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The Real Trump Doctrine

12 Thursday Jun 2025

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        I watched an episode of Washington Week on PBS. The main topic of discussion was the Trump Doctrine and Trump’s transactional diplomacy. They used the right words but missed the real meaning of the words. President Donald J. Trump’s doctrine is to make as much money as he can out of his last term and it is transactional if people, companies, and countries can put money into his pocket through various ways, they will get his support.

            The list of bribes goes from his stable coin to a 400 million dollar jet. Those are multi-million ones that are obvious. Remember all the items he sold to supposedly finance his campaign but went into his pocket. He is putting his name on a new golf course here but the huge development in the U.A. E. and “financed” by that country and licensing of two new hotels in Saudi Arabia is worth millions more.

            How does that matter to the average American? If a country wants to lower tariffs, put money in his pocket. India is negotiating on a lower tariff. Oddly Trump Jr. just put together a couple of hotel deals in India where they had not been allowed to do before. Don’t forget his strong arming of Canada and Denmark. Remember tariffs are a tax we pay and not the foreign country as he says. Ukraine only got his support after giving up their minerals which I am sure he will be involved in what companies dig them up, transport them, and utilize them.

            When asked about his oath he said it is a question that his lawyers should answer. He has violated it many times and as long as the Republicans are scared of him, he will continue. An impeachment is sure to happen in 2027 when the House and Senate flip to Democrats. He can be tried for much of the corruption without impeachment as it wasn’t a Presidential duty. More to come!    


               

The Future Is Dark

23 Thursday Jan 2025

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        Here is what could happen if Trump fulfills his campaign Promises. He has promised to send all illegal immigrants back to their own countries. He has promised to override the trade treaties. He negotiated with Mexico and Canada by instituting twenty-five percent tariffs on all items crossing the borders. He promised at various times to put a fifty to hundred percent tariff on everything from China. The people he has proposed for his Secretaries have stated their goals to destroy not only their own departments but the public land. He has promised to restrict voting rights. He has promised to allow unrestricted drilling rights on public lands. He has promised to do away with the Education Department and reduce the IRS personnel. His close advisors want to put the Social Security funds in crypto currency and the stock market while changing the terms for retirement.

            Imagine if President Donald Trump sent all the illegal immigrants back home. Several years ago a law was passed causing farmers to hire illegals to go to jail. Two years later they cancelled the law because crops of fruit and vegetables rotted in the fields. The INS raided a meat packing plant and it closed the next month. Many landscapers and home builders would close. They are the majority of Home Builders in California which needs them now more than ever before.

            The Federal Reserve has said the tariffs would reduce the economy by at least a point and raise the inflation rate to at least 9%.

            Eliminating the Education Department means many states will go back to the 1950s systems and laws on what can and cannot be taught.

            The plan to restrict voting rights will allow many states to keep millions from voting. Instead of his claims of hundreds of thousands of questionable ballots in 2020, less than 2000 were bad. Many of those were wrong poll or by mistake in a law.

            Imagine drilling rigs and pipelines in designated monuments, parks, and reserves.

            Imagine the Federal Budget not being responsible for the Social Security Payments. Some private company might invest your contribution in highly volatile things like the thin air of crypto currency and its makers.

            While imagining the Trump Future, remember he is trying to put RFK into the position to do away with vaccines. We all know the stupid things Trump told people to take to avoid Covid causing thousands to die by getting Covid or dying from the poisons.

            In today’s world being a pervert or a crook seems to be a badge of honor. Running the Federal Government of the richest, most powerful country is still the reason for the biggest con in History.

Tariffs Are Inflationary

21 Saturday Sep 2024

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        I just bought a microwave to replace a decades old one. It is a little more complicated than the old one but cost less than half the old one cost. It will take a little while to become comfortable with it.

            After Menard’s rebate the cost will be about $98.00.  Let’s give Menards’s a small profit after expenses and say it cost them $85.00. Transportation to the Menards’ warehouse from the West coast harbor is $2.00. The shipping from China to the West Coast is probably $3.00. That leaves the cost to Menards at factory about $80.00. Now I don’t know if these numbers are correct but former President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated he would impose a 20% to 50% tariff on Chinese manufactured products. A 20% tariff would have added $16.00 to my price of $98.00. The cost would now be $114.00.

            Tariffs cause inflation when they are applied and raise the cost of products to all Americans and do nothing to punish China because no microwave is made here. If a product isn’t made here to compete with an imported one then it doesn’t create competition. It just costs more.

            Before income taxes the main source of income for the Federal Government was tariffs. In spite of what politicians say, decreasing or adding the cost to an import is a political decision. Reducing tariffs can reduce inflation or raising tariffs will increase inflation. Trump has talked about inflation – far from being the highest in his lifetime – but on his first day he would raise tariffs on all imports. Economists say that could raise inflation to over twelve percent. Think about the plans Trump spouts before voting for him.