most areas so people couldn’t simply drive across) than we would have along the Rio Grande, where more water and higher population would make a standard wall more appropriate.

  13. Alt-Good Swiftee Avatar
    Alt-Good Swiftee

    You’re right, BB. In many places, the wall may be a fence, or electronic sensors, or more Border Patrol. In some places mother nature has provided all the barrier necessary.

    But to get the ball rolling, we need to see a reinforced concrete wall go up along a portion. The symbolism itself is important; as much for border jumpers as Americans.

  14. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    Water-rights and grazing issues along Rio Grande are in issue if a solid wall is erected. However, nothing wrong with razor wire, anti-tank barricades and a liberal use of “Danger! Minefield” signs.

  15. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    We haven’t needed a wall before.
    What’s different? Absent or lackluster enforcement.
    The people who want to be “generous” to illegals want to be generous with other peoples’ money and security.
    It’s classic Robin Hood government.
    A has money, B wants money, C takes A’s money and gives it to B.
    To whom does virtue accrue?
    No one.
    To whom does power accrue?
    B & C.

  16. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    Look at what Victor Davis Hansen says about the manifold problems with illegal immigration. You can’t argue with it.

    Then throw in that our legal immigration policy is pretty stupid, too.

    I lost my enthusiasm for ***politically forced / shamed*** diversity a long time ago in Seattle. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-07/doug-casey-plague-cultural-marxists

  17. The Big Stink Avatar
    The Big Stink

    MP: We integrate in the Church of the Common Culture as a salute to the holy sacrament of diversity. The problem, of course, is that diversity, by itself, is not a virtue. Unless, of course, the Common Culture makes it one.

    Making diversity a virtue isn’t difficult. Subsidizing it is the battlefield.

  18. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Emery;

    If you want unchecked immigration, fine, but put your money where your mouth is. Volunteer to sponsor some of these poor, disadvantaged law breakers. As Mammuthus points out, it’s past time that you bleeding hearts stop spending the money of the majority to satisfy the minority.

  19. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    jpa;

    I wonder how big those signs would have to be to put that warning in 50 different languages on them? 😃

  20. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    One out of ten Mexican citizens lives in the United States.
    Do you remember voting for that? ‘Cuz I don’t.

  21. Troy Avatar
    Troy

    I have heard the phrase “steals from the rich and gives to the poor” in relation to Robin Hood many times, but someone/some publication pointed of semi-recently that he stole from the government and gave to the taxpayer.

  22. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    Just to clarify, I loved the diversity (U-District, Capitol Hill) in Seattle except they had way, way, way too many immigrants from from poor Asian countries to absorb very well. That was the only thing that was overly ***forced*** by bad government or whatever back then.

  23. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    If you want to check out some tales of real highwaymen, checkout the “Newgate Calendar.” It’s the Police Gazette of the 1700s, and it is in the public domain.

  24. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    BH429: It seems, BossHoss that you guys are only now coming to the realization that the president is a lying idiot.

    This is only theater folks. Most Americans oppose funding a wall, and all the Republican border Congressmen do too.
    https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017…

  25. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    Emery: Our new system, I call it fascism, incorporates lying as a feature, not a bug.

    Example #1: the ACA.

    Thug Government. Get used to it.

  26. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Your link goes to bupkus, Emery, which considering your logic is not entirely inappropriate. Reality is that opposition to a border wall is better phrased as opposition to the plan being implemented at this time as currently perceived with the current political realities in place.

    And yup, Trump often has a problem with facts, but the fact remains that I chose to take the risk that Trump would be lying over the certainty that Hilliary was telling the truth in certain critical areas.

  27. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-04-06/ap-norc-poll-most-americans-oppose-funding-border-wall

  28. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Also, one plea for those who are on “my” side; please remember, regarding your comments about land mines and razor wire, a border fence/wall/obstruction does not need to be lethal or even injurious to be effective. It simply needs to slow people down enough that the border patrol has a good chance of intercepting them. Please don’t give the left ammunition by acting as if we ought to be in favor of something lethal.

  29. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    Mexico is really mean to illegal immigrants. Plus they are subjected to criminals too. They should be nicer to them.

  30. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Again, Emery, you dodged the question and turned it into a useless meme.

    I would love to see your reaction to a large family of illegal immigrants moving into the house next door to yours. Like all libidiots, you most likely subscribe to the NIMBY strategy.

  31. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    Seriously, one thing that would help a lot is assassinating the spotters for coyotes and drug smugglers. The gear they catch those guys with is incredible.

  32. Scott Hughes Avatar
    Scott Hughes

    TheFedSucks: Razor wire and land mines. Problem solved

    I like that!! The “Wall” has always been a metaphor, any number of actions will be needed to solve the illegal border crossings of both people and contraband.

  33. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    Honestly, I don’t know much about any of it. I do see tons of social issues. Victor Davis Hanson makes this very clear.

    Supposedly 1/3 of them have criminal records worse than just one drunk driving or something like that. Let the other 2/3 stay, but not vote. No way.

