You get the idea...
The White House recently released a statement from the Trump Administration:
President Donald J. Trump is grateful to Chairman [Bob] Goodlatte, Chairman [Mike] McCaul, Congressman [Raul] Labrador, and Congresswoman [Martha] McSally for introducing immigration legislation that would accomplish the President's core priorities for the American people. The President looks forward to advancing legislation that secures the border, ends chain migration, cancels the visa lottery, and addresses the status of the DACA population in a responsible fashion.How very obscure. Because Trump campaigned, at least implicitly, on the promise of ejecting all illegal immigrants and other undesirables from American society.
Flaccid Trump Goes Soft on Dreamers?
In August 2016, at a Phoenix rally, Trump said there would be no amnesty. Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants is a hot topic, and Republicans have routinely caved or reneged on their campaign promises, if they bothered to promise anything on immigration in the first place.
The indefatigable Queen of America, Ann Coulter, recently wrote a piece appearing on Breitbart suggesting that we deport the Dreamers first, and I have to say I completely agree. In the same way that every villain has to make an overt and direct demonstration of his intentions by sacrificing his own men for arbitrary goals, Republicans need to ease into their role as the bad guys.
Every villain is the other side's hero. The truth of the matter is, Liberals are never going to like Conservatives. Them liking us isn't the point. They can hate us by screaming spittle daggers at the bottoms of our jackboots for all I care.
James Woods came out and said what many of us who have supported Trump from the beginning have been thinking. If Trump caves on DACA or any point on the immigration agenda, he is seriously risking alienating his base.
Try to see this from the Conservative perspective. Granting DACA amnesty to the Democrats is like negotiating visitation rights with a pedophile and stipulating how he can and can't molest your child. While there were other key battles for the Trump Administration, like the supreme and circuit courts, which he has done well on, conceding even an inch on immigration will be catastrophic for US demographics.
It is already in significant doubt whether or not America will be able to cope with the 30 million immigrants already within our borders. People who have not integrated barely speak English and vote in ethnic blocks for government entitlements.
The Democrats have been importing their voter base since the 1970s and it has led America deeper into debt, and deeper into desperate wars of aggression to control and expropriate resources around the world.
We've been robbing Ahmed to pay Rodrigo and it needs to stop. America's imperialism has been a system of wealth theft to fund the $1.2 trillion a year in entitlement payments. We don't need any more hands, or any more mouths. America is living on borrowed time, literally, because it is now over $20 trillion in debt! The simulated wealth and prosperity of the USA is a sham and it has been a sham for more than 50 years. It's all based on gunboat diplomacy and color revolutions and it's starting to backfire on us, big time. Of course, it's been backfiring on other countries for quite a while.
The DACA Dreamers are as symbolic to the Democrats as The Wall is to Republicans. The Dreamers represent, largely, a cadre of entitled Liberal immigrants who believe that citizenship is a right. More than that, they are also a weaponized minority population used by the coastal elites to punish working class white men.
Amnesty for the Dreamers is acceptance of the bleeding heart narrative of entitlement as well as the justice of giving the jobs of working and middle class white men to a bunch of jumped-up anchor babies.
Return of the God Emperor
Then Trump went and done it. Like a glorious oversized cherub with a duck-shaped toupée, the United States' President went and said what everyone was thinking.
Why exactly do we want all of these people from 'shithole' countries? There's a bit of a debate as to whether or not he really said it, but personally, I hope he did.
Lindsey Graham, grand-master cuck-extraordinaire that he is, has foolishly seized on this opportunity to prove what an insipid little RINO he truly is:
Yesterday Senator Durbin and I met with President Trump at the White House to discuss our bipartisan proposal on border security and immigration.Whenever one of these self-righteous hacks wants to pontificate about diversity and the American Dream, they always start with some rosy-eyed misrepresentation of America's founding principles. America wasn't founded on diversity; it was founded on tax evasion and land-grabs. We got exported to the Americas because we were either too weird, too religious or too criminal to hack it in the British Isles and the Netherlands, plus we had the right mentality to pillage the 'pristine' New World. That is to say, a kind of feckless scrupulousness found only in epileptic missionaries and the faginesque hedge-gentry.
Following comments by the President, I said my piece directly to him yesterday. The President and all those attending the meeting know what I said and how I feel. I've always believed that America is an idea, not defined by its people but by its ideals.
The American ideal is embraced by people all over the globe. It was best said a long time ago, E Pluribus Unum - Out of Many, One. Diversity has always been our strength, not our weakness. In reforming immigration, we cannot lose these American Ideals.
We have more in common with the penal nature of Australia than most people would like to admit. We had slaves, indentured servants, and the most successful among us were shysters who knew how to hustle a monarchy.
America isn't founded on diversity; it's founded on pimping. Being born an American is like being born into the Corleone Crime Family. You have to decide whether or not you're going to adopt Cosa Nostra, run away, or turn fink. But one thing you can't do is pretend that America is some holier-than-thou beacon of light. Basically, don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining; I ain't no rube.
The clever position of the Republicans is that the Democrats' pearl-clutching over the 'shithole' comment is just proof that the Democrats don't really want a deal. Which is reverse-truth. Trump wants to look like he wants a deal when it's Trump himself who doesn't want it, and rightly so.
Basically, the Republicans are learning: be the first to cast blame, and it works even better when you assert the opposition is doing what you're doing.
God I love that silly Troll.
Build The Wall, Then Launch Them Over It
One thing I am willing to accept is dragging out dealing with the Dreamers until we have some semblance of a wall in place. The solution I propose, instead of trying to compromise with the Democrats over the issue of the Dreamers, is to impale them on the horns of a nasty dilemma and force them to choose the lesser of two equally unappealing options.
The first is to let ICE deport the Dreamers, or at least the first 10-20 thousand of them. At which point the rest will probably give up and self-deport. After a few daring and tear-gas filled night-time raids, they'll get the message.
The other option is that we budget for a large Trébuchet along with the border wall, and begin launching the Dreamers over it and into a sufficiently deep part of the Rio Grande. I'm not that much of a monster. I certainly don't want to injure anyone; it's more like a theme park ride. Naturally we won't charge them admission. Consider it one last hand-out before they go.
