Come on now that was a great speech

[KingOrfeo]

NPR analyzes the speech statement by statement.

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We will stop the drugs from pouring into our country and poisoning our youth, and we will expand treatment for those who have become so badly addicted.

During the campaign, Trump promised to stop the flow of heroin from Mexico and help families struggling with the epidemic. At the same time, he also vowed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. That could set up a potential tension between competing goals, given that many people addicted to opioids rely on the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare to receive treatment and overall health care. What’s more, many of the states hardest hit by the epidemic, like West Virginia, voted for Trump, and many residents are looking to the administration to improve their economic circumstances.
Sarah McCammon
NPR Politics Reporter/Covers Trump

 

[KingOrfeo]

NPR analyzes the speech statement by statement.

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According to data provided by the Department of Justice, the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offense since 9/11 came here from outside of our country. We have seen the attacks at home, from Boston to San Bernardino, to the Pentagon, and yes, even the World Trade Center. We have seen the attacks in France, in Belgium, in Germany, and all over the world. It is not compassion but reckless to allow uncontrolled entry from places where proper vetting cannot occur.

In the 16 years since Sept. 11, 94 people have been killed in the U.S. by what Trump would describe as "radical Islamic terrorism," according to a policy analyst with the International Security Program at New America, a think tank that tracks terrorist attacks in the U.S. Each of those deaths is a tragedy, but more than six times as many Americans have been killed in that time by lightning strikes. Of the 12 terrorists behind those attacks, seven were from the United States and none came from the countries targeted in Trump's original travel ban. By focusing on preventing foreign infiltration, Trump may be neglecting the challenge of domestic radicalization.
Scott Horsley
NPR White House Correspondent

Trump’s carefully worded reference to “individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses” includes scores of people ranging from attackers to sympathizers who may have lied to law enforcement officials. But it doesn’t include some of the deadliest attackers inside the U.S. since his cutoff year of 2001 — none of the Sept. 11 plotters, for example, who are still undergoing military commissions at Guantanamo — or those who were never tried because they were killed as part of their attacks. And although Trump has cited the danger of attacks by people traveling from the countries affected by his travel restrictions, all the lethal attacks by radicalized Muslims in the U.S. since 2001 have been carried out by U.S. citizens or people who were in the country lawfully.
Phil Ewing NPR National Security Editor

 

[KingOrfeo]

NPR analyzes the speech statement by statement.

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Tonight, as I outlined the next steps we must take as a country, we must honestly acknowledge the circumstances we inherited. 94 million Americans are out of the labor force. Over 43 million people are now living in poverty, and over 43 million Americans are on food stamps.

Trump is right that around 94 million Americans are out of the labor force — that is, they are not working and not looking for work. But that’s not necessarily bad. For example, a college student, a retiree, and a stay-at-home parent could all be quite happily out of the labor force.

It’s true that the labor force participation rate (the share of working-age adults who are working or looking for work) fell off steadily during and after the Great Recession and that its current level, 62.9 percent, is low compared with its levels in the late 1990s and early 2000s. However, only part of that may be due to lingering problems in the job market. As baby boomers increasingly retire, that will also continue to pull the participation rate down and drive that 94 million figure upward. A recent analysis from the Congressional Budget Office found that this is the “most important factor driving down the overall participation rate.”
Danielle Kurtzleben
NPR Politics Reporter

 

[VaticanAssassin]

King back to his old copy and paste spam ways... awesome!!!

 

[EternalFantasies]

"U" - Really?

Anything insulting there? I often type with one hand, and like to make my life easier doing so. Tell me if it offends.'

Nope, just eating popcorn... watching all you people that are "right" about everything...argue incessantly, from both "positions".

Well u gave a definition of a word. And i'm afraid the right is right indeed.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

From the day U.S.Grant took command of the army of the Potomac Lee killed 1000 men a day, every day for 11 months. But there was no other way to defeat Lee. Lee was the best that ever was. Lee know how to destroy Union command and control. Grabt knew Lee couldn't replace losses large or small.

Todays its SNOEFLAKE WORLD.

 

[Parminderjeet]

2 months of sounding like a moron, then he reads someone else's words and all of a sudden everything is perfect? Lmao. Keep on derpin' on!

 

[Hard_Rom]

VOICE?! Really! That's fucking shameful! If anything that alone has convinced me that the T-Rump presidency has crossed the line into pretty much evil. I never thought of him as a Hitler type. More of the loud mouthed pompous Il Duce type. Think I will reconsider that opinion.

One snowflake
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Many snowflakes
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[EternalFantasies]

 

[Hard_Rom]

He did show that he sure can talk!

 

[slipslopstud]

Would certainly be great to get more info on that. That scene was not a nice one at all.

I found it strange that all the people in the room were applauding the service of a Seal who lost his life but there were also innocent civilian casualties who loss their lives because of that raid. Do they get some sort of commemoration as well? Or because they weren't American they go without any acknowledgement. Very strange.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Trump directed Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to develop a plan for ensuring that new pipelines are made from products manufactured in the United States.


