Trump World -USA-2019

Cliffy

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coldstream

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According to what?

Your feelings?


U.S. Dept. of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics - May 2019 Report

Lowest unemployment since 1969.. 3.5% .. uh that's 50 years.

And his other major achievement.. in U.S. Federal Court Appointments.. might have at least stemmed if not reversed the onslaught of the Culture of Death. But the latter battle is just engaged and the death lobby still has major allies in the Democratic Party.

Everything else, notably reestablishing the integrity of nation state, through borders for people and product, investment in infrastructure, is still in the works.

But Trump has been a breath of Fresh Air In the poisonous atmosphere of 21st C. Western Culture and Economy.
 
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coldstream

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Trump's economic performance is largely cyclical rather than structural. Because he has really not been able to establish a sovereign, national, integrated, industrial economy. He’s made inroads with steel and aluminum tariffs. He has imposed tariffs on the small manufacture from China but it's all been pretty scattershot.

His MCA FTA agreement was a disaster, for the U.S. and Canada, a complete sell out to the NeoCons, as was his regressive tax bill. The figures do not show the amount of pain in the economy, especially for older workers of the traditional manufacturing sector and in trades.

It also does not reflect the state of the workplace which has been decimated by 5 decades of free trade, monetarism, deregulation, privatization. It is dominated at one end by service and retail jobs, low payed, insecure, transient, without benefits or pensions. And by vastly over rewarded jobs in financial and tech sectors. All of which have led to polarization of wealth which is disastrous for a homogenous, positive national culture.

But he's out there proposing solutions that we haven't seen since the 1950s.
 

Cliffy

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But he's out there proposing solutions that we haven't seen since the 1950s.
Retrograde. He is taking the country backwards and you think he is some kind of genius. Give your head a shake, man. We need to go forward and fossil fuels is definitely on the way out.

"You can never go home any more." - The Moody Blues.
 

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Retrograde. He is taking the country backwards and you think he is some kind of genius. Give your head a shake, man. We need to go forward and fossil fuels is definitely on the way out.

"You can never go home any more." - The Moody Blues.
If fossil fuels are on the way out , why does global demand keep increasing ?
 

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If fossil fuels are on the way out , why does global demand keep increasing ?
Cuz it's cheap, plentiful, powerful, portable, and the Earth keeps producing more and more of it.