Reader Comments
As for Trumpy's 'wall'? Please, we have armies sitting around doing nothing all over the world, just reassign a few to the border and instant 'wall'.... but then the 'button hole issue' is lost for the puppet show performance... which for DC puppets, is key to their responsibilities in office.... they have a role to play, even if most of that is 'outing' themselves and the OWO as the NWO prepares to exit from their hiddie holes. Until then, this farce will march on and over the cliff of sanity, assuming any of the herd has any left... and in our dumbed down, drugged up herd of humanity, they are increasingly harder to find... but the farce continues the propaganda porn show until the 'rug gets pulled out' and the OWO is unmasked.... setting the stage for the NWO to 'save us'.... The 'dreamers' have their role in this farce... someone/people have to be around to march and protest, because the rest of us are too dumbed down and drugged out to do anything but cheer on our favorite puppets.
In fact, I'm not sure the Democrats could ever afford to be honest about the last part of that sentence, even when they were aiding and abetting something that the American people doesn't want, behind the scenes.
The 20th Century is a century of war, Dubya was only in power for 8 of those years, and started two invasions. His successor, a Democrat, not only continued Dubya's wars, but implemented some of the most heartless unofficial semi-legal murder campaigns in human history. So much so, he earned the nickname Obomber.
In a sense, Lindsey only reveals how he is part of the mentality of the elites. For them America is just one of many state farms that they manage. So long as it has cow-shaped citizens who moo and milk on command.
Yes, countries are defined by its people - but the people, the masses, are defined by its constitutions ie "ideals". America as "an idea" is indeed that! An idea made manifest - founded on ideals of 'opportunism' and (enlightened?) 'self-interest'.
Granted, i should have said "but the people, the masses, are defined by its constitutions... also" But, if you're suggesting constitutions come from 'the people' via democracy working the way it should (which it doesn't) it is at best a case of 'The Chicken or The Egg'... Because, even if the people define constitutions - the constitutions define the people, in turn .
Well, yes... Naturally, anything drafted/written would have to have had pen put to paper by: A Person! That goes without saying. But once implemented, regardless of how its done, larger numbers of new people are born into it and raised within it throughout their most informative and impressionable years - greatly shaped moulded (indoctrinated?) by said constitution until of age to have 'a voice'. The future mindset of a budding burgeoning population is already pre- constitutionally-fixed before they are to develop 'informed choice'.
Please clarify "representation". Do you mean the 'constitution'?... Or the numbers and input representative of 'the people'?
I keep pondering whether to join the Cass site... I read through the sign-in terms not long ago. There's no mucking about! Don't think I'm quite there yet. Laura probably kick me off it by the second week, Lol.
"boy, you're optimistic" Tell me about it! Back down the STS stair-well of pessimism doth do I tumble...
In terms of strategy-against-a-one-world-order, the 'multipolar' formula makes a lot of sense for Russia.
The difficulty in 'cross-pollinating' those kinds of ideas over to The U.S. is...
Most of anything of worth that came out of America in the 20th Century came about because of miscegeny : The Jazz Age, Rock and Roll, etc. These are things that define America.
"Strength for a people comes from unity, not diversity. Adding more diversity to a nation seems to create more disunity."
Well no, not necessarily, I mean look at Israel. What kind of strength do you call that? And what fruits has that bunch of shit given to the world lately?
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Btw HFL, I get the sneaking suspicion you'd rather live in the 1960's, lol.
A slight inaccuracy here.... The real question is whether the 10 million surviving Native Americans can cope with the 310 million immigrants who did not ask their permission to enter their country.
-- So far, it's lookin' bad....
I like the idea of a Trébuchet as a solution to our electoral dilemma, of which bunch of crooks to vote for in the next election. Maybe we could just launch all the candidates across the Rio Grande, and let the Mexican drug cartels sort out the Republicans from the Democrats? I certainly find it nigh impossible to tell them apart.
Once the candidates have been sorted out, processed and packaged in little one-kilo bundles of white cloth, they can be smuggled back into Los Angeles, where their relatives can purchase them for an appropriate burial.
R.C.
* I.e., His wife, Helen, ran off with Paris to Troy/Ilium.
RC
Again, there's a language problem here. When people use the word 'diversity', they invariably mean the opposite, i.e. 'making-everyone-the-same', these efforts are compounded of course, by issuing everyone with iPhone and getting them to all co-exist within the same dumb ass vibratory frequency fence compound. Not much strength in that kind of 'unity'.
I honest to God don't know but I think it rather weird him talking so much about how america should conduct its business if he is not resident there and instead holed up in a different country.
Moving beyond that, it was an okay article... classic usual Jason stuff. I'll be honest on this, I enjoy reading his articles... not because I agree with what he says, but rather because well... I've no idea how he got to be so intelligent, I mean, there were words in their I have zero idea about plus his mind works in a strange way in terms of expression and communication... darn, there must be some hyper connectivity mumbo jumbo stuff going on. Lastly, he's quite insensitive and downright rude... I mean right okay, Haiti might be a shithole but you know, you don't say that... it's rude and for sure doesn't win you any friends. Like, if I say, you're erhm, how to say it... okay I won't say it but you know, if I said it, Niall for one will send the hounds my way as he usually does at the sight of any perceived transgressions.
Anywhose, in a strange way... getting offended reading Jason's articles is something I'm finding easier to swallow. So much so I have a request on the next one... Jason, can you please tell us what your thoughts are on race and I don't know, racial based stuff, like affirmative action and all that sort of stuff that you know, democrats love but republicans hate! Thanks.
Ps, enjoyed reading your stuff on feminists.
That's especially true when you realize you're not actually getting anything. It's like that guy in Idiocracy, where Carl's Jr. was paying him to say "Brought to you by Carl's Jr." Every few minutes in conversation.
No one is paying you. You don't get a reward for being a good little inoffensive sheep. All you get is sheared, like everyone else. Actually, the chances are society will toss you up on the altar one day and sacrifice you like a scape goat for one thing or another. Is that a mixed metaphor?
If that's the way it is, then you might as well tell them what you really think. I don't think I'm insensitive, I'm actually quite surgical with all this stuff. The problem is, I'm an asshole - there are worse things to be - you're not going to be my friend anyway unless you really want to. If I just play nice and go along to get along, then you don't like me, you just like the role I play. Or more to the point, you just like how inoffensive and safe I am.
I used to think like you. Even though I was admittedly a failure at pretense most of the time, I used to think that being nice and unthreatening was the way to win friends and influence people. Then I stumbled across a little piece of wisdom that really hit me hard. "Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter." It depends on how you say it, and what you say. Actually, to anyone who is polite, or has a question, I respond in kind. I just match intensity and rudeness. When someone makes a rude or mean comment, then I am rude and mean back.
If you want proof, go back and look over my comments on my articles. The tenor of my response always matches the person I'm responding to, but I escalate slightly. It's all part of being an asshole, a pugnacious one at that. I like to put on a show, and if people want to challenge me, I'm happy to oblige, it breaks up the monotony.
And remember, they're just words on a screen. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. Offense is something that really depends on the taker, not the giver. I never write an article thinking "wow, I'm gonna piss of so and so." I just take the gloves off an write.
The common wisdom is that eventually it'll backfire on me and then people will say: "See, shoulda went along to get along." But actually, that's just life. It backfires on everybody. It doesn't matter how nice, how sweet, or how mean you are. You can't control fortune, it just is.
I know so many people who did all the right things, believed all the right things, said all the right things, and then they have their lives turned upside down by a divorce, or an illness, or a false accusation, or a fiscal audit. It's like prison. Everyone gets their shit pushed in. Actually, my opinions on race are really no opinion at all. I have a bit of a penchant for the Nubian Goddesses actually, unfortunately, they don't have a penchant for me so c'est la vie.
Anyway, I'll tell you something that'll help you understand me and where I am coming from. I had a lot of hopes and dreams once, then I got sick and found out I had an incurable genetic disorder that's a real pain in the ass.
The worst part of the genetic disorder is that it seemed to me like God had tailor made it just to fuck with everything I ever wanted. A lot of people with my disease commit suicide, because it's just such a clusterfuck. I was really depressed for a long time, and then I realized: fuck it man.
Life will never be what I want it to be, so I might as well have fun. You can't shame me. You can't scare me. If you kill me you're just freeing me from a shitty disappointment of a life. What I am trying to say is that I have exactly zero give-a-shit when it comes to the status quo, or what people think I should say or do our how I should be.
So you've got some dangerous skills Jason:-
- Wisdom --> don't even know whether to call it that... but okay, you know some stuff about how to conduct yourself.
- Intelligence ---> Self evident from the knowledge and communication jedi skills that come through in your writings.
- Humour and appreciation of culture
Etc...
On each of them you are like hitting a 9 out of 10 minimum.
I figure the world was like it better give you a serious handicap otherwise you'd end up being supreme ruler or something. Sad and sorry to hear about the health conditions. It sounds bad and dare I say, unfair. Props for finding a way to turn that 'curse' if you will into some force of transformation. Strength/courage levels probably hitting a 10 out of 10 on that front!!!
Anywhose, I easily get blown away by incredible things, childlike wonder if you will so in case you're wondering, that's the reason I'm in awe!
Regarding what you said about living life shackled onto other people's views and that sort of thing, I have to admit, I am nothing short of a slave on that front. In a way, God not having decided to f me up good and proper means I've never really hit that point of 'i just don't care anymore' to free me to live as I want. Now this is not some sort of dare to the universe, haha, just trying to find a reason for not having acquired the realisations you have. Different person, different set of problems and challenges but I'd be lying if I said I didn't hope to acquire some of your talents one day - sure as hell would make life lighter and less laborious.
Ps, I apologise in advance for any future offense I'll take from your articles
Last : quick unrelated question... you've obviously been to the great depths of darkness with depression induced by the condition that plagues you and come back dare I say, intact and firing on all cylinders... pass a little gem across and let me know how you develop good/healthy 'coping mechanisms'... I basically need to find a solution to a problem I have and that problem is my coping mechanism - and it's neither good nor healthy but sadly serves the purpose of keeping my mind from self-imploding.
1) Binge watch a t.v. series that makes you ball like a little girl at the end. Sadder and more unfair the better. I usually pick Dexter, or Babylon 5. The last few episodes of those just slay me emotionally.
Some traps you avoid, some you spring in a controlled manner. Sad songs also help. Listen to things like Tomorrow Wendy and Life Goes On by Tupac.
2) Find something that pisses you off to no end. Something really unjust, something you just can't leave untouched in some way.
3) Try eating mostly fats and proteins.
4) Work out. You can join this up with taking some aggression out on a punching bag. I do double sinawali drills until my arms fall off. [Link]
5) Talk to someone. If you don't have anyone, or what you need to say is totally whack, try finding a therapist, maybe in another town. Give them a fake identity and only see them once.
6) Try to honestly find the actual cause of your depression. And don't be satisfied with the easy stuff. Often the easy stuff just conceals something deeper that might be eating you.
7) Suck it up and quit being a pussy. No one likes a whiny crybaby man, and honestly no one really cares. Once you realize no one is going to help you, no one is going to save you, then you'll start saving yourself. If for no other reason than to give a big middle finger to society for treating you as an expendable labor source.
Remember, the best revenge is success. If life gives you lemons, make lemonade and mix it with Tobasco sauce and cayenne pepper and drown the fucker in it.
Just my two cents, your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited.
To quote LonS: "in a strange way... getting offended reading Jason's articles is something I'm finding easier to swallow." ... You mean all this time you haven't been chipping away bit by bit at our souls masterfully turning us all into psychopaths?? Lol!
I have a bit of a penchant for the Nubian Goddesses - man after my own heart! You need to come over to London... There's some cool funky black chicks lovin' all kinda white guys there! Maybe if you ask nicely, HFL will show you around
Stay strong bro!
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I'll try and take some inspiration from your story and fight my own good fight
I know I'm still kinda new here, but if it helps at all to know: I am fucked in oh soooooo many ways!
I like this one:
But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first. - Matthew 19:30
I usually don't give advice, but maybe better to spend some time on that instead of wasting away so many hours verbiating here at the scene of your crime.
As in, give it a rest.
For about an hour every day.
Sitting on a chair or standing is just as good.
The flame should be an arm's length away, just above your eye-line.
Check what condition your condition is after about five/six days.
If done correctly, it does all of what Jack Kruse is trying to do, plus more, times about ten.
We've certainly not been importing the 'best and brightest', but rather those who were artfully crooked enough to get here. (Of course, if Americans had not become AmeriKants, we would have realized that, as a country, we already had sufficient people, and we should have put US! first.
Trump's been one of the few politicians willing to merely say the infinitely non-PC statement that we need to restrict or stop immigration.
