Your Tax Dollars, Jobs vs Wall and Government Shutdown

Part of Our American History, Economy, Jobs, Icons as Sears, Toys R Us, Macy's is and has been their Future.  

However, someone in the White House needs/wants trying to Sell America an ineffective Wall to keep Out, or Stop or to Prevent ? who & what ?  

For only $ ?? Billion... Trump now says his Border Wall could cost as little as $15 billion, and pay for itself.  The price tag could be even less, the president said in comments that came as Congress negotiates over a year-end spending bill.

I Guess Mexico, will not be paying for the Trump Wall.  Now President Trump is impressing on America in blaming criminal gangs and “vast quantities of illegal drugs” for “thousands of deaths”, described the situation at the border with Mexico as a humanitarian crisis and argued that the current immigration system allows “vicious coyotes and ruthless gangs” to prey on immigrants, especially women and children.


Trump’s arguments often rely on inaccurate or dated statistics and lack important context about the situation at the border, which, as always, is complicated.

Our Tax Dollars & Our Government a short time-line synopsis since 1971

How Many Years have we heard the term "War On Drugs" by then the President Richard Nixon, since 18 Jun 1971

War on drugs has cost the United States an estimated $1 Trillion.

2015, the federal government spent an estimated $9.2 million every day to incarcerate people charged with drug-related offenses—that's more than $3.3 billion annually.



"Just Say No" The 80s Crack Epidemic - President Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, he vowed to crack down on substance abuse and re-prioritize the War on Drugs


In 1983, the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, Daryl Gates, and the Los Angeles Unified School District started the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program.

The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 was a law of the War on Drugs passed by the U.S. Congress.  Among other things, they changed the system of federal supervised release from a rehabilitative system into a punitive system.


In 2001, the Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. David Satcher, put D.A.R.E in the category of “ineffective primary prevention programs.”



Our own CIA engaged in Drug Smuggling 

CIA involvement in trafficking is usually alleged to be connected to the Contra war in Nicaragua during the Reagan Administration.

During the Korean War, the first allegations of CIA drug trafficking surfaced after 1949, stemming from a deal whereby arms were supplied to Chiang Kai-shek's defeated generals in exchange for intelligence.

Later in the same region, while the CIA was sponsoring a "Secret War" in Laos from 1961 to 1975, it was openly accused of trafficking heroin in the area then known as the Golden Triangle



ATF  "Operation Fast and Furious"


Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), along with other partners, allowed illegal gun sales in order to track the sellers and purchasers, who were believed to be connected to Mexican drug cartels.


During the Fast and Furious investigation, nearly 2,000 firearms were illegally purchased for $1.5 million, according to a DOJ inspector General report. Hundreds of guns were later recovered in the United States and Mexico.

2009

October 26. Department of Justice officials meet to discuss the problem of mounting violence in Mexico. They decide to change strategy, aiming to eliminate gun-trafficking pipelines. There is no mention of “gunwalking” during the meeting.

November. The operation is launched. It is designed and run by the ATF Phoenix field office.

In a gunwalking operation, guns bought by straw purchasers, individuals in America with clean records, for drug cartels are allowed to “walk” across the border into Mexico, instead of being seized by ATF agents.

The stated aim is for ATF agents to follow the paths of guns from straw purchasers through middlemen and into the hierarchy of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel.  

The tracked weapons are to be used as evidence to pin larger crimes against the cartel as they work to break it up or at least eliminate the gun-trafficking routes.  According to whistle-blowers and investigators, however, agents never made the attempt to actually trace the guns.

2010

January. Agents with the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, a multi-agency network run by the Justice Department, are brought in to help. The manpower includes investigators from the Homeland Security Department, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

The operation is soon named “Fast and Furious” by field agents because some suspects operate out of an auto-repair shop and street-race.


March. Some ATF agents are concerned that weapons distributed through gunwalking might be used for crimes in Mexico or even the United States.

October. The brother of the former state attorney general of Chihuahua, Mexico, is killed. The ATF learns that Fast and Furious weapons were found at the scene.

December 14. U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry is killed in a firefight while on patrol.  The ATF would determine that two of the guns involved in the shooting came from Fast and Furious.  The operation continues another six weeks.

Soon after Terry’s death, ATF agents speak with Senator Charles Grassley (R., Iowa), the ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to seek his help in stopping the operation.


2011

The Global Commission on Drug Policy released a report on June 2, 2011, alleging that "The War On Drugs Has Failed."  The commissioned was made up of 22 self-appointed members including a number of prominent international politicians and writers. U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin also released the first ever National Prevention Strategy


Ask Yourself

Who is Wasting America's Tax Dollars, Placing American's in Harms Way in All Walks Of Life, Decisions Affecting America's Economy and Jobs ?  And the Next Administration is just 1 year 9 months and 25 days.

World Trade, Tariffs & President Trump

Donald Trump has agreed not to escalate his trade war with China, but many other countries have also been affected by the US president's America First trade policy.

Europe, U.S. Escalate Trade War With New Disputes at the WTO

China and the EU have joined a group of countries asking the World Trade Organization to investigate the Trump administration’s