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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Pondering about an e-mail: Why Seniors Want Trump

I received this e-mail from a proponent of Trump, and since the e-mail is on behalf of seniors, and I am one of them, I thought I should respond to it. Read my response after the e-mail:
This is the list of 13 things that we senior citizens want!  
  
  
  
This is why Trump is zooming ahead.  He is at least talking about issues that most Americans are concerned about.
  
My mantra about Trump is this:  We are usually in agreement with most of what he
says.   We are getting older and our tickers aren't what they used to be . . .



so here is Our Special Bucket List for 2016 . . .
  
  
HERE IS WHAT WE WANT. 
  
  
1.  Hillary: in prison! 
  
  
2.  Put "GOD" back in America!!! 
  
  
3.  Borders: Closed! 
  
  
4. Congress:  On the same retirement & healthcare plans as everybody else. 
  
  
5. Congress:  Obey its own laws NOW! 
  
  
6. Language:  English only! 
  
  
7. Culture:  Constitution and the Bill of Rights! 
  
  
8. Drug Free:  Mandatory Drug Screening before & during Welfare! 
  
  
9. Freebies:  NONE to Non-Citizens! 
  
  
10. Budget:  Balance the darn thing! 
  
  
11. Foreign Countries:  Stop giving them our money!  Charge them for our help!  We need it here. 
  
  
12. Fix the TAX CODE! 
  
  
And most of all. 
  
  
13.  "RESPECT OUR MILITARY AND OUR FLAG!!" 
  
  
We the people are coming! 

Only 86% will send this on.  Should be a 100%.
 
  
  
What will you do? 
  
  
Please send it on; if only to one person.
and here goes my response:


  1. If any low ranking government employee uses his or her own server to conduct classified business at home, and use his or her work server for personal activities, that person would be prosecuted, and even jailed I suppose! This is not even mentioning lying about it and not disclosing all the information. Trump would obviously not able to put Clinton in jail, but if he could, I would agree with this supporter that he should.
  2. Considering how much God has hurt humanity historically, it is evident that God should be removed from people's lives and banished altogether, especially from institutions governing people. Of course God has always been a good tool to subjugate the poor and the underprivileged in the hands of the rich and powerful. That is why all wealthy and high ranking government officials are religious!
  3. When Trump suggested to build a wall on the southern borders, Pop responded that Christians don't build walls, they build bridges. I disagree with the Pop in that it is not only Christians who build bridges instead of walls, but it is a human nature to want to connect and socialize, instead of isolation. All the social networks, such as clubs, bars, unions, and recent social media, such as Facebook and Tweeter are the best technological tools that connect people across borders. This is a human need to socialize with others and a need to be a part of a society and be able to co-mingle with other societies; which is not merely a human need, but almost all animals connect with each other as well.
  4. Having a universal health plan, such as other western countries, is not only a need, but a government responsibility to provide for people. Government pays for 100% of congressional employees, and the rest have to pay for much of their own medical treatments out of their paychecks.
  5. Although constitution of the US was originally written to benefit white-male- slave holder- landowner, and amendments humanized it a bit, congress should at least have an eye on the constitution when passing laws giving the government full authority in invading other countries and treating prisoners inhumanly. However, I don't think the person who wrote these points had this in mind.
  6. English is already the official language. Being multi-linguist is a benefit not a burden. One can use the help of another language in expanding on a phrase or a conversation. English language, which is a Germanic language, is already filled with Greek and Latin words. It does not weaken the language but gives it more power of communication. Canadians learn French as a second language, and in every Western European country there is a second language that is practiced fully. It is easier for people to communicate with each other, almost all of whom are immigrants, or the offspring of one. If we really want to speak only one native language, the best option is one of the native American dialects. Diversity has been proven to benefit people, versus individualism that leads to Fascism. American exceptionalism that this person is in favor of, is no longer shielding these people.
  7. Culture: Constitution and Bill of Rights: sounds totally stupid and irrelevant. We can look at application of Bill of Rights in North Dakota, where natives have been protesting to keep their land, and for the last 8 months police and military have been crushing their protests. There are of course many other examples as to how much the rights of minorities have been trampled by the government, but this one is more recent and more vivid, and about the only people who did not migrate or invade this land.
  8. This is another racist or class oriented statement implying that people on welfare are all drug addicts. According to Gallop poll, the most amount of high quality drugs such as cocaine (which is expensive of course and only rich people can afford it) is used in the US. Therefore, rich people who don't work do not have to be tested at all.
  9. If you don't have any residency paper, you cannot receive any free-bees anyway. If you have a green card, you need to wait for whatever amount of time until you get free-bees. Again another nationalistic/ racist idea, that doesn't even make any sense. America has always been a racist countries, which has helped the government to divide and conquer. However, the law has always prevented people in acknowledging their racism openly, and a facade has covered people's true feelings like a taboo. Trump has demolished this taboo and that is why he is so favored by underprivileged, uneducated white America, such as the person who wrote this e-mail. In an unforeseen event that undocumented people left this country, the price of food material would increase five folds.
  10. Budget deficit started from the time of Reagan (a Republican), and after Clinton balanced it, Bush started the deficit again. The debt is so huge now that it is almost impossible to balance it. The debt to China is astronomical, and that is why making a war with China is on Hillary's agenda.
  11. I would agree with this point if he was talking about Israel. But he is obviously talking about the Middle-East, not acknowledging that all those wars have been for oil, not to benefit those countries that are being demolished by the US hegemony.
  12. Tax code should be fixed, but to the opposite direction that this person is probably advocating, meaning that taxing the rich and raising poverty line.
  13. And finally military is the arm of the government to suppress other nations into submission. There is no respect for someone whose main job is to kill others.
I had a dream the other day that Trump is the president, and as the first order in the office, as he suggested, he asks the congress to enact a law which would send all immigrants home. Only those who were born in this country can, whether from an immigrant ancestry (the prevailing majority) or natives, can stay. it is probably impossible, but lets dream that it happens. There are three groups who would be sent home:
  1. Educated people who came to this country on their own, or they were selected based on their education and their experience. Leaving this country and going to their homeland in masses, will enable those countries to flourish and become a competitor of the US.
  2. When the US government puts a puppet as the head of a country, through a coup-de-tat, or most recently through naked invasions, in order to keep the dictator in check, some dissidents are allowed to live in the US, and in many cases get paid to live here. When Mr. Trump sends these people to their home countries in masses, dictators would be in trouble. These people have the capacity to topple such governments and create a new and a better society. One that can be a competing force.
  3. The third group is South Americans who cross the border for minimal pay and hard work. When these people are back, American society would collapse in less than a month, since all the services would be shut down.
I know this will not happen, but I was just dreaming how a racist, such as Trump could benefit other nations. As we know, the US became the most powerful country in the world after WWII, when Jews escaped Europe and came to America!