President Trump: Making America Great Again...

[Bo Diddley]

I applaud Trump's efforts with North Korea just as I did Kerry's with Iran.

[Uncle Ted]

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Yes!

Btw, I call BS on that 1 in 50 stat.

I questioned that myself so I had to look it up... time.com says it’s true! They wouldn’t lie to us, right?


Sent from my iPhone and not some cheap Chinese crap running Android spyware

[PaloAltoCougar]

I questioned that myself so I had to look it up... time.com says it’s true! They wouldn’t lie to us, right?

The number of homeless children at any given moment is always much less than 1 in 50 (or as the National Center on Family Homelessness declares 1 in 30). But the stat refers to a homeless experience during the reporting year, not to the number currently homeless, as that meme falsely declares. If a child is without a home for single night, that counts in the stats for "homeless" during the year.

Still, a kid without a home, even for a night, is a terrible thing--even worse than misrepresenting stats.

[frank ryan]

OMG... you are right. I didn't think about it being a blank check. Drumpf could screw over the illegal immigrants and use the money to provide aid for AMERICAN CHILDREN!!! That would be terrible.

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Or use it on one of the 40,000 homeless vets. Using American tax dollars on Americans... that is unthinkable. All illegal immigrants need free healthcare before Americans. He would make the UN do its job!

Does this mean you support social programs to help homeless children?

[Moliere]

Does this mean you support social programs to help homeless children?

I’m just guessing, but I think Uncle Ted would support a social program to help homeless American children before he’d support full healthcare coverage for undocumented immigrants. I would as well and I bet the majority of Americans would too.

[frank ryan]

I’m just guessing, but I think Uncle Ted would support a social program to help homeless American children before he’d support full healthcare coverage for undocumented immigrants. I would as well and I bet the majority of Americans would too.

I want to know what he thinks. If Ted is so moved with concern, I'd like to hear if he does or not. If he doesn't and has no idea of how to help eleviate the problem, than he's being disingenious.

Undocumented immigrants are never going to free healthcare, right now they don't even get soap and toothbrushes, so don't worry about that.

[CardiacCoug]

Undocumented immigrants are never going to free healthcare, right now they don't even get soap and toothbrushes, so don't worry about that.

A better argument is that they already get free care in our ERs and through charity care so let’s just formalize a system for primary and preventive care which could theoretically be better and/or less expensive care.

[Uncle Ted]

I want to know what he thinks. If Ted is so moved with concern, I'd like to hear if he does or not. If he doesn't and has no idea of how to help eleviate the problem, than he's being disingenious.

Of course, we should take care of our children just like other countries should take care of theirs.

As for the immigration crisis (yes, the immigration crisis that congress overwhelming approved humanitarian funding for and, therefore, have admitted to), we should:

(0) drop all the social benefits for immigrants until they become US citizens.

(1) tell the UN to step up and solve the central america immigration crisis (like they should) or pull our UN funding (some 22% of the UN's budget) to do it ourselves. It isn't our place to solve other nations' problems. That is what the UN is for. If the UN can't do it then we are wasting our money.

Undocumented immigrants are never going to free healthcare, right now they don't even get soap and toothbrushes, so don't worry about that.

Yeah, never going to happen.... who would vote for any of these dummies after they promised "free stuff" to everyone including the flood illegal immigrants? They all just sealed their fate.

Did the Democrats Step on a Second Big Land Mine?
On immigration, they’ve steered the party close to an open-borders policy without any serious reckoning with how to handle the influx of arrivals.
[...]
Without question, the country as a whole, and not just the Democratic Party, has shifted to a more accommodating position on those here illegally; big majorities oppose the deportation of all undocumented immigrants, according to Gallup, and a path to citizenship is now favored or strongly favored by more than 80 percent of adult Americans. But almost the same percentage want an increase in border patrols to stop the flow of more undocumented immigrants.

And it is here that the Democrats on stage Thursday stood out not for what they said, but for what they didn’t say.
There was no mention—none—about how to deal with what has been a flood of arrivals, whether refugees from violence, asylum-seekers or those simply looking for a better life. (Senator Bernie Sanders talked about improving conditions in Central America so that citizens there would not be driven to flee, but, at best, this is aspirational and, at worst, a dodge.) These candidates aren’t explicitly advocating open borders, but taken together, the policies advocated amount to almost the same thing.

Now add to that the universal embrace of health care for the undocumented. As a policy matter, it makes sense; leaving sick people untreated is both cruel and a public health menace. As a political matter, it is an open invitation to President Donald Trump and his campaign to brand the Democrats as a party offering “free stuff” to millions of people who broke the law to get here in the first place. Trump’s use of the immigration issue was front and center from the moment he announced his candidacy, when he talked about Mexico sending “rapists” and criminals across the border. On Election Day 2016, according to exit polls, those who called immigration the most important issue voted for Trump by a 2-to-1 margin.
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Right now, however, all of the candidates (except perhaps for Biden, whose half-hand raise was a masterstroke of noncommittalism) have put themselves clearly on the record for sharply liberalizing immigration, and none appears to be willing to say anything with any specificity about one question: Should there be any limit on who gets to come to the United States? Is there room enough, are there jobs enough, is there health care funding enough, to accommodate everyone? Right now, it seems clear that if either of the past two Democratic presidents had shown up Thursday and advocated their positions from five or 20 years ago—the ones that helped them win a general election—they would have been booed off their own party's stage.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...andmine-227247

[hostile]

A better argument is that they already get free care in our ERs and through charity care so let’s just formalize a system for primary and preventive care which could theoretically be better and/or less expensive care.

Yep

[Commando]

I want to know what he thinks. If Ted is so moved with concern, I'd like to hear if he does or not. If he doesn't and has no idea of how to help eleviate the problem, than he's being disingenious.

Undocumented immigrants are never going to free healthcare, right now they don't even get soap and toothbrushes, so don't worry about that.

Here's a spoiler: he's not moved with concern. Bring up brown people in crisis and he'll find something around the world right now that we should focus on instead.

[Northwestcoug]

Remember, UT is just an agent of chaos. He just wants to see the political world burn. Although he supports Trump in general, I doubt he is an enthusiastic supporter of immoral policies.

[falafel]

Here's a spoiler: he's not moved with concern. Bring up brown people in crisis and he'll find something around the world right now that we should focus on instead.

Ted is a brown person himself.

[creekster]

Remember, UT is just an agent of chaos. He just wants to see the political world burn. Although he supports Trump in general, I doubt he is an enthusiastic supporter of immoral policies.

I don't think it is fair to say he supports Trump in general. I think he just enjoys watching many of you get all twisted up every time he posts something.

[Commando]

Ted is a brown person himself.

The point stands, sadly...

[Uncle Ted]

Ted is a brown person himself.

Damn right you crackers.