Comments by "Hobbs" (@hobbso8508) on "Biden addresses holiday supply chain concerns" video.
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@poopdeckpappy2658
"the supply chain is still a mess"
This is a global issue, and while it is getting better, it will take time.
"The border is an absolute disaster"
Not really surprising. They banned people from seeking asylum in the US, then when the law reverted all the people at the border came across. This compounded with the sharp rise in poverty from the pandemic has caused the recent increases. That being said, asylum seekers are a net gain for the economy.
"Oh yes, remember she went down to Guatemala to address the “root causes” of poverty"
Yes. The thing is, you only really need to meet once to know the issue. The region is poor and they need money for infrastructure to reduce the number of asylum seekers leaving to go to the US. Not rocket science.
"so we wouldn’t have any more illegals?"
They're asylum seekers.
"The border patrol is playing catch and release with almost 200,000 illegal immigrants crossing the border every month"
Asylum seekers, get it right.
"we have no idea who these people are, what their intent is and what diseases or viruses they carry."
They are tested and offered the vaccine on entry. They are also documented on entry.
"Inflation is at a whopping 6.8%, only slated to get worse"
Well sure, we had a pandemic and spent over $6 trillion. Add that to the tax cuts that dramatically increased the national debt and it's no wonder the debt rose $7 trillion under Trump alone.
"one recent research study stated inflation this past year has cost the average American family $3500"
But real median household income is up in the last year with millions starting new jobs.
"And Biden wants to spend 3 trillion more with money we don’t have for money we print on a printing press?"
No, he wants to raise taxes, and the spending for his bill is over 10 years. Many of the programs in the bill, like childcare, pay massive dividends for the economy in the long run.
"When Trump left office America was energy independent"
No, it wasn't. We were briefly during his presidency, but oil at the time was a negative price. We were literally making zero money from energy independence. The truth is just that demand dropped. Supply actually dropped as well during the pandemic, but demand dropped more.
"Biden quickly killed the Keystone pipeline and hundreds of good union paying jobs."
Temporary jobs, that would in the long run result in 15 permanent US jobs, just so we can buy more oil from Canada. Not sure if you understand what energy independence is, but buying oil from Canada is not on the list.
"Gas prices shot up and Biden went begging to OPEC to start drilling for more oil."
Because they massively reduced production during the pandemic, and still aren't anywhere near pre-pandemic levels.
"Biden completely botched our withdrawal from Afghanistan and I am hearing we are still trying to get Americans out of there"
The agreement made by Trump was far too short of a timeline. Military experts predicted it would take over a year to withdraw from the region, and even with Biden extending the timeline, we were barely able to get out. The agreement was a joke, and Trump should have started the withdrawal months in advance to actually succeed.
"Biden got Americans killed and captured in that withdrawal and left $167 billion worth of military equipment on the ground for the Taliban and Isis to get their hands on."
Most of which will be useless. Not a single captured vehicle will still be running right now. US military vehicles are notorious for needing ridiculous amounts of maintenance due to their massive weights.
"That includes tanks, machine guns, choppers, self-propelled grenades and thousands and thousands of rounds of ammo. Thanks Joe. "
Because ISIS never had machine guns, RPGs and ammo..... The rest won't be working.
"Putin has massed troops on the Ukrainian border and Biden is doing what?"
Publicly backed Ukraine in the event of an invasion. If you hadn't noticed Russia has had troops in Ukraine for years now, attacking people at the border almost constantly.
"Employers are begging like I’ve never seen in my lifetime for more employees and are willing to pay high wages and benefits to get them."
So you're saying wages are going up. Sounds great, thanks Biden.
"They still can’t fill the jobs in part because Joe wants to keep giving everybody a government stimulus check. Why work when you can stay home and get paid for it?"
This really makes me doubt your claim about employers offering high wages. Maybe you just think $9 an hour is a good wage, but in reality if it's not $15 then why would I. Low paying jobs like that don't even cover rent in my area, never mind food.
Maybe do your research before spouting off.
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@poopdeckpappy2658
"I bet the Guatemalans think she’s their savior huh? So what’s Kamala’s plan to erase poverty in Central and South America so that it’ll curb our illegal immigration? I haven’t heard anything"
Not erase, but reduce enough that they stay where they are, and the policy is the same as every plan for a country we have no real footing in, send them money. Congrats, you just discovered US foreign policy. Unfreezing aid to those countries is a good start since Trump stopped the humanitarian funds being sent there.
"Solving poverty in central and South America should not be Kamala Harris‘s problem. It should be a problem for the central and south Americans. Her job right now is to solve our border crisis."
That does solve the border crisis you cretin.
"Kamala Harris should actually be at our own border overseeing the completion of the wall, a beefed up border patrol and policies and equipment in place to aid them in their job."
Which does nothing to stop people legally seeking asylum.
"Biden caused much of this problem himself when he stated his administration wouldn’t deport anyone for the first hundred days"
Again, that's called seeking asylum. This concept seems to really go over your head doesn't it.
"also his recent attempt at giving Millions of taxpayer dollars to illegals who were separated at the border."