So, what the hell, here we go. As I've said since the 1970s there comes a time that the 'open borders'/ Statue of Liberty's 'bring us your wretched' policies are no longer logical. That time passed around 1946. IF it were up to moi, the borders would have long ago been closed.
Moreover, on the afternoon of 9/11/2001, I stated that if I were President/or PTB Person in charge of US,* every single non-citizen in the US who could have had a green card/citizenship/or application in process as of 9/12/2001, could stay, and all others would have until 12/31/2001, kids and all to leave and go wherever they were welcome. (Children 18 and up born here would be citizens who could remain, of course.)
Dual citizenship would be given the same time frame to choose their country and renounce the other.
R.C.
*Of course, PTB were behind it... whatever. (Cheney was their point man, with Dual Citizen, Dov Z. controlling the particulars, along with all the PNAC assholes.)
RC
On the other, I'm like, "Wait, what?! Who let them in in the first place, and why? They should fix the problem..."
That's not going to happen, of course, because they're all too busy swearing at Trump. He inherited a crappy deal because no matter what he does, somebody's gonna be pissed.
But ultimately, if citizens are hurting and infrastructure is falling apart, then that's where the priority should be. If that means the Dreamers have to go, well... there's more than 1 way to skin a cat if that really is their dream.
Most of them are of course over 18 now, but when the "crime" was committed, they were minors.
The Democrats have argued that that means they require "special" consideration, this consideration is called DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
The Democrats have created a brand with the Dreamers, complete with sob stories, and why they should stay and so on. Basically, they are just cultivating a large future voting block. At the same time, due to what is called "Chain Migration", the Dreamers present a real problem, the moment they are granted amnesty and become legal immigrants, they can then use programs put in place by the Democrats to bring family members into the country.
So the 800,000 or so "Dreamers" turn into 2-3 million new immigrants, largely from "shithole" countries.
This is added on to the already 30 million unintegrated immigrants we have now.
What the Democrats are doing is importing future voters, they want to grant them amnesty and then create a "path to citizenship". Since immigrants have been shown to vote in ethnic blocks, all the Dems have to do is promise them citizenship and welfare, and they essentially "buy" votes.
Basically, this is like meta-gerry-mandering. Because Dems are deeply racist and bigotted, they believe that they will be able to "control" these immigrant populations by inserting them onto their "urban plantations."
In a sense, the immigrants are only being used by the Dems in a culture war. Dems want to deconstruct (destroy) American culture, because they have decided that it is racist, white supremacist, sexist and homophobic and must be burned down. The immigrant angle is just one of the many beachheads in the culture war.
Each one of these "beachheads" is an invasion point, using various militant groups of activists and advocates. One of the reasons that the Dreamers have run afoul of Republicans is that they are largely an activist population who demand amnesty and citizenship.
The current "fronts" of the culture war right now are:
1) Immigration (includes Dreamers, Migrants, Refugees)
2) Feminism
2a) Intersectional Feminism runs Identity Politics (LGBTQAIP+)
2b) Sex Negative Feminism runs Islamization, Censorship and conservative infiltration.
2c) Sex Positive Feminism runs pornography and often dovetails with Intersectional Feminism.
3) Black Lives Matter (runs typical race baiting, divide and conquer)
4) Social Sciences and Academia (produces the necessary interpretations of history and culture to justify "the plan."
4a) Cultural Marxism provides the ideological underpinnings of Intersectional Feminism, but also modern non-orthodox Marxism, broad identity politics.
4b) Sociology (provides "empirical" evidence for biases, provides pseudoscientific explanations and justifications for "the plan").
4c) Women's Studies (Provides activist training and cultivates anger and resentment by selectively telling one side of the human story). Things like Western Studies, African Studies and so on fit in this category.
5) Silicon Valley (transhumanism, AI, the technology of mass control, information filtering etc).
There's a few more in there. Those are the main ones.
In this jungle, you are either the "hunted" or the "hunter". Pick your position.
Pretty despicable.
And cynical.
Giving this primitive ignorant racist a platform to spew his dime-a-dozen garden variety nonfactual* vitriol is a crime of collusion.
This article, like the others by the same person, is chock-full of lying and disinformation and scapegoating*, tactics used so successfully by the NeoCons and the Nazis, I thought this site was above that, but all things change...
Maybe an announcement of a SOTT/Breitbart merger coming soon?
*for instance, blaming the nation's economic woes on "entitlements" and "immigrants" when both line items are dwarfed by the wasted trillions spent on US military naked aggression/destroying/killing/terrorizing the population of the world is so so utterly twisted and sickly cynical...and SOTT is printing that garbage.
Congratulations, as apologists for the official war-monger agenda, that puts SOTT on the same level as the war criminals.
All you have to do is think of an insipid maxim and the problem, the moral dilemma... it just goes away.
I guess it doesn't do much good for those toddlers with burns all over what's left of their bodies (one arm? one leg? one eye?...) who had to watch their mother get raped & killed, but hey, a small conquest over Satan from the comfort of my home, who can beat that, plus, it would make me a pretty darn good person golly josh gee whiz.
(sorry, some things I just can't laugh about, as much as it would annoy Satan)
Also, I get that you want to demean my ideas as "garden variety" but at the same time, you make publishing them a crime, which sounds far more ominous. I just don't think you're head is really in the game is all, because the picture you paint of me is primitive and ignorant, with garden variety (common) views, which are egregious crimes and at least vitriolic.
Also, if I'm so primitive and ignorant and garden variety, why do you waste your time "refuting" me? Methinks you doth protest too much. Isn't disinformation by definition lying? Again, redundant. God if only we had their numbers. I figure $1.2 Trillion a year in entitlement spending is pretty significant.
For instance, the largest department of the government, with the largest budget is not the military or anything to do with it, it is - ta da: .Hrrm, wonder what the second largest one is - ta da: Here's some other non-military, socialist departments that provide subsidies: And then, the vaunted socialist program that indoctrinates our children and teaches them to be genderfluid lefties: So all together, the US Government spends, YEARLY, $2 Trillion dollars on socialist style programs, subsidies, and entitlements.
What's the US Military Budget? Yeah. Okay. So basically, in your worldview, writing an article for an alternative news website that draws attention to anything other than military spending is EXACTLY the same as genocide and war crimes?
SOTTomites, are you reading this? Do you see now? Do you really want to support this kind of mind? Do you really think this is a good human being? Do you agree with him?
