TRUMP AND THE BORDER:  THE TROOPS AND TEAR GAS SHOW GETS UPSTAGED BY GENERAL MOTORS

Its easy to feel good about security enhancement at the southern border to keep people from Mexico and points south from getting into the country, people who may be criminals, people who may take jobs from Americans.

But then along comes General Motors announcing a "restructuring" which will close down four plants in the US and affect more than 10,000 jobs in America.

They plan to move those jobs to Mexico and even China.

So the jobs are being lost to Americans anyway because of the machinations of a multi-national corporation.

President Trump is not happy and is talking about cutting subsidies to GM.

But we are faced again with the stark reality of big business being more powerful than sovereign governments and of the superpower status of big business and big banks.

President Trump is upset, but he could have sent a stronger message earlier by backing conservative outsider candidates for public office instead of US Chamber of Commerce-Cheap Labor Express ones ranging from Never Trumper Mitt Romney in Utah to the appointed US Senator in Mississippi, Cindy Hyde-Smith.

Hyde-Smith won last night but only 54-46 percent running five points below incumbent GOP Senator Roger Wicker's 59 percent total in the general election three weeks ago.