OTM Smoke & Handcuffs

As I listened to On The Media this week Bob Garfield addressed that it appears that president Donald Trump pretty much follows and does everything that Fox news reports on.  This just kind of proves the point that president Trump is not a politician, he is a business man.  Some people would say that president Trump needs to get his information from more than one place.  Others might think that it is okay that he gets his news from Fox News, because most people would say that Fox is a conservative source and he is a conservative person.

President Trump plans on hiring more border patrol officers along with more ICE employees to help control the illegal immigration issue happening in our country.  A lot of people think this is ridiculous, because they feel like Trump wants to get rid of all the illegal immigrants, even the good honest hard working ones.  Others do not see a problem with this.  They think it is understandable.  Some people thought Trump was all talk when he talked about doing all of this in his campaign and cannot believe that it is actually happening

The third issue that was addressed On The Media this week was about the Federal Election Commission.  It was made to enforce campaign finance laws.  It is a group of six people three of them are democrats and three of them are republicans.  For anything to be passed and looked over, there has to be at least four people who vote for it, so that everything is fair, but lately nothing has been happening because the vote is always three to three.  Anne Ravel has had enough with the situation.  The republican party has voted against the democratic party the past 98 percent of the time.  She just feels like things are unfair and that they are not getting anything done because it is always a three to three vote, so what is the point of even having the FEC?

I agree that president Trump does need to broaden where he gets all of his information from.  He can go directly to the sources of almost all news channels if he wanted to and could get more than one view on things.  I also think that it would help his cause and help him confirm things that are actually true, because every news channel or paper has been wrong on things they have reported.  But one thing that I do find kind of ironic is that OTM is sponsored by CNN, which is a liberal news channel, so of course they are going to try and find every little thing that Trump does wrong.

I also think that it is a great thing that Donald Trump wants to hire so many more ICE members and border patrol officers.  I have always heard how it is almost impossible to monitor all the activity on the border, so more officers could not hurt at all.  Trump was saying in his campaign that he was going to do all of this, so I do not know why people are acting surprised.  I also understand that people who are illegal immigrants that are working an honest good life and causing no harm are scared they will be deprted.  But at the same time if you want to be in this country I feel like it needs to be the right way and I understand that is a complicated process, but I feel like we need to make it possible for these people.  Because yeah they might not be out committing crimes or doing bad, but it is also easier for them to evade paying taxes and to me that is just not right or fair, because nobody wants to pay taxes, but we all have to as American citizens.  One thing that I just do not understand is former president Barrack Obama had more people deported than any other president, but nobody makes a big fuss about that and not all of those people who were deported committed violent or drug related crimes.

On the FEC issues I completely agree with Anne Ravel.  I think that if there is any suspicion of unlawful campaign financing on either side it needs to be addressed.  She said it has happened on both ends, the democratic and republican side.  And to me it just does not even make sense to have the six commissioners if it is going to be a three to three vote every time, because nothing is getting done.

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