Originally Posted By: tut


PS. What many folks don't know is the US military has a housing allowance that pays the rent. No pay, no housing allowance. No housing allowance and you can't pay the rent nor the utilities etc. etc. Damn thing sucks.


Very good points, Tut.

No question the president got elected at least in part because he promised to build the wall. But he also told us what a great deal maker he is. So after 2 years with his own party in control of Congress and no wall, he's now expecting to cut a deal with the Dems in control of the House? Seems strange to me.

And before anyone engages in guessing how I voted, I went with neither of the Big Two. And as it turned out in my state (living in Iowa at the time), Trump didn't need my vote (nor, for that matter, the votes of any of us who went 3rd party)--nor would they have helped Hillary if she'd received all of them.