CampeadorIt's always amusing to see liberals worry about government spending.
You liberals don't seem to worry much about the cost of putting all those illegals on Obamacare.
You're good at being chock-full of predictions, but it's all pretty baseless.
As it is, sections of the border with walls are the most effective at stopping and deterring illegal crossings.
All I really want, is to enforce the same set of immigration laws that Mexico currently enforces.
Of course we worry about government spending... Everyone does. Yes - even liberals. Stupid things like spending as much as we do on military and corporate subsidies... or, you know.. in this case.. a proposed and useless wall that won't do anything.
You can't put illegals on Obamacare. They don't have social security numbers. You need one to sign up, bud. In any case, Obamacare isn't a great plan, but at least more people are insured. I'd much rather have a single payer system like we do for armed forces, police, fire, and everything else that we've successfully socialized, but it's a step in the right direction.
Illegal crossings are not the majority of ways that illegals get here though... and so you build a wall, then you're going to have border crossings by air and sea. You're not stopping illegal immigration man..
CampeadorSo many contradictions, wasn't the "hype train" what got Obama elected over Hillary in 2008?
Let's see, still double the amount of people on food stamps and other forms of welfare, record high long-term unemployment and underemployment, doubled national debt, lowest labor participation rate in fifty years, record high numbers of people collecting SS disability, falling Real Median Household Income, what else am I missing?
Oh yes, but the stock market went up, that was wonderful. Obama printed and siphoned money to the investor class at Wall Street, those odious 1%ers you leftists have the nerve to complain about. Oh and the bogus U3 metric of unemployment is at what 5.5%? Well done.
Besides a few pockets, the economy has not improved at all in most parts of the country.
Kicking the can down the road is not "crushing it", if you were talking delusional before, take a look in the mirror there buddy.
The hype train may have helped Obama in the General in a few states like North Carolina and Virginia (not that he would have lost anyway due to the makeup of the electoral collage), but it wasn't how he beat Hillary. She had her own hype behind her.
I see hiring signs all over the place in places where in 2009, you couldn't get a job at a local Jamba Juice with a masters degree...There are plenty of jobs out there these days, the problem is that we have had to much emphasis in our education on jobs that don't lead people into those careers. Hell, states like Nevada and Oregon are taking people as elementary school teachers who haven't even graduated college due to the massive shortage there has been lately.
You don't see skilled workers like you used to, because after the 1980's, the money was all in the financial and tech sectors. Today you have shitbags with useless startups on mobile apps that allow you to send stupid emojis to your friends rather than actually improving our society. There's a trend in that direction, but it needs more support - we can start by making higher education more affordable so students may actually go towards more long-term degree programs than taking the easy path towards a 4 year art degree that may not prepare them for the kinds of higher paying jobs that are available.
Doesn't need to be made free like the public k-12, but lowering student loan rates to the same amount that banks get from the government would be a huge stress load off of students once they graduate... We also need to defund the private school higher education system (Looking at you University of Phoenix) that leaches off the dept. of education like an insatiable flee, and end taxpayer money going to charter schools.
