Disclaimer: The comments in this blog are my personal opinion and may or may not reflect an adopted position of the city of Glendale and its city council.
We knew that Biden would seek to eliminate as much of Trump’s policies as possible and that is exactly what is occurring no matter whom it hurts. The flurry of his Executive Orders (EO) will be felt by all in the coming months and years. I am going to focus on just a few of them. Covering all 30 that have been issued would require a book.
One of his EOs mandates that all educational institutions receiving federal funding permit biological males to join female sports teams and to use ladies’ locker rooms and restrooms. Parents, has it occurred to you that if your school, be it pre-school, elementary, middle-school, high school, etc., has a free breakfast or lunch program it is receiving federal funding? Now biological males, not just transgender, will be using girls’ bathrooms and showers. Are you comfortable with that?
Feminist groups have said, “Allowing men to shower with women is absolutely wrong in schools, workplace, etc. It’s setting things up for an absolute nightmare of rapes and horrific incidents in America.” The incentive to become a female athlete has evaporated. I read in a recent article that 30% of all high school male athletes can beat all premier female athletes’ records in any given sport. All the years of establishing female athletic programs designed to provide a venue for excellence have disappeared with the stroke of a pen.
Another EO Biden issued wipes out Trump mandated lower drug prices for insulin and epinephrine. This hurts seniors and low income people tremendously. Remember the stories of people rationing their prescriptions because they couldn’t afford them? Trump heard that and created a policy to rectify that situation. Now, thanks to yet another Biden EO a segment of our population will once again ration their medicine because of its cost.
Another EO action taken was revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, intended to carry Canadian crude to the U.S., and issuing a 60-day moratorium on the leasing of fossil energy resources and new permits for drilling and mining on public lands.
The Canadians are mad and planning to sue the United States after they invested over one billion dollars in infrastructure.
The Indians are mad as stated in a Ute Indian Tribe letter to Biden, “Your order is a direct attack on our economy, sovereignty, and our right of self-determination.”
The state of New Mexico is mad because “The federal government’s 60-day suspension of new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits on public lands sent shockwaves through the industry in New Mexico…” the Albuquerque Journal reported Friday. The Wall Street Journal reported, “the order interrupts the development of infrastructure that connects new and existing wells to pipelines, forcing operators to flare methane emissions rather than recovering them.”
The Unions are mad, chief among them the Union Pipefitters who stated, “Wall, pipelines, gas, coal, etc., all of these work sites are closing on a daily basis thanks to his EO’s…we are being told to call back in a few weeks, some calls aren’t even answered.” Recent news reports state the loss of over 70,000 jobs and approximately $1.6 billion in lost wages…in just the first week.
Another Biden EO ends the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocol and stops construction of border wall systems. From the peak of the migrant border in May 2019 to February 2020, federal Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) reported a 92 percent reduction in the number of Central American migrant families crossing the border from Mexico.
Last weekend, thousands Honduran migrants forced their way across the Guatemalan border with an intent to make their way to the United States after Biden took office. Listen to just one caravan migrant, “He’s given us 100 days to get to the U.S. and give us ‘legalment (sic)’ paper so we can get a better life for our kids and family.”
In addition, about 70% of those who had been scheduled for immediate deportation have criminal records, many of them for serious offenses. All of them are required to be released immediately…into your community.
More COVID. More serious crime. More human trafficking. More sex trafficking. More drug trafficking. That’s what Joe Biden’s open-borders policies will quickly bring to American communities. The results will be devastating for our future.
There are more Executive Orders that promise to have major impacts upon us such as his EO on abortion but I will save those for another blog.
There were 75 million Americans that voted for Trump not necessarily because they even liked him but they did like the outcomes achieved by his policies. Biden never told us what his policies would be other than he would be a National Education Association (NEA) advocate in the White House. The NEA publicly admitted that its prime directive is to protect teachers…not your children. Are your children back in school? Have you noted the increase in child suicides? Have you noted that children are failing in the basics of reading and math? He said he would not ban fracking and he lied.
So, for all of you who voted for Biden because you hated Trump (“Orange man bad”) I will not be surprised when you finally realize the extent to which his policies will upend your lives. Have you noticed that gasoline prices are already going up? You can expect your electricity prices to rise as well as the industry still uses a majority of fossil fuels to generate electricity. Don’t be surprised when the 10 million Americans out of work suddenly find it even harder to get a job as they are forced to compete with an influx of migrants competing for those very same jobs.
Biden is a figurehead, a shell of a man. He is being directed by the most radical elements of the Democrat party, not the moderates. All of his talk of unifying the country sounds good but in reality 75 million of us are being targeted and there is open discussion of “deprograming” us. I am not a conspiracy nut or a Nazi or a racist. Yet that is what we are called continually. The hatred for us has not diminished with this election and if anything, it has intensified with Democrat control of the Presidency, the Senate and the House. There will come a breaking point for some and I fear the outcome and what it portends for our nation.
© Joyce Clark, 2021
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Joyce,
Though I do not agree with you. I defend your right to say it.
Which part do you disagree with? She’s conveying numbers and statistics. No wiggle room in those.
“..We knew that Biden would seek to eliminate as much of Trump’s policies as possible and that is exactly what is occurring no matter whom it hurts. ..”
First thing Trump did was sign a bunch of executive orders to rescind Obama’s orders.
I agree and think that the election became more of a vote for personalities rather than policies that did or would benefit America. Sad!!
Once again… spot on, Joyce. Have you ever considered running for Governor?
David, No! Never!
Thank you Joyce for telling it ike it is. The idiots in Washington are going to bring America down. So glad that most of my grandkids are out of school. We are becoming a sinful immoral nation with politician greed everywhere. Our young people are being brainwashed.
We have to remember God is in Control and we now in the book of Revelation end times. May God help us!
Right on Joyce. Biden is off to a tragic start and, if the current trend continues unchecked, I fear that we are seeing the end of our great nation as we know it. He and his puppet masters are hell-bent on destroying everything America stands for. Makes me glad I was born in the middle of the last century. It’s looking like my grandchildren are going to have a tough time.
Oh Ms. Clark, what has happened to you? This forum did not used to serve as a political soapbox. I used to enjoy reading your blog to get an insider’s look at our city issues. Even though your opinions didn’t match mine often, I knew that the information presented was thoughtful and absent of political garbage and nonsense. I fear that your reputation as a reasonable, practical councilmember will be lost in rants against people with whom you disagree. We are tired of ideology, half truths, quazi-truths, misstated facts and polar opposite reporting. You’re better than that. Please stay that way. And as far as migrants competing for jobs, who does the hiring? Who benefits from low wages and substandard working conditions? Just saying
Victor, right now there are no major city issues. I suspect it’s a combination of COVID and the holidays. As council begins budget workshops there will be more to blog about.
Victor,
Thank you for saying that.
I, also, was surprised at the turn the blog has taken.
Thank you Joyce for expressing your thoughts and concerns. If someone was offended they need to deal with it on their own. The rest of us are fed up with the cancel culture and its political correctness trying to rule our lives. Keep up the good work.