Thursday, May 16, 2019

Trump's Immigration Speech

Trump telling what I will do,
instead of inviting me
If President Trump would like to start a conversation with me about anything and especially something as important as immigration reform, don't start out by insult me and my fellow compatriots, the Democrats.  

Trump lost me at the first insult.  And then, he continued till the end.

Compromise comes from being inviting, not insulting.

I will support none of it.  Not till Trump at least is more inviting.  

Then we will at least start the conversation.  

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Presidential Medal of Freedom Award Process


The Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board is a committee that makes recommendations to the President of the United States for people who should be considered for civil public awards from the United States. 

The history and make up of the committee are listed below from Wikipedia.

One of the recommendations that the committee makes is who should be considered for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, pictured to the right.  The award was recently bestowed on Tiger Woods. 

Perhaps Woods is a person that should receive the award but there are problems with the award.  He is a close friend with and has business interest with, President Trump.  Additionally, never in memory has the award given to someone that is only part of the way through their career. 

Note the following from an article about the event from Huffington Post:

"It's unusual for a president to give the award, widely considered to be the nation's highest civilian honor, to a person only midway through their career.  It's even more unusual for a president to give the award to someone he's in business with.  

"I can't think of something like this," Kyle C. Kopko, a professor at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania who authored a story on the award, told the New York Times on Sunday of Trump bestowing it on Woods."

In the previous blog post I did cover how this is a problem because President Trump is enriching his own business investment by giving the honor to Woods. 

Here, I am recommending changes to the way the award selects its Recipients.

1 The Distinguished Civilian Service Board membership should be selected by the Civil Service Commission.

2 A clear and unbiased criterion should be established for selection of possible recipients.

3 The award should only be given to people that are recommended by the Distinguished Cillian Service Board.

4 Any requests made by the president for awarding any honor should be submitted to the board for review.

This would be a great way to hold the line on the president awarding a prize to people who support him politically or are business partners.

Sources





Tuesday, May 7, 2019

This is not right

Bestowing the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tiger Woods not only isn't the right thing to do, it further shows that President Donald Trump is bolstering his investments while in office.  

Trump has taken every opportunity to improve his investments while he has been president.

Woods and Trump have a long history of business relationships.  The following link to the Huffington Post article about them will provide the details.  Most recently, Trump's organization hired Woods to design the new golf course in Dubai.  (The course has not opened as of yet.)

In the article, it quotes: 

"It's unusual for a president to give the award, widely considered to be the nation's highest civilian honor, to a person only midway through their career.  It's even more unusual for a president to give the award to someone he's in business with.  

"I can't think of something like this," Kyle C. Kopko, a professor at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania who authored a story on the award, told the New York Times on Sunday of Trump bestowing it on Woods."

President Trump must stop this type of activity.

Sources:

Huffington Post

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-tiger-woods-business_n_5cd0647ee4b0e4d757366234 

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom


Monday, April 1, 2019

Cutting off Aide to the 3 Mexicos, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.


Trump is pulling aide from three Central America countries, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.  Better known as the “3 Mexicos” according to a gaff from Fox News.  He says they are setting up caravans to proceed to the United States southern border.  When the caravans arrive, the men, women and children that make up the migration, are asking for asylum.

The reason people asking for asylum is because their countries are in complete chaos.  Gangs are running the country and the government seems to not be able to stop them.  The money they did receive helped some, but it wasn’t enough.

Now Trump Boss is pulling it.

"We were paying them tremendous amounts of money. And we're not paying them anymore. Because they haven't done a thing for us. They set up these caravans," Trump Boss said on recently.

But the reality is something just the opposite.  Think about it.  I could give a man that lives on the street a buck every day for a year.  At the end of the year, I decide I am not giving any more support because the man is still on the street.  He hasn’t found someplace to sleep and hasn’t found a job.
It doesn’t matter if the money wasn’t enough to do anything, he is still on the street.  It must be his fault.

So now with aide being cut, things will get even worse.  Now they have less money to do a job that needs more money not less. And, yes, maybe a little better oversite.

So, this makes the Trump Boss look like he is doing something.  His supporters won’t look deeper than they shouldn’t be getting the money in the first place.  This will make him look good when it is time to be re-elected.

Speaking of re-elected, with aide being cut off, conditions in the countries will get worse.  More people will now begin the journey to America’s southern border. 

After all the asylum seekers think, if things get worse in Central America, which they are sure it will now that Trump Boss has caused chaos in the three Mexicos, the asylum seekers will have less to lose than before.

Trump Boss will scream and scream about even more people coming in caravans.  He will say; therefore, we need to continue the wall and why you need to re-elect him because the Democrats will do nothing about this. They welcome them with open arms.

Now, here is even more danger.  Trump Boss has been ithcin’ for a fight somewhere in the world for some time now.  It will ignite his supporters in passionate support.  The supporters will be screaming that we need to support the president even more now that we are in a “war”.

As an example, he is making all kinds of threats against Venezuela.  He has even begun to make threats against the Russia having troops there.  China is joining Russian in support of Venezuela also.  Trump Boss attacks against Venezuela are against the “Socialist” government.  He places himself in a nice position of being against Socialism.

But the problem in Venezuela is that he doesn’t want a fight with Russia and China.  That will be a losing war for everyone all around.  It certainly will not a quick victory, if any at all.  It will be a war that gets nasty and goes on for years.

But now that Trump Boss has a new target.  He has been both verbally and financially attacking the Three Mexicos.  He is telling us that the countries are setting up the caravans like an invasion. 
Trump Boss thinks he could invade some “Banana Republics” as they were called in the last century.  The excuse would be that they are “sending” caravans of people to the United States southern border to invade the country, endangering real Americans from going on about their lives.

