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In Capitol Hill Meetings, Donald Trump Reveals His Top Priorities

After a meeting with the top Republicans on Capitol Hill Thursday to discuss the agenda ahead, President-elect Donald Trump laid out his top three priorities: immigration, health care and jobs.

"We're gonna look very strongly at immigration; we're gonna look at the border. We're gonna look very strongly at health care, and we're looking at jobs — big league jobs," Trump told a throng of reporters after a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the lawmaker's second-floor Capitol Hill office.
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I don't know if this is posted anywhere else, so I will just go ahead and create the thread.

Looks like Obamacare will soon be a thing of the past and the wall may become a reality at some point.
 
The irony (for me) is that while I consider myself a moderate, I have long advocated building a wall, if for no other reason than it would be a massive public works project that would provide tens of thousands of jobs just in constructing it and then patrolling it. Unfortunately, we'd probably hire Mexicans to do the work......
 
BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94 said:
I wonder if the wall does happen, how good the pay will be for the workers. Because, I'm tired of 11.10 an hour lol
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I live close enough to the border and see the wall often enough. I think it's a national disgrace.

If they start going house to house hassling people, and deporting millions, it will be the most awful thing the nation has done since FDR rounded up the Japanese.

I'm not interested in hassling Muslims, either.

If I were Trump, I would start by ending the massive government spying programs.
 
BlazerWookee said:
You understand the difference, right? The Berlin Wall was to keep people in, and a wall on our border will be so that we can control who comes in?
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This. Open borders is one thing when it comes to letting in old Muslim women and small children from Syria. It's another when you've got the world's most powerful and violent Drug Cartels on your doorstep.

If I were him, the first thing I'd do is:

-Start cutting back the Federal Government. Get rid of pork and unnecessary programs.
-Cut back the spy programs like Denny said, and dismantle the BATFE.
-Organize our Military so that we can spend the budget appropriately and efficiently in the best way possible without sacrificing our military strength. If this means investing in new programs and getting rid of out-dated equipment and materials, then so be it.
-Legalize MJ at the Federal Level.
-Reorganize the Tax Code for efficiency's sake, and fix our crumbling infrastructure (highways and bridges).

And the biggest one of all....

-NO MORE MONEY TO COUNTRIES THAT HATE US. Middle East; go fuck yourself. All of you assholes.
 
I'm in favor of keeping Muslims out, and also illegal immigrants. As far as deporting, limit it to people with a violent criminal record.
 
BlazerWookee said:
You understand the difference, right? The Berlin Wall was to keep people in, and a wall on our border will be so that we can control who comes in?
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You are right about that. My bad by linking Trump's wall with the Berlin Wall.

Yet, I doubt a wall is going to stop the Mexicans and other immigrants from trying to find ways over, under, around, or through it.
 
let me guess, honestly.

"After consulting with his team, trump has decided the best way to make America great again is to:
End bank regulation.
Green light whatever pipeline.
Pay farmers not to grow corn."

The wall is fucking dumb as shit and never going to happen. the fact that people fell for it is pathetic. Seriously.
 
A wall is just so old school. We have technology that can do the job way cheaper. Besides, a wall might keep us in if we need to evacuate.

Seriously, we don't need to build a wall. We just need to make it so they don't want to come here or stay if they already are.
 
If our govt builds a wall they'll probably put barbed wire at the top. Knowing them, they'll angle it North.
 
BlazerWookee said:
You understand the difference, right? The Berlin Wall was to keep people in, and a wall on our border will be so that we can control who comes in?
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The U.S. has contained everyone without a physical wall for decades.

If you visit a Communist country, which is illegal, an FBI interview awaits your return, to decide what to do with you. If you aren't prosecuted or worse, you'll at least lose your job.

Republicans in Congress are stonewalling Obama's attempt to normalize relations with Cuba.
 
jlprk said:
The U.S. has contained everyone without a physical wall for decades.

If you visit a Communist country, which is illegal, an FBI interview awaits your return, to decide what to do with you. If you aren't prosecuted or worse, you'll at least lose your job.

Republicans in Congress are stonewalling Obama's attempt to normalize relations with Cuba.
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That is ONE example. My father's been to China numerous times on business, and he's never once been questioned by the Feds.

But I will agree with you that I wish Republicans in Congress would give the whole "Bad Bad Cuba" thing a rest. They are insignificant today.
 
Things changed for China. I used to do travel accounting for some of the first business visitors in the 1970s, after Nixon opened it up. But trying to escape is still illegal for a number of countries. Read your passport for the list.

Anyway, there's a nonphysical wall to prevent Americans to see the other side, return, and tell their countrymen that the "enemy" isn't so bad. The ordinary people of Mosul--oops, I'm suppose to say the ISIL militants there--like their new system enough to fight us to their deaths. Our controlled media won't say that.
 
