Letter to Trump: make peace and rebuild America’s industrial base

"Here are some ideas that may help in your efforts, followed by more
specific proposals:
    Inflation is closer to 8% than the official “3%” after figuring in
higher interest costs to consumers. Biden started this inflation by
running record budget deficits and the Federal Reserve made it worse by
increasing the interest burden on consumers. You must educate the
American public on this reality and get the right people in place to fix
it.
    The federal budget deficit is 6.4% of GDP, “larger than any deficit
in records going back to 1930 except the years around World War II, the
2008 financial crisis, and the pandemic,” according to the Tax
Foundation. Federal interest costs have doubled and now cost as much as
defense. Get people on the Fed board who understand your economic
agenda.
    Our woke education system is a disaster and has betrayed
working-class kids. We can’t fill skilled jobs in manufacturing because
high school graduates lack basic math skills. In the short term, state
community college systems and work-study apprenticeship programs can
help. Create a federal-state initiative for public-private partnerships
in manufacturing skills, and ask Governor Ron DeSantis to head it.
    Vice President-elect J D Vance offered a workable peace plan in
September to end the Russo-Ukrainian war. Give him a big role in
handling the Ukraine problem. Leftovers from the foreign policy
establishment in your first administration did nothing but sandbag you.
Don’t listen to them and put a smart outsider in charge instead.
    The US military-industrial complex is a hopeless morass of
corruption and incompetence that can’t make enough artillery shells to
supply Ukraine, let alone enough submarines. Bypass the Pentagon brass
and the defense contractors and choose a secretary of defense who
understands new defense technologies.
    Your proposal to put high tariffs on Chinese EV imports but allow
Chinese companies to build plants in the US is brilliant—and very much
like Ronald Reagan’s response to Japanese auto imports in the 1980s."
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