Trump Boss will scream, “We have asked them to stop the caravans.  We have even cut off aide in hopes that they would stop.  But they just keep sending them.  This is an invasion (he has already used that term many times over the years), so we need to fight back.”

Trump Boss thinks it will be easy pickin’s.  It could be just a few days to get to the capital city of each country.  But it will not be pretty.  The citizens of the countries will revote against the oppressor United States.  Plus, even more caravans will be headed north because they just want out of the country.  Now, instead of just social unrest in the country that they are escaping from, now it is war.  

The United Nationals will get involved. 

This needs to stop right here right now.





No to Rick Scott


Just a quick opinion:

Rick Scott past governor of Florida and CEO of Columbia/HCA should not oversee developing a government health care plan.

Scott might seem that he would be a good choice to develop a national healthcare for the United States with his experience operating a large company that owns plenty of hospitals.  With admission, of course, that a business man would likely be more concerned about the success of companies that manage healthcare than with patient that use the system.  But, still, he knows his stuff, right?

Well, that is until the stuff he needs to know is going on in his own company.

Scott was the CEO of Columbia/HCA when the feds discovered that millions, perhaps billions were being falsely billed to the government for service that were not needed or that were never performed.  The feds started the investigation at the first two hospitals that Scott owned.  If there was any place that Scott should have known what was going on under his supervision, it should have been when the company was small.  But that is where the fraud started and spread throughout the company as it grows to one of the larger hospital companies in America.

Scott was the CEO the entire time.

Six months after the investigation started, Scott resigned.  The board of the company cut a deal, a deal of $1.7 billion – not million, billion.  To fully disclose, Scott said he wanted to fight it.  He said that during the Florida race for governor.

Nice try to cover up the past.

So, what is the crime here.  Scott’s company, Columbia/HCA admitted guilt to defrauding the government while Scott was running the place.  But Scott said he didn’t know about it.  That might let me forgive him for one thing – might is an important word here, because I wouldn’t, but I will say might – the not knowing part.    

But the not knowing part is really the core issue.

What, you say? 

If you don’t know what is going on in a small company like just two hospitals, how can you know what is going on in a large organization like a government healthcare plan?

In my opinion, as a past CEO in a company that defrauded the government (one that the company cut a deal on) Rick Scott should not be part of a government plan to develop a healthcare plan.


Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Trump's Memo to Television Producers


 
Memorandum
To: Television ProducersFrom: Tim MurtaughDirector of Communications, Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.Date: March 25, 2019Regarding: Credibility of Certain GuestsAs you know, Special Counsel Robert Mueller 
s report found that no one associated withPresident Donald J. Trump
s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia, despite repeated offers fromRussia-linked operatives. The Special Counsel also made no recommendation on obstruction,which is a decision in itself. Using the information provided by Mueller, the Attorney Generaland Deputy Attorney General determined that there was no obstruction. This is all the result ofthe Special Counsel
s 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, 500 witness interviews, 40 FBIagents, 19 lawyers, and $25 million in taxpayer funds. The only way to interpret theseconclusions is as a total and complete vindication of President Trump.The issuance of these definitive findings comes after two years of Democrat leaders and otherslying to the American people by vigorously and repeatedly claiming there was evidence ofcollusion. They made many of these false claims, without evidence, on your airwaves.The list of guests who made outlandish, false claims includes, but is not limited to:
 
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT):
 
The evidence is pretty clear that there wascollision between the Trump campaign and the Russians
…”
 (MSNBC,
All In,
 10/17/18)
 
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA):
 
 I think there
’ 
s plenty of evidence of collusion orconspiracy in plain sight.
 (
CBS This Morning,
 8/5/18)
 
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY):
 
There was obviously a lot of collusion. The question ishow high. Every day we
 – 
 every day
 – 
 every so often we get new information aboutinvolvement.
 (CNN,
Erin Burnett OutFront,
 10/27/17)
 
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA):
 
“In our
investigation, we saw strong evidence ofcollusion.
(CNN,
“Wol
f,
” 3/16/18)
 
 
DNC Chairman Tom Perez:
 
 And over the course of the last year we have seen, Ithink, a mountain of evidence of collusion between the campaign and the Russians tobasically affect our democracy.
 (NBC,
“Meet the Press,” 4/22/18)
 
 
 
Former CIA Director John Brennan:
 
 I called his behavior treasonous which is tobetray one's trust and to aiding and abet the enemy and I stand very much by thatclaim.
 (NBC,
Meet the Press,
” 8/19/18)
 Moving forward, we ask that you employ basic journalistic standards when booking such gueststo appear anywhere in your universe of productions. You should begin by asking the basicquestion:
“Does this guest warrant fu
rther appearances in our programming, given theoutrageous and unsupported claims made in the past?
 
At a minimum, if these guests do reappear, you should replay the prior statements and challengethem to provide the evidence which prompted them to make the wild claims in the first place.The American people have been bombarded by these accusations, through the media, for twolong years. They have been told that their legitimately elected president had colluded withRussias 
 – 
 a claim proven to be false. At this point, there must be introspection from the mediawho facilitated the reckless statements and a serious evaluation of how such guests areconsidered and handled in the futur

Monday, March 11, 2019

I Believe in Science


I believe in science and the supporting disciplines.

Science is the concept of observing, testing and theorizing about the real world and the knowledge that can be obtain about them.  (1)

Knowledge can only be obtained by science and its supporting disciplines. 

It is the ultimate definer of truth.

The scientific method is primary rule for conducting research and the discovery of truth. (3)