01-26-2021, 12:07 AM
Too much emphasis on making the "big fat ugly bubble" in Trump's very words in 2016 when campaigning to become even bigger, fatter, and uglier. This works against the people in general and largely against his voting base. Widening the wealth divide hurts both society and the economy. With 30 million less employed as a percentage of the population in 2019 versus 2000, the economy was not booming. So much for the misleading 'more employed than ever before' which would invariably happen as the population increases (add 50 million more people to get about same number employed as 20 years prior is nothing to brag about). Had the economy been booming we'd be seeing 6% CD rates.
The constant stock market bubble promoting worked so much against this country it makes any argument of Trump wanting to help this country moot, though at least doing something about the immigration problem was going in the right direction. I wish there would have been far more aggressive policies to push out illegals to get housing costs down, burden on health care down, less traffic congestion and housing costs down as this would lead to more vacancies, but you know the wealthy wouldn't like this and that includes Trump himself who'd be adversely affected, being into making money off of others via real estate.
Why couldn't Trump greatly help this country in getting housing costs down so we could enjoy greater prosperity in making an executive order forbidding foreign nationals from owning real property in the United States? Well, see above for why he wouldn't, and he in particular would be even more adversely affected from reports pointing to lots of Russian nationals buy his properties.
And then we had to have the big tax cuts for the wealthy?
I would have loved to see our overpaid government employee compensation get taken down to help this country, not to be into giving raises and overlooking how these overpaid goons are hurting this country and this includes police and teachers, contrary to all the propaganda of them being underpaid. Roofers face a higher risk of death but comparatively they do not get what cops get plus they can't pull over sexy women and ask them out on dates. K-12 teachers put in their part-time gigs, 6 hours per day times 9 months per year and are able to get far more than the average person, if simply working the system as pay goes up for more unneeded college courses taken and extra stipends for masters and doctorate degrees. When I personally knew grade school teachers making over $70K per year over twenty years ago and knowing the salary schedules are even higher today, you have to reject the crying over teacher salaries. I did the math ten years ago and came up with the figure of $1 trillion per year we could be saving this country in getting rid of a few and paying the remainder below the level of the private sector. On average, those in federal jobs get double and those in local and state government jobs get about 1.5 times more than those in the private sector. As normally happens when I bring this up, there'll be some government employee barking back saying they could make lots more in the private sector. Well, if so why aren't they doing it? Hmmm.
Trump could have done much to save this country but he is not like one of us to direct focus on what really needed to be done. He didn't want to hurt himself and the rest like him. When you are wealthy, you have to realize that you can maintain that way with lots of others also having great wealth. Doing what would make America great would have to hurt Trump and that's not something he'd want to do. Preserving himself is more important than improving this country.
The constant stock market bubble promoting worked so much against this country it makes any argument of Trump wanting to help this country moot, though at least doing something about the immigration problem was going in the right direction. I wish there would have been far more aggressive policies to push out illegals to get housing costs down, burden on health care down, less traffic congestion and housing costs down as this would lead to more vacancies, but you know the wealthy wouldn't like this and that includes Trump himself who'd be adversely affected, being into making money off of others via real estate.
Why couldn't Trump greatly help this country in getting housing costs down so we could enjoy greater prosperity in making an executive order forbidding foreign nationals from owning real property in the United States? Well, see above for why he wouldn't, and he in particular would be even more adversely affected from reports pointing to lots of Russian nationals buy his properties.
And then we had to have the big tax cuts for the wealthy?
I would have loved to see our overpaid government employee compensation get taken down to help this country, not to be into giving raises and overlooking how these overpaid goons are hurting this country and this includes police and teachers, contrary to all the propaganda of them being underpaid. Roofers face a higher risk of death but comparatively they do not get what cops get plus they can't pull over sexy women and ask them out on dates. K-12 teachers put in their part-time gigs, 6 hours per day times 9 months per year and are able to get far more than the average person, if simply working the system as pay goes up for more unneeded college courses taken and extra stipends for masters and doctorate degrees. When I personally knew grade school teachers making over $70K per year over twenty years ago and knowing the salary schedules are even higher today, you have to reject the crying over teacher salaries. I did the math ten years ago and came up with the figure of $1 trillion per year we could be saving this country in getting rid of a few and paying the remainder below the level of the private sector. On average, those in federal jobs get double and those in local and state government jobs get about 1.5 times more than those in the private sector. As normally happens when I bring this up, there'll be some government employee barking back saying they could make lots more in the private sector. Well, if so why aren't they doing it? Hmmm.
Trump could have done much to save this country but he is not like one of us to direct focus on what really needed to be done. He didn't want to hurt himself and the rest like him. When you are wealthy, you have to realize that you can maintain that way with lots of others also having great wealth. Doing what would make America great would have to hurt Trump and that's not something he'd want to do. Preserving himself is more important than improving this country.