trump catch all - part 7

AFP News Agency...

“#BREAKING 54 African countries demand Trump 'retraction, apology' over slur”

Well president tiny hands is sure doing a great job in MAGA!

NBC News....

“President Trump has returned to Mar-a-Lago after spending the morning at his Florida golf course, marking the 92nd day at one of his golf properties and 119th day at a Trump property since taking office. nbcnews.to/2h7kRjo”

After the tax cut the American People can no longer afford to pay for his security if he keeps doing this.   Just can’t.

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When trump announced the shrinking the size of two national monuments, he said it was to give the land back to the people.  However shortly later a story was released that the head of the largest uranium mine wanted to reduce the size of national lands to make it easier for his uranium mine to function.  trump obliged.

trump is foremost a businessman and the worst kind of businessman in that his sole goal is to make a buck regardless of the true cost.   If you look at just about every decision he has made as president it’s to benefit trump the businessman or his fellow businessmen buddies at the expense of the American People.

I think before we trash the country we should ask and get the answer to the following questions.

* Is there a real need for these natural resources or is it a want of these natural resources to make money.

* Can the country and the people who live in the areas of these natural resources afford the real cost of extracting them from the ground and water.

*  If it is found the natural resources are needed will best practices be used to minimize the damage now and in the future?  To the land/water, The people doing the job, and the people living in the area.

I think, in the trump administration, the answer is a firm no.   Since trump has been president he has signed legislation that allows coal mines to dumb waste from the mines into the water in the area, rolled back mine safely procedures.  In oil industry, trump has eliminated the safety procedures put in place after that huge oil spill in the South and that tax cut bill eliminated the tax oil companies had to pay per barrel of oil that was to go into a fund to clean  up huge oil spills like the one in Alaska and the BP spill off the coast of the southern states. 

And then there is how long it takes to clean up the left behind crap from the ground/water as noted in the New York Times article.

In my neck of the woods just north of me is Clear Lake that has a mercury problem from mercury mines that have been closed since the 1950’s.  The EPA has been trying to clean up that mess since it was declared a superfund site in the 1990s.

From the New York Times...

“Uranium Miners Pushed Hard for a Comeback. They Got Their Wish.” 

“MONUMENT VALLEY, Utah — Garry Holiday grew up among the abandoned mines that dot the Navajo Nation’s red landscape, remnants of a time when uranium helped cement America’s status as a nuclear superpower and fueled its nuclear energy program.

It left a toxic legacy. All but a few of the 500 abandoned mines still await cleanup. Mining tainted the local groundwater. Mr. Holiday’s father succumbed to respiratory disease after years of hacking the ore from the earth.

But now, emboldened by the Trump administration’s embrace of corporate interests, the uranium mining industry is renewing a push into the areas adjacent to Mr. Holiday’s Navajo Nation home: the Grand Canyon watershed to the west, where a new uranium mine is preparing to open, and the Bears Ears National Monument to the north.

The Trump administration is set to shrink Bears Ears by 85 percent next month, potentially opening more than a million acres to mining, drilling and other industrial activity. But even as Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke declared last month that “there is no mine within Bears Ears,” there were more than 300 uranium mining claims inside the monument, according to data from Utah’s Bureau of Land Management office that was reviewed by The New York Times.”