Ageing, Immigration, Rodrigo Duterte and Donald Trump.

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The volatile, brainless and obnoxious president of the Philippines made an ass out of himself by calling Obama a 'son of a bitch' on the eve of a meeting with Obama. This of course was very unwise. The Philippines needs US help in many areas. Duterte's personal feelings for Obama are irrelevant. Obama wisely cancelled the meeting.

This was an example of an all too prevalent trend of current politicians operating on their personal ego trips instead of doing the job they were elected by the people to do. That little gaff will cost the people of the Philippines dearly.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/philippine-president-says-regrets-son-bitch-remark-044044357.html

It kind of reminded me of Trump and his constant ill advised habit of calling various people derogatory names when they disagree with him or, God Forbid, say he doesn't know what he is talking about.

One of the themes of Donald Trump's campaign has been the demonizing of immigration. This is a relatively popular theme and echoes favorably in certain segments of the population. But is the demonization of immigration REALLY justified?

The US has a problem that is rarely discussed in relation to immigration: The ageing US population. People are getting older.

https://www.census.gov/prod/2014pubs/p25-1140.pdf

Not only do we have the passing bolus of the Baby-Boomers but medicine is making people live longer and longer, and couples are having fewer and fewer children.

As the population ages we have a higher and higher ratio of retired people to active workers. Contrary to what most people believe, when you pay your Social Security taxes that money is not squirreled away for you, gaining value. Instead, current social security taxes are used to pay current social security recipients. For that 70 year old retiree to collect his social security check, somebody has to pay that money into the system... or the system will go broke.

Who is that going to be??

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...wrong-immigration-is-a-solution-not-a-problem

Do you think Trump has analyzed this issue to understand the nuances of the population results of factors like immigration, ageing and modern medicine?

For that matter has Clinton?

The US simply cannot afford a Trump (OR a Clinton ) in its current historical context. These are not bar-room issues for a bloviating ignoramus but require thoughtful deliberate solutions.
 
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Trump’s Plan to Eliminate the Department of Education is Yet Another in a List of Terrible Ideas

by Will Ragland and Ulrich Boser Posted on September 1, 2016

https://www.americanprogressaction....n-is-yet-another-in-a-list-of-terrible-ideas/


During recent campaign stops, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is again proposing to eliminate or drastically cut the U.S. Department of Education. Earlier this month, in Florida, he said “there is so much waste” at the department that he plans to cut it—along with the Environmental Protection Agency—down to “shreds” to help pay for his “billionaires-first” tax plan. But, according to new analysis from the Center for American Progress Action Fund, Trump’s proposal could mean that more than 8 million low-income students—roughly the population of New York City—would lose millions of dollars for college.

Equally as troubling, Trump’s proposal also means that over 490,000 teacher positions could be eliminated—14 percent of K-12 public school teachers nationwide. This would have a terrible effect on the U.S. economy. The loss of that many jobs would be like UPS—one of the country’s largest employers, with over 350,000 American workers—going out of business.

Using official budget figures from the Department of Education, CAPAF’s full analysis shows just how far reaching the impact of Trump’s proposals could be on students, teachers, and families. Our analysis examined the largest programs that the agency runs in order to demonstrate what their elimination would mean for the country and for each state. Nationally, according to that analysis:

8 million students every year would lose Pell grants
490,000 or more teacher positions could be eliminated
$1.3 trillion in student loans would be at risk
9 million low-income students would lose $15 billion of Title I funding annually
5 million children and students with disabilities would lose $12.7 billion used every year to ensure that they receive a quality education
750,000 or more students from military families, Native American students, students living in U.S. territories, and students living on federal property or Native American lands would lose $1.1 billion per year for their schools
4,000 or more rural school districts would lose more than $175 million used annually to help improve the quality of teaching and learning in many hard-to-staff schools
$700 million used by states to support the 5 million English language learners currently in public schools—representing close to 10 percent of all students—would be cut
More...
 
multiple sources say he called Obama son of a whore. not a son of a bitch.
Today he said it was not personal...
then he went on to say he is going to eat terrorists.
 
To some......when govt fails to deliver the only answer is bigger govt, likewise they only see a BIGGER population ponzi scheme can save the current ponzi scheme.
 
Trump IS NOT against legal immigration, but ILLEGAL immigration.

It is unfair to believe that he is being racist, anti-latin or anti-mexican in his rhetoric. If we had 11 million German or Chinese illegals in this country, the same issue would be taking place. For more than 100 years people have stood in line, sometimes for more than a decade, to come to this country legally.

Why should people that cut the line illegally be given any privilege?
 
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