Trump's Policies Part 4

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Maudiemae

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and then the businesses you want to go to in those towns close down

I've read 140 Billion dollar impact from Canadians not traveling to FL and the Alabama coast

and this doesn't factor in the Blue State Yankee snowbirds that are deciding if they want to come. I was at a wedding with a bunch of people from Wisconsin and Michigan recently, all regular FL visitors and all were talking about skipping their annual FL trip and going to Canada for a long trip over the summer to "support our northern neighbors who are getting dumped* on"

*I cleaned up the actual word
For some reason, people don't get that. This will hit the state's economy hard if they stop visiting.
 
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Only Walt Disney could convince the world to obsess and clamor over a place that was nothing more than a huge mosquito swamp. There is nothing attractive about the area. Too far from the beaches, and it rains nealy every time I'm there. (Used to work for Fiserv and they have a huge footprint in the area).
Yeah, I'm well over it, too. Grandkids love it, though!
 
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As usual, Victor Davis Hanson puts in an easily understood perspective on where we are at with Trump's second term.......
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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Maya Angelou’s seminal autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” and books on the Holocaust were included on the Navy’s list of 381 books that were removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library on the Annapolis, Md., campus this week because their subject matter was seen as being related to so-called diversity, equity and inclusion topics.
WOKE BOOKS!!
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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
How is this different from the last several decades?
 

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Well, pre-Trump I could reliably receive first class mail within 1-5 days depending on where it was coming from. For the last few years, since DeJoy, it's 2-3 weeks or never...
 

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Last month a federal court of appeals judge made a startling assertion. “Nazis,” she said, “got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act” than people suspected of being members of a Venezuelan gang.

You might think those words, spoken by Judge Patricia Millett, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, are hyperbolic, an example of shamefully politicized language coming from a partisan judge. But they are not.
 

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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.
 
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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.
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?

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."
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...
 
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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?
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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