With the government shut down because the Democrats and Republicans were at odds regarding the nation’s security, our congressional representatives went home with their salaries and benefits intact while the government’s employees were wondering how they could pay for the gifts under their trees.
They can join the General Motors workers who were laid off when GM decided factories outside of the U.S. could make cars cheaper — no, Virginia, I did not write “less expensive” — than long-time employees in the U.S. could make quality products. It would be interesting to see how GM executives’ bonuses will reflect this end-of-year generosity to their (former) U.S. work force.
One more thing to “always remember and never forget” when voters step into the voting booth. Which members of Congress objected to GM’s “send work elsewhere” decision.
In the last presidential elections, candidate Trump promised the American voter he would “build a wall” to reduce the flow of illegal immigrants across the U.S. - Mexican border. The people put him into office to keep his promises. Ex-president Obama paid for a wall across Mexico’s SOUTHERN border ; Democrats, Republicans, and Bernie Sanders were silent. Go figure.
Trump also promised the voters he would replace Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , a/k/a Obama care, with a better plan.
Where is it?
Ask congress.
I know I don’t have to repeat myself, but I will: One more thing to “always remember and never forget” when voters step into the voting booth.
I’ve been around long enough to have seen a number of presidents come and go. Some, like Richard M. Nixon and Lyndon Baines Johnson, were heartily hated by many Americans. But they still got things through congress; both, having been in congress, knew where the bodies were (are?) buried and could “convince” the reluctant representatives and senators to get off their well-appointed behinds and vote as America’s CEO needed.
Trump, of course, lacks that clout. On the other hand, there were some presidents who could do no wrong, even when caught in the act.
For years many Americans have been complaining about Americans fighting upon foreign soil. Ex-president Obama wanted to get the U.S. out of Iraq and the war he declared was a “dumb war; a rash war; a war based not on reason, but on passion; not on principle, but on politics.” (http://tinyurl.com/y9pf9w43). No one complained except perhaps the realists who knew Iraq would soon draw the U.S. back. (He apparently had no objection to keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan.)
Trump calls for the U.S. to get out of Syria. He claims ISIS in Syria is defeated — I think he is very wrong — and his political foes on both sides of the aisle castigate him. He claims to have made a deal with Turkey's dictator, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to keep the Iranians in check. It is doubtful that anyone, except perhaps Israel, can keep the Iranians in check. The Israelis, incidentally, are of mixed opinion about the Syrian pull-out.
It is unfortunate that voters do not “always remember and never forget.” Voters in one south Florida congressional district apparently forgot one congress person being booted out of her position as chair of her party. They also forgot that when asked to assist her constituents, she almost always ignores or fails them. Yet she is re-elected.
As for this scrivener, I will remember Pat Harrington Jr. and his admonition to “always remember and never forget.”
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