JimofPennsylvan
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If the country called me in to lead America's response to the Iran War I would sit President Trump down and ask him the following question: Is it true that the you think the Federal Government's healthcare policy should be to take the money that it is giving American families vis-a-vis the Affordable Care Act and give it directly to American families and advise them not to buy health insurance but just keep it in a health savings account and just pay their health care bills as they arise from health care services they need and acquire? And the President would not be able to ask staff for help on that question he is a two-term President and this issue has been a major political issue for fifteen plus years; right-wing Republicans are advocating this policy so the issue is important, at the end of this posting I will explain why the President's response is relevant!
President Trump is acting like he doesn't even have the skill set of "Negotiating 101". The Iran regime has been making extraordinary efforts to send the Trump administration the message that it is willing to make a simple deal, that is they are willing to address the fighting and the Strait of Hormuz issues but no more; no nuclear enrichment issue, no ballistic missile and no supporting Iran's Islamic allies issues is permitted to be included in the talks! The Iran's regime's reversal on opening the Strait after the announcement of the Lebanon cease fire was not some big divide between the Iran regime's leaders they were assuming the Trump Administration would lift the blockade on Iranian ship traffic through the Strait but when Trump made his tweet indicating it wouldn't be the case they closed the Strait; one problem here is that President Trump acts with no honor no integrity when negotiating and that needs to change it is insane to think that the Iran regime agreed to a two week cease deal where the Strait would only be opened for non-Iranian ship traffic. Further, the Iran regime has been emphatic in its public messaging that the Trump Administrations terms are too expansive and unreasonable it couldn't be clearer that there is only this simple deal available to roll back the clock to February 27th and the Trump administration should take it! President Trump keeps acting like he has an escalatory military option here, he doesn't this threat of Trump's to bomb Iran's bridges and power plants are not options they are war crimes the American people are not going to tolerate this President's culpability in the killing of massive number of Iranian civilians he may completely control the Department of Justice but he will only be President for less than three more years and future Attorney Generals will aggressively prosecute those culpable they will recognize that a strong deterrent needs to be established here!
President Trump's allies get in front of the camera's here and say there is dual use power plants and dual use bridges, this is largely complete baloney what the Trump administration will be doing here is putting pain on the Iranian civilian population to cause pressure on the Iranian government to agree to America's terms for a peace deal that is exactly the extreme bad policy that war crime's statutes are created to stop! High level members of the military who will be making, formulating and ordering these plans should talk to outside criminal lawyers because I would suspect that the legal advice they would be provided would be to get the orders that require the bombing of power plants and bridges in writing and signed by the commander making that order to mitigate your legal liability because in particular the bombing of power plants will cause the death of Iranian civilians from heat and/or cold exposure such people found guilty of such war crimes could be readily looking at sentences of ten plus years in a Federal prison!
President Trump should forego his pursuit of a big win in the Iran war, it ain't going to happen and he is risking absolute economic catastrophe for the world in starting up the bombing; also, the financial markets are offering President Trump political survival if he takes the off-ramp that he can get from the Iranian regime in reopening the Strait. President Trump has a long history of displaying the character trait of being very pragmatic and taking this exit would be the utilization of this good quality. To further develop this pragmatic thinking polls and experts are predicting the Republicans are going to lose big-time in the mid-terms in essence because the majority of voters think the Trump administration and the Republicans are not addressing their concerns that is the affordability issue and they don't like the abuses going on in immigration law enforcement! The bottom line here is that President Trump could improve his party's situation here by moving the Iran issue off the table by negotiation a simple deal with the Iran regime that ends the war and reopens the Strait with no tolls! So now to address the first question I would have asked President Trump a President that would answer yes to that question Is a God Damn Incompetent on healthcare public policy! For the vast vast majority of people across the country when they go to a Doctor, hospital and healthcare provider the medical bill they send patients is at least twenty-five percent higher than what health insurance providers pay because health insurance companies have contractual agreements with health care providers for fees which are significantly lower than what these providers normally charge to be actually candid the savings is probably closer to thirty-five percent on average. Why would a President want to harm Americans interest like this telling them to not utilize health insurance companies?
A politically smart President Trump would pivot from Iran and sign on to the bi-partisan agreement to extend the ACA enhanced tax credit for Americans the bipartisan deal cuts off the real wealthy from subsidies and makes everyone pay at least a few dollars to stop health insurance companies gaming the system by enrolling people that haven't agree or are not eligible for ACA health insurance. Republicans this is a really important issue one million Americans this year decided to forego health insurance on the Exchanges because without the enhanced tax credit they couldn't afford it and for those that did sign-up default on the monthly payments has sky rocketed meaning these defaulters won't have health insurance does the concept of angry voters worry any Republicans. On the immigration issue almost every week you hear or read horror stories in the media like people married to U.S. citizens that have open immigration cases arrested by ICE and ICE tries to deport them. There is a deal to be made with the Democrats to fund ICE and the Border Patrol and stop the abuses of immigration law enforcement President Trump you have six months to turn around the Republican Party's situation with the mid-terms that is a lot of time it is time to work on issues voters care about and here is a news flash for you they don't care about Iran if they never heard the word Iran again that would be fine with them!
