The Human Caravan Problem, Part 2

Note: President Donald Trump and the Republican-led Congress have failed to address the immigration problems confronting the US today.

Immigration Problem Definition:

Limited Capacity to Assist

The nation has a limited capacity to attend to the needs of people who are at or below the poverty level. It has limited resources to assist citizen families in improving their means to develop and raise their standard of living to that which is sustainable by them. Today, many citizens are at and below poverty with children not being served by the national, state, and local governments.

Add to citizens not being served is a population of immigrants, most of which are fleeing for their lives and seek asylum that is their human right.

Many immigrants possess the potential for adding value to the Nation. The question is, how much capacity is there in the American system to address both populations who are in need: 1) impoverished citizens and 2) immigrants?

Policy Proposals

America is failing when any of its citizens are living at or below poverty. It should be against the law for citizens to be living in poverty, and for families with children not to have the help they need to escape impoverishment and to become self-sustainable. Agree or Disagree?

Legislated programs at all levels of government that address citizen-families in need require complex professional support systems that with staffing, budget, and funding. The upside is that by making most Americans self-sufficient also makes America more competitive and improves the quality of life for everyone.

Can the Nation afford that? The answer is that to be a viable Nation worthy of citizen approval, it must. The primary role of nation-state government is to optimize the return on national resources that include its citizens as a primary resource and beneficiary.

Add to that consideration for how many additional people the Nation needs and can afford to support regarding numbers and demographic conditions.

The Legacy Problems

1. The legacy of illegal immigrants and their American-born children

Past Administrations and the US Congress failed to address the accruing problem created by illegal immigration. The problem happened over many years, and the problem increased into tens of millions of unlawful adults who now have "legal" children.

The present Republican-controlled Congress failed to address the problem even when bipartisan legislation was available for action. With more immigrants headed to the border, the problem is getting worse.

The administration's stop-gap actions are cruel and inhumane actions conflict with the Nation's Constitutional values.

2. Deficient US population management strategy and policies

3. US Foreign Policy toward South American Nations considering each nation individually

The immediate crisis from the onslaught of desperate people fleeing danger and persecution in search of freedom in America

For each of the four considerations listed above, there are associated mechanisms for addressing them that include the following elements:

1. Laws and regulations
2. Concept of Operations
3. Operational Support Systems

Associated with these are the following:

1. Government organizations
2. Staffing
3. Budget and funding

Repeated from before, the questions before President Trump and his Republican-led Congress are details about everything listed above. The same issues apply to Democrat counterparts.

Inappropriate is wasting time on the campaign trail, stimulating rage and exploiting ignorance and fear without having addressed the problems. The Trump government is failing, and the issues are getting worse.

My challenge is to political leaders is to address the problems and needs professionally and not with political rants and nationalist rage that is more akin to authoritarianism that it is with a pluralistic democracy.

Please continue to read more parts to this story. Ask questions of me, and I will answer them.

Humanity in Crisis

Read Part 1: https://howtoselectanamericanpresident.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-human-caravan-problem-part-1.html

The Human Caravan Problem, Part 1

President Donald Trump and the Republican-led Congress have failed to address the immigration problems confronting the US today. Instead, Trump and Republicans are hyping fear and exploiting victims stirring bigotry and hatred. Alternatively, there are smarter ways forward as reviewed here.

First, what are the "immigration problems?" There are at least four considerations.

1. The legacy of illegal immigrants and their American-born children
2. Deficient US population management strategy and policies
3. US Foreign Policy toward South American Nations considering each nation individually
4. The immediate crisis from the onslaught of desperate people fleeing danger and persecution in search of freedom in America

For each of the four considerations listed above, there are associated mechanisms for addressing them that include the following elements:

1. Laws and regulations
2. Concept of Operations
3. Operational Support Systems

Associated with these are the following:

1. Government organizations
2. Staffing
3. Budget and funding

The questions before President Trump and his Republican-led Congress are details about everything listed above. The same questions apply to Democrat counterparts.

Inappropriate is wasting time on the campaign trail, stimulating rage and exploiting ignorance and fear without having effectively addressed the problems. The Trump government is failing and the problems are getting worse.

I am throwing rocks at Trump and his crony government because I know the questions and much about the answers. As an independent journalist, I want my readers to join with me in demanding answers and to stop them from terrorizing our nation.

Please continue to read more parts to this story. Ask questions of me and I will answer them.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/another-u-s-bound-caravan-takes-shape-one-el-salvador-n923346

Trump Compromises Democracy, Giving Saudis Pass

Here are the facts. The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia ordered the hit on Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi citizen whose residence was in the US and whose employer was The Washington Post. His goon team lured the journalist into the Saudi consulate in Turkey where they beat and tortured him and then dismembered his body for disposal.

The act is embarrassing to Trump because he put all of his foreign policy eggs in the Saudi basket. As significant, his sons and the Trump family make a lot of money from deals with Saudis and the Russians too. That is an Emoluments Clause violation of the US Constitution that is not being prosecuted by Congress because they are going along.

Capitalism is on trial along with Donald Trump because they are not patriotic and allegiant to the US Constitution and the rule of law. America's only recourse is to impeach, purge, and prosecute the Trump regime.

"Amid global outrage over Khashoggi, Trump takes a soft stance toward Saudis
Trump, Pompeo give possible mixed signals over Saudi Arabia and response to Khashoggi case 

Statements from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Trump do not offer clarity into how the administration is dealing with the case of Jamal Khashoggi. (Joyce Lee, Jason Aldag/The Washington Post)" 

By Robert Costa,
Josh Dawsey and
Philip Rucker October 17 at 8:26 PM
As gruesome details of Jamal Khashoggi’s alleged killing and dismemberment at the hands of Saudi operatives trickled into the public domain this week, calls sounded in capitals around the globe for immediate retaliation to the apparent human rights atrocity." 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wait-and-see-amid-global-outrage-over-khashoggi-trump-tries-to-protect-saudis/2018/10/17/213c2072-d235-11e8-8c22-fa2ef74bd6d6_story.html?utm_term=.207c1390dda5&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

His Mouth Is Running

Intolerance, Ironic Divide

Would it not be great if one did not feel hate? I am intolerant of those who don't embrace human rights for all as described here.

Be it hating or hated, the feeling is mutually not good.

I want to explain to American Republicans why I feel hateful. It is because I don't believe that Republicans are committed to the declaration described here.

First, I believe in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and for me, that is superior to any governmental body as it belongs to every human being.

The Universal Declaration is a product of the United Nations and the signators whose nations expressly endorse it including the USA.

The 500-page document was published in the year of my birth, 1948 and contains a preamble and thirty articles.

"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world."

We are one family.

Human beings shall enjoy the freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want, proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people.

Whereas it is essential if people are not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law.

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations.

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom.

Whereas the Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge.

Article 1.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2.

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinions, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3.

Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.

Article 4.

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5.

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6.

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7.

All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8.

Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9.

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10.

Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11.

(1) Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to the law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.
(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offense on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offense, under the national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offense was committed.

Article 12.

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13.

(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14.

(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 15.

(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 16.

(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during the marriage and at its dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 17.

(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18.

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20.

(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Article 21.

(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22.

Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23.

(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24.

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25.

(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26.

(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance, and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 27.

(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Article 28.

Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29.

(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 30.

Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

http://www.un.org/en/udhrbook/

'Fairness' for Justice Kavanaugh

Senators Susan Collins and Joe Manchin are voting for Justice Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court.

I listened to Senator Collins 45 minute description of her approach and the analysis of Kavanaugh's judicial record. She also described copious attention to the facts surrounding allegations about the Judge's sexual misconduct.

She omitted consideration of Kavanaugh's overt political statements and baseless charges because she is on the Republican team. Being so aligned, she ignored flaws in the process and a corrupted and limited FBI investigation.

So be it. The matter is finished with tomorrow's final vote.

Looking ahead, there are big fish to fry. The President of the United States remains under investigation with possible impeachment pending the outcome of Mid-term elections.

Also ahead, is the possibility that alleged victims and witnesses of Kavanaugh's sexual abuse might surface for additional investigation and prosecution because, after all, no person is above the law.

Collins argued the necessity for the presumption of innocence and fairness. The bar for defending women against abuses is higher.

What must not be forgotten is how remarkably callous an all-Republican government has become that is run mostly by white men who are fighting for their political lives against a tide of diverse Americans with unmet needs for a sustainable America.

I will rest my case in a new book.

Trump Attacks The New York Times, Again

He called the story, "a very old, boring and often told hit piece on me." Yes, stories about Trump's being a mobster in business is old news. Finally being caught would be something if the authorities got off their 'dead asses' and did something about it.

Who are the ones who missed catching Donald Trump in tax fraud and business illegalities? Here is a list:

1. Local authorities including the City of New York and any other city where Trump claimed residence to which he may owe back taxes.

2. State governments in which Trump enterprises operated without paying taxes owed and following laws and regulations.

3. The US Federal IRS who helped Trump cheat American taxpayers by not auditing and enforcing his obligations to pay.

Donald Trump left American taxpayers holding the bag while he stole their money. Worse still, Trump defrauded voters and the public by making outrageous claims about his business acumen which mounted mostly to cheating people by skirting laws and regulations. Americans elected a tax cheat and someone who defies the rule of law as their President. That is a travesty that is destroying the nation.

For the sake of the nation, he must go to jail.

Trump Tax Fraud Allegations

For years, I have heard that Donald Trump was a fraud and a cheat. NY Mayor Bloomberg called him a "gangster." Trump claimed to be a self-made man after a paltry $1 million loan from his wealthy father.

Only the sappiest and ignorant people (add greedy ones like him) would give credence to the Trump success story in wake of three bankruptcies in which he screwed many people and took off with the money.

Now, The New York Times devoted one and a half years investigating Trump's success story and found fraud and tax evasion. If they could do it, why didn't the IRS and FBI when these things happened twenty years ago. The criminal statute of limitations has run out. However, the civil litigation may ensue and Trump and his businesses may be fined.

If the story holds, it shines a light on the necessity for the IRS and FBI to investigate Trump's tax and business records. It is incredible to me that the IRS and FBI have not done so.

Trump has allegedly violated the Emolument Clause of the US Constitution. He has lied incessantly to the American people. These things are unlawful.

Today, we Americans are watching the US Senate participate in obstruction of justice and in a sham and shameful manipulation of an investigation into Judge Brett Kavanaugh who has lied repeatedly before millions of American while on television.

The FBI is still able to corroborate some of the accusers' stories.

We citizens have witnessed Kavanaugh's inappropriate bias and temperament sufficient to remove him as a viable candidate for the Supreme Court.

The overarching story is that crooked and unfit President Trump is nominating a justice who may be equally unfit. Both should be impeached along with all who have gone along with the criminal in office.

Image: The New York Times