Despite Iowa, Trump Could Easily Be The Next Reagan
If any one thing has become obvious in this past week, it is that Donald Trump most certainly can get elected president. He lost to Ted Cruz in Iowa by only a scant number of votes and got seven delegates to Cruz’ eight. While the media is making huge hay, this should be a wake up call to a giant. Let’s see what happens in New Hampshire.
Most certainly, he would do a better job representing the interests of the average guy (and gal) than anybody who has been there since Ronald Reagan.
Now the first thing that some of those establishment “conservatives” will howl is how can I invoke the name Reagan in the same breath with the name Trump?
Apparently, those faux conservatives don’t know or can’t read much history.
They like to think of Reagan coming out of his mother’s womb in Tampico, Illinois as the perfect conservative. It is doubtful that he thought those great thoughts when he was the President of the Screen Actors Guild and a Democrat. Which he was, for a great portion of his life.
So why can that transition happen to Reagan but not Trump?
Let’s do this:
Instead of talking about the downside of a Donald Trump presidency, let’s imagine what he might do.
He can’t be bought and he doesn’t need the job.
That means he is immune to the Wall Street lobby which convinced the establishment that they were too big and important to fail. My guess? If Goldman Sachs gets into the same situation they were in back during 2008, they will be in Chapter 11 and deservedly so. I could not imagine any truly independent businessman like Trump bailing out an insurer (AIG) which wrote bad insurance policies which were knowingly bought by investment banks to cover bets against an economy they created.
The Bush and Obama administrations never really understood what happened.
I can guarantee you that Trump did.
A lot of problems in government are created by bad hiring. Hillary Clinton and John Kerry as Secretaries of State come to mind. Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff. Have I made my point yet? If you are Barack Obama and you hire someone for an important job for whatever the reason and it doesn’t work out, the taxpayers get healthcare.gov. Or, Lois Lerner at the IRS. Or a dead Ambassador to Libya. Or the crazy ayatollahs in Iran with a nuclear weapon.
You don’t get to be worth $10-billion (with a B) by hiring stiffs like the ones I mentioned above. And Trump didn’t.
He understands how to hire top talent. And, as President, he would have his pick of the best.
You probably cannot run government—which is not supposed to make money—exactly like a business. But you can run it by using business-like principals. The way things are now, government doesn’t have any incentive to serve its customers well unless there is someone in charge who is not afraid to say, “You’re fired”. Trump has done that. Both on and off TV.
I’ve always said about Barack Obama that his politics were not the worst part of his administration. It is his level of incompetence.
Competence is much more important in a leader than a particular political persuasion.
That said, it would be nice to have a leader who is not only competent but understands how the real world works.
Trump has been tested time and again in the real world and has passed those tests with flying colors. With very few exceptions, the rest of the people on the stage seeking the job are professionals at telling you what you want to hear and then doing as they please when they get elected.
The first time they fool us, shame on them. In most cases, that’s already happened.
But we now know what they will do. Why give them another chance to do it to us? At least at a time when we have a better choice?
It’s highly unlikely that Trump could do any worse than the professional politicians and there is a pretty good chance he could be the next Ronald Reagan.
Given the situation our country is in, we need to hire the best guy for the job and that would appear to be Trump.
Guest Opinion Fred Weinberg
MAKE NO MISTAKE DONALD TRUMP IS ON HIS WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
The popular vote is growing tremendously for a President Trump, showing that every class of American is looking upon this solid businessman as a savior for our economic downturn under this present administration. With the American people having no redress, we are unnoticed, we are being told by the GOP Syndicate and the Democratic, Socialist political Parties that the country is doing well? Yes! The profiteers, the wealthy conglomerates are doing well, but that is expected when they are bring there products into America without any resistance. But Trump has other ideas, that unless they play by the rules, they will pay a tariff of 57 percent.
I’m inclined to think that the profession, well situated class at the top think the American People are fools, but this far from the case. A majority people of this great land don’t trust anybody in government or the mainstream press, as they remain isolated from the impoverished families who try to put a plateful of healthy food on the table. A dark cloud of frustration and anger has flooded across the land, with jobs vanishing overseas and to Mexico; Trump has inspired a huge part of the population pledging a better day to come, knowing that he honors his promises.
More people are elated that Trump intends to the erect a 1000 mile wall, severing us from the criminal drug cartels, killing our children and restraining the illegal alien invasion. Trump proposes in building an army along with the giant wall of US Border Agents to enforce from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas. He intends to send in the National Guard to clear out the whole areas, where just one or two sheriffs try to safeguard huge sectors of open desert and farmland that narcotics are daily sent with armed individuals, groups of illegal aliens tearing up fencing, breaking into homes and threatening landowners. Trumps new law will provide a tougher enforcement tools that will be Mandatory E-Verify and a system to track ‘Overstays’ who ignore an expired visa. These duties will be employed of a far larger force of USICE officers who will raid businesses using foreign nationals stealing jobs from American and permanent residents.
This February has been one of the bad, months for American workers. First we saw the wholly gloomy Bureau of Labor Statistics report, which found that in January the long-struggling U.S. economy created only 155,000 jobs (That’s if you are willing to believe that number, when over 93 million citizens and lawful residents are in either poorly paid jobs, underemployed, in part time work or dropped looking for something altogether?
Then, the Indianapolis Business Journal has reported that the manufacturing huge company ‘Carrier’ is motivated, over the next three years in relocating 1,400 jobs to Mexico. Carrier is the foremost air conditioning, heating, and refrigeration systems producer. In another correlated statement, northeast Indiana-based United Technologies Electronic Controls is also to remove move jobs to Mexico. By 2018, 700 jobs will materialize in Mexico. No need to speculate that net employment gains is dreary when U.S. manufacturing segment are moving overseas and has been stagnating for months and even years, finding a better opportunity in foreign countries with fewer regulations and cheap labor. Carrier and UTEC are units of the Hartford, Connecticut-based United Technologies Corp., a Fortune 500 company with $65 billion in annual revenue. Watch the heated feedback from stunned Carrier employees at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ttxGMQOrY
There is an accumulation of appalling news coming from the depressed IT section of industry. Hertz announced that it would soon lay off 230 workers at its Oklahoma City technology center. A Hertz representative said that nationwide the total lost IT jobs will “…be larger than 230….” Labor Condition Applications for prospective H-1B visa holders have been traced back to the Hertz Oklahoma City address, a strong signal that more foreign workers whisked through suspicious Visa processing will take American jobs.
All these situations is serious news for the job market, grave news with Ford manufacturing moving a large part of it manufacturing to Mexico, Ford said on last April it will spend $2.5 billion to build a new generation of fuel-efficient engines and transmissions in Chihuahua, Mexico, creating 3,800 jobs. The United Auto Workers union, in response, said putting jobs in Mexico rather than the United States will be a major issue at its upcoming U.S. labor talks with Ford, General Motors Co and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Then Nabisco also having no sense of loyalty to the US people, when Irene Rosenfeld, the head of Mondolez announced that instead of invest $130 million in refurbishing the plant in Chicago, where Oreos have been fondly produced for the past 100 years, she will instead move the jobs to a new factory in Salinas, Mexico. The result: a loss of 600 well-paying and community-sustaining jobs on the Southwest Side.
Many American companies have quietly expanded over to Mexico — including well-known brands like Caterpillar, Chrysler, and Stanley-Black & Decker adding billions of dollars in investment and insisting to drive the economic integration that President Obama has allowed and not placing obstacles to stop this loss of US good paying jobs. Currently the United States has a deficit with our not so friendly neighbor of 500 billion dollars.
Notwithstanding the mounting data that citizens/legal residents in blue collar and high-skilled jobs are persistently at risk of overseas outsourcing or foreign-born in-sourcing, many on the Capitol beltway continue to press for more workers, mostly through greatly higher H-1B visa caps.
The entertainment industry, Nevada Hotels and Casino’s that once sported opportunities for minorities, college students and part-time Americans, is now populated with cheap labor from Mexico, South and Central America and until we have a President who works for the People and not for Special Interests.