December, 2019, The Horrors And Destruction That Donald Trump Has Imposed On America...Just Kidding! A Three Year Review Of The Trump Administration

Before we start today’s discussion, let’s review my voting history: 

• I have never voted for a Republican for President in my life.
• Thus, I did not vote for Trump. 
• I have rarely voted for a Republican for national office in my life. 

About 3 years ago, many liberals, Democrats, and millennials were besides themselves with grief and fear because their pre-ordained queen, Hillary Clinton, was not elected President. Instead, Donald Trump was elected, an individual that these same people despised, hated, and feared, an individual they felt would endanger and possibly destroy the country and our democracy. For the past year and a half they fretted, worried and lashed out at anything or anyone that even remotely smelled of Donald Trump.

Given that Trump has been in office for almost two years, I thought, that as someone who did not vote for him, it would be a good idea to review the horror, trauma, and terrible things that Trump has subjected the country to in just eighteen month’s time. This is obviously a very sarcastic comment when you take an unbiased look at what has happened during the Trump Presidency.

The many previous posts we did on this topic identified over 300 good things that have happened to America and Americans since Trump became President and they can found by entering the phrase “the horrors and destruction” in the search box above. 

Given we are three years onto Trump’s Presidency, I thought it would be a good idea to list out some of his many accomplishments that we have already listed in the previous numerous posts on the topic. As the previous paragraph points out, we have already named over 300 ways that American is better off today than it was three years ago when he took office. So in no particular order, consider the following 13 improvements that have occurred in America under the Trump administration:

1. According to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, 76% of those polled rated the economy as very or somewhat good, higher than the rating a year ago which was 67% and the highest level since February, 2001.
2. The House of Representatives passed Trump’s new trade treaty with Mexico and Canada with overwhelming Democratic support, a treaty that should benefit the U.S. economy and provide protections to workers outside of the U.S.
3. According to a study by Surveys of Consumers Attitudes, consumer sentiment has been at 95 or higher in 30 of the previous 35 months, a 20 year high.
4. Trump has recently announced that he will be withdrawing about 4,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan, hopefully a first step in getting the country completely out of this disaster.
5. Since Trump took office the number of individuals receiving food stamp aid has dropped by 6.2 million people and 2.7 million households, a sign of a robust economy.
6. Trump has introduced additional food stamp regulations that will reduce the number of food stamp recipients by another 700,000 able bodied adults.
7. There are currently 158 million American citizens in the workforce, a record.
8. Female labor workforce participation is at an all time high.
9. The African-American unemployment rate is at an all time low.
10. Over 6.3 million jobs have been created by the Trump economy, with over half of them going to women.
11. November results on illegal immigration showed for the sixth consecutive month the number of apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the border was down from the previous month, hitting their lowest level since July, 2018, indicating that Trump has tightened up security on the southern border.
12. Trump recently donated his quarterly salary to fighting opioid addiction in the country, a donation that follows previous donations of his salary to the Department of Education, infrastructure improvement, Veterans Affairs, the Small Business Administration, alcohol abuse prevention, and aid to U.S. farmers.
13. Under Trump, improper payments by the Medicare program have declined $7 billion from fiscal 2017 through 2019.

Okay, let’s stop the list here, you get the idea. The previous posts under this topic found over 300 successes and good things since Trump took office. Higher wages, better job opportunities, higher economic growth, better approaches to health and drug addiction, stronger actions and respect in foreign affairs, reductions in government bureaucracy, hardly the disaster that liberals, Democrats, and Hillary Clinton predicted.

For those of you that have hated on Trump since day one, and given your obvious gross error in judgment relative to Trump given the well 300 accomplishments we have previously listed, let me ask that you do us all a favor by implementing the following changes in your behavior and attitude:

• Chill out, tamp down your TDS affliction. No matter how much you hate Trump on a sexist, personal basis, get over it. He is the legally and duly elected President, he will be around for a while so refocus your hatred on more constructive issues and matters. You will live a lot longer if you take your hatred out of your heart and soul and devote it to something positive.
• I would really appreciate it if some of you would apologize to the Trump voters you have disrespected in some of the grossest terms possible over the past year. You have called millions of voters racists, ignorant, stupid, Nazis, KKK members, and other horrible names simply because you disagreed with their voting choice. No American should be called such disgusting names simply because they exercised their Constitutional rights to the best of their abilities. Plus, slandering over 60 million Americans is no way to unite the country and get it focused on the real issues facing us all.
• More personally, I would like, no I am demanding, an apology from some of you for your slanderous and disgusting name calling because in doing so, you insulted and disrespected my sister, my family members, my friends, and my co-workers who simply voted their conscience. I will defend their right to vote anyway they wanted and will not put up with your childish and vicious venom and bile directed at them, very important people in my life.
• And finally, I challenge you to read the following blog post, a post that shows quite clearly that it was hateful people like some of you and your silence during the Obama years that actually caused Trump to be elected. Thus, the people you hate for voting for Trump are actually looking back at you in the mirror:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-american-liberals-and-washington.html

If you were silent in the dozens of instances listed in this post then you were responsible for the very thing you hate: a Trump Presidency. Or put another way, a so far successful and productive Trump Presidency. Over 200 accomplishments in two years is not too shabby despite many of you wanting both Trump and the country to fail.

