Saturday, June 15, 2019
When you serve.....
Watching one of AMLO's events where he introduces his pension system to a town or county. Thinking as usual about Mexico's strong culture, and AMLO's well-earned confidence. When you serve the people, the people support you.
A nice little symbol of a secure culture and a secure leader:
Can you imagine the Secret Service allowing that belt buckle anywhere on the planet, let alone next to the president????
I looked at the transcript to see if this fellow was identified, but I couldn't really tell which of the names was his. As it happens, AMLO's speech was making the same point.
Can you imagine the Secret Service allowing that belt buckle anywhere on the planet, let alone next to the president????
I looked at the transcript to see if this fellow was identified, but I couldn't really tell which of the names was his. As it happens, AMLO's speech was making the same point.
There is no longer a Presidential Security Staff. Do you know how many security guards cared for the president of Mexico? Eight thousand soldiers. Not even Trump is cared for by eight thousand soldiers. That elite body has disappeared and now these soldiers have become part of the Secretariat of Defense to take care of the people. The president is taken care of by the people. He who fights for justice has nothing to fear.I hope and pray that he's right. As for "not even Trump", he's just barely correct on that number, but Trump is getting ready to blow through it:
President Donald Trump's fiscal 2020 budget proposal seeks $2.3 billion to fund the U.S. Secret Service, an increase of 7 percent over the estimated spending for 2019 and some 15 percent above actual spending for 2018. The budget summary issued by the White House last week says it seeks to hire 177 additional special agents, officers, and professional staff for the agency. But the budget detail released this week says that overall Secret Service full-time equivalent employees will rise by 313 employees, jumping from 7,334 in the 2019 budget to 7,647 in the 2020 budget.The vector comparison is sharp. AMLO eliminates Secret Service, Trump expands it.
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