Well, The Donald was not in good form today. But he got his point
across. He's going to build his wall...fence...or whatever, if it's
the last thing he does(Oh Please Dear God!)
Some time back a member on another list wrote that I spend too much
time living in the past. But here is the most powerful leader in the
entire world, focused, not on the current internal problems, not on
the future, but rather, he would take us ***BACK,(back to those days
when we were "Great!"
I do spend much of my time digging around the Past, since that's where
most of my 83 years lie, I am still baffled as to just when Donald
Trump is wanting to take us.
As our leaders declared, we have always been "the Land of Destiny".
And as such, we have rightfully slaughtered all who stood in our path
on our way to Glory. If that is the return to Greatness that Donald
Trump is talking about, most of my ancestors lived on the wrong side
of the tracks.
But as I listened this morning to the ramblings of Donald Trump, my
shoulders sagged and my heart became heavy. This man has no ability
to seek out the root issues and set about solving them. He sees
himself in the image of Andrew Jackson(Old Slippery), and an animated
Herbert(Trickle down)Hoover...with maybe a little Warren G. Harding
tossed in. Of course, if you are part of the American Oligarchy,
America has always been Great. Your life has always been lived in
comfort...and finery...and plenty. But of course "The Donald" isn't
speaking for most Americans. I copied the following off the internet
just a few minutes back.
Carl Jarvis
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Presidents have declared emergencies 60 times since 1976 – but Trump's
is unprecedented
No modern president has used a national emergency to appropriate funds
when Congress wouldn't.
Author: Jordan Fischer
Published: 11:21 PM EST February 14, 2019
Updated: 11:18 AM EST February 15, 2019
WASHINGTON — Friday morning, President Donald Trump declared a
national emergency at the nation's southern border. It was the 60th
time a sitting president
had used the National Emergencies Act since it was passed in 1976.
However, he used the law in a way no other president has before.
The law was passed during President Jimmy Carter’s administration as
an attempt to rein in the powers presidents can exercise by declaring
an emergency.
Carter was the first to utilize the new law in November 1979, when he
declared an emergency to freeze assets of the government and Central
Bank of Iran
amid the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Declaring a National Emergency to End the Shutdown Will Come Back to
Haunt GOP: Erick Erickson
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Since then - not counting Friday's latest announcement - presidents
have declared 58 other national emergencies, 31 of which, including
Carter’s sanctions
on Iran, remain active to this day.
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Trump declares national emergency for border wall funding
Far and away the most common use of national emergencies has been to
place sanctions on foreign individuals, groups and governments.
Seventy-six percent
of all national emergencies were declared to block property or
prohibit trade. President Ronald Reagan used the law to impose
sanctions on Nicaragua, Libya
and South Africa, and his successor, President George H.W. Bush,
declared national emergencies to issue sanctions on Iran and the
Haitian military.
President Bill Clinton was the most prolific user of national
emergencies. He declared 18 during his presidency, including
emergencies to block new investments
in Burman, to issue sanctions on the Taliban and, just days before he
left office, to block the import of rough diamonds to the U.S. which
were being used
to fund the Revolutionary United Front during Sierra Leone’s civil war.
On Thursday, Congress passed a funding bill to keep the government
open and avoid another shutdown. White House Press Secretary Sarah
Sanders released
a statement Thursday afternoon saying Trump intended to sign the bill,
but that he also intended to take "other executive action, including a
national
emergency” to secure the southern border.
Congress OKs border deal: Trump will sign: declares emergency.
When he did so Friday, Trump used the power of a national emergency
declaration in a profoundly different way than his predecessors – as a
means of appropriating
money without the consent of Congress.
Sanctions, Sanctions, Sanctions: Presidents Use National Emergencies
to Block Trade, Tie Up Funds
Trump campaigned heavily on the need for a wall spanning the southern
border, and shut down the government for more than a month in a bid to
extract $5.7
billion in funding for the wall from Congress. The shutdown ended with
no additional appropriations for border security, and the funding bill
passed by
Congress Thursday contained only about $1.4 billion for border barriers.
Democrats, and some Republicans, have said they will oppose any
attempts by Trump to use a national emergency to side-step Congress on
wall funding. House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer (D-N.Y.) issued a joint statement Thursday afternoon calling
any such attempt
“a lawless act” and a gross abuse of the power of the presidency.
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