Which they won in court proceedings. He's not giving them anything, they are legally obligated to it, thanks to Trump administration policies.
"And words mean things. If somebody wants to seek asylum on our southern border they can stop and check in at one of our many checkpoints across our southern borders and request asylum."
Asylum seekers have always been allowed to cross the border.
"Yet if they actually cross our border and do not attempt to check in or seek out border patrol immediately they are illegal. Say the word with me… ILLEGAL."
By definition they are not.
Look, I'm sorry your understanding of immigration seems to boil down to "lets just build a massive wall and shoot people trying to come here" but at the end of the day:
1. Asylum seekers are a net positive for the economy.
2. Asylum seekers have always been legal.
3. Humanitarian aid to improve the impoverished regions in Central and South America is not only a good way to curb the number of asylum seekers coming to America, it's also our duty as a country after the years of unrest we created in the entire continent.
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@poopdeckpappy2658
"look. I’m sorry you lack reading comprehension skills but I don’t recall saying that we should shoot illegals."
I'm being facetious while presenting your actual feelings.
"The purpose of our federal government in our constitutional republic is to keep us free from force and fraud so we can pursue that happiness the founders mentioned. That means we don’t just allow people we don’t know to walk in."
That's not what that means. We've allowed people to walk in for generations.
"It is not Kamala’s job to solve the poverty issue south of our border."
Solve, no, but certainly improve. Hitting the root cause of the problem is far more effective in the long run. There is also the general duty of the US to help undo the harm they did to the region.
"To wit she has made one short visit to the border and come up absolutely nothing to solve the crisis as far as I can tell."
As far as you can tell indeed.
"A crisis exacerbated with his I’ll thought out declarations."
Not really. Worldwide economic unrest, job losses and supply issues, combined with severe weather events in Central America, has driven more and more migrants here.
"Our southern border is long and it will always be impossible to keep everybody out. But we can go a long way to solve a problem if we put up walls and give the border patrol the tools they need to do their jobs."
But they are doing their job. An ineffective wall that has already rusted through in places, and has been easily scaled with ropes and ladders, does nothing to prevent entry. We've stopped more people than ever at the border without the wall. They are perfectly well equipped with modern technology.
"According to US customs and border patrol there have been 10,763 arrested criminal noncitizens in 2021. Which means they were arrested for a crime here in the US and a criminal history check revealed prior criminal convictions either here or in other countries. That includes 60 who have homicides on their record and nearly 500 for sexual offenses."
That's really not that many.
"My conclusion based on the Left’s chaotic border policies is that they actually want this. They want our country flooded with illegal immigrants because they know at some point many of them will become US citizens either through amnesty or other means."
You mean they want to follow the historic strategy of allowing workers into the country who put more into the system than they take out? No, really?
"In the meantime the Democrats can get the illegals hooked on government bennies and when they do eventually become citizens, they’ll be voting for that bloated, debt ridden bureaucracy you yourself are so fond of."
Again, they put more in than they take out, so calling them hooked on government anything is a joke. Meanwhile Republicans are the ones bloating the deficit whenever they take office, but keep believing the lie of a fiscally conservative GOP.
"Giving illegals who came here while intentionally breaking our laws taxpayer money is completely insane. Do you give the burglar who walks into your home money?"
Again, applying for asylum makes them not illegal. It's more like feeding a clothing a starving homeless person rather than kicking them out on the street. I know a Republican like you doesn't see an issue with that, which is why we differ.
"Look at what the Biden administration told Cuban refugees last July who wanted to flee here by boat and apply for asylum because of the events in that Marxist country. “Stay home, you will not be given asylum.“"
They said the same thing to southern border migrants though. He literally told them not to come. Cuban migrants get the exact same treatment as southern border migrants. The fact that YOU are making such a distinction is really sad, and a blatant showing of your own bias, which you are trying to project onto others.
"Yes…it is ILLEGAL alien. Like I stated earlier, words mean things. You can try and use words like “undocumented immigrants” but it’s like putting lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig."
But it's literally not illegal. Seeking asylum is legal.
"United States Code, Title 8, §1365(b)"
Way to selectively edit out the part of that code that proves you 100% wrong:
"An illegal alien referred to in subsection (a) is any alien who is any alien convicted of a felony who is in the United States unlawfully"
You have to be convicted of a felony to use the part of the statute that you are quoting. Seeking asylum is not illegal, and therefore asylum seekers are not illegal.
"The Taliban violated the Doha agreement and later took the country by force."
Which they did after we had already withdrawn the vast majority of our forces. They also didn't take over by force, as they make many lawful peace agreements to do this. Not a shot was fired. You're wrong twice in 1 comment, good job.
Again, the vehicles are useless. They would cost more time and money to retrieve and maintain than they would to just leave, so we left them. They will not stand up to the punishing environment they are in, and will be inoperable in no time. Nothing they captured is of any use, and much of it was disabled.
Also, not sure why you put "machine guns" in quotes. I was using your own terminology from a prior comment. Maybe you forgot.
Do your research pleb. You know nothing about immigration, and less about Afghanistan. It's actually frightening how much you think of yourself with such tiny brained ideas floating around in that big empty skull.
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