Re: OT: Trump's Cabinet Picks

On 19/11/2024 1:01 am, chuck wrote:

Trump the Great Protector has succeeded in duping Americans to fear by depending the issues. The outcomes will reduce taxes for the rich, increase cost of living for the poor with tariffs, displace those immigrants who will seek the minimum wage jobs replaced with union jobs and lose control of the Eco-system with deregulation of the EPA, and future disasters from accelerated toxic fracking. Severe economic instability, degraded health and education, problems such as why China's GPT is triple that of USA, their productivity with energy, military, space, consumer and industrial products and average wage growth of 400% more than Americans.

China has a lot of people, and quite a bit of land. Their wage growth is high because it started from a very low base, and  - like Japan - they industrialised rapidly because they had the European/American model to copy.
Now that they have pretty much caught up, they are finding that new product development is a lot more demanding - and a lot less reliable than copying the best of what other people have developed.
Their political system is still pretty primitive - they've been less enthusiastic about copying international best practice in government than they were in technology. America has the same problem - if not to the same extent. The devotion to a strictly two-party system and a voting system that freezes out third parties is a weakness. Multiparty democracy and coalition governments isn't the American way, but it work rather better than two-party democracy (where the two parties are actually coalitions of fractional interests who do their horse-trading in private).

The Chines will threaten to pull back their dominance in Govt Bonds that the US depends on for investors and reclaim it with land grabs used as collateral.
 Trump will be the Greatest American President to destroy the dwindling global power it once had with empty promises and a history of failed business enterprises that will create friction and firing of those who cannot meet his demands on the international community.

He might, but he's not actually all that good at government. His first term showed him losing interest before he completed the disasters he was trying to set in motion, as he moved on to a different hare-brained scheme. His erratic management of the Covid-19 epidemic let it kill a lot more Americans than it should have done, but some other countries did appreciably worse.

Korea has pulled out of Israel from the unethical ethnic cleansing and Ukraine will never give up the resources they had.
 Americans will rejoice for  while in the dictation of changes until they realize his priorities are self-image, self-economic gains and replace the swamp or alligators with Parana like resident Oligarchs.
 The tribe has spoken but they have been duped by empty promises and deflected fears with billions of advertising.
 I do not look forward to watching Trump's charade in the news for the next 4 years and turn it off.  Why does it take more than 2 years to plan an election when others can do it in 1 to 3 months.  Corruption and deflection takes time.

The US constitution was written when it did take a lot longer to plan an election. Switching to a more flexible scheme would be trivial, but lots of vested interests like things the way they are.
Even the UK system managed to get rid of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss pretty quickly. It got reworked in the 19th century, and is still pretty clunky, but not as clunky as the US system.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney