Frosty wrote:
Sorry it took so long to respond. I took a short hiatus from this site.
I tried to respond to your latest post in the order you listed your comments.
POLLUTION and GRANNY
No lies, at least not from the democrats
The Republicans have been rolling back all kinds of environmental regulations to try to enable a return to coal burning in power plants. These rollbacks effect air and water quality. Fortunately it isn't going to do much since power plants aren't going back to burning coal. But, the intent of Republicans is obvious. They value money more than people's health.
McConnell is talking about pushing granny over a cliff by reducing Social Security and Medicare to pay for the tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy. They have already removed the fiduciary responsibility requirement from the people that are handling granny's investments.
CONSTITUTION and IMMIGRATION
Why do you want to change the constitution. Do you have any idea what the results of a constutional convention could be? Like laws governing firearms, there are enough laws governing immigration. They just need to be enforced. Many businesses like i*****l i*******ts because they can hire them, pay below minimum wage, violate labor laws and no one will file a complaint. If Republicans are serious about making more laws restricting immagration, they could have done it anytime in the last two years. They just want to b***h about it and democrats but don't want to actually v**e for more restrictions.
PHOTOS
I have no idea what you are referring to here. I am not familiar with photos of kids in cages
I do know that hundreds of kids have been taken away from their parents by the Trump regime, their parents deported and they have know idea where the parents are or how to contact them.
ECONOMICS
This could be a long subject. Of course corporations pay stockholders a part of the profits. No one said any thing to the contrary. The issue is what percent of the profits go to the creators of wealth versus the owners of the means of creating wealth. Historically labor has received approx. 30% of profits. That has been going down steadily in recent decades as I'm sure you have heard about stagnant wages.
Thomas Piketty, a French economist has written a book about this and how it and wealth distrubution is not sustainable. Google, "Wealth Ine******y in America", for an interesting video on You Tube that demonstrates vividly how unequal wealth is distributed in the US. It is much worse than you think. It's worth the time.
FIREARMS
No one is talking about taking everyone's guns away from gun owners except the families that have lost family or friends to senseless shootings. Otherwise it's only the NRA that is talking about the government taking guns away. It they didn't keep scaring members about gun restrictions and confiscation they wouldn't have a mission. Without a mission, they would have no members and no income. In that case NRA personnel would have to go out and get a real job. It's all a big con.
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You talk about pollution but pollution has pretty much been eradicated since the late 70's in America. After that it is just the Democrats making wild claims about offshore drilling rigs, coal production and use. Shoe me where the atmosphere is getting to be terrible from the use of coal these days. Yet people still use it for heating their homes and for other uses. In my opinion the EPA has just gotten too big and will invent a crisis, aided by the Democrats and their fear tactics, to keep the agency getting bigger. Like any government organization it was started for one reason and has adopted many new other reasons to stay in business.
I have heard for years about Republicans taking away Medicare and reducing Social Security but I have heard no Republicans saying it. Democrats have gotten so big simply by telling us that Republicans are going to do such and such while none of it it true. Obama tried that ploy with Obamacare and it was a lie. The only thing that happened is that the middle class was screw by having to support the lower class who isn't working to begin with in many cases.
Yes, I do know it is not easy to change the Constitution. It takes a Constitutional Convention to make changes. Why would I want to change the Amendment giving non citizens an American birthright, because i*****l a***ns are now using that Amendment against America for their own purposes and for purposes for which that Amendment was never designed. It was designed in 1868 to give s***es a birthright to become American citizens and so they could v**e. It has not been a needed Amendment since then.
Republicans and Democrats could have done something about i*****l i*********n in the past 50 years yet NEITHER has done s**t about it. You blame Republicans but for some reason leave Democrats alone. Why would that be. Obama had two free years to do something and did not do s**t either. Don't just blame the Republicans. Personally, I am on record here numerous times as saying we need to enforce existing laws. But what about Democrats? If, as you say, Democrats want to do something, why are they not joining with President Trump to put up a united front against these caravans enroute to America? Where were they when Obama was the President. Where were there Democratic statements of anger over these i*****l a***ns coming here. I submit if the Left side of Congress would be up in arms verbally against i*****l a***ns, these caravans and even single i*****l a***ns would diminish. But the Democrats are Snowflakes, they would rather these people come to America illegally rather than to support President Trump and abide by their own oath to the Constitution. Actions matter and so far it is ONLY the Republicans under President Trump who are putting up a solid front against i*****l a***ns. Democrats have never put up any front against these people, even when President Obama was in office. Yes, he is on video as saying they should not come here but that was it. All talk and no action. Please don't use the tired rhetoric, Obama deported more i*****l a***ns, blah, blah, blah. It isn't working anymore.
Hard to believe you don't know about the disputed photos. A few months ago, with the last caravan of i******s, some children were separated from their parents. Photos were submitted to all the MSM news sources and the Trump administration was blamed. There was also a little girl in a red dress who was supposedly separated from her parents. Her photo with President Trump was on the cover of Time magazine. Liberals and the American populace were up in arms screaming about separating children from parents. But the problem was that the photos of kids in cages, away from their parents, were taken during the Obama administration, NOT the Trump Administration. Apparently when Obama was in charge Democrats didn't care about separating kids from parents. But when people thought it was the Trump administration who separated the children, everyone was up in arms, screaming and yelling. Oh, the little girl in the red dress, who brought up another round of vitriol against President Trump and his policies, NEVER HAPPENED. Even her father said it was all a lie, it never happened. She had never been separated from her parents. It was nothing but a TYPICAL Liberal lie to place discredit upon President Trump with absolutely no t***h whatsoever. Show us please where Republicans have done that. While I am thinking about it, show us where Republicans have r**ted, l**ted, committed arson, stopped the right of free speech on college campuses such as the Liberal Brown Shirts like A****a have done. We will be right here.
I have never heard that laborers typically receive 30% of profits from employers. Is that in writing? I honestly have no idea what employees receive but that is certainly news to me. My personal experience with employment, and people I know, is that we see a job opening and apply. We are called in for an interview and if offered the job, we are told in advance what the job is about and our rate of pay. We can take it or leave it. I am guessing most take it. I don't really care what my percentage of the profit might be nor does anyone else that I have ever known. We work for what we consider a fair wage to us. If a company makes Billions or Trillions more than it pays me, as long as I feel I am making a wage that supports me then I am happy. Are you one who feels someone who makes a hamburger should receive $15.00 per hour for their trouble? America is a nation where hard work should be rewarded by more money going to THAT employee. To give everyone a huge pay increase doesn't seem quite fair to management. Of course you probably don't care about management and want the employees, no matter if they work their ass off or are lazy and sleep on the job, to get larger and larger amounts of pay.
Once again, Diane Feinstein is part of the government and she has been talking about taking ALL guns away for years, even though she carries a personal firearm herself. But as you tell us, most government people do not come right out and tell us they want all our guns. But many have mentioned programs such as England and Australia where guns were taken away overnight. Those programs are touted by Democrats as having saved millions of lives. But in reality there are still murders in England and in Australia and many still by firearms. Not everyone willingly gives up their firearms as demanded by government. No, Democrats demand reasonable gun laws. But what is reasonable to them is not reasonable to millions of others such as me. Taking away my AR-15's that I use for target practice, hunting varmints, and home defense is not my idea of reasonable when weapon types such as those are used in less than 1% of any crime in America. But as Democrats tell us, it is a start toward more and more firearms taken away from law abiding citizens. Let's see Democrats do something about firearms used by criminals. Then we will talk.
Dennis