Or maybe it just means you really care about me.
As usual, however, your arguments are simplistic with an intent to deceive.
You speak so lightly (naively) of war and its true total cost for society.
Does your "US Military budget" count the missing 2 trillion Rumsfeld announced on Sept 10, 2001, not to mention whatever other missing trillions the pentagon has chalked up in the 17 years of constant war since that announcement? (no).
Does it count black budget spending? (no, how could it, unless you confuse "leaked" psyop numbers with reality)
Does it count the cost of fighting wars, which is actually a very hard number to estimate ("70% of the costs of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2003 and 2008 were funded with supplemental or emergency appropriations approved outside the Pentagon's annual budget." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/11/us-public-defrauded-hidden-cost-iraq-war) Some estimates run as high as 2, 3, 4, even 6 trillion (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/27/donald-trump/did-us-spend-6-trillion-middle-east-wars/)? (no).
Does it include the cost of healthcare etc for the ravaged lives of the soldiers? (no)
Does it count military "aid" to other countries in support of our military conquests? (no)
Does it count the bloated homeland security apparatus, a crucial element of maintaining our military empire? (no)
Of course, this is all just dollars & cents, the total real cost would include the loss of human capital (how many Einsteins, Mozarts, nobel prize winners in medicine and physics were among the millions slaughtered?), impossible to calculate, and the decimated landscape, the depleted uranium/radioactive/chemical wasteland left behind in our bloodthirsty wake, also impossible to calculate.
In fact, war-making is so integrated with the US economy it is obscenely complex to tease out the actual costs, so we'll never have a true price tag. Your woefully inadequate numbers, self-reported from the war horse's mouth, are certainly not accurate.
And the real elephant in your room is that immigration actually provides a net benefit to society (https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/economic-benefits-immigration-5712.html), despite your fear and ignorance based obsession with political hot buttons and resultant scaremongering fingerpointing scapegoating (http://www.bushcenter.org/catalyst/north-american-century/benefits-of-immigration-outweigh-costs.html)
"Research shows that legalizing our nation’s undocumented immigrant population and reforming our legal immigration system would add a cumulative $1.5 trillion to U.S. GDP over a decade." (https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2013/02/08/52377/immigrants-are-makers-not-takers/)
"Economists generally agree that the effects of immigration on the U.S. economy are broadly positive. While natives bear some upfront costs for the provision of public services to immigrants and their families, the evidence suggests a net positive return on the investment over the long term." (http://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2016/1/27/the-effects-of-immigration-on-the-united-states-economy)
According to the CBO's paper 'The Economic Impact of S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act', S.744 (which would revise laws governing immigration and the enforcement of those laws, allowing for a significant increase in the number of noncitizens who could lawfully enter the United States permanently or temporarily) "Real GDP would be greater by 3.3 percent in 2023 and by 5.4 percent in 2033 if the bill was enacted, according to CBO’s central estimates of the overall economic impact of the legislation... the cost estimate shows that changes in direct spending and revenues under the legislation would decrease federal budget deficits by $197 billion over the 2014–2023 period and by roughly $700 billion over the 2024–2033 period. The cost estimate also shows that implementing the legislation would result in net discretionary costs of $22 billion over the 2014–2023 period and $20 billion to $25 billion over the 2024–2033 period, assuming appropriation of the amounts authorized or otherwise needed to implement the legislation. According to CBO’s central estimates (within a range that reflects the uncertainty about two key economic relationships in CBO’s analysis), the economic impacts not included in the cost estimate would have no further net effect on budget deficits over the 2014–2023 period and would further reduce deficits (relative to the effects reported in the cost estimate) by about $300 billion over the 2024–2033 period."
In other words, all of your bloviating and scaremongering about "the illegal aliens are coming, the illegal aliens are coming" is pure worthless hysteria.
Here is some more interesting actual information, as opposed to your paraphrased, un-referenced, cherry-picked disinformation:
7 ways immigrants enrich our economy and society
-A report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine found little to no effect on the wages and employment of native-born workers in the long-term by undocumented immigrants.
-Undocumented immigrants pay an average of $11.64 billion in state and local taxes a year.
-In 2010, undocumented individuals paid $13 billion into retirement accounts and only received $1 billion in return.
-According to the Congressional Budget Office, the bipartisan immigration bill that passed in the Senate in 2014 would have helped reduce the deficit by $197 billion, increased investment by 2%, and increased overall employment by 3.5% by the year 2023.
-Studies have confirmed that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans and they are associated with lower crime rates. [Link]
I hear arch-racist/white supremacist David Duke is seeking a media platform...judging by the tone of some of your recent content, as in this article by a self-described psychopath (the devil loves to hide in plain sight), I can only conclude you would jump at the chance to publish and thereby help to spread far and wide the philosophical musings of the Grand Wizard himself?
Notice how it claims that everything is racist and white supremacist, without explaining how that applies to the current situation. For instance, most of the "hispanic" countries were colonised by Europeans (spanish and portuguese) who are, well to be frank, white or at least western. Now the children of those formerly white/western people are suddenly no longer white, but Hispanic, a kind of racial/ethnic group created out of whole cloth.
During ancient times, Spain was named Hispania and gave its name to Hispaniola and to Hispanic (from latin Hispanicus). So we are really talking about a fake ethnic minority that is not really a minority at all.
Most of the people from these areas have names like Eduardo (Edward) and so on. They are merely the descendants of the colonisers and invaders. Many of them have a darker complexion, not because they actually mixed with the natives (though some did, probably through rape), but drawing from the moorish influence in Hispania and the environment.
On of my sisters, who is obsessed with tanning, is actually darker than many of the Mexicans I have met.
So when we talk about tossing them back over the border, we are only talking about tossing the children of Conquistadors.
keep going, you might get there someday: to the place of understanding.
I certainly don't need a lecture from the junior member, though, having lived in latino countries for many years of my life, something which serves to validate my statement: you don't have a f#cking clue what you're talking about.
Here's a hint for doing a little better next time: when you try to make broad sweeping generalizations about dozens of cultures/races, you're bound to get a few things wrong.
Or maybe get everything wrong.
How about, for starters, the millions of indiginous/mixed race citizens of Mexico, Columbia, Venezuella... they're real people, not "fake". You can't wish them away for the sake of pretending you're winning an argument. Oh, and mixed race people get to decide how to define themselves, not you:
"Many of them have a darker complexion, not because they actually mixed with the natives (though some did, probably through rape), but drawing from the moorish influence".