  34. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    regarding your comments about land mines and razor wire

    Hey, I said signs. Nobody intended to use nukes, but what a deterrent!

  35. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    It would have made far more sense to invade Mexico instead of Iraq. People can’t make a living down there. Hell, even Chile is having problems, now.

  36. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Invest $500,000 with the Kushner family and you can immigrate to the USA. That illustrates the theme of this administration.

  37. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    Emery: That isn’t a unique law to Trump. Canada is even worse than the USA.

    The idea that there is less graft by voting Democrat is laughable.

  38. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    If the were the case, then we should use the proceeds of a market-based immigration system — worth $30 bn per year just for current undocumenteds — to subsidize a wall. And if you ran the H-1Bs up to 2 million instead of 85,000 and ran it as a profit center, you could subsidize the wall and border security to your heart’s content. So, sure, there are solutions, but also choices.

  39. Scott Hughes Avatar
    Scott Hughes

    Emery, please do tell us what YOU think should be done to resolve the ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION and movement of contraband across our southern border.

  40. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Trump’s budget indicates taxpayers will be paying for the wall. Perhaps you find that choice more appealing.

  41. Alt-Good Swiftee Avatar
    Alt-Good Swiftee

    Scott, the wall as metaphore works as long as we have an American in the white house. Unfortunately it is reasonable to believe a reprobate leftist will ascend sooner or later.

    Then all the things that make the metaphore work; rigorous enforcement, Border Patrol funding, a loyal federal judiciary; those things will be gone like a fart in the wind.

    Thats when we are going to need a nice, solid barrier that stops people on bith sides of our border from breaking our laws and abusing our sovereignty.

  42. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    What Swiftee says. President Obama demonstrated very clearly that provisions which require human compliance are easily circumvented, especially by the left. For that matter, so did George W. Bush, really–if not to the extent of Obama. That’s why I want to see at least a vehicle barrier in New Mexico, Arizona, and California, and a personnel barrier in Texas. An “electronic fence” or simply enforcing the law, while admirable, will simply be turned off when a Democrat once again lives in the White House.

  43. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    WHAT FAMILY IS WORSE TRUMP OR CLINTON DISCUSS

    Her most public gig so far has been her most disastrous one: lending her personality to NBC News at a salary of $600,000 per annum. It was a gig New York magazine dubbed an “unbelievably cushy fake job” and for which, Business Insider calculated, she was paid $26,724 for each minute she was on air — including all the minutes in which she was interviewed by other NBC staffers about her awesome work for the Clinton Foundation. In her own pieces, she interviewed the Geico gecko and reported on a program to provide therapy dogs to soldiers, in the process demonstrating that she takes after her mom when it comes to connecting with people. She is “bombing,” said The Week. “Her debut was boring, her subsequent work has been boring, just as she planned,” wrote Gawker.

    Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447397/chelsea-clinton-liberal-celebrity-media-pays-homage?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=59103b4e04d3013ae7f8d368&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

  44. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    ” …provisions which require human compliance are easily circumvented…”

    Thug Government. You must get YOUR Thug in office. #MAGA

  45. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    Step one: Take down the “Bienvenidos Mexicanos!” sign at the border.
    Step two: The best way to get Mexico to pay for a border wall is to make Mexico want a border wall. ‘Nuff said.

  46. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    MP; one would think that the disruption in the drug trade, which evidently kills many thousands of Mexicans each year, would be enough for Mexico City to come out in favor of this. But apparently the “safety valve” of Mexican citizens sending back money to their relatives in Mexico–and the fact that those people won’t be causing problems for the oligarchies in Mexico like the PRI–seems to be even more significant to them than the drug trade.

  47. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    “oligarchies”

    This crap is embedded in their constitution, plus Narcos own the place.

  48. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    If Immigration such a gee-whiz great thing for the economy (as the open borders types on the L & R tell us), then why are so many countries sending us their people? Why does mexico, and virtually ever other nation in the world, have such strong laws controlling immigration?
    Just stupid I guess.

  49. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    “If Immigration such a gee-whiz great thing for the economy (as the open borders types on the L & R tell us), then why are so many countries sending us their people? Why does mexico, and virtually ever other nation in the world, have such strong laws controlling immigration?
    Just stupid I guess.”

    It isn’t until we completely overhaul Fed policy and get back to a deflationary economy like we had pre-Fed. Technology and globalized labor is destroying middle class and lower class wages. It would add to growth if we had a deflationist government–which is the only decent way to live.

    I used to get into arguments with the CATO immigration guy. He’s smart as hell. I quit when he told me that he was for nominal GDP targeting, which is just outright , flat out inflationism + debt growth at any cost minus the deception we have now. An f’ing libertarian.

    Get David Stockman’s book if you want to understand reality.

    Also, Mises.org is right about everything.

    MITCH: I need moderation above.

  50. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    Look around. Asset bubbles. Social problems. Government budget problems. Underfunded pensions.

    Everywhere.

    Why is this happening?

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