Re: Can Trump Really Win the Presidency?
I know that my earlier post ended up being my opinion on the record of the current admin. This was apropos because Clinton is promising to continue those policies, with some posters saying she would make a "fine" president. But some of what he has done is just an an intensified continuation of previous admins. E.g., the bailouts were a continuation of Bush's foolish initiative, the Iraq war, etc. And as I stated before, political leaders have little influence one way or the other on the spiritual condition of individual citizens - the matter of greatest importance. So, I'm not laying the blame for our demise primarily at the feet of Obama, though his policies have certainly helped facilitate many aspects of it.
And no, this is not a "God forsaken hell-hole". But the evidence of an alarming decline is clear, IMO. If someone wants a simple view from an economic standpoint, consider this. The US debt is currently ~ $19 Tril. It's income is ~ $3.2 Tril. It's current expenditures are ~ $3.8 Tril. I.e., we are running a deficit of ~ $.6 Tril annually without the courage and will to address this. In fact, we are are much more likely to increase the deficit, thus debt, than decrease it. Interest alone is ~ $.23 Tril, and increasing each year. (A side note: this is why a normal interest rate would be devastating. We can't afford it.)
Someone can check me on these numbers, but I used an analogy of an individual making $100,000 annually to the Fed gov't making (all gov't revenues) $3.2 Tril, expenditures ~$3.8 Tril.
Debt: $593,000
Income: $100,000
Spending: $118,800
Interest: $7200
Deficit: $18,800
That is a financial condition portending disaster. Especially, since we do not have the moral courage, thus, political will to seriously address the issue. It would be political suicide for anyone to take the steps necessary to do so. Again, this is not an Obama or Dem or Rep issue, it is an American issue. They are putting it off until the end. Whatever that means and whenever it will occur.
I understand that an individual and gov't are not the same. The gov't can print money, but that has its own set of problems. Sure we can borrow but that continues to lay it on our children and it masks the real state of things. When the day of financial reckoning arrives it will not be pretty. For the moment we have willing creditors, but that will not last.
But the more important less quantifiable things are even worse: the brazen disregard for the law by the top LE officials, the deepening divide betwee many groups: black-white, Dem-Rep, LE-blacks, rich-poor, etc., the deceitful agenda-driven media, the selfishness and cowardice that keeps many in the media and gov't from doing right, the laziness and fear that is leading many to be dependent on others, etc. Finally, the moral decline resulting in some of the preposterous public policies is disheartening. But these are symptoms not causes. As I posted earlier, these two candidates are the choices of a people in serious decline.
