Friday, January 20, 2017

Trump Policy Statement Has Been Posted

We have no interest in pundits as you have seen since they blew it so egregiously with the election their credibility doesn't even exist anymore.  I don't need their provincial, almost parochial, bias and I'm sure you don't need it either.

All links are to the White House; there are no intermediaries.

An America First Energy Plan

This one is highly-mixed insofar as he says he will preserve part of EPA's function but will eliminate others such as protection of clean water and also the environment.

Two words:  Cayahuga River

Fracking got a high endorsement but that's not a surprise and we wanted confirmation.  We do not know what this means for Standing Rock but it doesn't seem likely it's anything good.

In closing there's commitment to keeping the air clean but that's not much of a consolation relative to the other aspects.


America First Foreign Policy

Again highly-mixed insofar as he states his commitment to peace in combination with working in a military coalition to deal with ISIS.  These are seen as generally good, assuming it's even achievable to wipe out ISIS.

There is a large commitment to a substantial increase in the military and more spending by the Pentagon is the dead last thing we want to see when they waste half of America's tax gold already.

The commitment to diplomacy is there and we sure haven't seen any of that in many years.

However, he is going to kill the trade deals although it's not clear whether that's possible with NAFTA and it is not mentioned.  The Trans-Pacific Partnership is doomed.  Good riddance.

I understand globalization over the long-term is good but it's not realistic when there are wildly-differing standards of living and about the same variance in currency valuations.


Bringing Back Jobs And Growth

This one generally reiterates the content in the trade deals segment of the foreign policy.  The tax reform policy shows no indication of willingness to pay down the debt and consequently the enormous interest payments on being twenty trillion in the hole.


Making Our Military Strong Again

Major opposition to this one due to runaway military spending already.  America isn't strengthened in any way by enormous debt and this will compound the twenty trillion in the tank already.

Bad news.


Standing Up For Our Law Enforcement Community

There's nothing good in this one since it seeks to further empower cops while it makes no recognition there were twice as many killed by cops last year relative to the number killed by cops in the last year of the Bush administration.

Bad news.


Trade Deals Working For All Americans

This is the third chorus regarding trade deals.


The only aspect of this which is highly-positive is moving away from the confrontation with Russia.  That aspect differentiates him substantially from Clinton and is the foremost reason no-one in the Rockhouse voted for her since it makes no difference what other things she promises when she fails to curb that type of reckless aggression.


All yours, mates.


Never believe a pundit fortune teller unless that talking head can tell you winning Lotto numbers.  Do your own research.

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