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The president offered what he called a "common-sense compromise" that both Republicans and Democrats ought to endorse:From RT:"To build trust and goodwill," his proposal also includes:
- $800 million in urgent humanitarian assistance
- $805 for drug detection tech at ports of entry
- 2,750+ border agents
- 750 new judges to reduce backlog of almost 900,000 cases
- $5.7 billion for "strategic deployment of physical barriers" - not a 2,000 mile concrete wall "from sea to sea," but steel barriers in strategic locations.
- 3 years of legislative relief for 750,000 DACA recipients
- a 3-year extension of TPS for 300,000 immigrants whose status is facing expiration - time for Congress to work on a larger immigration deal
Democrats are up in arms over US President Donald Trump's proposal to fund a border wall in exchange for protection for DACA recipients and TPS immigrants, denouncing it as a one-sided non-starter.
Democrats began shredding Trump's compromise proposal even before he went public with his "major announcement."
Trump's offer has already been rejected by Democrats, however. After Axios published an outline earlier on Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) called it "a compilation of several previously rejected initiatives, each of which is unacceptable and in total, do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to people's lives."
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer echoed her stance shortly after Trump laid out the details of his plan to reopen the government, now almost a month in shutdown.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) chastised the Democratic opposition to the proposal as "completely irrational obstructionism," while Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) called the compromise "a sign of strength" rather than weakness.
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) was also on board, calling it a "reasonable proposal," as was Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), who described it as a "sensible compromise."
The Roman poet Ovid's masterful epic The Metamorphoses includes the memorable opening line regarding the poem's central theme of transformation. He wrote In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora, which has been translated as "Of shapes transformed to bodies strange, I purpose to entreat..."Ovid framed his narrative around gods, heroes and quasi-historical events but if he were around today, he would no doubt be fascinated by the many transformations of the group that has defined itself as neoconservative. The movement began in a cafeteria in City College of New York in the 1930s, where a group of radical Jewish students would meet to discuss politics and developments in Europe. Many of the founders were from the far left, communists of the Trotskyite persuasion, which meant that they believed in permanent global revolution led by a vanguard party. The transformation into conservatives of a neo-persuasion took place when they were reportedly "mugged by reality" into accepting that the standard leftist formulae were not working to transform the world rapidly enough. As liberal hawks, they then hitched their wagon to the power of the United States to bring about transformation by force if necessary and began to infiltrate institutions like the Pentagon to give themselves the tools to achieve their objectives, which included promotion of regime change wars, full spectrum global dominance and unconditional support for Israel.
Comment: There are few documentaries in existence today that have followed the murders of all three of these beacons of hope, JFK, MLK and RFK, like Evidence of Revision. The vignette footage used in this film reveals the terror and manipulation that underpinned society at that time. Much has been forgotten and yet it still haunts the very fabric of Western civilization today. See also: