"Why Trump Can Succeed as President Where Elites Fail"
http://www.americanlibertyreport.com/articles/why-trump-can-succeed-as-president-where-elites-fail/
"In short, a Trump presidency would mean the end of a gravy train for a lot of establishment families that have been on the take for far too long."
~American Liberty Report
We will see . . .
"America Desperately Needs Donald Trump To Succeed, But Can He Change Enough To Make It Happen?"
Posted at 12:00 pm on November 9, 2016 by streiff
This author [streiff?] is over the top down on where America is today. I think he is wrong. However, here is his sad view of America in 2017.
"We are at a pivotal point in our history.
Unemployment, which if viewed correctly as including people who have essentially checked out of the workforce, is at near depression levels. For the first time in the history of the nation, more people think their children will have a standard of living inferior to that of their parents (I have to admit to belonging to this particular club). Our alliances are in tatters because we have abused and ignored our allies. We have pursued foreign and domestic policies based not on hope and aspirations — which would be noble, if misguided — but on wishcasting and unicorn farts. We, the United States, fomented a civil war that is now destabilizing much of the Middle East and threatens to destabilize much of Europe via a refugee crisis. Inside the United States, Barack Obama has played race against race for cynical and transitory political gain. He has created an environment on college campuses where men, which is basically half the nation, are treated as the enemy and complementarianism, the natural state of relations between the sexes, is ridiculed as misogyny. Our judiciary had become a tyranny that routinely declares “unconstitutional” anything the justices disapprove of. Regulatory agencies have taken on roles previously reserved to the Congress and state legislatures.
We are a nation in decline and we have damned little time to correct our glide path before we reach terminal velocity. And, whether they voted their hopes or their fears — and make no mistake about it, Trump’s victory was due as much to loathing of Hillary Clinton as it was to admiration of Donald Trump — the man that America has chosen to lead it is Donald Trump.
While nothing has happened to make me change my view of Trump’s character and I’m still a strong believer in the admonition of Lynn Martin, Secretary of Labor under George H. W. Bush, regarding Bill Clinton, that “You can’t be one kind of man and another kind of President.” I am willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt."
This author [who is "streiff"] wants to see America as at it's worst in history, but I think this author has his facts wrong or he is misinterpreting what he thinks he knows.
"The real challenge is doing those things that require him to master himself. Can Trump attract the top shelf intellects and managerial talent that is needed to get the apparatus of government and foreign policy back on track? Can he jettison the alt-right trash that has attached itself to his campaign and, too often for comfort, seem to be nurtured by him? Can he actually “Make America Great Again” by reinvigorating a NATO grown weak and disjointed under Obama’s relentless scorn? Can he stem the surge of Islamic extremism or at least pretend he cares about our safety?
Before yesterday, I had an answer to those. Today I don’t."
Success might be a "given," but who will benefit the most with 4, and perhaps 8 years of Tweety Twump? The rich will for sure.
Can Tweety manage all the variables, especially Congress?
Let's discuss.
"Eliminating Two ACA Medicare Taxes Means Very Large Tax Cuts for High Earners and the Wealthy"
UPDATEDJanuary 11, 2017, by Chye-Ching Huang, Chuck Marr, Emily Hort
"ACA Repeal Would Lavish Medicare Tax Cuts on 400 Highest-Income Households"
Each Would Get Average Tax Cut of About $7 Million a Year, January 12, 2017
by Brandon DeBot, Chye-Ching Huang, Chuck Marr
"House GOP “A Better Way” Tax Cuts Would Overwhelmingly Benefit Top 1 Percent While Sharply Expanding Deficits"
September 16, 2016
by Chuck Marr, Chye-Ching Huang
"Fact-checking President-elect Trump’s news conference"
The inside track on Washington politics.
By Glenn KesslerFact Checker
January 11 at 2:53 PM
Just a taste . . . read it yourself.
"President-elect Donald Trump finally held a news conference, but as is typical, he often made claims that have been repeatedly debunked or discredited. Here’s a guide to 14 of his more notable statements, in the order in which he made them.
“It’s very familiar territory, news conferences, because we used to give them on an almost daily basis.”
Trump is exaggerating. During the primaries, he was a near-constant presence on television because he frequently called in to interview shows. But he generally only held news conferences after primary contests. He last held a news conference on July 27.
“You saw yesterday Fiat Chrysler; big, big factory going to be built in this country as opposed to another country. Ford just announced that they stopped plans for a billion-dollar plant in Mexico and they’re going to be moving into Michigan and expanding, very substantially, an existing plant.”
Trump claims credit for these announcements, but that’s wrong.
Sergio Marchionne, the Fiat Chrysler chief executive, said the plan had been in the works for more than a year and had nothing to do with Trump; he credited instead talks with the United Auto Workers.
With regards to Ford, analysts say Ford’s decision to expand in Michigan rather than in Mexico has more to do with the company’s long-term goal — particularly, its plans to invest in electric vehicles — than the Trump administration. It’s easier for companies to find highly skilled workers to build new products, such as electric cars, in the United States than in Mexico.
“When we lost 22 million names and everything else that was hacked recently, they didn’t make a big deal out of that. That was something that was extraordinary. That was probably China.”
Actually, the Chinese hack of 22 million accounts at the Office of Personnel Management was front-page news.
The Russian hacking of the presidential election and the OPM hack are not directly comparable. The Russian campaign, as described by U.S. intelligence, involved more than just hacking, with the aim of disrupting and possibly influencing the political process. The Chinese hack had a more isolated goal — espionage. China appears to have wanted the material to engage in possible blackmail."
Be aware! Beware!
