Replace and Repeal
Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!! Dead again! Republicans led by orangutan doesn't have the numbers. Losers!!!!! Hahahahah!
Maybe fire, perhaps fury! Hahahahah. Chump!
The wall will be see through? Trumps building a 2000 mile long window? Hahahahaha. Started building already? Hahahahaha. Build it because I need to pee.
It's truly rare to be bitch slapped twice by "no hero" McCain and other republicans. But funnier than shit. That's why you want a leader with class.
With nothing more important to do, orangutan' goes after the NFL and NBA instead of working to fix police heavy handedness.
Maybe fire, perhaps fury! Hahahahah. Chump!
The wall will be see through? Trumps building a 2000 mile long window? Hahahahaha. Started building already? Hahahahaha. Build it because I need to pee.
It's truly rare to be bitch slapped twice by "no hero" McCain and other republicans. But funnier than shit. That's why you want a leader with class.
With nothing more important to do, orangutan' goes after the NFL and NBA instead of working to fix police heavy handedness.
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If you want a leader with class, red snapper, demonstrate some yourself. Just saying.
The republicans with control of the house, senate and White House have failed again in their efforts to replace and repeal Obamacare. What type of failure is this my esteemed micsem posters is this and who's to blame? The non hero McCain or the superstar leader, master of the deal and pussy grabber extraordinaire drumpf? I meant trumpsky?
Wait for it, where is master meme poster? Supreme cut and paste artist?
So now, the burden shifts to the 4 Republican Senators to work with Democrats to develop a plan--to provide an alternative or a better health care system--as Obamacare continues is free-fall dead spiral.
Trump can now move to focus on tax reform and other items in his agenda; and will be willing to sign any bill that will be approved by the Congress regarding Obamacare. Just another day in the US political world.
These are grown up men and women; who are independent thinkers and political players. You cannot blame Trump for McCain's saying no to the other Republicans bill. That's how it is in democratically elected governments. He can suggest but the Congress--collectively--is the one that have the final say. Again, this is true whether in the US federal government, state government, municipal governments, territorial governments, etc. There is separation of powers; and the head of one branch cannot dictate to the other branch.
So Trump tried his best by talking with Sens. Paul and others. But in the end, each Senator decides for himself and herself.
As I noted earlier, this is the process; no need to be worked up about it. The next step is for the 4 Republican Senators to work with the Democrat Senators to come up with ways to shore up the Obamacare before it totally collapse. President Trump has done his best but in the democratic system, the President knows that he depends on other leaders--in the House and the Senate to do their part.
You follow to much of what the media is feeding you. This is how the media got Trump elected. And this is how they will help him get elected for a second term. Free advertising is always good advertising like trump said in his book.
Domestic- Antifa,BLM,KKK and a over reaching federal government.
Some threats can be external, e.g. North Korea, as you mentioned. Some threats can be internal, e.g. Antifa, KKK as you mentioned, as well as laws and bureaucracy that prohibit or limit one's capacity to pursue happiness (i.e. an overreaching federal government.) I agree with all of your examples of internal threats.
That said, I wonder if there are more potential threats to a society's continued existence. In FSM, for instance, we know that NCDs have become a significant issue. I want to say that ~14,000 Pohnpeians have diabetes or so? We know that diabetes can lead to a decreased quality of life for individuals, and potentially end their lives sooner than if they didn't have diabetes.
Is 1/3 of our citizens having diabetes a potential threat to our society's continued existence? If it isn't, then the government doesn't need to do anything about this issue. If it is, based on our premise, then, the government probably ought to do something to protect its citizens against the threat. But what should the government do? What's the line between an effective use of communal resources to protect the society against the threat, and overreach? Is it good government to spend money on educating people, subsidizing local food, and subsidizing medicine and blood analysis tools for those with diabetes? Is it government overreach, because most of the citizens likely got diabetes because of their own choices?
I know that I'd like to see Micronesians, and people of any country really, be healthy, happy, well fed, with access to education and various services. I appreciate that one's definition of these things may be different from my own, and even if our definitions aren't the same there's a heavy price tag for government. Robert Heinlein wrote, in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, that "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
Free healthcare doesn't really exist because we (the society) will all pay for it. I may be healthy, but pay additional taxes or fees for sick people. But if a government exists to protect its citizens against threats, so that the society can continue to exist, do large-scale health problems count as threats? If large-scale health problems do qualify as threats, can small-scale health problems? If health problems in a society are threats, who decides when? Who decides how we treat them, if at all? If we have a dollar to spend, and have multiple threats to deal with at the same time--how do we determine the best way to ensure the society continues to exist?
I guess the shortest answer, Rastaman, is that I'm not sure what I believe. That said, I think I'd rather pay higher taxes knowing that others are taken care of even if I'm healthy, in part because if I were to get sick or become disabled, I'd hate to think that I'd be abandoned.
But it's not about me, is it?
And you are right education is a must. Micronesian needs to focus on this.