Trump's Policies Part 4
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Yeah, I'm well over it, too. Grandkids love it, though!
As usual, Victor Davis Hanson puts in an easily understood perspective on where we are at with Trump's second term.......
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Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson is a very smart man.
His take on the Trump presidency is must listen.
Accomplishments and obstruction.
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Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson is a very smart man.
His take on the Trump presidency is must listen.
Accomplishments and obstruction.
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I'm sorry, but Donald Trump is 78 years old and never once showed an ounce of self-awareness or personal discipline about ANYTHING, from his dating life to his personal life (he's morbidly obese) to his finances. He did not take a magical pill and suddenly develop the ability to care about the USA or anyone else in the abstract.
I'll defend Trump on one thing and ONE THING ONLY: since he DID say before the election he was going to be a Tariff guy, I'll tweak Democrats who are going full "well, he said he was gonna do it." Yeah, I know it's a strange thing to a Democrat to do AFTER the election what you say BEFORE the election you're going to do - from Bill Clinton's phony middle class tax cut to Barack Obama's promise I can keep my own doctor - so, I'll give Trump that much.
Then again, the only thing dumber than breaking a promise is keeping a dumb one, and he's done that.
And please, can we stop with this "well, they put tariffs on us" argument that is incredibly stupid at every level? That's how a bunch of those places NOT as well off as the US and with fewer rich people to shoulder the burden on taxation raise money to run their governments.
No, Nike is not going to build a factory in the US and hire a bunch of $20/hour workers. How long does it take to build a Nike factory and then throw in all the US environmental regs. How long?
All they have to do is what Russia did with Reagan, which is why Reagan had to come up with some sort of deal with Gorbachev - "meh, all we have to do is wait him out, the next person isn't going to be so keen on Trump's stupid policies."
Nobody is wiping out the deficit.
Nobody is even making a decent cut into the deficit.
We are not beginning payments on a $36T national debt, no matter who tells you we are.
And we aren't going to save a dime when Trump spends the so-called "savings" identified by firing a bunch of workers, either.
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Worries grow over risks to Americans as Trump cuts health, safety agencies
The chorus of experts issuing warnings include Republican lawmakers, former Trump officials and civil servants who worked under GOP and Democratic presidents.
Somewhere on a grocery shelf, or in a restaurant, or on a food-factory floor in America, lurk bacteria that haven’t been detected yet. Perhaps E. coli, which is linked with food poisoning, or more of the cronobacter that led to infant illnesses, sparked a nationwide shortage of infant formula in 2022 and led to major reforms at the Food and Drug Administration.
The task of finding those bacteria rests on FDA inspectors, whose jobs have been mostly preserved amid the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the federal government. But the people who help support those inspections haven’t fared so well. More than 150 people in the FDA’s Office of Inspections and Investigations — the staff responsible for purchasing supplies, managing trips and coordinating other administrative functions — were laid off last week, according to multiple federal officials. So were staff dedicated to food-safety policies and regulations, including an entire office that partnered with foreign countries to handle food-related disease outbreaks. Meanwhile, the FDA’s top food safety official — a position created after the infant formula crisis — resigned in February, citing “indiscriminate” staffing cuts to his office.
The cuts tee up “the next infant formula crisis waiting to happen,” said one current FDA official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of fear of reprisal.
Americans will die, but we're cutting spending, so the consequences are worth it. "Short-term" pain and all that.
Worries grow over risks to Americans as Trump cuts health, safety agencies
The chorus of experts issuing warnings include Republican lawmakers, former Trump officials and civil servants who worked under GOP and Democratic presidents.
Somewhere on a grocery shelf, or in a restaurant, or on a food-factory floor in America, lurk bacteria that haven’t been detected yet. Perhaps E. coli, which is linked with food poisoning, or more of the cronobacter that led to infant illnesses, sparked a nationwide shortage of infant formula in 2022 and led to major reforms at the Food and Drug Administration.
The task of finding those bacteria rests on FDA inspectors, whose jobs have been mostly preserved amid the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the federal government. But the people who help support those inspections haven’t fared so well. More than 150 people in the FDA’s Office of Inspections and Investigations — the staff responsible for purchasing supplies, managing trips and coordinating other administrative functions — were laid off last week, according to multiple federal officials. So were staff dedicated to food-safety policies and regulations, including an entire office that partnered with foreign countries to handle food-related disease outbreaks. Meanwhile, the FDA’s top food safety official — a position created after the infant formula crisis — resigned in February, citing “indiscriminate” staffing cuts to his office.
The cuts tee up “the next infant formula crisis waiting to happen,” said one current FDA official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of fear of reprisal.
Americans will die, but we're cutting spending, so the consequences are worth it. "Short-term" pain and all that.
The Trump and his sycophants think is you don't actually have to pass legislation to dismantle the postal service, social security, Medicare, etc. You just fire or muck up the apparatus that administers these programs. Make government as ineffective and useless as possible without really the need to change any laws.
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
Sounds like a great job! I'm sure millions of Americans will want to work there.
If it's such a good job, why doesn't he just give me his cush office job and he can go "screw" himself?
Pretty sure we have child labor laws that the countries currently building them don't have.
The GOP is working on that...
All the garbage going on and out of curiosity I googled "can my 401k hit 0?
FYI, while not likely, it is possible.
FYI, while not likely, it is possible.
I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.
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David Brooks:
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.
So let me get this straight...We already send trillions of dollars to other countries because they aren't "as well off" but now we should also be ok with them disproportionately levying tariffs on our goods?
Trump has been in office for 1/24th or approximately 4% of his term. Maybe just maybe he has started this process literally from almost day 1 of his term so that the "we will just wait it out" approach isn't so easily done. Sitting on a can of sardines for almost four years in hopes that the next guy will not do the same thing isn't exactly what I would call A+ strategy...
This has bothered me for decades now, but I'm starting to understand why no one wanted to do anything about it. There seem to be some slightly upset people talking about this. I admit that I'm out of my element with the tariff discussion, but as a non-professional, our trade agreements sure didn't sound like good ideas to me.
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