The Wall

The freeze doesn't effect the military.
This is so much fun.
The V.A. is not part of the military, so it is definitely affected.
Many of its newer employees are contract workers, hired to avoid Civil Service regulations. When their six to nine month contracts expire, will they be permitted to renew?
With Trump, who knows. He brags about putting in a hiring freeze on everything but the military, then announces he is hiring 20,000 workers.
From The Washington Post :

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Hours after the White House said that President Trump’s freeze on federal hiring would include the Department of Veterans Affairs, the agency clarified that it plans to continue hiring for jobs with public safety missions.
“The Department of Veterans Affairs intends to exempt anyone it deems necessary for public safety, including frontline caregivers,” Robert Snyder, VA’s acting secretary, said in a statement Wednesday.
That’s likely to mean that the agency, which faces a shortage of thousands of doctors and nurses at the root of a patient wait-times scandal in 2014, will continue to recruit for medical personnel, suicide-prevention counselors and many other health-care jobs.
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boldface added - DD




Amazing.Can't get our roads fixed,republicans poisoned the drinking water in Flint Mich., and this mental midget wants to spend tens of billions of our tax dollars to build a stupid wall.We can startfixing the immigrant problem by deporting his immigrant wife.
bb....you might want to check your meds. Flint was screwed up by Dems AND the good ol' EPA. Supposedly going to cost $220 million to fix.....good thing Obamanation GAVE $221 million to the Palestinians isn't it?
I find it odd that many Liberals do not differentiate between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants.


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Originally posted by: bbking
Amazing.Can't get our roads fixed,republicans poisoned the drinking water in Flint Mich., and this mental midget wants to spend tens of billions of our tax dollars to build a stupid wall.We can startfixing the immigrant problem by deporting his immigrant wife.


Perhaps someone can explain this.
First Trump said build a wall and Mexico will pay for it. Yesterday it was build a wall and eventually Mexico will pay for it. Today, its build a wall and put a 20% tax on Mexican imports to pay for it. Seems to me like we, the American tax payer are now not only paying to build a wall, but we are also going to pay 20% more on anything that comes out of Mejico. Kind of getting double doinked, here, no? How, in the wide wide world of sports entertainment is taxing Americans 20% more on Mexican imports making Mexico pay for the wall? Shouldn't the tax be on what Mexico imports from us, making the Mexicans pay 20% more for the goods they buy? Or at least on the goods American companies export to Mexico, raising the price of the stuff in Mexico? Instead, they propose raising the price of Mexican beer, tequila and fruit by a fifth to us.
Thank Gawd we know Trump is looking out for us, otherwise this would look suspiciously like a royal screwing.
Billy, he's negotiating. You looked silly after Hillary lost, and you'll once again look silly after Trump gets the economy cranking.

Are you having as much fun as me?

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Originally posted by: billryan
Perhaps someone can explain this.
First Trump said build a wall and Mexico will pay for it. Yesterday it was build a wall and eventually Mexico will pay for it. Today, its build a wall and put a 20% tax on Mexican imports to pay for it. Seems to me like we, the American tax payer are now not only paying to build a wall, but we are also going to pay 20% more on anything that comes out of Mejico. Kind of getting double doinked, here, no? How, in the wide wide world of sports entertainment is taxing Americans 20% more on Mexican imports making Mexico pay for the wall? Shouldn't the tax be on what Mexico imports from us, making the Mexicans pay 20% more for the goods they buy? Or at least on the goods American companies export to Mexico, raising the price of the stuff in Mexico? Instead, they propose raising the price of Mexican beer, tequila and fruit by a fifth to us.
Thank Gawd we know Trump is looking out for us, otherwise this would look suspiciously like a royal screwing.


"Instead, they propose raising the price of Mexican beer, tequila and fruit by a fifth to us." I see where billryan's concerns come from - I guess he will have to cut back to 5 meals a day.
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