President Trump is wasting no time making America great again. America First is in action, and you deserve to know how hard the President is working for you.
Here is a look at the President’s First Week:
• Easing Regulatory Burdens
Shortly after being sworn in, President Trump ordered federal agencies to ease the “regulatory burdens” of ObamaCare. Agencies are ordered to “waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation of any provision or requirement” of Obamacare in hopes that this order will lower the burden on individuals, families and patients as the President and the Congress work on a permanent solution to Obamacare.
Meanwhile “individuals, families, and patients” (which are all the same) as well as physicians, hospitals, and State government health officials are left wondering “What The Fungoo” does this mean. Answer: It means if you do anything different than what you were doing prior to the “order”, you are on your own. Prepare to be sued! Reason? President Trump did not tell you to take any specific action.
• Withdrawing from TPP
The President wasted no time in ending the United States support of the disastrous TPP trade deal by withdrawing our country from it on Monday. President Trump called the move, “a great thing for the American workers.”
OK, Hooray! The United States has departed from the Asian Trade basketball court and left it vacant. We quit the game. How long will it be before China floods the Asian Trade basketball court? Answer: 24 Hours. China now has domination in the Asian Trade basketball court. Well Done President Trump!
• Spurring American Jobs
On Tuesday, President Trump re-opened the door for the Keystone and Dakota Access pipeline to be built with an executive order. Also included were related orders that would speed up the timeline on the project by streamlining the permitting process and cut through more government red tape.
This may be a great project. I do not know much about it. But, I feel that President Trump expediting a project that he has a personal financial interest in, stinks to high heaven. American Jobs? About 10 thousand temporary construction jobs; 50 permanent jobs.
• Securing Our Borders
President Trump is moving forward with several items that will secure our borders and keep Americans safe! He plans on stripping federal grant money to dangerous sanctuary cities, hiring 5,000 more Border Patrol agents, ending “catch-and-release” policies for illegal immigrants, and reinstating local and state immigration enforcement partnerships.
Borders? What Borders? There is only one Border that under consideration for securing; the Mexican Border. Keep Americans safe? They have got to be kidding me! No more murders in Chicago? No more San Bernadino Massacres? Exactly how many Americans have been injured/killed by Mexican immigrants? My guess is less than 50 per year.
What happened to common sense? It is a good thing that our Founding Fathers envisioned the budding tyranny that we are now witnessing. Federalist Paper #57 expresses concern that the government may “aim at an ambitious sacrifice of the many to the aggrandizement of the few”. We are in the middle stages of just such an event occurring. Fear not! Hamilton and Madison have protected us by requiring another election of the entire House of Representatives every two years.
The next two years will be madness because the government will do everything in its power to avoid a free and fair election in November 2018.
Richard Blanchette is a resident of the Village of Springdale.