Wow, what a presumptuously patronizing racist a$$hole, what a sweeping nonsensical factually incorrect load of skin-color-obsessed racist baloney.
Really, this is getting embarrassing, pointing out what an utter doofus you are.
"we are really talking about a fake ethnic minority"... gee, loser, if there are more of "them" than there are white people, as is the case in many Latin American countries (the context of your statement was "hispanola"), do ya think maybe they're not a "minority"?
Seriously - you're diggin yourself deeper & deeper into the very large racist pit you've made for yourself.
As I explained, Edward is from Brazil, which was colonized by Portugal, so your research efforts regarding Hispanola don't necessarily apply:
"48.43% of the population of Brazil (about 92 million) described themselves as White; 43.80% (about 83 million) as Pardo (brown), 6.84% (about 13 million) as Black; 0.58% (about 1.1 million) as Asian; and 0.28% (about 536 thousand) as Amerindian (officially called indígena, Indigenous), while 0.07% (about 130 thousand) did not declare their race. In 2007, the National Indian Foundation estimated that Brazil has 67 different uncontacted tribes, up from their estimate of 40 in 2005. Brazil is believed to have the largest number of uncontacted peoples in the world. Since the arrival of the Portuguese in 1500, considerable miscegenation between Amerindians, Europeans, and Africans has taken place in all regions of the country."
And finally, no matter what the color of an individual's skin, or whather s/he's 10, 20, 40 or 75% european, talking about tossing people over borders, complete with a cruel visual aid, is unspeakably dehumanizing.
That's how angry army sergeants brainwash their minions to kill kill kill at the ring of a bell. Really, the company some people keep.
You're just a cog in the war machine, rallying the troops to "toss em over the border", "hate", "expel", "everything that's wrong is because of them", "don't look at the rich man behind the curtain stealing your money to plunder & control the world, it's all the 'minorities' fault"...
Simplistic, jingoistic, manipulative evil-speak, what a wonderful message you have for the world.
You will lose, though.
And you'll get high blood pressure from all the red-in-the-face blaming/finger pointing/hating.
So much hate, so little time...it must not be much fun, not as much as love, that's for sure.
I pity you.
Of course, I don't really think that way, I'm just using leftist rhetoric against them. The point is to show you that as a leftist, it doesn't matter. The fact that much of the narrative used against the USA can be used in South American countries doesn't matter to them. They aren't really interested in the "victims."
As J. Peterson put it, they don't love the poor, they just hate the rich. Someone like Stranger doesn't love brown people, he just hates white people.
Notice how his response to me was not a history lesson of his own family. He didn't point out how he is an indigena, because he isn't. He's a descendant of the colonisers and invaders. He should be hoisted on his own petard.
However, I've noticed a dark side to this city and many others like it that heavily swing that way...
So for one, I've noticed most left wing people love the idea of being left wing BUT hate the practice of it - so in a weird way, if you actually watch how they act, it's right wing. So for example, in my city, a lot of old run down communities have been gentrified now and the poor ethnic minorities pushed farther and farther away from what's meant to be 'inclusivity'. So now you go to these gentrified bits where most people dress like hipsters and hippies, listen to 'world' music, are into spirituality etc AND there is like next to no minority unless you count drug dealers pretty much. I've always wondered why, why despite the high rhetoric is it not actually that inclusive? I thought maybe it was a matter of money and economics but lots of bars, pubs, restaurants etc in these areas are actually not that expensive and littered with students who are like quite deep into their overdrafts... also yes, you have your middle class high earners too who identify as left and hip.
After much pondering, I think I know a major reason why it's not inclusive after talking to lots of hippies and hipsters.... they love the idea of who they are AND usually they need whoever it is that is the perceived victim of whatever injustice (e.g. refugees or ethnic minorities) to act in a certain way... usually in a way that validates the hippie/hipster leftie type. In practice this means that they are demanding subservience. So for example most minorities won't be consumed by notions of racism all day everyday... when a leftie encounters one of these minorities, they'll essentially demand of this person to play the role of victim and agree with the leftie including the decisions the leftie is making (e.g. taking drugs, not working because they hate capitalism but somehow they have money to burn ,living a very free life with zero responsibilities etc) because you know, the leftie is good and fighting the good fight on behalf of the minority against the horrendously oppressive system... brothers in arms if you will but of course, the leftie is the dictator of this relationship. Now, in this case, most minorities are unwilling to contort themselves to such a degree as to satisfy such crazy demands. So you know what happens... they simply ignore and avoid the leftie. They don't mix, live parallel lives. The leftie on the other hand will also avoid the minority in question as well, this person is just not fitting into their world view and not playing the required role!
So you end up with weird situations e.g. exclusive diversity (my own term) where diversity exists but it's exclusive to each group who live parallel lives never intersecting really unless you count interacting with an Indian shopkeeper as you buy a pack of cigarettes as intersection or your local black drug dealer as you get your party pill as intersection
I live in a city that is diverse but in my opinion, not really united in practice... it is high in ideals but hollow in substance where the separate groups live parallel lives, rarely intersecting unless it's for economic reasons...!
Sometimes its a case of: What isn't said says more than what is said.
I am calling out atreides for his racist attacks, offensive hate speech etc., so that would make me left wing by the usual & customary standard.
And yes, I am intolerant towards rhetoric/words that incite hatred, racism etc., especially when they're so blatantly manipulative, poorly researched, not backed-up with credible references or just plain poorly thought out.
The abuse is mutual, so, sycophant or not, Lon, you should hold him equally responsible.
Not to mention holding him responsible for leading you astray, because, you see, the solution to America's "immigration problem" (which isn't a problem at all, since as I explained, immigration creates a net boon for the economy and society) is most decidedly not catapulting people over the Rio Grande, which would actually result in their death.
Only psychopaths imagine such scenarios and think it's funny.
Don't allow yourself to be led astray.
All racist assholes, white or otherwise, can spew as much hatred towards POC as they want, but I can't call them on it cause I'm white.
Got it.
Logic 101, by Jason.
Right, okay... I think what is going on is a lack of understanding.
