What the F:)k is Going on in America?

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I have seen dome people saying that politicians are staying office too long. Some say politicians in office do not help the people and that we need a "common man". To me it is just like Mr. Smith goes to Washington. He is viewed as the "average man" who is working for the people and not Super Pacs or corporate doners. Another point is not experience means less history of political corruption and scandals.

Sure, it's not a bad idea to get fresh blood in government. But the newbies learn the craft of governing in order to become part of a working system.
But how is Donald Trump, in this or any universe, a common man?

There’s one final problem with these kinds of arguments, and that is the implication that we should be worried by the possibility of poor people buying the occasional steak, lottery ticket or, yes, even an iPhone. Set aside the fact that a better cut of meat may be more nutritious than a meal Chaffetz would approve of, or the fact that a smartphone may be your only access to email, job notices, benefit applications, school work and so on. Why do we begrudge people struggling to get by the occasional indulgence? Why do we so little value pleasure and joy? Why do we insist that if you are poor, you should also be miserable? Why do we require penitence?

Attitudes like this are what's wrong:



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I used air quotes because I don't view him as such, but him not bring some seasoned politician makes people think he is an honest person who stands up for him. I don't think he is honest though. I peronally preferred Hillary and voted for her, even though I hate her.

I think people are arguing that before indulging on yourself, you should have your finances straightened out. I think we should increase access to education personally.

The question is, Why do they think that?

Restricting the supply of labor would allow wages to rise where they have been stagnate for 40+ years, it would way lessen the burden on our social services and schools, I don't see how it wouldn't help poor people in this country. People always say well these immigrants are a net positive and my response to that would be not for everyone and even the ones that do contribute are displacing American citizens who will need assistance in their place. Think about what this does to the rental market, illegal immigration hurts poor people!

As I mentioned, Canada has a merit based immigration system and they aren't letting in the same people that we are by a long shot. The US has an open border with a third world country with a 122M people(a decent chunk of that are living in America illegally) that is one of the most violent and corrupt places in the world, it's not really comparable to the country that is our hat with no external threats whatsoever. Why hasn't Trudeau with his big heart offered to take in any of these illegal Mexican immigrants? I'm sure Trump could expedite that if he wanted to, a pipeline if you will. Everyone is supposed to share the burden with Syrian refugees but the US has to accommodate 11-30 million people who have no business being here? If Mexico is so bad that they can't be sent back then perhaps other countries need to share in the burden, that's not going to happen tho obviously since most people are virtue signaling hypocrites.

Planned Parenthood provides reproductive and other services, including abortion, to 2.5 million men and women nationally. Its health centers provided more than 300,000 abortions and nearly 3 million contraception services in 2015, according to its latest annual report, and the group says that more than half of its centers are in rural or medically underserved areas.

I'm glad that Trump went after Planned Parenthood and I'm glad he's Pro-Life.

He's adopting unwanted dark-skinned children? To be clear, I don't worry so much about the unwanted white children. I guess that, even in their desperate situation, they have a little privilege left and won't typically have to wait as long.

There won't actually be any more children, or not many more. There will simply be more dead women who didn't want to be mothers yet.