Trump / Economics
The Anatomy of a Trump Lie All Trump lies begin with a kernel of truth; but when fully formed have mutated into something unrecognizable. Take this quote from the Speech on Tuesday Night: “The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans, not for others, but...
Can we please put the Republican and Democratic claims in perspective? They both misstate and overstate the data on the economy. Here is the data; you make your own conclusions: How has the economy performed between Obama and Trump? Has the economy boomed after the...
What is meant by “MAGA”. It is time, I believe to stop fighting the weeds in this American garden and step back and look at what the gardener is attempting to create.Stop reacting to each and every racist tweet and statement that Mr. Trump makes. We already know that...
Part I: The destruction of international confidence in the American Constitutional Process We all learned in Civics Class that the American Constitution provides for 3 separate branches of the government, the Judicial, the Legislative and the Executive. Of these, the...
Job creation under the Trump administration has lagged behind the Obama years. Here is a chart (data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth)) This plots the number of jobs created in the first 5 months...
Mark Twain: “That's the wonderful thing about science. One gets such a wholesale return of conjecture from a trivial investment of fact”. Here are some facts (things that are demonstrably true, supported by evidence): The US military has built up its presence in the...
Let’s say that you owned a fast-food franchise that sold burgers and fries. Let’s say you owned a stable of those franchises, hundreds or thousands. T The President posts a note saying “The fast-food industry has been ripping off the American consumer for years. ...
It seems to me that one way to understand Mr. Trump is through the following quotation: When Mr. Trump spoke at CIA headquarters this year, he said: “The old expression, ‘to the victor belong the spoils.’ I always used to say, keep the oil. I wasn’t a fan of Iraq. ...
Our gut reaction is that this is terrible. The growth of the National Debt is unsustainable, and the interest payments on the debt our eating up a larger and larger fraction of the National Budget.
One of the particularly interesting ideas (in my opinion) from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was the creation of Trump Accounts for children under the age of 18. For children born before between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028, the Dept. of the Treasury will...
260 people sent to El Salvador Prison Payment to El Salvador: $6 million Cost of military planes: $852,000 per trip x 3 planes used = $2.6 million. Total cost to US Taxpayers: $8.6 million Costs per deportee: $33,000 Cost per person...
I have been thinking about the issue of deportation. It seems to me that the headline is superficial and fails to look at the logistics of the issue. I hope to layout those matters in more detail here. First, some facts about the Illegal Immigrant community in this...