Read the Entire Text of President Donald Trump's Speech to Congress

[pnwmom]

Source: Raw Story

President Donald Trump addressed both houses of Congress Tuesday night.

You can read his speech as provided by the White House below:


Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/read-the-entire-text-of-president-donald-trumps-speech-to-congress/

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[DRoseDARs]

1. Written in crayon and the pages mostly filled with pictures, I presume?

eom

[mdbl]

15. If it was provided by the White House, it must be full of lies.

[TranssexualKaren]

2. Sounds good but...

His means of achieving these things are fascist!!!!

[pnwmom]

3. You didn't read far enough, probably. He's still talking about his great wall,

fighting radical Islamic terrorism, etc.

He spouts off a bunch of platitudes but the gory details are still the same.

[TomCADem]

4. On Healthcare, No More Promises of Coverage. He Just Promises "Access"

Which does not mean squat. Indeed, before the ACA, even people with pre-existing conditions had access to health care...if they paid through the nose. Also, Trump has incorporated Ryan's block grant proposal re Medicaid. Finally, it is also clear that they are going to water down what coverage is required so that they can point to catastrophic plans as "coverage."

Tonight, I am also calling on this Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare with reforms that expand choice, increase access, lower costs, and at the same time, provide better Healthcare.
Mandating every American to buy government-approved health insurance was never the right solution for America. The way to make health insurance available to everyone is to lower the cost of health insurance, and that is what we will do.
Obamacare premiums nationwide have increased by double and triple digits. As an example, Arizona went up 116 percent last year alone. Governor Matt Bevin of Kentucky just said Obamacare is failing in his State — it is unsustainable and collapsing.
One third of counties have only one insurer on the exchanges –- leaving many Americans with no choice at all.
Remember when you were told that you could keep your doctor, and keep your plan?
We now know that all of those promises have been broken.
Obamacare is collapsing –- and we must act decisively to protect all Americans. Action is not a choice –- it is a necessity.
So I am calling on all Democrats and Republicans in the Congress to work with us to save Americans from this imploding Obamacare disaster.
Here are the principles that should guide the Congress as we move to create a better healthcare system for all Americans:
First, we should ensure that Americans with pre-existing conditions have access to coverage, and that we have a stable transition for Americans currently enrolled in the healthcare exchanges.
Secondly, we should help Americans purchase their own coverage, through the use of tax credits and expanded Health Savings Accounts –- but it must be the plan they want, not the plan forced on them by the Government.
Thirdly, we should give our great State Governors the resources and flexibility they need with Medicaid to make sure no one is left out.
Fourthly, we should implement legal reforms that protect patients and doctors from unnecessary costs that drive up the price of insurance – and work to bring down the artificially high price of drugs and bring them down immediately.

[mr_lebowski]

12. Such a fcking joke ...

'Plan forced on them by the government' = 'Not a total bullshit scam so-called plan that does jack-all'.

The proper 'fixes' are:
1) Proper price controls on the ins companies, and
2) Mandating that EVERY company offers 'plans' statewide, if they do business in the state, period.

'Bronze' plans are basically garbage and plenty well meet the needs of people who need/want minimal coverage.

Just a bunch of the old bullshit GOP talking points ..

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. The speech is so poorly written, that even Trump reading the teleprompter still

sounds his usual looney self. Just slightly less word salad-ly.

[Chicago1980]

6. That...

And dude lacks reading comprehension skills.

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. And I can't remember a past President pointing a finger and chiding the other party

when asking for congressional support for policies.

[elmac]

8. Can I get that printed on toilet paper? nt

[turbinetree]

9. I am so glad I watched my wife's hockey team tonight

it was more enjoyable.

I can just imagine that the right wing sh*t was just oozing out of his mouth while his Bank of Cyprus now Sec. Of Commerce was just a clapping with his ties to the Russian's laundering money through that island.

At least it wasn't like hearing a sexual serial predator telling everyone how he is going to "screw" everyone and tell them it will be alright with Ace Bannon sitting behind him along with Eddie Munster, both nodding in fascists agreement and clapping and standing up.

I just wish there was an emoji with a FU and the horse you road in symbol

[OldRedneck]

10. Read the entire text of Trump's speech to Congress?

Why?

[defacto7]

11. why?

[joshcryer]

13. "Ninety-four million Americans are out of the labor force"

THAT NUMBER INCLUDES CHILDREN, DISABLED PEOPLE, RETIRED PEOPLE, STAY AT HOME PARENTS, ETC. IT IS A BULLSHIT NUMBER AND WILL ALWAYS BE A BULLSHIT NUMBER.

[pnwmom]

14. Exactly! Would they be celebrating if no families could afford a stay-at-home parent?

And no people were able to take early retirement, or stay home to help elderly parents?

No -- no one would be.

[joshcryer]

16. These are the types who think everyone should work until they die.

There's a streamer on Twitch who "works" getting his government worker pension (baby boomer, who was military, then worked for, likely, the police force; getting a very nice pension paid for by the tax payers).

What his job is?

He's a fucking landlord and he owns 10 properties. 10. Properties. And he bitches about having to you know, change a light fixture here or there, or a doorbell or some shit. That's his "job" that he "works so hard for." Yet he has the time to stream 3-4 hours every night and chill. He's oh so tired from "working all day" that he can stream.

His streams consist entirely of him doing HOBBIES and he calls it work. Being a landlord and fucking changing out a pilot light on a stove is not a JOB it's a HOBBY at most. Doing such tasks once a fucking month is not a JOB it's freeloading as a landlord off of the ACTUAL work of the people who pay him rent. Who ACTUALLY spend 8 hours a day on their feet.

No. It's not work, they're self-deluded assholes. It's like politicians who are lifers who literally sit around all day doing squat shit while their SECRETARIES and lawyers (more likely paralegals) data people, and whoever, do the REAL work. We know this is true because they don't even READ the legislation they vote upon. They don't read it!

These people have a completely convoluted idea of what work "is" because they are from the baby boomer generation (I'm sorry, these are the people who voted OVERWHELMINGLY for Trump) who were able to buy houses for 5x less than it costs to buy a house now, who don't have to rely on a very expensive degree because MODERN jobs are fucking hard as fuck. The actual workers of the future? They're going to be fucking programmers and IT people, the people running the robots. These are extremely demanding jobs from a purely intellectual perspective, and they are going to run our civilization.

But these idiots will be long dead and gone and will never have to see the repercussions of their sick and twisted ideology of "working until you die." The next lost generation are the millenials, and they don't realize it themselves, because they live in a society that has solved a lot of their issues, and it's oh so easy. They're more caught up in extraordinarily trivial identity politics (or the disdane of it, which is the same thing) and outrage culture, click bait journalism, social media culture.

[smirkymonkey]

17. Kicking for later reading!