I could be wrong but I think this is where atreides is coming from
- left wing ideology and what is generally referred to as postmodernism has ruled the world for quite some time now, YET our problems are not diminishing but increasing. America for one is as divided as it has ever been! The country is tearing at the seams where it is not even able to take care of its own citizens let alone a whole bunch of other incoming migrants and refugees. Instead, I believe he is calling for responsibility on all fronts... so, Haiti when lets say he agrees with Trumps 'shithole' comments, atreides is like, yeah... have you seen Haiti? It's kind of a shithole really... hardly the French riviera. But you know, there are many reasons why it got to 'shithole' status but those reasons can't be used to hold it there. Haiti to become less of a shithole will one day have to take matters into its own hands, say no to foreign raiders, start standing up on its own 2 feet without relying on places like the US etc. Stranger, there is nothing racist about this view. In fact, I am sure many Haitians would love Haiti to turn into the French Riviera for Haitians.
I think you are getting triggered by right wing sounding language, the view on Trump he has etc which is provoking emotional defense mechanisms within you which then hijack your mind so much so that you can't tell when atreides is joking or using metaphors or figures of speech e.g. with the catapult.
Anyways, that's my take stranger.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions - this applies to the left quite strongly. Think about it stranger... you don't have to turn right wing or lose your identity by doing so. You'll still be you...
Btw, I find POC (People Of Colour) offensive and divisive terminology... It suggests there are those being 'colourless' as being wholly separated from everyone else "the rest" = The 'Coloured' masses all lumped together as one big unidentifiable 'the others' [lower case]
Really though... "POC" was a label invented by racist 'white folk'/Zionists to separate everyone else from themselves like a shiny new 'Jim Crow' refurb given a Millennial face-lift all lit up with sparkly LED's and a smiley emoticon
I've been reading this website for years, didn't know there was a fan club!
Gee, can I join?? What are the dues, be a sycophant and suck up to the writers here on the chat board like I see you doing?
Incidentally, most replies I've gotten here including from J Martin have been very incited, y'all must not "own your own minds"
You can choose to be offended at POC, just like they're offended when whities refuse to admit they have privilege.
Like, for instance, when you're walking down the street and the police DON'T stop you for no good reason, that's a good example.
But keep on pretending you get treated the same as POC if it makes you feel good about yourself, I'd hate for you to feel guilty or anything.
You have been triggered by the right-wing reactionary scare-mongering fear-based propaganda of this article.
As I have posted, immigration is not a "problem", it is fact that immigration/immigrants have a net positive effect on the economy etc (see my posts), so that's the good news - you don't have to be afraid of immigrants or immigration!!!
Say goodby to fear and embrace the love, bro.
(or keep your head in the sand, only believe what J Martin says, and be afraid, be very afraid).
You should really read about it so you know what you've been paying for.
Maybe start with "War is a Racket" by Smedley Butts, the most decorated Marine ever.
The problem is you have no interest seeing the bigger picture because the insignificance of your struggles for social justice becomes ever so apparent. You need white privilege. It gives you something important to rail against... Something righteous to fight for without having to better yourself internally and develop your mind and soul. I mean - Just look at your arrogance assuming you speak on behalf of all POC!... It really needs to be said twice! Oh, don't tell me... POC's not following your mantra are probably sellout coconuts and uncle toms - or just confused and psychologically damaged suffering from 'battered-wife' syndrome at the hands of centuries of white oppression... Right?... I bet you think that too! Lol! How patronising! Come on Stranger... admit it!... You'll feel better...
Its probably no interest to you, but before I sign-off, here's some light shed on my thoughts about 'race' in the comments section to 'zbrandia' on a previous article. It took me awhile to find... But I'm always willing to stay up late and go that extra mile for a fellow SOTTie!
Indiana nurse says every white male baby should be sacrificed to wolves, celebrates viral 'fame' [UPDATE]
Nurse Taiyesha Baker of Riley Children's Health in Indiana is under investigation for tweeting that every white male baby is "a detriment to society" that "should be sacrificed to the wolves."...p.s I will NEVER feel guilty being born - and nor do I agree with J Martin on everything (though he does have my respect!)
Among those who claim to have been abducted by aliens, they report that the aliens regard those (immortal) souls, who choose to incarnate on this planet, as impressively brave, and deserving of immense respect for their courage. It is an incredibly beautiful planet, and also a prison planet of deep suffering.
I was sitting in a Taco Bell a couple of years ago, and watching across the room a middle-aged man - a father, guardian, I don't know which - with three young boys, all about 10-11 years old, at the same table. One boy was blond, one was dark-haired, both good-looking, and the third was in a wheelchair with severe cerebral palsy. His wrists were bent, he was contorted in the chair, twisted to one side, and every couple of minutes, his father would delicately put a mouthful of food in his mouth, as he could not feed himself.
I watched this tender scene for a while, then wrote something on a napkin and gave it to the father as I left, so that he would have it to read again and again, and would not forget it. This is what I wrote:
"We owe them a great debt of gratitude. They choose this terribly difficult life, and take birth in this world in these dreadful circumstances, in order to give the rest of us lucky people the opportunity to practice kindness."
We are only such as we define ourselves. Our life is what we make of it, and that is where our free will comes in. We cannot choose our destiny, but we can choose how we react to it. Nelson Mandela, on the day he was inaugurated as the first President of a democratic South Africa, attended an inaugural dinner - 1,000 guests at round tables, each holding 15 or so people - and he could choose whom to invite to sit with him at his own table. He invited his jailers, the wardens from Robben Island and Cape Town Prison to sit with him. People were amazed, and asked how he could do this. He replied, (paraphrasing, not a direct quote):
"They are fine men, honorable men, who were the victims of a system of injustice just as much as I myself was, a system none of us could avoid, but in which we were all trapped. I never regarded myself as their prisoner, nor them as my jailers. We were just human beings who found ourselves in a situation we could not avoid, and for which none of us was responsible. In all those years, in my mind I was a free man, and those men were my friends for whom I had great respect, as they never treated me other than with justice and honor. My body was in prison, but not my mind, and not my soul - all that time I regarded myself as a free man who was a temporary guest of those wardens, a relationship neither of us would have willingly chosen."
( This may incidentally answer the people who question which race is superior to another race. Human beings are so infinitely complex, and have such a manifold bounty of magnificent talents, that to call one race superior to another is profoundly ignorant.)
It is attitudes like Nelson Mandela's which prompt the aliens (if the stories are true,) to regard those souls, who take on a human birth on this planet, as immensely brave and deserving of respect and praise.
