Border Wall or Foreign Aid?

Happy New Year! For starters, as we all know by now the U.S. Government has a shutdown over this Border Wall and this may last for a while. One side of the political side wants to build the wall; the other side doesn’t want the wall. But here’s the real story behind this WALL. It will cost billions to build the wall, but at the same time the other side wants billions for foreign aid. I’ll bet there’s some kickbacks on this – like always. Is the President holding Congress hostage? Or is he just playing games? Your guess. You decide on this – billions for a wall or billions for foreign aid? Oh, by the way Mexico wants $87,660,000 in foreign aid and not for a wall.   

Orlando “Wildman” Perez

Democratic

Socialists

I agree with “The New York Times” when they warn Nancy Pelosi not to give too much power to the newly-elected House Democrats who call themselves “Democratic Socialists.” They will be a minority of the Democrats in the House of Representatives. 

I don’t enjoy being unkind or insulting toward anyone, even the Republicans in the Congress, a sizeable minority of whom are really scary “Survival-of-the-Fittest” Social Darwinists whose dream it is to abolish all of the safety-net programs, but, to me, you have to be a total and complete moron and idiot to call yourself a “Democratic Socialist,” and that includes Bernie Sanders who I like and agree with 90% of the time.

First of all, they are not true socialists because they do not advocate abolishing our capitalist economic system.

Second of all, if you believe that anyone can be elected President of the United States who calls herself/himself a “Socialist”, then you must live in DreamLand and have drunk the Kool-Aid.

Third of all, where I DO agree with them is in their belief that our federal government should do more and spend more to help the poor, the near-poor, the lower-middle-class, and the middle-class who are struggling to survive and to pay their bills. 

They need to INFORM and EDUCATE the public to the fact that almost every single one of our traditional allies (if not all of them) have federal governments that do more and spend more (in proportion to their population sizes) than we do in the USA to help their citizens. And, to paraphrase Al Pacino in the movie “And Justice For All”, for us in the USA to be right about this, all of these many other countries have to be wrong.

I don’t think so.

Sincerely,

Stewart B. Epstein