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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rarebird who wrote (4336)	1/2/2017 5:35:00 PM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Recommended By Katelew Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 356147

I don't see much good in the person of Trump but if I've missed something feel free to point it out. I like that he is promoting himself as a strong jobs advocate and a person who wants to stimulate economic growth and development. He has a reputation of getting what he wants and in this case I would be pleased to see success in this area, as a consequence of his administration. In that context I would be happy if he is successful in establishing policies that make corporations want to stay or come back to the USA. I would be fine with any corporate tax changes that contribute to that goal. I am not that clear on what he intends to do in other areas, it seems he has some juggling balls still in the air. He is surrounding himself with a strong right wing nationalist cabinet, and with the change in congress and gubernatorial representation, it seems a given that governmental moves to the right are inevitable. Don't know exactly what to make of that yet, but I predict we will be somewhere between a robust economy and koan's nightmares. In order for anyone to remain constructive and sane during this transitory period, it is mandatory that they remain flexible and alter perspective in such a way as to sustain commitment to principle without reacting to change in ways that bring psychic harm to themselves.

To: Rarebird who wrote (4336)	1/2/2017 5:53:38 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 356147

I view him (perhaps wrongly, hopefully) as representing a massive transference of wealth from the public to the private sector. I wouldn't define anything I think he will do, or even anything I think you think he will do, as being a transfer of wealth to the private sector, rather (possibly) transferring less from the private sector to the public sector. I'm all for that, and even to a more limited extent for transferring some federal wealth (some federal land for example) to the private sector (or to the states). But (at least in the case of land, and probably in other areas it would depend on what were talking about), I would be for sales, so it really wouldn't be a transfer. As for his personality, I don't care for him. Same here