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David Maceira's avatar

Thank you for sharing these articles. It is perhaps important that we have come to this crossroad. A sad but necessary evil needed to wake people out of their slumber.

Immigration has always been an important part of the United States economy. Not just in agricultural and manufacturing but in education and science. The contribution to the GDP of the country by immigrants is in the billions.

My primary issue with conservatives is they tend to lean on the "free market" and small government philosophy. They believe government should operate like a business. And cuts are necessary to weed out abuse and fraud. Unfortunately nothing could be farther from the truth.

For example, A business is a "for profit" enterprise. Government is not. But the main difference between the two is this. Businesses have to produce and sell a product. And once that product has saturated the market demand drops to zero. A business can either create a new product or close down. Also, many a business has gone bankrupt from fraud and abuse. Just look at the multiple bankruptcies the felon in the WH had.

On the other hand government is public service oriented. And it does not need to make a profit. But the main difference here is that demand for services always increases as the population grows. Our society needs more roads, parks, bridges, water, sewer, police, fire protection, schools, library's etc. To be sure having been a government worker myself there is some waste and abuse. For that look no further than the biggest budget line item of all the US military.

Bottom line is that you cannot cut your way to prosperity. Especially when the need never stops growing.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

MAGATS aren't "conservatives" -- they're fascists.

Trump is robbing us -and "conservatives" - openly via extortion.

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ramona j's avatar

Thank you Daniel. Maggats are maggats. Not even Americans. They should be outcasts. They are not behaving as is expected by Americans.

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Janet Wilson's avatar

Good grief, they are not behaving as expected for decent human beings. This is exactly how Hitler convinced a nation to do vile things.

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Janet Wilson's avatar

They are Daniel, but alas they THINK they are just mainstream conservatives. That is what their electeds tell them.

"Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.”

― David Frum, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

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David Maceira's avatar

I would add that t has shared this delusion with all of his mouth breathers. If he cannot get his way he would burn the entire US to the ground. And thanks to his minions he has a good head start.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

I live in Florida. Not Canada but a high percentage of Canadian Americans here came here as "conservatives." Hundreds of thousands -- many with dual citizenship. Virtually ALL are pissed and oppose Trump after voting for him 3 times.

David Frum is a Canadian -- not part of the culture pattern. Most MAGATS have one issue -- racism.

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