It hasn't been fifteen years since Isis pulled off various attacks in Europe.
And it isn't an emergency power. Of course the courts now say the president has no power at all over immigration, whereas Obama claimed to have plenary power and wasn't seriously challenged.
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I'd be more favorably inclined if I saw evidence that he was doing something more than shooting from the hip. He has not shown much interest in getting the best possible intelligence/expert recommendations/wide review of problems and possible solutions. He knows it all already, it would appear. And he doesn't take criticism (whether constructive or otherwise) well. i.e. any negative feedback is ignored.
I don't believe our problems are that simple, and his methods are very risky.
Right, it's OK to do something. With no love for Trump, I also (harshly) disagree with the judges blocking his travel ban. I think it will make things worse, but he's the Prez!
Anyway, I think R's and D's have to get along and find middle ground, I sent money to Obama, who tried... and failed. (I don't need to assign blame.. it lands everywhere IMHO)
Hey I was going to ask James about the border adjustment tax. (But you'll do!) First, I'm all for the reduction of business taxes. I don't know about the BAT, to me this sounds like a liberal idea... tariffs on imports. (but somehow calling it a tax makes it not a tariff?)
I think it would cost us (where I work) sales in Europe, assuming the EU puts on a similar "tax"*. We'd also have to raise prices for everyone... ('cos some of the stuff we buy will be more expensive. Hamamatsu PMT's for instance.)
George H.
*Products where we now compete favorably with EU rivals will now be at a ~20% disadvantage.
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If Trump isn't frightened of being assassinated, he'd have to be completely out of touch with reality. That sort of anxiety can bias one's broader pic ture of the world.
The reality is more likely to be that Trump remembers promising to do somet hing about terrorism, and thinks that stopping people coming in from what m ight be thought of as "terrorist" countries will look enough like an anti-t errorist gesture to gratify the people who were stupid enough to vote for h im.
The actual number of terrorist his initiative would exclude is most likely zero, and everybody else excluded would then count as a false positive, mak ing it government inefficiency of the worst possible sort, but that's popul ist politics for you.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
an fix things. But I have to give him credit, in that he seems one of the few that actually are trying to fix things.
Rather too much credit. What Trump specialises in is appearing to try to fi x things. His budget is so moronic that it can't possibly be enacted, and a nybody with any sense would be aware of that. You, Trump and Steve Barron d o seem to be devoid of that minimal quantum of sense.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Is it possible that it's because Trump doesn't know what he's doing and Obama did?
-- Rick C
Of course not. Think about what you're saying. Two egregious errors at once.
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Trump's two egregious errors were sequential rather than simultaneous - unl ess you count the budget as a third egregious error (which is what it looks like to me - or rather a collection of stupidities), which more or less co incides with Trump's second non-thought-out-bubble on immigration control.
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With Trump, the probability of an egregious error has to be pretty high.
Not all of them are as silly as claiming that Obama ordered a wire-tap on T rump Tower, but Trump is clearly an ignorant goof with totally unjustified delusions of competence.
Dubbya was a pretty horrible example of what the electoral college can do t o block the common sense of the American voter, but Trump was rejected by a n even larger majority of the popular vote, and seems to be even worse. He hasn't started any wars yet, but he's ignorant enough to do it inadvertentl y.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
When I was a kid I frequently used Downing St as a convenient short cut. That meant I walked within *one* yard (literally) of the front door of the Prime Minister's and Chancellor's residences.
Unfortunately the IRA (funded jointly by Americans and Colonel Quaddaffi) stopped that; now the unwashed masses can only get to within 60m
can fix things. But I have to give him credit, in that he seems one of t he few that actually are trying to fix things.
fix things. His budget is so moronic that it can't possibly be enacted, and anybody with any sense would be aware of that. You, Trump and Steve Barron do seem to be devoid of that minimal quantum of sense.
LOL- his budget can't possibly be enacted just like Trump couldn't possibly be elected...
The situation has gotten totally farcical.
Like suppose, just for the sake of argument, Iran declared war on the US, and started sending troops to attack the US.
The latest Judge ruling, effectively, state that the President cannot order that no one from that attacking country can be prevented form entering the US, because most of them are Muslims. Dah....
Whilst the Constitution protects aliens on US soil, the idea that the constitution is designed to protect non US citizens, that have never even been granted a visa to enter the US, and not subject to US state control (e.g. Guantanamo) is completely ludicrous.
Any country has the absolute ethical right to deny entry to any foreigner, for or any reason or no reason at all, discriminatory or otherwise.
Immigration policy, by *definition*, is discriminatory to those of other nationalities. Dah...It says, other country's people can't come in, unless they say so. If this were not so, 5 Billion 3rd world people could just waltz in to any country.
I am stunned that the lefties think that "oh dear, that's discrimination based on religion". So what? Islam is *political*, not just a religion. The political aims of Islam, is world domination to the dictates of Islam. One of its fundamental goals is elimination of democracy. No iffs or butts. It's is a toleration political ideology. US immigration code denies entry to anyone that is a member of a totalitarian party, for the obvious reasons that allowing non democratic ideologies are a fundamentally threat to a democracy. Followers of Islam are claiming unwarranted protection from immigration law just because it is also classed as a religion. No mere religious belief or practises, err.. Trumps law. Preventing those that
*might* be a threat to US democracy, from entering the country, is ethically sound.Whether or not Trumps views make sense or not, is irrelevant. Sure, he can't order that someone be murdered, because that would be against the law, but stopping anyone he sees fit, that has not gotten any existing legal basis to be on US soil, is a non brainer. He is the elected leader of the country. If the lefties don't like that, they can elect a new leader.
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eThe defect in your logic is that none of the countries from which Trump is trying to ban entry is attacking the US. Invoke an actual state of war, and the situation - and the rules - are very different
,Sure, but if a country subscribes to the rule of law, then it's own laws ob lige it to be reasonable in applying that power. Seen from outside, the US has the right to ban anybody it wants to. Seen from inside, arbitrary and u nreasonable bans breach the rules built into the judicial system.
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Of course it is discriminatory, but it is also supposed to be rational and predictable. Countries work better when the rules are stable and comprehens ible. The US doesn't work all that well with the rules it has and making them eve n more irrational and arbitrary wouldn't be a good move.
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Some theologians may argue this. It doesn't seem to be a majority opinion, and the governments of Muslim dominated-countries don't seem to spending mu ch on working towards world domination. If military spending were any guide , the US might be suspected planning to impose one of it's slightly bizarre versions of Christianity on the rest of the world, but more sophisticated observers know that American military spending is all pork barrels - welfar e for the rich.
So where has it succeeded? Daesh isn't exactly democratic but it's caliphat e is neither large nor thriving.
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That does seem to be the way he sees it. Judges - who know a bit more about the legal system - have a different opinion. Ordering somebody murdered wo uld be against the law - even you can understand that. Ordering a blanket b an on entry into the United States on everybody from a particular country t urns out to be against the law too. You do seem to need to know more about US law than Trump does to be aware of that, but the US has a well-educated judicial system, even if its politicians can be a bit unsophisticated.
About three million more people voted for Hillary Clinton than voted for Do nald Trump. They can now wait four years for the electoral college to screw up again.
Do keep in mind that the President of the United States is elected to lead the country, not to be some kind of Simon-says figure who can tell everybod y else what to do.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
fix things. His budget is so moronic that it can't possibly be enacted, and anybody with any sense would be aware of that. You, Trump and Steve Barron do seem to be devoid of that minimal quantum of sense.
_You are stupider than I thought.
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at can fix things. But I have to give him credit, in that he seems one of the few that actually are trying to fix things.
o fix things. His budget is so moronic that it can't possibly be enacted, a nd anybody with any sense would be aware of that. You, Trump and Steve Barr on do seem to be devoid of that minimal quantum of sense.
ly be elected...
Trump told enough the right kind of lies to enough gullible deplorables to win a majority in the electoral college. He didn't win the popular vote.
His budget has to appeal to a more sophisticated audience. Gutting environm ental regulation is a way of saving money but the problem with lead in the Flint water supply makes it all too clear that US environmental regulation needs more money rather than less.
The US has been spending too little on government services for quite a whil e now. Every possible idiot economy has already been adopted. Trying to sel l even more idiotic corner-cutting isn't going to work.
Republicans don't like paying taxes, but they are even less enthusiastic ab out lead in their tap-water.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
o fix things. His budget is so moronic that it can't possibly be enacted, a nd anybody with any sense would be aware of that. You, Trump and Steve Barr on do seem to be devoid of that minimal quantum of sense.
Dan does have delusions about his judgement. He's too dim to notice how oft en he gets stuff wrong. But he did go to a good university, even if they co uldn't make a silk purse out of sow's ear.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
I also disagree with the judges. I think the president has the power, but I also think having a temporary ban is stupid.
I agree. I just do not know how to make that happen.
I believe in free trade. Tariffs are like minimum wage laws. They cause disruptions, but do not address the underlying problem.
Right. Having a tariff on PMT's will not help the U.S. PMT manufacturers. It will just hurt the users of PMT's.
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Of course he has the power. Congress has given the executive absolute power.
There is no "middle ground" with a tyrant.
Tariffs are a means of leveling the field, though. They _can_ be used to level taxes and compensate fr state subsidies. Not saying that they're always used that way...
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