Paul Ryan to introduce legislation to privatize social security.
 
Is Paul Ryan already eyeing Medicare cuts?

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Thursday that Medicare has “serious problems” that would need to be addressed when Congress moves to repeal and replace President Obama’s health-care reform law — a signal that he is willing to immediately enter the treacherous politics of entitlement reform and perhaps break with President-elect Donald Trump.

“When Obamacare became Obamacare, Obamacare rewrote Medicare, rewrote Medicaid, so if you’re going to repeal and replace Obamacare, you have to address those issues as well,” he said in a Fox News Channel interview. “What people don’t realize is that Medicare is going broke, that Medicare is going to have price controls. Because of Obamacare, Medicaid is in fiscal straits. So you have to deal with those issues if you’re going to repeal and replace Obamacare. Medicare has got some serious problems because of Obamacare. Those things are part of our plan to replace Obamacare.”
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Fox anchor Bret Baier asked Ryan about “entitlement reform” generally Thursday, and while he readily proposed reforms to Medicare and Medicaid, he appeared much less eager to propose changes to Social Security. “Fiscal pressures are mounting faster on health care than they are on Social Security,” he said.
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Repeal would look even worse than Obamacare
By Megan McArdle, Bloomberg View
November 9, 2016, 11:20 PM

Can Republicans pass a bill repealing President Barack Obama's health-care plan lock, stock and barrel? Technically, yes. They have control of the House and the Senate. Democrats in the Senate could filibuster, but I doubt the filibuster survives Trump's term in any event, so I don't see this as a permanent obstacle.

I have no doubt that Republicans would like to vote for something they can call "repealing Obamacare." The problem is that repealing Obamacare will involve getting rid of two provisions that are really, really popular: "guaranteed issue" (insurers can't refuse to sell insurance to someone because of their health status) and "community rating" (insurers can't agree to sell a policy to some undesirable customer for a million dollars a year; the company has to sell to everyone in a given age group at the same price).

These two provisions are consistently popular with voters across the spectrum. Unfortunately, they tend to send health insurance markets into what's known as a "death spiral": People know they can always buy insurance if they get sick, so a lot of them don't buy insurance until they get sick. Because the sick people are really expensive to cover, insurers have to raise the price of the insurance, which means that the healthiest people left in the pool drop their insurance, which means the price of the insurance goes up. … After a few rounds of this, everyone has a guaranteed right to buy insurance -- but the sticker price is astronomical.

Obamacare is built to counter this problem -- with subsidies to bring down the price for many Americans, with a mandate for individuals to buy insurance or face tax penalties, with rules on enrollment timing to complicate "gaming the system." These are the unpopular parts of Obamacare.

Repeal will involve getting rid of the unpopular bits. But it will also involve getting rid of the popular bits. Republicans will be under enormous pressure to repeal just the unpopular parts, which would, of course, make the individual market even more dysfunctional than it is now. I wish good luck to President Trump or to any member of Congress who explains to voters that if they want the popular parts, they need the unpopular parts too. Believe me, I've tried...
 
...So I suspect that "Repeal Obamacare" will meet the same fate as Social Security reform. Even though his party had control of both the House and the Senate, Bush eventually had to admit he couldn't get it done. His own party would not back him in the face of voter resistance.

Repealing Obamacare is not Trump's signature initiative; I suspect he doesn't much care. He won't be pushing as hard for it as the Bush administration was for Social Security reform. A lot of people in Congress want it -- but of course, until now, that's been a free desire; they could pass doomed bills to repeal Obamacare without having to face voter wrath when folks discovered that they'd gotten rid of guaranteed issue and community rating. The calculation becomes very, very different when you're talking about a bill that will actually become law.

So I am skeptical that Obamacare will be repealed immediately. What might Republicans do instead?

The most obvious answer is: Wait for it to die a natural death. While Trump will not be pushing particularly hard for repeal, he will probably not be pushing to save Obamacare either. There will be no special deals for insurers who stick with the exchanges. His Department of Health and Human Services is not going to have a crack team devoted to coming up with ingenious regulatory tricks and dodgy funding mechanisms to make the exchanges work. Obamacare's market structure is so deeply flawed that even benign neglect will probably prove fatal in fairly short order.

Repealing guaranteed issue and community rating is very hard as long as people can still buy insurance. But if we end up in a situation where, say, half the counties in the U.S. have no policies available on Obamacare exchanges (and most of the functional exchanges are in blue states), then Americans are not going to care so much about a theoretical right to buy insurance, which they can't exercise because insurance isn't available. This could be paired with things like capping and block-granting Medicaid benefits into what you might call a "non-repeal repeal."
 
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