Telling private companies were to buy their materials from is very Stalinesq.

 

[domroger]

Fact-checking the speech. Quite a lotta lies.

No surprise .

 

[HisArpy]

Trump directed Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to develop a plan for ensuring that new pipelines are made from products manufactured in the United States.


Telling private companies were to buy their materials from is very Stalinesq.

The US is required under the law to mandate bidding in specific ways and means to ensure economic diversity. The pipeline operations may be private but it also requires Fed government approval and oversight to build it. That invokes specific laws that require a certain number of minority contractors/sub contractors, domestic products, yada yada yada.

Most States have the same types of laws regulating public utilities. Of which the pipeline is certainly one.

Been that way for decades now. Unless you're saying that the Dems who supported those laws were the ones acting Stalin-esq?

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Trump directed Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to develop a plan for ensuring that new pipelines are made from products manufactured in the United States.


Telling private companies were to buy their materials from is very Stalinesq.

How so?

The government has been putting in requirements for bidders on government contracts forever. A typical RFP can include 100's of requirements.

Perfectly common in the government and private sector.

 

[KingOrfeo]

What's the point of this VOICE thing, anyway? Disregarding the victimless crime of illegal residence, immigrants are generally more law-abiding than native citizens.

 

[HisArpy]

What's the point of this VOICE thing, anyway? Disregarding the victimless crime of illegal residence, immigrants are generally more law-abiding than native citizens.

Under this theory anti-prostitution laws shouldn't be enforced. They are 'victimless' crimes yet somehow violet crime against prostitutes is rampant and seems to flow outward against all women. Illegal drug use is rampant and seems to flow outward as well. Disease is rampant and does the same. Victimization and abuse are especially rampant and flow outward into general society at an amazing rate to infect and inculcate the views of children that this is acceptable.

Do you claim that illegal immigration does not do the same? Doesn't illegal immigration not teach that obedience to the law is not necessary? Doesn't this show children that they don't have to obey ANY laws because there aren't consequences for disobedience, and in fact, they can be REWARDED for disobedience? Doesn't this depress the economy in those areas where illegal immigrants work and live? Doesn't the whole illegal immigration network abuse those who need assistance the most? Doesn't helping those who do the abusing harm MORE people?

Yet, you think this is a good thing?

 

[VaticanAssassin]

What's the point of this VOICE thing, anyway? Disregarding the victimless crime of illegal residence, immigrants are generally more law-abiding than native citizens.

Keep crying and lying my friend. It amuses me to no end.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Do you claim that illegal immigration does not do the same?

Yes. Apart from victimization of immigrants by coyotes, there is really no downside. No kid who was not disposed to crime already is going to turn to it because of the immigrants' example. And, no, their presence does not depress any local economy, quite the reverse.

 

[water505]

Disregarding the victimless crime of illegal residence,

So you want open borders. You're insane.

 

[KingOrfeo]

So you want open borders. You're insane.

Calling illegal immigration a victimless crime does not imply an open-borders policy. And you're insane if you want 11 million people deported; that would be really bad for the economy.

 

[Comshaw]

I don't think we've had such direct honesty and clear objectives in a very long time.

And he seems to be delivering on them too.

Bill Maher: Trump's speech will fool a lot of people





Comshaw

 

[Rightguide]

Calling illegal immigration a victimless crime does not imply an open-borders policy. And you're insane if you want 11 million people deported; that would be really bad for the economy.

Not really. It would be bad for the Mexican economy however.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Not really. It would be bad for the Mexican economy however.

If farmers can't hire immigrant labor, you're going to find yourself paying a lot more for produce. And if you need any home improvement or landscaping work done cheap, you're gonna be really disappointed with the absence of Mexicans in the Home Depot parking lot. And, Mexico being a major trading partner, what is bad for their economy is not good for ours.

 

[KingOrfeo]

NPR analyzes the speech statement by statement.

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I believe strongly in free trade, but it also has to be fair trade. It has been a long time since we had fair trade. The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, warned that the “abandonment of the protective policy by the American government will produce want and ruin among our people." Lincoln was right, and it is time we heeded his advice and his words.

Trying to compare trade today with trade in the Lincoln era is an apples-to-oranges comparison in many ways. For one, the U.S. economy in the late 1800s was developing. That’s clearly not the case today, as the Brookings Institution’s Gary Burtless told NPR in June 2016, after Trump had made a similar comparison.

“The protectionist argument got some support from the notion that the U.S. had infant industries that would be quashed by the scale and power of the Europeans,” he said. “Of course, the infant industry argument is not attractive to the United States today, when we have the largest and most advanced economy.”

In addition, he added, “Trump ignores all the benefits to U.S. consumers for whom global competition had created better and cheaper products.”

Likewise, when the Washington Post’s Robert Gebelhoff did his own deep dive into the Lincoln trade comparison in June, he pointed out that trade policy today is tightly tied to global politics.

“How the United States and China interact with each other depends on how we trade with each other — and Lincoln certainly never had to face such pressure during his presidential tenure,” Gebelhoff wrote.
Danielle Kurtzleben
NPR Politics Reporter