Report Card for Donald Trump

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(12-06-2016, 11:50 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(12-06-2016, 12:01 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: If you wanted to reduce the deficit in 1980, you should have voted for Anderson.  The economic issues for the Reagan administration were inflation (A+, few expected inflation to end) and unemployment (B).  The foreign policy promise was to get tough with the Soviets (A+, no one expected the stage to be set actually to defeat the Soviet Union).

Also, how are people getting more grades than items?

I actually voted for Trump.  His foreign policy is not about reducing American force posture - he's going to "restore our military" - but about fewer wars.  Nor have tariffs been promised.  Nor has he promised anything about a financial collapse.  The immigration goal is legitimate.

So from an actual Trump voter:

1.  Appoint justices in the mold of Scalia.
2.  Reduce net immigration rate to 0 or below.
3.  Deport at least 4 million illegal aliens by end of 1st term.
4.  Increase manufacturing jobs as a percent of the economy.
5.  Pass a major tax cut.
6.. No new wars.

Good luck with your #2 not if but when we go into negative population growth (soon). Oh, and the brain drain thingey. Seems not very many Anglo kids want to do STEM. We'll be GREAT AGAIN as a nation of wanna bes of famous athletes, celebs, etc, with the brainier ones being lawyers and MBAs. EE? Tooooooo hard, tooooo much math! But with your "no brownies" plan, STEM will go down, down, down .....

(12-06-2016, 11:51 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: Not saying he'll achieve it - #4 is probably near impossible - just listing what his voters want.

#1. Just make sure that he doesn't appoint a right-wing version of Andrei Vishinksy.

#2. America will be much less attractive as a country to which to immigrate. Figure also that there are people who have long worked in the American workforce who will find cheaper places in which to retire.

#3. This would require an internal passport, something that few Americans want to get.

#4. It's ironic: Boomers may have killed off the manufacturing sector by taking seriously the career advice to avoid the assembly line and do anything else -- even food service and retail sales.  The other reality: we are probably saturated with manufactured  goods as it is.  It's replacements or upgrades now.

#5. The major tax cut (likely for the economic royalists) will surely create a sudden need for taxes to be imposed upon the middle class.

#6. Lots of luck with this consummately-angry man.