May you walk in peace.... Live in joy.... And love always.
What I was saying there may not be clear to some who need it spelled out.
When folks of a religious mindset are suffering, they say, "God is testing me," reminiscent of the story of Job in the Bible, who was made to suffer by God in order to see if he would curse God for his misfortune, or continue to praise and thank God as he did when things were going well for him.
However, when people are not suffering but doing well, enjoying health, wealth, and abundance, they never say to themselves, "God is testing me." But He is . God is testing those people to see what they do with their good fortune - do they help others less fortunate, do they share their bounty with the needy, or are they selfish and grasping and hard-hearted?
Religious people ask, "Why does God allow suffering and misfortune and cruelty in this world?" They tell themselves Satan has spoiled the beautiful creation God made, forgetting that God created Satan, and if God is all-powerful, He had to have known how that would turn out. God allows suffering so that we can choose to do something about it, instead of simply cursing our misfortune.
There is always - always! - someone else in this world less fortunate than us. This is fortunate for us, as otherwise we would not have the opportunity to help them, to fight for justice, to heal the sick, to comfort the sad, to feed the hungry, to clothe the poor, to expose cruelty, to respect all life, to become the best human beings that we can be.
And for those who suffer in these myriad ways, there is the opportunity to forgive. Martin Luther King, Jr., another black man, said: "Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude." All of us suffer. Even the rich. I know a man who is worth $300 million, who gave $5 million to diabetes research because two of his three children suffer from juvenile diabetes and may never see adulthood. All of us have something to forgive the world for, to forgive each other for, to forgive Life for. All of us suffer. All of us have the opportunity for bravery. All of us have the opportunity to help others, to help Life be more beautiful. All of us are human.
I had previously assumed that the war-machine was self-impelled as a profit-maximizing industry, and that it essentially attracted people who like killing and plundering.
But the military is substantially staffed by regular people, and those people follow orders, and those orders ultimately come from outside of that war-machine 'closed loop'.
What if the primary impetus for maintaining Pax Americana way beyond its sell-by date is to ensure the continuous flow of stuff in order to pay for the bloated welfare state, not the 'MIC' (which would thus become an organ of the former)?
That sure would explain why liberals had no problem with the wars Obomber and Killary signed-off on.
Disappointing to see that you couldn't see through that - manipulating statistics to serve a racist agenda is an old cheap trick, apparently you didn't fact-check or consider.
Atreides’s post is simplistic with an intent to deceive.
He speaks lightly (naively) of war and its true total cost for society.
Does his "US Military budget" count the missing 2 trillion Rumsfeld announced on Sept 10, 2001, not to mention whatever other missing trillions the pentagon has chalked up in the 17 years of constant war since that announcement? (no).
Does it count black budget spending? (no, how could it, unless "leaked" psyop numbers are confused with reality)
Does it count the cost of fighting wars, which is actually a very hard number to estimate ("70% of the costs of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2003 and 2008 were funded with supplemental or emergency appropriations approved outside the Pentagon's annual budget." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/11/us-public-defrauded-hidden-cost-iraq-war) Some estimates run as high as 2, 3, 4, even 6 trillion (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/27/donald-trump/did-us-spend-6-trillion-middle-east-wars/)? (no).
Does it include the cost of healthcare etc for the ravaged lives of the soldiers? (no)
Does it count military "aid" to other countries in support of our military conquests? (no)
Does it count the bloated homeland security apparatus, a crucial element of maintaining our military empire? (no)
Of course, this is all just dollars & cents, the total real cost would include the loss of human capital (how many Einsteins, Mozarts, nobel prize winners in medicine and physics were among the millions slaughtered?), impossible to calculate, and the decimated landscape, the depleted uranium/radioactive/chemical wasteland left behind in our bloodthirsty wake, also impossible to calculate.
In fact, war-making is so integrated with the US economy it is obscenely complex to tease out the actual costs, so we'll never have a true price tag. Atreides's woefully inadequate numbers are certainly not accurate.
And the real elephant in the room is that immigration actually provides a net benefit to society (https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/economic-benefits-immigration-5712.html), despite Atreides's fear and ignorance based obsession with political hot buttons and resultant scaremongering fingerpointing scapegoating (http://www.bushcenter.org/catalyst/north-american-century/benefits-of-immigration-outweigh-costs.html)
If you maintain an open mind:
According to the CBO's paper 'The Economic Impact of S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act', S.744 (which would revise laws governing immigration and the enforcement of those laws, allowing for a significant increase in the number of noncitizens who could lawfully enter the United States permanently or temporarily) "Real GDP would be greater by 3.3 percent in 2023 and by 5.4 percent in 2033 if the bill was enacted, according to CBO’s central estimates of the overall economic impact of the legislation... the cost estimate shows that changes in direct spending and revenues under the legislation would decrease federal budget deficits by $197 billion over the 2014–2023 period and by roughly $700 billion over the 2024–2033 period. The cost estimate also shows that implementing the legislation would result in net discretionary costs of $22 billion over the 2014–2023 period and $20 billion to $25 billion over the 2024–2033 period, assuming appropriation of the amounts authorized or otherwise needed to implement the legislation. According to CBO’s central estimates (within a range that reflects the uncertainty about two key economic relationships in CBO’s analysis), the economic impacts not included in the cost estimate would have no further net effect on budget deficits over the 2014–2023 period and would further reduce deficits (relative to the effects reported in the cost estimate) by about $300 billion over the 2024–2033 period."
In other words, all of Atreides's bloviating and scaremongering about "the illegal aliens are coming, the illegal aliens are coming" is pure worthless hysteria.
Regarding those by DoD, does it include black budget estimations? Just curious...
Also, you have to understand, the Military Industrial Complex is NOT a negative actor in economics. People are employed by the MIC and so pay taxes, lots of taxes. So a lot of that budget ends up cycling around, sometimes directly. Soldiers are employees of the military. Huge amounts of that budget go to military hardware (manufacturing jobs, office jobs) and consultants (freelance jobs).
The problem is, the healthcare industry is massively price gouged, so huge amounts of that budget actually end up directly in the pockets of the wealthy, and actually go to subsidizing the healthcare industries of European nations. I know it doesn't seem like it, but the pharma companies are happy to sell into price fixed markets, because they know they can price gouge in America.
So Canada gets cheap drugs because you don't.