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American Dreaming

“Hey! What gives you the right? To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep Mother Nature in? If God was here he’d tell it to your face, ‘Man, you’re some kind of sinner.’” Tesla What if we lived in a Democracy? That’d be crazy, right? You want a wall? Cool. You’re about $5B short. Do you want to use the same credit card you used to honor the Clemson Tigers with “hamberders”? No? Okay. We have a process for this. Here’s how it works… “Mr. President you can have your wall. You can get it the same way that President Obama got Obamacare; the way Lyndon Johnson got Medicare; the way Franklin Roosevelt got Social Security. In each case the president had a project he wanted enacted; so his administration crafted a bill. That bill went to Congress where committee hearings were held; amendments were proposed; studies were conducted that tested the cost, effectiveness etc. of the proposal; testimony was held in Congress; debate ensued and if the measure had enough support, a vote w