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"Trump delivers stark warning to workers on Juneteenth. Working-class Americans received a stark warning from President Trump as he celebrated Juneteenth by complaining about the excessive amount of federal holidays. Trump issued a directive Thursday night that declared the country is wasting too much money on closing business and said he has considered axing future celebrations. Too many non-working holidays in America,' he wrote on Truth Social. 'It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed. The workers don’t want it either!' The president then speculated that the holiday madness could have a negative impact on the country if something isn't done. 'Soon we’ll end up having a holiday for every once working day of the year,' he said. 'It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Juneteenth, also referred to as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas. Their freedom came more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln liberated slaves in the Confederacy by signing the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War." Trump delivers stark warning to workers on Juneteenth What is happening to the great American democracy?

Yes, I believe in it too. The problem is we live next door to a very powerful country and in some things like agriculture, we just can't work in the same way as Americans. I don't agree with Socialism either and I agree government meddles in the economy way too much. The situation with a powerful country like America next door to us means we can't just allow them to completely take over our economy. So having some tools too protect ourselves from the powerful U.S. corporations and power is necessary in certain areas. I wouldn't call that Socialism. It is just acting in self defence in a few areas that are essential to us. If we let America do what it wants with our economy and businesses, we will get hammered. We need to have some walls or barriers to protect our economy from takeover.

I don't think that is exactly how it works. The purpose of supply management is to ensure there is a stable agricultural industry in Canada. That is why it exists. The alternative would be to just let the Canadian farm industry freely compete with the American system which is more volatile and unstable and the American industry is many times the size of the Canadian industry. That could be a disaster for Canadian farmers and consumers. " The stability of supply management avoids the boom-and-bust cycles found in the United States, where taxpayer subsidies are a feature of the dairy industry and where farm bankruptcies and bailouts are not uncommon. Under supply management, there is no need for taxpayer bailouts or subsidies." Supply Management in Canada | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Nobody would oppose that idea if it was done according to the Constitution and due process. The trouble is you don't believe in that.

Here is an interesting 3 minute video from Fox News. I never watch Fox News, but came across this short video that explains one interesting and important thing from the Bible. It is not the central message of the Bible, but could be a useful lesson that could help reduce heart attacks, strokes, mental issues, conflicts, stress, and other things if one pays attention. It makes a lot of sense. It teaches us to avoid anger and quick judgment. Keep cool, listen a lot, and be moderate. Why the Bible provides the right model for 'a dignified culture' today, says author | Watch

" When discriminatory laws and settler violence failed to expel them from the region, the settlers pounded Congress to develop a system of federal immigration control. In response to their demands, Congress passed the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country for 10 years. The law focused on Chinese laborers, the single largest sector of the Chinese immigrant community. In 1884, Congress required all Chinese laborers admitted before the Exclusion Act was passed to secure a certificate of reentry if they wanted to leave and return. But, in 1888, Congress banned even those with certificates from reentering. Illustration, ‘How John may dodge the exclusion act’ shows Uncle Sam’s boot kicking a Chinese immigrant off a dock. Library of Congress Then, when the Chinese Exclusion Act was set to expire in 1892, Congress passed the Geary Act, which again banned all Chinese laborers and required all Chinese immigrants to verify their lawful presence by registering with the federal government. The federal authorities were empowered by the law to find, imprison and deport all Chinese immigrants who failed to register by May 1893. Together, these laws banned a nationally targeted population from entering the United States and invented the first system of mass deportation. Nothing quite like this had ever before been tried in the United States. Chinese immigrants rebelled against the new laws. In 1888, a laborer named Chae Chan Ping was denied the right of return despite having a reentry certificate and was subsequently confined on a steamship. The Chinese immigrant community hired lawyers to fight his case. The lawyers argued the case up to the U.S. Supreme Court but lost when the court ruled that “the power of exclusion of foreigners [is an] incident of sovereignty belonging to the government of the United States” and “cannot be granted away or restrained on behalf of anyone.” Simply put, Chae Chan Ping v. U.S. established that Congress and the president hold “absolute” and “unqualified” authority over immigrant entry and exclusion at U.S. borders. unquote America’s mass deportation system is rooted in racism It is amusing to see how the racists and MAGAs get their shirts in a knot over this subject.

This is a major scandal. The Housing Minister will be next to useless to the millions of people hoping to afford to buy a home.

I live with reality all the time and am not fooling myself. Unfortunately, I think you have been fooled along with most of the world. How so you might say. That is a long story, but very briefly it all comes down to what God says in the Bible. I know you, like most here, don't want to hear about it, but it is the hard truth. The King James Bible explains it clearly. Man is a corrupt fallen sinner. That is the cause of all the hate in the world. Couldn't say it simpler. Get yourself a King James Bible and study it. Of course I can't abolish racism. Neither can you or anybody else on here abolish any of the evils in the world or change the world. I am only pointing out one of the big problems in the world. It is one subject of many that come up on the forum. Likely it will change nothing. But sometimes there is the odd person that learns something on a forum. Perhaps we do learn a little about how other people think.

The subject is the history of racism, not crime. We know that crime statistics are bad, but that does not justify systemic racism. It is all through society in every sphere. The point is there is rampant hatred in the world and this is one example of it.

