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An ex co-worker, and I, both had babies that were born with issues. He is an illegal immigrant, so he didn't have to pay a single dime for medical bills. The hospital even supplied them with free diapers and free formula for over a year. He also got free name brand meds, doctor visits extra food stamps, ext... Because I work, pay taxes, and pay for medical, I didn't get any of that stuff for free. Although I had medical insurance, I still ended up paying over $20k on med bills. I won't mention how much diapers and formula cost me. My ex co-work thanks all of you for your donations. Oh, you also pay for his rent, utilities, and every other form of normal life bills. Yes, I did say he works. He gets paid "under the table," so he doesn't pay taxes. At the time, he made $20 ph.

If you honestly can, take the political party choice out of your mind and ask yourself this, do you truly believe that your lives were better Obama and Biden, than Trump? If so, please tell me why.

As for the Indians protesting the pipeline, that was a paid protest. That fact already came out. I was shocked to see that people still believe otherwise. Most of the tribal members didn't care or were all for it. They were going to get paid to have it. However, I'm sure the major news outlets didn't report on this.

Check out this article.
DAPL Company Paid Mercenaries to Build Conspiracy Lawsuit (theintercept.com)

Check out this photo after these "protect our environment" protestors left. If they care so much about the beauty of their lands, then why did they leave this mess?
Here's the web site: Cleaning Out The Dakota Access Protest Camp | Inside Energy

While the previous administration took some very important steps towards the correct direction, especially in terms of certain economic measures, that helped the economic growth, it seemed that it could have done even better if they would have pushed a bit further. Unfortunately they focused on the measures that were popular with the public opinion (e.g. tax cuts, reduce immigrations) and underdelivered on the more complicated and less popular topics (decrease the deficit, improvement negotiations of trade agreements etc.) This strategy made sense from the perspective of the re-election but it could have been better.

Where they really dropped the ball was on the field of international relations. The US withdrawal from international agreements and institutions became the hallmark of foreign policy, as did the criticism of America’s European and Asian allies and coziness with authoritarian leaders.

While these agreements were får from perfect, having this aggressively disruptive support without providing any actual alternatives only appeased to voters.

North Korea added to its nuclear stockpile and built more and better missiles despite Trump’s personal diplomacy with Kim Jong-un. Iran reduced the time it would need to develop nuclear weapons following the Trump administration’s unilateral exit from the 2015 nuclear pact (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action). Venezuela’s dictatorship is more entrenched, and China, Russia, Syria, and Iran increased their influence across the Middle East after America withdrew troops and support for local partners.