CAN YOU NAME THE US PRESIDENT THAT ACTUALLY DELIVERED ON HIS ELECTION PROMISES?

When the ex-President of the United States of America, President Obama saw this list of Presidential achievements he was probably feeling pretty damned pleased with himself, until he realised it was not his paltry list of achievements, but that of his arch nemesis, President Trump.

This article shared by Real Estate Guru on www.zerohedge.com was written by  Paul Bedard which sadly was not well published by any of the mainstream media because it was the antithesis of what they were hoping and preaching about President Trump.

Trump’s list: 289 accomplishments in just 20 months; this is ‘relentless’ promise-keeping.

Original Publication Date   | October 12, 2018 08:43 AM  - See Conclusion at bottom of this report.

The Trump administration’s often overlooked list of achievements has surpassed those of former President Ronald Reagan at this time and more than doubled since the last tally of accomplishments after his first year in office, giving President Trump a solid platform to run for re-election on.

As Trump nears the two-year mark of his historic election and conducts political rallies around the country, during which he talks up his wins in hopes it will energize Republican voters, the administration has counted up 289 accomplishments in 18 categories, capped by the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

They include 173 major wins, such as adding more than 4 million jobs, and another 116 smaller victories, some with outsize importance, such as the 83 percent one-year increase in arrests of MS-13 gang members.

“Trump’s successes in reducing the cost of taxes and regulations, rebuilding our military, avoiding wars of choice and changing the courts rival those of all previous Republican presidents,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.

“Trump has an advantage over Ronald Reagan: He has a Reagan Republican House and Senate while Reagan had a [Democratic Speaker] Tip O’Neill House and a pre-Reagan Republican Senate. Reagan and [former GOP Speaker] Newt Gingrich were the ice breakers that allowed Trump’s victories to grow in number and significance,” he added.

Unlike the Year One list which included many proposals and orders still to be acted on, the new collection includes dozens of actions already in place, signed legislation, and enforced executive orders.

For example, while the Year One list bragged about the administration’s efforts to rewrite the much-maligned NAFTA trade deal with Canada and Mexico, the Year Two list said: “Negotiated an historic U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement to replace NAFTA.”

In December, Secrets reported on the first list of White House accomplishments.

And shockingly the NAFTA achievement is presented as a sidebar to the larger achievement that reads, “President Trump is negotiating and renegotiating better trade deals, achieving free, fair, and reciprocal trade for the United States.” Under that umbrella are eight trade deals cut with Japan, South Korea, Europe and China.

“President Trump is a truly unique leader in American history. He’s a kid from Queens who became an international business leader and made billions by getting things when no one said he could,” said Trump’s 2016 campaign pollster John McLaughlin.

“They told him he couldn’t be president and beat the establishment and he did. For two years the establishment is telling him he can’t do things in Washington and he’s succeeding in spite of them. He never retreats. He doesn’t back up. He’s relentless. He just wins,” he added.

Comparing the two years shows that the latest has an expanded group of economic achievements while the pro-life category was folded into the health care section.

Massive overflow crowd tonight in Erie, Pennsylvania. THANK YOU to everyone who came out and joined us. Together, we are MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! pic.twitter.com/FkPNNVpccX
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2018

Along the way, there have been some disappointments, such as failing to replace Obamacare, fund a big infrastructure plan, and build the border wall.

But the White House believes that despite a lack of media coverage of his accomplishments, supporters know about them and will head to the voting polls to help the GOP maintain control of the House and keep the president on what CNN dubbed a “winning streak.”

In the Washington Post Friday, former Bush speechwriter and columnist Marc Thiessen agreed and said that Trump has proven to be successful at keeping his campaign promises. He wrote, “The fact is, in his first two years, Trump has compiled a remarkable record of presidential promise-keeping.”

The list:

Economic Growth

• 4.2 percent growth in the second quarter of 2018.
• For the first time in more than a decade, growth is projected to exceed 3 percent over the calendar year.

Jobs

• 4 million new jobs have been created since the election, and more than 3.5 million since Trump took office.
• More Americans are employed now than ever before in our history.
• Jobless claims at lowest level in nearly five decades.
• The economy has achieved the longest positive job-growth streak on record.
• Job openings are at an all-time high and outnumber job seekers for the first time on record.
• Unemployment claims at 50 year low
• African-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American unemployment rates have all recently reached record lows.
  • African-American unemployment hit a record low of 5.9 percent in May 2018.
  • Hispanic unemployment at 4.5 percent.
  • Asian-American unemployment at record low of 2 percent.
• Women’s unemployment recently at lowest rate in nearly 65 years.
  • Female unemployment dropped to 3.6 percent in May 2018, the lowest since October 1953.
• Youth unemployment recently reached its lowest level in more than 50 years.
  • July 2018’s youth unemployment rate of 9.2 percent was the lowest since July 1966.
• Veterans’ unemployment recently hit its lowest level in nearly two decades.
  • July 2018’s veterans’ unemployment rate of 3.0 percent matched the lowest rate since May 2001.
• Unemployment rate for Americans without a high school diploma recently reached a record low.
• Rate for disabled Americans recently hit a record low.
• Blue-collar jobs recently grew at the fastest rate in more than three decades.
• Poll found that 85 percent of blue-collar workers believe their lives are headed “in the right direction.”
  • 68 percent reported receiving a pay increase in the past year.
• Last year, job satisfaction among American workers hit its highest level since 2005.
• Nearly two-thirds of Americans rate now as a good time to find a quality job.
  • Optimism about the availability of good jobs has grown by 25 percent.
• Added more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since the election.
  • Manufacturing employment is growing at its fastest pace in more than two decades.
• 100,000 new jobs supporting the production & transport of oil & natural gas.

American Income

• Median household income rose to $61,372 in 2017, a post-recession high.
• Wages up in August by their fastest rate since June 2009.
• Paychecks rose by 3.3 percent between 2016 and 2017, the most in a decade.
• Council of Economic Advisers found that real wage compensation has grown by 1.4 percent over the past year.
• Some 3.9 million Americans off food stamps since the election.
• Median income for Hispanic-Americans rose by 3.7 percent and surpassed $50,000 for the first time ever in history.
  • Home-ownership among Hispanics is at the highest rate in nearly a decade.
• Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels ever recorded.

American Optimism

• Small business optimism has hit historic highs.
  • NFIB’s small business optimism index broke a 35 year-old record in August.
  • SurveyMonkey/CNBC’s small business confidence survey for Q3 of 2018 matched its all-time high.
• Manufacturers are more confident than ever.
  • 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future, the highest ever.
• Consumer confidence is at an 18-year high.
• 12 percent of Americans rate the economy as the most significant problem facing our country, the lowest level on record.
• Confidence in the economy is near a two-decade high, with 51 percent rating the economy as good or excellent.

American Business

• Investment is flooding back into the United States due to the tax cuts.
  • Over $450 billion dollars has already poured back into the U.S., including more than $300 billion in the first quarter of 2018.
• Retail sales have surged. Commerce Department figures from August show that retail sales increased 0.5 percent in July 2018, an increase of 6.4 percent from July 2017.
• ISM’s index of manufacturing scored its highest reading in 14 years.
• Worker productivity is the highest it has been in more than three years.
• Steel and aluminum producers are re-opening.
• Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and NASDAQ have all notched record highs.
  • Dow hit record highs 70 times in 2017 alone, the most ever recorded in one year.

Deregulation

• Achieved massive deregulation at a rapid pace, completing 22 deregulatory actions to every one regulatory action during his first year in office.
• Signed legislation to roll back costly and harmful provisions of Dodd-Frank, providing relief to credit unions, and community and regional banks.
• Federal agencies achieved more than $8 billion in lifetime net regulatory cost savings.
• Rolled back Obama’s burdensome Waters of the U.S. rule.
• Used the Congressional Review Act to repeal regulations more times than in history.

Tax Cuts

• Biggest tax cuts and reforms in American history by signing the Tax Cuts and Jobs act into law
  • Provided more than $5.5 trillion in gross tax cuts, nearly 60 percent of which will go to families.
  • Increased the exemption for the death tax to help save Family Farms & Small Business.
  • Nearly doubled the standard deduction for individuals and families.
  • Enabled vast majority of American families will be able to file their taxes on a single page by claiming the standard deduction.
  • Doubled the child tax credit to help lessen the financial burden of raising a family.
  • Lowered America’s corporate tax rate from the highest in the developed world to allow American businesses to compete and win.
  • Small businesses can now deduct 20 percent of their business income.
  • Cut dozens of special interest tax breaks and closed loopholes for the wealthy.
• 9 in 10 American workers are expected see an increase in their paychecks thanks to the tax cuts, according to the Treasury Department.
• More than 6 million of American workers have received wage increases, bonuses, and increased benefits thanks to tax cuts.
• Over 100 utility companies have lowered electric, gas, or water rates thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
• Ernst & Young found 89 percent of companies planned to increase worker compensation thanks to the Trump tax cuts.
• Established opportunity zones to spur investment in left behind communities.

Worker Development

• Established a National Council for the American Worker to develop a national strategy for training and retraining America’s workers for high-demand industries.
• Employers have signed Trump’s “Pledge to America’s Workers,” committing to train or retrain more than 4.2 million workers and students.
• Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs.
• Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.

Domestic Infrastructure

• Proposed infrastructure plan would utilize $200 billion in Federal funds to spur at least $1.5 trillion in infrastructure investment across the country.
• Executive order expediting environmental reviews and approvals for high priority infrastructure projects.
• Federal agencies have signed the One Federal Decision Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) streamlining the federal permitting process for infrastructure projects.
• Rural prosperity task force and signed an executive order to help expand broadband access in rural areas.

Health Care

• Signed an executive order to help minimize the financial burden felt by American households Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.
• Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.
• Signed Right-to-Try legislation, expanding health care options for terminally ill patients.
• Enacted changes to the Medicare 340B program, saving seniors an estimated $320 million on drugs in 2018 alone.
• FDA set a new record for generic drug approvals in 2017, saving consumers nearly $9 billion.
• Released a blueprint to drive down drug prices for American patients, leading multiple major drug companies to announce they will freeze or reverse price increases.
• Expanded short-term, limited-duration health plans.
• Let more employers to form Association Health Plans, enabling more small businesses to join together and affordably provide health insurance to their employees.
• Cut Obamacare’s burdensome individual mandate penalty.
• Signed legislation repealing Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, also known as the “death panels.”
• USDA invested more than $1 billion in rural health care in 2017, improving access to health care for 2.5 million people in rural communities across 41 states
• Proposed Title X rule to help ensure taxpayers do not fund the abortion industry in violation of the law.
• Reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy to keep foreign aid from supporting the global abortion industry.
• HHS formed a new division over protecting the rights of conscience and religious freedom.
• Overturned Obama administration’s midnight regulation prohibiting states from defunding certain abortion facilities.
• Signed executive order to help ensure that religious organizations are not forced to choose between violating their religious beliefs by complying with Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate or shutting their doors.

Combating Opioids

• Chaired meeting the 73rd General Session of the United Nations discussing the worldwide drug problem with international leaders.
• Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand, introducing new measures to keep dangerous drugs out of our communities.
• $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
• DEA conducted a surge in April 2018 that arrested 28 medical professions and revoked 147 registrations for prescribing too many opioids.
• Brought the “Prescribed to Death” memorial to President’s Park near the White House, helping raise awareness about the human toll of the opioid crisis.
• Helped reduce high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent in 2017.
• Opioid Summit on the administration-wide efforts to combat the opioid crisis.
• Launched a national public awareness campaign about the dangers of opioid addiction.
• Created a Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis which recommended a number of pathways to tackle the opioid crisis.
• Led two National Prescription Drug Take Back Days in 2017 and 2018, collecting a record number of expired and unneeded prescription drugs each time.
• $485 million targeted grants in FY 2017 to help areas hit hardest by the opioid crisis.
• Signed INTERDICT Act, strengthening efforts to detect and intercept synthetic opioids before they reach our communities.
• DOJ secured its first-ever indictments against Chinese fentanyl manufacturers.
• Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) team, aimed at disrupting online illicit opioid sales.
• Declared the opioid crisis a Nationwide Public Health Emergency in October 2017.

Law and Order

• More U.S. Circuit Court judges confirmed in the first year in office than ever.
• Confirmed more than two dozen U. S. Circuit Court judges.
• Followed through on the promise to nominate judges to the Supreme Court who will adhere to the Constitution
  • Nominated and confirmed Justice Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
• Signed an executive order directing the Attorney General to develop a strategy to more effectively prosecute people who commit crimes against law enforcement officers.
• Launched an evaluation of grant programs to make sure they prioritize the protection and safety of law enforcement officers.
• Established a task force to reduce crime and restore public safety in communities across Signed an executive order to focus more federal resources on dismantling transnational criminal organizations such as drug cartels.
• Signed an executive order to focus more federal resources on dismantling transnational criminal organizations such as drug cartels.
• Violent crime decreased in 2017 according to FBI statistics.
• $137 million in grants through the COPS Hiring Program to preserve jobs, increase community policing capacities, and support crime prevention efforts.
• Enhanced and updated the Project Safe Neighborhoods to help reduce violent crime.
• Signed legislation making it easier to target websites that enable sex trafficking and strengthened penalties for people who promote or facilitate prostitution.
• Created an interagency task force working around the clock to prosecute traffickers, protect victims, and prevent human trafficking.
• Conducted Operation Cross Country XI to combat human trafficking, rescuing 84 children and arresting 120 human traffickers.
• Encouraged federal prosecutors to use the death penalty when possible in the fight against the trafficking of deadly drugs.
• New rule effectively banning bump stock sales in the United States.

Border Security and Immigration

• Secured $1.6 billion for border wall construction in the March 2018 omnibus bill.
• Construction of a 14-mile section of border wall began near San Diego.
• Worked to protect American communities from the threat posed by the vile MS-13 gang.
  • ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations division arrested 796 MS-13 members and associates in FY 2017, an 83 percent increase from the prior year.
  • Justice worked with partners in Central America to secure criminal charges against more than 4,000 MS-13 members.
  • Border Patrol agents arrested 228 illegal aliens affiliated with MS-13 in FY 2017.
• Fighting to stop the scourge of illegal drugs at our border.
  • ICE HSI seized more than 980,000 pounds of narcotics in FY 2017, including 2,370 pounds of fentanyl and 6,967 pounds of heroin.
  • ICE HSI dedicated nearly 630,000 investigative hours towards halting the illegal import of fentanyl.
  • ICE HSI made 11,691 narcotics-related arrests in FY 2017.
  • Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand introduced new measures to keep dangerous drugs out the United States.
  • Signed the INTERDICT Act into law, enhancing efforts to detect and intercept synthetic opioids.
  • DOJ secured its first-ever indictments against Chinese fentanyl manufacturers.
  • DOJ launched their Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) team, aimed at disrupting online illicit opioid sales.
• Released an immigration framework that includes the resources required to secure our borders and close legal loopholes, and repeatedly called on Congress to fix our broken immigration laws.
• Authorized the deployment of the National Guard to help secure the border.
• Enhanced vetting of individuals entering the U.S. from countries that don’t meet security standards, helping to ensure individuals who pose a threat to our country are identified before they enter.
  • These procedures were upheld in a June 2018 Supreme Court hearing.
• ICE removed over 226,000 illegal aliens from the United States in 2017.
  • ICE rescued or identified over 500 human trafficking victims and over 900 child exploitation victims in 2017 alone.
• In 2017, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested more than 127,000 aliens with criminal convictions or charges, responsible for
  • Over 76,000 with dangerous drug offenses.
  • More than 48,000 with assault offenses.
  • More than 11,000 with weapons offenses.
  • More than 5,000 with sexual assault offenses.
  • More than 2,000 with kidnapping offenses.
  • Over 1,800 with homicide offenses.
• Created the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office in order to support the victims and families affected by illegal alien crime.
• More than doubled the number of counties participating in the 287(g) program, which allows jails to detain criminal aliens until they are transferred to ICE custody.

Trade

• Negotiating and renegotiating better trade deals, achieving free, fair, and reciprocal trade for the United States.
  • Agreed to work with the European Union towards zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers, and zero subsides.
  • Deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.
  • Litigated multiple WTO disputes targeting unfair trade practices and upholding our right to enact fair trade laws.
  • Finalized a revised trade agreement with South Korea, which includes provisions to increase American automobile exports.
  • Negotiated an historic U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement to replace NAFTA.
  • Agreement to begin trade negotiations for a U.S.-Japan trade agreement.
  • Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam.
  • Established a Trade and Investment Working Group with the United Kingdom, laying the groundwork for post-Brexit trade.
• Enacted steel and aluminum tariffs to protect our vital steel and aluminum producers and strengthen our national security.
• Conducted 82 anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations in 2017 alone.
• Confronting China’s unfair trade practices after years of Washington looking the other way.
  • 25 percent tariff on $50 billion of goods imported from China and later imposed an additional 10% tariff on $200 billion of Chinese goods.
  • Conducted an investigation into Chinese forced technology transfers, unfair licensing practices, and intellectual property theft.
  • Imposed safeguard tariffs to protect domestic washing machines and solar products manufacturers hurt by China’s trade policies
• Withdrew from the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
• Secured access to new markets for America’s farmers.
  • Recent deal with Mexico included new improvements enabling food and agriculture to trade more fairly.
  • Recent agreement with the E.U. will reduce barriers and increase trade of American soybeans to Europe.
  • Won a WTO dispute regarding Indonesia’s unfair restriction of U.S. agricultural exports.
  • Defended American Tuna fisherman and packagers before the WTO
  • Opened up Argentina to American pork experts for the first time in a quarter-century
  • American beef exports have returned to china for the first time in more than a decade
• OK’d up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation.

Energy

• Presidential Memorandum to clear roadblocks to construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline.
• Presidential Memorandum declaring that the Dakota Access Pipeline serves the national interest and initiating the process to complete construction.
• Opened up the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to energy exploration.
• Coal exports up over 60 percent in 2017.
• Rolled back the “stream protection rule” to prevent it from harming America’s coal industry.
• Cancelled Obama’s anti-coal Clean Power Plan and proposed the Affordable Clean Energy Rule as a replacement.
• Withdrew from the job-killing Paris climate agreement, which would have cost the U.S. nearly $3 trillion and led to 6.5 million fewer industrial sector jobs by 2040.
• U.S. oil production has achieved its highest level in American history
• United States is now the largest crude oil producer in the world.
• U.S. has become a net natural gas exporter for the first time in six decades.
• Action to expedite the identification and extraction of critical minerals that are vital to the nation’s security and economic prosperity.
• Took action to reform National Ambient Air Quality Standards, benefitting American manufacturers.
• Rescinded Obama’s hydraulic fracturing rule, which was expected to cost the industry $32 million per year.
• Proposed an expansion of offshore drilling as part of an all-of-the above energy strategy
  • Held a lease sale for offshore oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico in August 2018.
• Got EU to increase its imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States.
• Issued permits for the New Burgos Pipeline that will cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

Foreign Policy

• Moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
• Withdrew from Iran deal and immediately began the process of re-imposing sanctions that had been lifted or waived.
  • Treasury has issued sanctions targeting Iranian activities and entities, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force
  • Since enacting sanctions, Iran’s crude exports have fallen off, the value of Iran’s currency has plummeted, and international companies have pulled out of the country.
  • All nuclear-related sanctions will be back in full force by early November 2018.
• Historic summit with North Korean President Kim Jong-Un, bringing beginnings of peace and denuclearization to the Korean Peninsula.
  • The two leaders have exchanged letters and high-level officials from both sides have met resulting in tremendous progress.
  • North Korea has halted nuclear and missile tests.
  • Negotiated the return of the remains of missing-in-action soldiers from the Korean War.
• Imposed strong sanctions on Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro and his inner circle.
• Executive order preventing those in the U.S. from carrying out certain transactions with the Venezuelan regime, including prohibiting the purchase of the regime’s debt.
• Responded to the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime.
  • Rolled out sanctions targeting individuals and entities tied to Syria’s chemical weapons program.
  • Directed strikes in April 2017 against a Syrian airfield used in a chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians.
  • Joined allies in launching airstrikes in April 2018 against targets associated with Syria’s chemical weapons use.
• New Cuba policy that enhanced compliance with U.S. law and held the Cuban regime accountable for political oppression and human rights abuses.
  • Treasury and State are working to channel economic activity away from the Cuban regime, particularly the military.
• Changed the rules of engagement, empowering commanders to take the fight to ISIS.
  • ISIS has lost virtually all of its territory, more than half of which has been lost under Trump.
  • ISIS’ self-proclaimed capital city, Raqqah, was liberated in October 2017.
  • All Iraqi territory had been liberated from ISIS.
• More than a dozen American hostages have been freed from captivity all of the world.
• Action to combat Russia’s malign activities, including their efforts to undermine the sanctity of United States elections.
  • Expelled dozens of Russian intelligence officers from the United States and ordered the closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle, WA.
  • Banned the use of Kaspersky Labs software on government computers, due to the company’s ties to Russian intelligence.
  • Imposed sanctions against five Russian entities and three individuals for enabling Russia’s military and intelligence units to increase Russia’s offensive cyber capabilities.
  • Sanctions against seven Russian oligarchs, and 12 companies they own or control, who profit from Russia’s destabilizing activities.
  • Sanctioned 100 targets in response to Russia’s occupation of Crimea and aggression in Eastern Ukraine.
  • Enhanced support for Ukraine’s Armed Forces to help Ukraine better defend itself.
• Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
• Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.

Defense

• Executive order keeping the detention facilities at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay open.
• $700 billion in military funding for FY 2018 and $716 billion for FY 2019.
• Largest military pay raise in nearly a decade.
• Ordered a Nuclear Posture Review to ensure America’s nuclear forces are up to date and serve as a credible deterrent.
• Released America’s first fully articulated cyber strategy in 15 years.
• New strategy on national biodefense, which better prepares the nation to defend against biological threats.
• Administration has announced that it will use whatever means necessary to protect American citizens and servicemen from unjust prosecution by the International Criminal Court.
• Released an America first National Security Strategy.
• Put in motion the launch of a Space Force as a new branch of the military and relaunched the National Space Council.
• Encouraged North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies to increase defense spending to their agree-upon levels.
  • In 2017 alone, there was an increase of more than 4.8 percent in defense spending amongst NATO allies.
  • Every member state has increased defense spending.
  • Eight NATO allies will reach the 2 percent benchmark by the end of 2018 and 15 allies are on trade to do so by 2024.
  • NATO allies spent over $42 billion dollars more on defense since 2016.
• Executive order to help military spouses find employment as their families deploy domestically and abroad.

Veterans affairs

• Signed the VA Accountability Act and expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
• Delivered more appeals decisions – 81,000 – to veterans in a single year than ever before.
• Strengthened protections for individuals who come forward and identify programs occurring within the VA.
• Signed legislation that provided $86.5 billion in funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the largest dollar amount in history for the VA.
• VA MISSION Act, enacting sweeping reform to the VA system that:
  • Consolidated and strengthened VA community care programs.
  • Funding for the Veterans Choice program.
  • Expanded eligibility for the Family Caregivers Program.
  • Gave veterans more access to walk-in care.
  • Strengthened the VA’s ability to recruit and retain quality healthcare professionals.
  • Enabled the VA to modernize its assets and infrastructure.
• Signed the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act in 2017, which authorized $2.1 billion in addition funds for the Veterans Choice Program.
• Worked to shift veterans’ electronic medical records to the same system used by the Department of Defense, a decades old priority.
• Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life.
• Increased transparency and accountability at the VA by launching an online “Access and Quality Tool,” providing veterans with access to wait time and quality of care data.
• Signed legislation to modernize the claims and appeal process at the VA.
• Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, providing enhanced educational benefits to veterans, service members, and their family members.
  • Lifted a 15-year limit on veterans’ access to their educational benefits.
• Created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans.
• VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far.
• Signed the Veterans Treatment Court Improvement Act, increasing the number of VA employees that can assist justice-involved veterans.

CONCLUSION

Whilst there are still several disappointments on his list, President Trump appears to have dropped a few of his campaign promises. His followers will be somewhat disappointed at his refusal to revisit them.

Here is a list of the promises, which according to https://www.politifact.com President Trump is not attempting to honour.

Enact term limits

"If I'm elected president, I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress."

Bring back waterboarding

“I would bring back waterboarding, and I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding,” 

Establish a commission on radical Islam

“One of my first acts as president will be to establish a commission on radical Islam which will include reformist voices in the Muslim community who will hopefully work with us."

Allow individuals to deduct health care insurance premiums from taxes

"Allow individuals to fully deduct health insurance premium payments from their tax returns under the current tax system."

Administer Medicaid through block grants

"Our elected representatives in the House and Senate must ... block-grant Medicaid to the states. Nearly every state already offers benefits beyond what is required in the current Medicaid structure."

Cancel all funding of sanctuary cities

"We will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars, and we will work with Congress to pass legislation to protect those jurisdictions that do assist federal authorities.”

Establish a ban on Muslims entering the U.S.

“Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”

Remove existing Syrian refugees

“I'm putting the people on notice that are coming here from Syria, as part of this mass migration, that if I win, if I win, they're going back.”

Sue his accusers of sexual misconduct

“The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over.”

Release his tax returns after an audit is completed

“I’m under a routine audit and it'll be released, and as soon as the audit is finished it will be released."

Create targeted child care tax credits

"The Trump plan will rewrite the tax code to allow working parents to deduct from their income taxes child care expenses for up to four children and elderly dependents."

Cut the number of tax brackets

"The Trump Plan will collapse the current seven tax brackets to three brackets."

Repeal the alternative minimum tax

"The 3.8 percent Obamacare tax on investment income will be repealed, as will the alternative minimum tax."

Eliminate the carried interest loophole

"As part of this reform, we will eliminate the carried interest deduction and other special interest loopholes that have been so good for Wall Street investors, and for people like me, but unfair to American workers."

Balance the federal budget 'fairly quickly'

"It can be done. ... It will take place and it will go relatively quickly.  ... If you have the right people, like, in the agencies and the various people that do the balancing ... you can cut the numbers by two pennies and three pennies and balance a budget quickly and have a stronger and better country."

Change the name of Mount Denali back to Mount McKinley

"President Obama wants to change the name of Mt. McKinley to Denali after more than 100 years. Great insult to Ohio. I will change back!"

Stop the AT&T Time Warner Merger

"As an example of the power structure I'm fighting, AT&T is buying Time Warner and thus CNN, a deal we will not approve in my administration because it's too much concentration of power in the hands of too few."

Clearly, this is still a President in situ, hopefully in his next tenure, Trump will complete his list of promises and be added to the list collated by historian Joseph J. Ellis who stated that he can only think of two presidents who ran honest campaigns and actually delivered on all of their promises: George Washington and James K. Polk.

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The public in the UK and indeed around the world can see how corrupt the United Kingdom has become. It is not just the Politics, it is also the UK Media.  Surely, I am not the only person in the UK who is able to see and understand the systemic corruption oozing out of the UK's Media outlets; (TV = Sky news, and BBC news Written Media = All UK papers)?

Sadly, our Media / Communications Regulators appear to be NOT-FIT-FOR-PURPOSE. Who are these Regulators; OFCOM, the Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), which regulates most national newspapers and many other media outlets, and IMPRESS. These are the Government appointed Regulators who are supposed to be holding the Media's feet to the fire. Is it because they are all incapable of recognising the FAKE news that is unfolding on our screens? Almost all of the coverage by the mainstream media has been intrinsically biased against doing a Brexit of any kind.

From as far back as 2016, when the Brexit Referendum took place, the mainstream media started to corrupt the process.

How you ask?

The answer is staring you straight in the face; Brexit was not about left versus right, it was about he withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. It was about the re‐assertion of who governs Great Britain and reinstatement of parliamentary sovereignty as a fundamental principle of the British constitution.

The primary concerns that triggered Brexit was the loss of our SOVEREIGNTY, that then triggered the primary reasons for leaving the EU were as follows; 

"Leave MEANS Leave"  Defined as; leaving both the customs union and the single market, taking back control of our Sovereignty, which included our Laws, Borders, Money and Trade.  

Whilst immigration was a key attributing factor resonating in everyone's mind at the time, it was the Media that used this single attribute as a means to cast aspersions on the Brexiteers, by calling them racist and extreme right wing.

Now, I say this again, in the minds of many LEAVERS immigration was a symptom of a failed political system that gave away our sovereignty and allowed the EU to dictate policies, that exacerbated the immigration issues raised by the Brexiteers.  Immigration was not the cause it was a symptom.

Sadly, the CORRUPT Media saw fit to create a divide between the Left and Right poles of the political spectrum. After all, outrageous headlines sells news papers and creates more clicks on their media, thus generating more advertising revenue.

The media very quickly turned the original premise of Brexit being about the loss of parliamentary sovereignty into a massive war between the Left versus Right.

From here-on-in the UK Media shall be known as the  LAMESTREAM Media because they are criminally biased against anything rational, truthful or slightly right of centre.

What the LAMESTREAM Media ignores is that Brexiteers are from all walks of life, they come from the left, middle & right political spectrum, they are patriots that come in all creeds, religions and colours.

The Brexit Party is the most diverse Political Party every experienced in the United Kingdom, the candidates put up in the EU Parliament Elections this last week illustrates this in HIGH-DEFINITION.

Roll forward to the European elections in 2019, again not only did the corrupt LAMESTREAM Media not afford any AIR TIME or column inches in favour of the Leave Campaign. They spent their entire time spewing out fake news, lies and misconceptions to incite hatred against the Brexiteers, whom they labelled as EXTREME RIGHT WING bigots who did not know what they voted for.

This unfettered corrupt line of thinking was allowed to go on unabated, so much so that immediately after the results of the EUParl Elections were announced, the Media enabled the Left Wing anti-Brexit brigade to spew utter garbage claiming that if you added up all the parties outside of The Brexit Party and UKIP, the Remain Voters accumulated 54% of the Vote against The Leave vote which totalled an impressive 34% of all the votes that were mostly secured by a Political Party that was a mere 6 weeks old.

What the Brexit Party achieved was by far the most amazing achievement in Politics in the history of UK politics, but that was not the news, instead, the LAMESTREAM Media granted as much airtime as possible to anyone on the Remain side to spew this garbage.

Outside of the bubble of corruption, which included the "UK media outlets, the losing Political Parties, the elites, the celebs and the Remainers"; everybody else in the world could see that their assertions were both ridiculous and untrue.

By their screwed up logic, it means that Manchester City did not win the Premier Cup, it was an amalgamation of all the other losing teams goals that gave the win to the LOSERS instead.

Most informed and intelligent Britons know that most of the current crop of Politicians are not the brightest bulbs in the pack, that said they are probably bright enough to not bring into law any legislation that would criminalise them for ignoring the will of the people. So seeing any of them doing prison time for what has just happened in the halls of Westminster is a pipe dream unless a new crop of Politicians who are endowed with a moral compass that is founded on integrity and probity find their way into Parliament as part of a new political party.

This brings us onto the next General Election (GE), which Jeremy Corbyn has been banging on about. The Brexit Party is now gearing up to wipe the smile off all those Remainer and unpatriotic smug mugs.

We the 17.4 million patriots say BRING IT ON. Let the GE happen sooner than later. The patriots of this United Kingdom need to drain the swamp.


IN CONCLUSION

Let us set Brexit aside, this article is about whether democracy as we used to know it and how it has been brazenly corrupted in broad daylight by the media and self-serving Politicians.  The voting records on the Brexit issues are now a written record of the Political crimes committed by these Politicians.  In years to come after an inquiry has taken place, it will be said that if there was crime that penalised the taking a seat at the table in Parliament based on election manifesto promises and not fulfilling those promises or blatantly ignoring them once in the halls of powers then over 80% of the Politicians resident in the House of Parliament today would be incarcerated.

The change is coming to Parliament, The Brexit Party will ensure that it has a manifesto derived from input of the masses who are patriots and love this country.  This will also include a Constitution that addresses the corrupt system that has failed this country for so long, which will include a massive change in how the Media behaves going forward.

We need a new modernised form of Politics that honour the integrity and morality of democracy, a politics that treats the will of the people as sacrosanct.  We would recommend to all of the current MPs that they start to hone your CV's otherwise you could find yourselves joining the unemployment queues after the next General Election.

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LOVE BEING A SOVEREIGN COUNTRY
LOVE INTEGRITY IN POLITICS
LOVE DEMOCRACY

    

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Download these PDF files, search the tables for your MPs name and take a look at their voting record and see whether they have been undermining your instructions mandated to them via your vote at the 2017 election.

DETAILED HEAT MAP DOWNLOADS OF ALL MPs

(Easter Holidays UPDATE)

PATRIOT_vs_NON-PATRIOT_MPs	https://bit.ly/2DcYpBx
CONSERVATIVE_Voting_MPs	https://bit.ly/2Zdjchp
DEM_IND_GRN_Voting_MPs	https://bit.ly/2ItOmv4
DUP_Scotland_Wales_Voting_MPs	https://bit.ly/2KCaZQT
LABOUR_Voting_MPs	http://bit.ly/2HI8tVQ

 

BRITAIN's DEMOCRACY IS AS BAD AS ZIMBABWE's DEMOCRACY!

For anyone sitting outside of the BREXIT bubble, watching Britain's BBC Parliament channel, they would have witnessed the shambles that has unfolded in our Parliament. You could not blame them for being dismayed by the way British politicians brazenly undermined the WILL of the People.

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What they witnessed would be reminiscent to what has been seen happening in Zimbabwe since Robert Mugabe took over power in 1980. In fact they would probably think that they were watching Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and would have changed the channels because of the malfeasance that has taken place by over 60% of British politicians.

Just like Dictators, the British political houses have stopped listening to the people, ignoring the people's will and instructions at the voting poll. MPs have undermined democracy, they have demonstrably refused to accept the will of the people in a legal Referendum, the result of which they promised to fulfill and carry out in their manifesto and promises to the people when they were sworn in at Parliament.

An MP takes the oath by holding the sacred text in his or her uplifted hand and says the words of the oath.

English wording

I (name of Member) swear by Almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God.

By swearing the oath in Parliament, the MPs are subject to the Code of Conduct for Members of Parliament, which we as the people expect them to do with honour and integrity.

When you voted for your MP, you had a full expectation that your MP would act with integrity and honour, but THEY DID NOT, instead they want to call another Referendum, just like Turkey is doing now with their elections.

See the full list of "Rules of Conduct" HERE

Especially, points;

9.  Members are expected to observe the following rules and associated Resolutions of the House.
10.  Members shall base their conduct on a consideration of the public interest, avoid conflict between personal interest and the public interest and resolve any conflict between the two, at once, and in favour of the public interest.
.....
16.  Members shall never undertake any action which would cause significant damage to the reputation and integrity of the House of Commons as a whole, or of its Members generally. 

Why is this worrying?

This raises another question, of who oversees the code of conduct of those in public office?  What exactly have they been doing and why have they NOT taken steps against these errant MPs and the Speaker of the House.  There is enough TV footage on BBC to show they have been acting in a malfeasant way against the public's interest.

In brief it has been Claimed, that 70% of Conservative constituencies and 60% of Labour constituencies voted to Leave in the EU referendum.

"That means 7 out of 10 Conservative MPs... represent constituencies that voted to leave, as did mine. 6 out of 10 Labour party represent Leave constituencies." Claire Perry MP, 12 July 2018.

Politicians were given clear instructions by the people and they should be carrying out those instructions to the letter.

There is a legal question that has to be addressed by the BODY that monitors the probity and Code of Conduct of the House of Commons and the Parliamentarians that have been voted into office.

The QUESTION to be considered by the National Crime Agency and the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards BODY:

  

Have MPs committed any crimes if Remain MPs who represent constituencies that voted to LEAVE the EU, chose to ignore the "will of the people" by voting to obstruct Brexit and force the UK to remain in the EU? 

Further to the above question;

1. When a constituent places their votes into the polling box, they are   also giving instructions to MPs as they vote them into office based on their MP's respective Party manifestos, which were used in he 2017 General Election?
2. If the politician makes promises in their manifesto and solicit votes from the populace with no intention of honouring the promises made in their manifesto, they must be committing a number of different crimes, not to mention one being fraud.
3. Then once in office, when voting on issues relating to both promises made in the manifesto and in the process undermine a LAW that was put in place to ensure the UK left the EU by 29th March 2019, surely this is malfeasance in office.

Now I hear you asking what is the definition of malfeasance?

Dictionary Definition of "malfeasance".....
The performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust).

Now if Politicians go about lying to the public by fraudulently seeking office knowing that the promises in the manifesto will never be honoured and then taking up office and knowingly set about undermining the key promise to honour the decision of Brexit to leave the EU, something that was actually put into Law..... are NOT serious enough crimes for the NCA or this OBVIOUSLY useless ineffectual BODY that is supposed to oversee the Code of Conduct of Members of Parliament withing the House of Commons TO INVESTIGATE.

CONTACT & RAISE A COMPLAINT TO:

Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards

The Commissioner oversees the maintenance and monitors the operation of the Register of Members' Interests. The Commissioner receives and investigates complaints about Members who are allegedly in breach of the Code of Conduct and Guide to the Rules and reports the findings to the Committee.

Contact details for the Commissioner's office

Address: Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards
House of Commons
London SW1A 0AA
General Enquiries: 020 7219 3738
Email: standardscommissioner@parliament.uk
Website: www.parliament.uk/pcs

For the record, Brexiteers desired one thing and one thing only. Sovereignty. Complete sovereignty.

This means removing Brussels current legislative power over the UK. The European Parliament, headquartered in Brussels, implements laws and regulations that all nations of the European Union must follow. The fact that foreign politicians have a say on British law is what makes Brexiteers so passionate. 

When Brexiteers voted, they desired full independence from European laws and regulations, they want wanted to protect the UK sovereignty that was being signed away by traitors of this country.

Remember the primary reasons for leaving the EU were as follows;

"Leave MEANS Leave"  Defined as; leaving both the customs union and the single market, taking back control of our Laws, Borders, Money and Trade. 

This is what being a SOVEREIGN country is all about, having control of our destiny.

The Brexit referendum of 2016, promised the British people just that.

Now certain politicians feel that they can override the WILL of the people and obstruct BREXIT.

Here is a complete list of which politicians have behaved poorly, by obstructing BREXIT acting against the people and voting in ways to prevent BREXIT from happening, all of which smells of malfeasance.

 PATRIOTIC vs NON-PATRIOTIC MPs

DETAILED HEAT MAP DOWNLOADS OF ALL MPs

(Easter Holidays UPDATE)

PATRIOT_vs_NON-PATRIOT_MPs	https://bit.ly/2DcYpBx
CONSERVATIVE_Voting_MPs	https://bit.ly/2Zdjchp
DEM_IND_GRN_Voting_MPs	https://bit.ly/2ItOmv4
DUP_Scotland_Wales_Voting_MPs	https://bit.ly/2KCaZQT
LABOUR_Voting_MPs	https://kvisit.com/QA/k64B

Download these PDF files, search the tables for your MPs name and take a look at their voting record and see whether they have been undermining your instructions mandated to them via your vote at the 2017 election.

IF THESE TWO BODIES FAIL TO UPHOLD THE LAW, WE WILL HAVE OUR DAY AT THE NEXT ELECTION, AFTER WHICH A NEW POLITICAL PARTY WILL MAKE LAWS THAT WILL OVERHAUL EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THESE ORGANISATIONS WHO PROTECT POLITICIANS WHO BEHAVE BADLY IN HIGH OFFICE.

 

LOVE YOUR COUNTRY
LOVE BEING A SOVEREIGN COUNTRY
LOVE INTEGRITY IN POLITICS
LOVE DEMOCRACY

    

Featured Posts

 THE UK's CORRUPTED DEMOCRACY & POLITICAL SYSTEM
 

HOW DID THE UK COME TO HAVE A REFERENDUM FOR BREXIT ?
 

 DEMOCRACY IS UNDER ATTACK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
 

OPEN LETTER TO - PRIME MINISTER AND MPS THAT SCREWED WITH OUR DEMOCRACY TO UNDERMINE BREXIT
 

BRITAIN'S DEMOCRACY IS AS BAD AS ZIMBABWE'S DEMOCRACY!