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

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (7817)	1/23/2017 6:53:29 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356012

By everything I know about politics and social science, the policies of Donald Trump are about to devastate the poor and middle-class in this country. The south is the most dependent part of the country on the social safety nets and they intend to wipe as much of it out as they can. The uneducated are the poorest people and Trumps base. How will they manage without food stamps and welfare? They are used to it. Many people on Obamacare, really didn't know that Trump was going to destroy it and now they are panicking because those that have pre-existing conditions will have no place to go. And wait until they blowup the deficit just like Reagan and Bush did. The policies that Trump is going to put forth and the Republican Congress is going to rubber stamp, are exactly the same policies that Gov. Brownback of Kansas and Jindal of Louisiana employed and they pretty much destroyed those states. The only thing I am's upset about Steve is that it is so easy to see and predict that Trump is going to destroy this country and cause so much pain and suffering with his policies and I see too many poor don't see it. . It is a simple matter of social science 101

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (7817)	1/23/2017 7:09:59 PM
From: neolib	3 Recommendations Recommended By bentway Katelew Steve Lokness Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356012

IMHO, the contest before us is whether democracy in an increasingly ideologically polarized country in the era of fake news can compete against rule by elites as in China. Most Chinese don't have much if any say in their politics, and certainly not for the top leaders who set policy. Democracy had a great run in the USA when the voters paid attention. Times are changing. I look at my parents generation, the kids of the Depression, and they devoted their lives to pulling themselves up, largely through education and then hard work. They were civic minded too. But they also lived through an era of the USA and middle class doing progressively better. They were better off than their parents, and expected their kids to be better off than they were. The country that really is at the cross roads is actually China. They have finally arrived in most aspects but one: Respect. Trump bitches about our trade imbalance, of which China is problem #1, yet its interesting to note that currently China is burning through about that same monthly rate of foreign reserves to attempt to combat currency outflow from China. Why the outflow? Chinese with means still worry about China, and still find places like the USA attractive. So the problem before the leaders of China is really whether they can make China as desirable a place to invest and live as the USA. Its a much different problem than the technology and manufacturing problems they have tackled and succeeded at. But Trump is handing them part of the solution in having the USA retreat from the world stage and leaving a vacuum for China to step into. The question is whether China can fill the vacuum gracefully, which would bring them untold long term benefits. TWT what happens.