In this week's Real Estate Today column, which you can read at www.GoldenREblog.com, I wrote about Golden Real Estate's commitment to "Hometown Service Delivered With Integrity." It was hard to stay away from making the point that one of President Trump's most negative impacts on society has been making political dishonesty "normal."
The biggest and most painful lie Trump tells is everytime he uses the phrase "fake news" to color news that is true but he doesn't like. One has to wonder how long-term the effect of his presidency will be. We must return to honest discourse by our leaders and to honest appreciation of the hard-working mainstream media.
Another particularly painful development is how all those "Never Trump" incumbents fell right in line with him after the election. Why? The simple answer is that they put their re-election above what they already knew was the right and honest thing to do. An example is our own Colorado congressman, Mike Coffman, who vowed to "stand up to Trump" if he were elected. Not a chance.
In my column I spoke fondly about Rotary's Four-Way Test, but many Rotarians who recite the Four-Way Test at the beginning of every meeting support President Trump. In my opinion, no self-respecting Rotarian who sincerely believes in and promotes the Four-Way Test could support Donald Trump -- just like no self-respecting Evangelical could... but they do!
Let's talk about climate change. It is clearly the number one issue facing the world today, and its impacts are playing out with each new 500-year flood, out-of-control wildfire, or devastating hurricane. Meanwhile, the EPA administrator has ordered the phrase "climate change" purged from the EPA website and has fired his science advisor. How appalling is that?
It is evident that major damage has been done well beyond the walls of the White House in every agency of government. It may take decades to recover from the Trump Administration, no matter how short we're able to make it with our votes in the mid-terms and in 2020.
This is Jim Smith's personal (political) blog. His real estate writings are posted at www.GoldenREblog.com.
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Unemployment hits 49-year low, as ICE continues to deport tax-paying laborers
I keep waiting for the media or politicians to link these two issues. Back in January I reported economist Elliot Eisenberg's opinion that we can't grow the country's economy without more workers. It is short-sighted to take working people and force them out of the country. These people, because they are working, are paying taxes -- including Medicare taxes that you and I benefit from and they'll never benefit from -- yet the Trump administration is deporting them, often leaving their American citizen children without their family's main financial support and depriving us all of needed service workers. I'd like to see someone beside myself (and Mr. Eisenberg) point this out!
Meanwhile, our government allows foreigners to get student Visas so they can earn PhD's from MIT and elsewhere, then force them to take their knowledge and skills back to their home country. I like the proposal of "stapling a green card to their diplomas!"
Meanwhile, our government allows foreigners to get student Visas so they can earn PhD's from MIT and elsewhere, then force them to take their knowledge and skills back to their home country. I like the proposal of "stapling a green card to their diplomas!"
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