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Democrats_win

(6,539 posts)
Thu Sep 1, 2016, 12:51 PM Sep 2016

Reagan's balanced budget and Trump's wall/deportation will not exist.

Does/Will not exist. Even if Donald W. Bush err....Trump were elected, the wall would never be built because Trump's business depends on imported labor. The same is true for many other businesses.

Like the 1980 election, in which Reagan talked endlessly about balancing the budget, Trump has made the 2016 election about building the wall and deportation. Reagan tripled the budget deficit and eventually tripled the national debt--so much for his promised balanced budget. Trump, a career con-man, will not deliver on his promise either.

Currently we have a shortage of labor. In Adams County Colorado, cabbage will not be harvested at Sakata farms because of a labor shortage. Imagine what would happen if Trump put further pressure on imported labor. We're all enjoying the fruits and vegetables of their labors. Say good-bye to fresh food. Immigration from Mexico has been in decline and Obama has, sadly, deported more people than all of the U.S. presidents in the twentieth century!

Yet Trump has trumpeted fear into the hearts of the rubes. They are too dumb to think about how Reagan and Bush became such disasters for the middle class. They're committing suicide in favor of their racism.

Every population has bad apples. Remember the Columbine killers? They lived in a neighborhood full of churches yet they became mass murderers when they killed their fellow students and a teacher. Yes, there are bad immigrants but we shouldn't live our lives based on rare incidents. In fact the immigrant crime rate is actually lower than the crime rate of the general population as a whole. Are we going to make ruthless decisions based on wrong facts?

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