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July, 2015, Part 2, By The Numbers: Subsidizing Billionaires, Alzheimer's Crushing Weight, and More

On a semi-regular basis we revisit the theme "by the numbers" just to check in on the state of the country and political class using actual realities and their underlying numbers, not the spin or lies from our politicians. You see, politicians usually have nothing to gain by looking at reality and the numbers since they are more than likely to have screwed up reality and our lives in the first place.

That is why they would rather lie and deceive than tell the truth. But that approach can be destroyed by looking at the hard numbers behind the mess they have created. I once worked for a boss whose favorite saying was: "There is nothing more devastating to an opinion than the right number.” And that is what we try to do with this theme, devastate politicians’ opinions by looking at the right numbers.

So let’s take a look at the numbers that have recently cropped up and again prove that the political class in America continues to be one of the worst set of people to ever hold office, given the state of the country, the many ways they screw up our wealth and government functions, and their inability or non-desire to step up and tell the truth.

1) Yesterday we discussed the reality that even though Obama and his supporters would like us to think that the economy is doing well, we showed with a series of real numbers how that is not the case. With first quarter GDP shrinking, 45 million Americans still needing food assistance every month, low or no wage growth, etc., the economic numbers and reality show a very weak, under performing economy.

And new numbers from the University of Michigan's famous index of consumer sentiment adds to that proof of a low performing economy. During the month of July the index value dropped from 96.1 in June to 93.3 in July. Experts had predicted that the index would be basically unchanged in July, surprising them also. The Greek financial crisis and the economic slide in China were most often cited by survey respondents as the reason for their growing pessimism. 

Just another nail in the theory that we have always subscribed to: Washington politicians have no idea how to manage a growing and vibrant economy.

2) We have often decried the reality that Washington politicians are very good at handing out taxpayer wealth to companies and individuals who do not deserve such wealth. Those individuals and companies should be using their own wealth or their stockholders' wealth to fiannce their operations and take the financial risk associated with their operations. 

Which makes the following story from the June 12, 2015 issue of The Week magazine, based on an article from the LA Times, most appropriate. Billionaire Elon Musk has three companies that he has put together: Tesla Motors, SolarCity, and SpaceX. 

Together, the American taxpayer, courtesy of the Washington political class, has funded and underwrote those operations to the tune of $4.9 billion via grants, tax breaks, and environmental credits. Additionally, SpaceX has received $5.5 billion in government contracts from NASA and the Air Force. 

The obvious question is if these are such good ideas and Musk is so rich, why isn't he funding these operations out of his own checkbook and the checkbooks of his backers, why are the American taxpayers funding these business risks for him? Government and politicians should not be in the business of picking winners and losers in a free market, that is the job of the market and those that compete in that market. 

Those billions of dollars benefited virtually no one who helped fund them, the American taxpayer, and benefited only the insiders and favored few who were involved with those businesses.

3) Frequent readers of this blog know that we have shown dozens and dozens of time how Obama Care is the worst piece of legislation ever passed. It tries, and fails, to solve a public health issue with a lame, unwieldy and expensive insurance solution. Past proof of our assertion on this legislation can be viewed by entering the phrase, "unfolding disaster that is Obama Care" in the search box above.

More proof that Obama Care totally missed the mark was presented in an article on Alzheimer's disease in the May 29, 2015 issue of The Week magazine. The numbers from that article are truly frightening:

• 5.3 million Americans currently suffer from Alzheimer's disease.
• Those 5.3 million sufferers consumer almost 18 billion hours a year in unpaid care from friends and family.
• However, with 76 million Baby Boomers entering their golden years, that affliction number is likely to go as high as 13.8 million in the coming decades.
• Treatment costs for those almost 14 million Alzheimer's patients could get as high as $1.1 TRILLION annually and consume over 30% of Medicare's annual budget.
• Such a wave of will swamp nursing homes and the country's ability to pay for and care for the millions more of Alzheimer's patients in the coming years.

While this trend has been gong forward in unabated, the Obama administration has been worried about how much a Bronze Plan in the Obama Care legislation would cost. In reality, the numbers do not lie since a Bronze Plan cost, and Obama Care in general, will be overwhelmed by the Alzheimer's numbers and become meaningless unless the challenge of Alzheimer's and other aging diseases is resolved.

Unfortunately, the Obama administration has not addressed or set out a strategy for resolving this issue, costing the country five years in finding a remedy for the disease and the crushing financial numbers it will cause.

4) Let's get back to the economy for our final set of numbers. An article in the July 17, 2015 issue of The Week magazine reported on how Microsoft was laying off almost 8,000 workers which works out to about 6% of the entire workforce.  The company is also taking a $7.6 billion write down as a result of its acquisition of Nokia's smartphone business. Not a good economic indicator omen when a bell weather company like Microsoft is taking such dramatic actions.

So, today the numbers showed that Americans are having less and less confidence in the economy, the political class continues its crony capitalism ways related today to subsidizing billionaire Elon Musk, Alzheimer's disease makes Obama Care even more irrelevant in the long term, and Microsoft is feeling the pains of a weak economy. The numbers do not lie even if politicians do.

More numbers tomorrow and they are likley NOT to be good numbers since they involve the Amerian political class.

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