Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Thoughts After Trump's Win

Trump: "Obama isn't enforcing laws for deportation..."
Truth: That's bullsh*t.  Obama has deported more illegal immigrants in his eight years than in Bush's first six.  So where Obama has set the bar high for illegal immigrant deportations, if anything Trump will have to hurdle over it  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-deported-record-number-immigrants-trump-claim-article-1.2774180

I think Trump's wall idea is completely asinine.  Stupid idea and a yuge waste of money.  Build a wall and bordering countries will just find ladders tall enough to climb over.  On top of this, Mexico's economy is booming and Mexican's are even leaving the United States to go back to Mexico as they cannot find jobs in the United States.

Regarding our national debt.  This is a yuge issue.  I wouldn't be surprised if Trump's rate of spending was worse than Bush or Obama, reading several articles like this article plus the fact he wants to perform wasteful projects like building a wall: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/07/28/Trump-Fumes-Over-19-Trillion-National-Debt-His-Plan-Would-Double-It

Obama was involved in six wars – most of which we didn’t hear about through the mainstream media – but under Trump if those wars continue (likely) you can bet your ass that a.) democrats will come out of the woodwork all of a sudden as “anti-war” and b. the mainstream news will make Trump’s wars a focal point (for the record: I’m personally against all our foreign, unprovoked wars).

Trump has written about and said he wants to cut or eliminate the Department of Education.  I personally think this would be a great move.  Will he actually do this, or will he do what Reagan did in the 1980's where he promised to end Department of Education but got nothing done?

Trump says he will deliver the "largest tax-cuts since Reagan".  I'm not holding my breath here but probably something he can achieve.  Would be welcome for everyone.

Trumps says he wants to reform Obamacare.  I guess there's good and bad in this.  Personally I think even before Obamacare the government was already too heavily involved in health insurance and needed to get completely out of it.  But in its current state Obamacare stinks.  I personally know people who are paying DOUBLE - that's two times - as much for health insurance as they were just two years ago.  They were paying ~$1000 a month for a family of four two years ago, now they are paying close to $2000 a month for a family of three (one child moved out).  So if Trump is going to reform OK, but since the government makes worse everything that it tries to improve, I'm not holding my breath.

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