Trump's Repudiation of Obama's Eight Years
March 2 2017 By Abiodun Giwa
President Donald Trump's speech to Congress on Tuesday was a reminder of the moment he said he would fulfill his campaign promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
It seems like an act that has poisoned a relationship, a relationship already in trouble over the loss of an election.
It was like the continuation of the election campaign, with President Barack Obama and Democrats against repealing the health care program, Obama's signature program, while the new administration and the Republicans vow the repeal of the health care.
The relationship between the Democrats and the Republicans has been staled since then. It is not getting better and it may not get better, as events at the Congress on Tuesday has shown, with Democrats in the Congress saying they don't see any substance in the president's speech and the Republicans hailing the speech.
Some newspapers in the avowed liberal media are also maintaining their hard stance against the Trump's administration. Some of the newspapers reported on Wednesday that many of the president's statement have failed fact finding. One don't know which statement from Trump's speech may have failed to satisfy the liberal newspapers fact finding. But When you read Trump's speech, you will understand the reason behind the liberals continued opposition.
"Ninety-four million Americans are out of the labor force. Over 43 million people are now living in poverty, and over 43 million Americans are on food stamps.More than 1 in 5 people in their prime working years are not working.
We have the worst financial recovery in 65 years.
In the last 8 years, the past Administration has put on more new debt than nearly all other Presidents combined.
We've lost more than one-fourth of our manufacturing jobs since NAFTA was approved, and we've lost 60,000 factories since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. Our trade deficit in goods with the world last year was nearly $800 billion dollars.
And overseas, we have inherited a series of tragic foreign policy disasters."
Tuesday evening was like any other evening other than that President Trump addressed the joint session of the country's Congress. Before the evening, words went round in New York City that protesters were expected on the street in Downtown Manhattan. But they failed to show up.
Americans seem to be already in the mode of the moment: Republicans versus Democrats and the Democrats protests galore against the new administration. The evening turned out quiet. Not many people gave attention to what was happening in Washington, where President Trump addressed the Congress, until after the speech and words went round through network news channels and some newspapers' websites that the president had given a speech to the Congress.
The speech made the big news on morning of the first day of the new month. President Trump made it loud and clear that he was elected as a president of the U.S. and not the president of the world.
Therefore, his administration is placing emphasis on the U.S. and not the world. He said he believes in free trade, but that he also believes in fair trade, meaning that free trade that is not fair to the U.S. has to be adjusted in favor of the U.S..
The president expressed belief in NATO, but that the country's partners in NATO have to pay their own share of the organization's budget. He talked so much about creating jobs and that there is nothing wrong in creating jobs to lift millions of Americans from welfare and to make life better for the middle class.
Just as he talked about jobs and jobs, he also made it clear about the need to make the communities in the country safe for every American child.
After speaking about the problems facing the country, he said his economic team is working on developing historic tax reform. The Obamacare and the problem it constitutes to Americans is not left out. He said it is a necessity, and not a choice, to repeal and replace the health program, to safe Americans from its imploding disaster. But Democrats seek the repair of the health and not to kill it.
People are asking whether accepting a repair work on the health care is not an admission that something has gone wrong with the health care? Though, the president has sought the cooperation and unity of the two parties for the repeal and replacement of the health care program, for Americans to begin to think big and for bickering to become a thing of the past, it does not seem that will happen fast.
It seems like an act that has poisoned a relationship, a relationship already in trouble over the loss of an election.
It was like the continuation of the election campaign, with President Barack Obama and Democrats against repealing the health care program, Obama's signature program, while the new administration and the Republicans vow the repeal of the health care.
The relationship between the Democrats and the Republicans has been staled since then. It is not getting better and it may not get better, as events at the Congress on Tuesday has shown, with Democrats in the Congress saying they don't see any substance in the president's speech and the Republicans hailing the speech.
Some newspapers in the avowed liberal media are also maintaining their hard stance against the Trump's administration. Some of the newspapers reported on Wednesday that many of the president's statement have failed fact finding. One don't know which statement from Trump's speech may have failed to satisfy the liberal newspapers fact finding. But When you read Trump's speech, you will understand the reason behind the liberals continued opposition.
"Ninety-four million Americans are out of the labor force. Over 43 million people are now living in poverty, and over 43 million Americans are on food stamps.More than 1 in 5 people in their prime working years are not working.
We have the worst financial recovery in 65 years.
In the last 8 years, the past Administration has put on more new debt than nearly all other Presidents combined.
We've lost more than one-fourth of our manufacturing jobs since NAFTA was approved, and we've lost 60,000 factories since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. Our trade deficit in goods with the world last year was nearly $800 billion dollars.
And overseas, we have inherited a series of tragic foreign policy disasters."
Tuesday evening was like any other evening other than that President Trump addressed the joint session of the country's Congress. Before the evening, words went round in New York City that protesters were expected on the street in Downtown Manhattan. But they failed to show up.
Americans seem to be already in the mode of the moment: Republicans versus Democrats and the Democrats protests galore against the new administration. The evening turned out quiet. Not many people gave attention to what was happening in Washington, where President Trump addressed the Congress, until after the speech and words went round through network news channels and some newspapers' websites that the president had given a speech to the Congress.
The speech made the big news on morning of the first day of the new month. President Trump made it loud and clear that he was elected as a president of the U.S. and not the president of the world.
Therefore, his administration is placing emphasis on the U.S. and not the world. He said he believes in free trade, but that he also believes in fair trade, meaning that free trade that is not fair to the U.S. has to be adjusted in favor of the U.S..
The president expressed belief in NATO, but that the country's partners in NATO have to pay their own share of the organization's budget. He talked so much about creating jobs and that there is nothing wrong in creating jobs to lift millions of Americans from welfare and to make life better for the middle class.
Just as he talked about jobs and jobs, he also made it clear about the need to make the communities in the country safe for every American child.
After speaking about the problems facing the country, he said his economic team is working on developing historic tax reform. The Obamacare and the problem it constitutes to Americans is not left out. He said it is a necessity, and not a choice, to repeal and replace the health program, to safe Americans from its imploding disaster. But Democrats seek the repair of the health and not to kill it.
People are asking whether accepting a repair work on the health care is not an admission that something has gone wrong with the health care? Though, the president has sought the cooperation and unity of the two parties for the repeal and replacement of the health care program, for Americans to begin to think big and for bickering to become a thing of the past, it does not seem that will happen fast.
