Posted on 10/01/2016 11:43:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the presidential debate last Monday Donald Trump warned America that she's "become a third-world country" to the guffaws and disdain of the liberals, the media (but I repeat myself) and Hillary Rodham Clinton, who later accused Trump of talking smack about the country she wants to loot, er, lead.
One must ask, is Trump correct or do we continue to occupy the apex of the first world? Is there evidence to support Mr. Trump's claim?
Let me offer exhibit A.
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Two years after the University of Missouri closed the states lone hospital for treating tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, state health officials are looking at opening a new facility.The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is seeking bids for a study that could provide officials with a roadmap for opening a new treatment center to replace the current process of sending patients to other states.
It comes amid a nationwide increase in the number of people contracting the airborne bacterial disease that attacks the lungs.
According to the request, Missouri has averaged 90 active tuberculosis cases in each of the past three years
Missouri has been more fortunate than many other states in this regard. Why? Because Missouri a series of strict laws against illegal alien encroachment, going back to 2007.
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Communist China has better and more modern airports, city highways, shipping terminals, etc than United States. this is no big surprise since we have $500,000,000,000 trade defici with China every fricking year! Transfer of wealth, thanks to career politicians in pockets of Wall Street.
Google pictures of modern day Hiroshima versus Detroit slums. It will blow your mind. Hiroshima is the shining city on the hill. Detroit has miles after miles of dilapidated buildings and house. Wonder who won WW II..
I really think the ad would be good for Trump but don’t know who puts those things out. Maybe a super pac.
Completely agree, Alberta.
I will estimate that close to 90% of the Republican national leadership supports massive legal immigration and Amnesty.
I will estimate that close to one third of Republican voters support the same goals.
There's your problem in a nutshell.
1. These places are all newer than ours.
2. Their totalitarian government can simply displace millions of people to build those things without having to worry about any kind of legal process or financial compensation.
Not Reagan's best moment.
But the real takeaway is that you cannot trust Democrats. Ever. All deals made with Democrats must have the Democrat losing. Not breaking even. Because when a Democrat agrees to "break even", he's taking you to the cleaners.
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
The HartCeller Act of 1965 marked a radical break from the immigration policies of the past. Previous laws restricted immigration from Asia and Africa while it gave preference to northern and western Europeans over southern and eastern Europeans. The United States faced both foreign and domestic pressures to change its nation-based formula, which was regarded as a system that discriminated based on an individuals place of birth.
These immigrants are NOT wanted by Obama and the US government:
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These immigrants ARE wanted:
Do you really believe that? LOL.
Watching college football, and wondering. There’s 100,000 people at the Michigan - Wisconsin game. They look mostly white. They have more money than me. I can’t afford to go to a local college football game, let alone travel to one as many of these people do. Multiply this times the number of games across the country and there are a lot of affluent people attending these games. Even the TV advertising is geared towards people with money. Cars, investments, etc.
So, here is what I’m wondering: Are these the people ( many of them) that vote democratic besides the ususal suspects of minorities, one percenters, etc? Who the hell has the money for more taxes, and wants the GOPe to stay in power? Just wondering? There’s a lot of dolts beating conservatives at the ballot box. Who the hell are they?
Trump agrees with me, that China is stealing America’s wealth with the horrible trade deals made by Democrat & republican career politicians in pockets of their Wall Street donors.
Another reason you are so wrong is, there are dozens and dozens of other countries in the world run by totalitarian regimes. That includes a country just 90 miles from Miami. Almost all have terrible infrastructures, even Russia.
You are under delusion if you do not believe trade surplus with US has nothing to do with it.
They have plenty to show for the $10T added to national debt. Obamacare (86% on Obamacare are subsidized by taxpayers), growth in food stamps, cost for services provided to illegals and refugees, Obama-phones, and the biggest cost being wars in middle-east.
When money is spent, and there is not enough money in treasury to pay for it, it is borrowed and tacked on to the national debt.
The U.S. has a trade deficit with almost every country in the world. Why don't they ALL have the same modern cities, airports, etc.? The U.S. trade deficit with Mexico, for example, is one of the largest of any trading partner.
One reason for this is that many cultures are simply dysfunctional, and couldn't figure out how to build a modern airport even if you gave them $100 billion and 25 years to do the job. China is a homogenized society where they don't have to deal with a lot of the cultural dysfunction that is pervasive in most Third World dumps.
I heard a report on a radio program some time ago where the host of the show cited a statistic that floored me: Less than 30% of the immigrants who were eligible for U.S. citizenship under the Amnesty Act of 1986 actually became citizens. That's remarkable, if true.
We don't make no purple ink, only backward nations do that, we use computers.
B$ They align with the leftist commies and outnumber the sane people.
That’s true. Like Japan, China decided that a form of export-oriented managed trade would make their country wealthy, or at least vastly wealthier, than a policy based on David Ricardo’s free trade ideas circa 1800.
I’d say that after 30 years or so the evidence is in.
Ricardo was writing when populations and factories weren’t globally mobile like they are today. Paul Craig Roberts has been saying that what we are seeing today isn’t free trade as envisioned by Ricardo’s theory, it is instead global labor arbitrage- absolute advantage as opposed to Ricardo’s comparative advantage.
In the years immediately following WWII the vast majority of goods consumed by Americans were made somewhere in America. We had imports, but we didn’t have plants picking up wholesale and leaving the country to replace their American employees with a foreign workforce.
I seem to remember Say’s Law which went something like “supply (production) creates its own demand”. It’s fancy economist jargon for saying that producing something gives you buying power. When you export your factories you lose the buying power that they used to provide for all of the people who were part of it.
But apparently that’s The Best of All Possible Worlds to many who continue to believe that the best policy is to do nothing. Of course we do provide welfare to the ruins of the Rustbelt, and it seems that many of the remaining have found a new way to spend their time with meth and other recreations so there’s that.
Very elementary Dr Watson.. China owns 64% our trade deficit. Mexico is another country which owns 6.5% of our trade deficit. Without it Mexico would look like Cuban infra-structure.
The 1965 immigration Bill started in the House. Known as the Hart-Celler. The mover and shaker in the Senate was New York Senator Jacob Javits. Kennedy was bit player.
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