The article mentions disproportionate police stops without any evidence of any wrongdoing. Your language puts yourself in a suspicious category. If you talked like that with a police officer, you would probably be under investigation. "A report by the Department of Justice found that blacks and Hispanics were approximately three times more likely to be searched during a traffic stop than white motorists. African Americans were twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police." The Top 10 Most Startling Facts About People of Color and Criminal Justice in the United States - Center for American Progress

" “When you go out there and you look at (the coastline), there’s almost an oil tanker a day going down from Alaska,” said Dreeshen. “So, when you look at American tankers going north and south along the coastline, but us not allowing our Canadian tankers to go straight west, away from the coastline… The hypocrisy (of the situation) was pointed out by a lot of folks,” he noted. “(People are) saying that we should be able to compete the same way the U.S. and other countries do, by being able to ship our oil out to our tankers.”' Alberta minister 'cautiously optimistic' about tanker ban reversal after northern B.C. visit Hard to believe that the federal government under Trudeau put a tanker ban on the B.C. north coast against tankers going and coming from Prince Rupert or Kitimat, but allowed U.S. tankers to travel up and down the B.C. north coast from Alaska.

Looks like he is doing a poor job in almost every thing he is involved in. Look at the tariff mess. The deportation issue is a disaster. You think it is fine, but if you were a undocumented migrant trying to survive in a cruel world, you might not think what is happening is good. Trump claimed that when he becomes President, he would end the war in Ukraine in one day. Sure. He has been in office about five months. What happened? The middle east is a mess and seems to be getting worse. The only thing good I can think of is he motivated Canada to do a few things like tighten up the border and he helped push the government to increase military spending to reach at least 2% of GDP for NATO. It hasn't been done yet; we will see how well Carney does with it. But he seems hostile to much of the west and appears to want to appease Putin. What a disaster that is. Not sure yet how the Iran/Israel conflict will go and what he will do with that.

"he latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, released June 16, show Trump’s numbers hover at 42 percent, with Americans growing less supportive of his approach to immigration and crackdowns. Trump’s stance on immigration dropped from 47 percent in May to 44 percent."

Of course he doesn't agree because he doesn't follow the Constitution and law. The Constitution says "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" Seems pretty clear to me. I already pointed out it says "any person" but you ignore it. I guess you prefer fascism. He prefers to appease his MAGA base who don't seem to have much respect for human rights or Constitutional law.

Wow! Talk about ignorance. Where have you been hiding? This has been in the news frequently over the last four years. I am not going to waste my time posting news articles about it. You don't accept any facts anyway.

Clearly you are obsessed with a non issue. Who brought up Jan. 6 has nothing to do with lies. I never intentionally lied about Jan. 6 or anything to do with who brought it up. I am tired of your wasting our time on here constantly falsely accusing me of lies. That is not what the forum is for. I put you on the ignore list for now.

Read what it says. ""nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." (14th Amendment)" It says "any person". It does not say only an American citizen. Any person is any person, even illegal immigrants. The fact is there are many people in the U.S. who are not American citizens. There are lawful permanent residents or Green Card holders. There are visitors and tourists. There are foreign students and people with Visas. There are people with passports visiting or on business from other countries and there documented and undocumented immigrants. The 14th amendment applies to everyone.

It looks like the part about Jan 6 was a part of a larger article I posted,which is an opinion piece. Opinions do not fit the definition of a lie in this case. Someone believes Jan 6 riots were more violent than LA event. That is someones opinion. Everyone has a right to their opinion sbout such things. You are very wrong to call everything you disagree with a lie. You need to think that over and apologize.

In this quote, you did not quote any lie you allege I made. You actually quoted your own posting replying to the OP heading. You quoted your own post calling me a liar. I asked you to quote a post where you think I lied.

I posted another article earlier that says millions have come in over many years, decades in fact and during both Republican and Democratic party administrations. That makes sense.

It looks like you got that claim from some Republicans. Those claims have been fact checked and found to be false. " Some Republicans, however, have misleadingly suggested the number released into the country since Biden took office is much higher. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, claimed last month that 8 million “have come in illegally” and “we have to send them back.” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made the same claim in a GOP debate in January. Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas said on “Fox News Sunday” on Feb. 11 that Biden had “allowed an invasion to occur at our border, almost 10 million migrants have crossed into our country.” Breaking Down the Immigration Figures - FactCheck.org The fact is we can only go by what we read on various websites. Maybe you have some infallible source for your information, but I don't. Did you ever stop to think how stupid you look just repeating the same old accusations over and over? Quote the whole post that I lied in and let's have a discussion about it. Otherwise go away and don't waste my time.

If you were really being honest, you would quote the post that you think is a lie. Copy and paste the whole post so we can see the date and time and the context as well. Go ahead and quote it and let's discuss it.

I don't recall that and I don't have the time to waste spending hours digging through past posts to see who said what, etc. You are bringing up foolish arguments just for the purpose of making endless accusations. I don't have the time for this kind of thing. You repeatedly said I ignored you. Guess what? You are correct. Most of your posts are accusing me of lying. I don't have time to reply to your foolish accusations. I have better things to do with my time.

I never knowingly told you a falsehood. So your accusation that I lied is false. You need to look up the definition of a lie. To be a lie, it has to be knowingly or deliberately attempting to deceive. It's amazing how you have the power to read inside people's minds and tell they are lying. Trump does give the impression he believes most are criminals. "Apr 18, 2025 · Donald Trump has created a hostile environment for immigrants and labeled the majority as "criminals." "Jan 19, 2025 · President-elect Donald Trump has promised to target immigrants with criminal records as he launches a "mass deportation" to remove millions of people from the country."

"Hundreds of immigrants have been swept away to what functionally is a modern Gulag in El Salvador, and the administration has recently tried to send others to South Sudan, which is on the verge of civil war. Enforcing immigration policy does not have to be inhumane, but the Trump administration is gloating in the very barbarity." Trump’s Deportations Aren’t What They Seem - The Atlantic