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Let’s Explore Trump’s Collapse, Contradictions By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor
“We will immediately repeal and replace Obamacare —and nobody can do that like me. We will save $’s and have much better healthcare!”
— Donald Trump, Feb 9, 2016
“I’ve never said repeal and replace Obamacare within 64 days. I have a long time.”
— Donald Trump, March 24, 2017
By James Preston Allen, Publisher
[See Contradictions, page7]
L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn joined leaders from across the South Bay at Redondo Beach’s Veterans Park in February to promote homelessnesscombating Measure H. Photo by David Mendez, courtesy of Easy Reader News
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March 30 - April 12, 2017
She was ecstatic about Measure H, the recently passed quarter-cent sales tax. “I am so happy this passed with some 69 percent approval,” she said. “In Inglewood, it was like 84 percent.” Although a sales tax is a regressive form of taxation, it was one of the few options the Los Angeles Supervisors had to address the $350 million cost of providing services for homeless people in the county. In the past, these costs included the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arresting and detaining the homeless. The LASD reported that it was spending $120 million annually on this, which is more than the $80 million that the City of Los Angeles spends. Hahn explained that Measure H is the one campaign that officials didn’t need to “educate the voters on” as every part of the county now has experienced people living on the streets in their neighborhood. Hahn admitted that there were other sources of money which could have been used, like taking the $120 million out of the sheriff’s budget.
President Donald Trump is still trying to notch a clear victory after 10 weeks in office and 13 trips to a golf course. File photo
n a recent Wednesday evening, newly-elected Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn sat looking out over the main channel of the Los Angeles Harbor. She was relieved she won’t have to commute to and from Washington, D.C. anymore. She was relieved she isn’t in Congress anymore, fighting hundreds of other representatives for every item for her district; now, she has to convince only two other people on the five-member Board of Supervisors to get something passed. Hahn does have doubts about the size of the supervisors’ districts and how representing 2.5 million constituents probably should be changed to either 9 or 11 supervisors, representing about one million. Yet, she admitted that passing that change would be a challenge. “If you ask people if they want more representation, they’ll say, ‘Yes,’” she pondered. “If you ask them if they want smaller districts, they’ll say, ‘Sure.’ But ask them if they want more politicians, they say ‘No’.”
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In September 2015, Donald Trump said, “We will have so much winning if I get elected that you may get bored with the winning.” It’s a mantra he would countlessly repeat throughout the campaign. He’s now president, but he’s yet to win anything on a single front so far. So, the question is starting to grow: what does so much losing mean? The collapse of GOP efforts to repeal Obamacare represent a colossal failure, capping off a long string of Trump administration failures, as noted in a flood of commentary. But the full depth and reason for that failure — and how it reflects on a broader failure of Western liberal democracy — was far more difficult to discern. The same week, in a House Intelligence Committee hearing, FBI Director James Comey confirmed that the FBI is investigating possible coordination between the Trump
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