It was interesting to watch the angst build up in preparation for President Trump’s State of the Union address last night. As they did at first, numerous congress people vowed not to attend. Others vowed to bring “dreamers” to the proceedings.
The MSM (MainStream Media), began building their case against the president’s address prior to hearing it, in concert with others on the Left all day Tuesday and into the evening. They were doing their darndest to negate any attempts President Trump would make in which he claimed to have helped the economy. One of the favorite things the Democrats and the Left in general enjoys apparently, is to point to any gains in the American economy and crediting them to past president Obama. This is in spite of the fact that manufacturing jobs weren’t coming back to the US. It is also in spite of the very clear fact that companies are expanding, increasing employee wages, providing employee bonuses and even relocating factories to the United States from elsewhere all due to the recent Tax Reform bill. This was not accomplished under President Obama’s watch. It is clearly the work of a bipartisan Congress urged on by President Trump. This massive overhaul of our nation’s tax laws would never have happened under Obama.
Obama’s comment about manufacturing jobs was stated in 2012, to Candy Crowley (of @CNN fame, who as moderator of past presidential debates, quite famously helped Mr. Obama out during a political debate with candidate Mitt Romney, even though moderators are not to interfere or inject themselves into the debate to help one candidate or another).
iPad, the Macs, the iPhones, they are all manufactured in China. One of the major reasons is labor is so much cheaper here. How do you convince a great American company to bring that manufacturing back here?
Obama’s answer (in part) was this:
Candy, there are some jobs that are not going to come back. Because they are low wage, low skill jobs.
Yet, we’ve seen the exact opposite with even Apple telling us they are going to risk paying the back taxes it’ll cost them to bring jobs back to America. It’s become a scene that repeats itself daily, with one huge company after another promising to open more stores, increase employee wages, open new factories, and even provide bonuses to employees, all based on the passage of tax reform that was not even on the back burner during the Obama administration.
What we are witnessing and experiencing is the retooling of America, with more companies investing in our country. In Davos, Trump was warmly greeted by most with many leaders stating that they wanted to invest in America. The saddest part of this is that states like California and New York are experiencing the fleeing of many people and businesses because of their oppressive taxation and over regulation, yet, most of the United States is experiencing renewal.
Starting in February, people should see more money in their paychecks. People will actually keep more of what they earn. Who would’ve “thunk” it? Moreover, for the next seven years, the tax code has been modified so that when people file, they will have more deductions…unless you live in states like California or New York or if you are very wealthy.
One of the biggest issues facing America right now is something I’ve already mentioned: DACA. We won’t rehash it except to say that any country that allows people to illegally waltz in, and then begins supporting those illegal aliens, effectively has no border. There are laws within the Constitution that clearly delineate the responsibilities of our government to ensure domestic tranquility and part of that includes keeping people from flooding into the United States through weakened borders. Fox News pointed out that costs involved in dealing with illegal aliens in America rises to the tune of $135 billion dollars annually. This is criminal as taxpayers are being robbed to pay for people who are here illegally. Yet, this is what Democrats want.
DACA is the issue that Democrats and Leftists are hanging their hats on. One cannot help but wonder why? Did these illegal aliens vote for these Democrat leaders? Why is there such a huge push for these illegal “dreamers” to be awarded citizenship?
In his State of the Union address (SOTU), President Trump again reissued...
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