President Trump is acting like he doesn't even have the skill set of "Negotiating 101". The Iran regime has been making extraordinary efforts to send the Trump administration the message that it is willing to make a simple deal, that is they are willing to address the fighting and the Strait of Hormuz issues but no more; no nuclear enrichment issue, no ballistic missile and no supporting Iran's Islamic allies issues is permitted to be included in the talks! The Iran's regime's reversal on opening the Strait after the announcement of the Lebanon cease fire was not some big divide between the Iran regime's leaders they were assuming the Trump Administration would lift the blockade on Iranian ship traffic through the Strait but when Trump made his tweet indicating it wouldn't be the case they closed the Strait; one problem here is that President Trump acts with no honor no integrity when negotiating and that needs to change it is insane to think that the Iran regime agreed to a two week cease deal where the Strait would only be opened for non-Iranian ship traffic. Further, the Iran regime has been emphatic in its public messaging that the Trump Administrations terms are too expansive and unreasonable it couldn't be clearer that there is only this simple deal available to roll back the clock to February 27th and the Trump administration should take it! President Trump keeps acting like he has an escalatory military option here, he doesn't this threat of Trump's to bomb Iran's bridges and power plants are not options they are war crimes the American people are not going to tolerate this President's culpability in the killing of massive number of Iranian civilians he may completely control the Department of Justice but he will only be President for less than three more years and future Attorney Generals will aggressively prosecute those culpable they will recognize that a strong deterrent needs to be established here!
President Trump's allies get in front of the camera's here and say there is dual use power plants and dual use bridges, this is largely complete baloney what the Trump administration will be doing here is putting pain on the Iranian civilian population to cause pressure on the Iranian government to agree to America's terms for a peace deal that is exactly the extreme bad policy that war crime's statutes are created to stop! High level members of the military who will be making, formulating and ordering these plans should talk to outside criminal lawyers because I would suspect that the legal advice they would be provided would be to get the orders that require the bombing of power plants and bridges in writing and signed by the commander making that order to mitigate your legal liability because in particular the bombing of power plants will cause the death of Iranian civilians from heat and/or cold exposure such people found guilty of such war crimes could be readily looking at sentences of ten plus years in a Federal prison!
President Trump should forego his pursuit of a big win in the Iran war, it ain't going to happen and he is risking absolute economic catastrophe for the world in starting up the bombing; also, the financial markets are offering President Trump political survival if he takes the off-ramp that he can get from the Iranian regime in reopening the Strait. President Trump has a long history of displaying the character trait of being very pragmatic and taking this exit would be the utilization of this good quality. To further develop this pragmatic thinking polls and experts are predicting the Republicans are going to lose big-time in the mid-terms in essence because the majority of voters think the Trump administration and the Republicans are not addressing their concerns that is the affordability issue and they don't like the abuses going on in immigration law enforcement! The bottom line here is that President Trump could improve his party's situation here by moving the Iran issue off the table by negotiation a simple deal with the Iran regime that ends the war and reopens the Strait with no tolls! So now to address the first question I would have asked President Trump a President that would answer yes to that question Is a God Damn Incompetent on healthcare public policy! For the vast vast majority of people across the country when they go to a Doctor, hospital and healthcare provider the medical bill they send patients is at least twenty-five percent higher than what health insurance providers pay because health insurance companies have contractual agreements with health care providers for fees which are significantly lower than what these providers normally charge to be actually candid the savings is probably closer to thirty-five percent on average. Why would a President want to harm Americans interest like this telling them to not utilize health insurance companies?
A politically smart President Trump would pivot from Iran and sign on to the bi-partisan agreement to extend the ACA enhanced tax credit for Americans the bipartisan deal cuts off the real wealthy from subsidies and makes everyone pay at least a few dollars to stop health insurance companies gaming the system by enrolling people that haven't agree or are not eligible for ACA health insurance. Republicans this is a really important issue one million Americans this year decided to forego health insurance on the Exchanges because without the enhanced tax credit they couldn't afford it and for those that did sign-up default on the monthly payments has sky rocketed meaning these defaulters won't have health insurance does the concept of angry voters worry any Republicans. On the immigration issue almost every week you hear or read horror stories in the media like people married to U.S. citizens that have open immigration cases arrested by ICE and ICE tries to deport them. There is a deal to be made with the Democrats to fund ICE and the Border Patrol and stop the abuses of immigration law enforcement President Trump you have six months to turn around the Republican Party's situation with the mid-terms that is a lot of time it is time to work on issues voters care about and here is a news flash for you they don't care about Iran if they never heard the word Iran again that would be fine with them!
