Posted on 05/05/2016 12:22:05 PM PDT by Syncro
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog
First there were seventeen. At length, there was one.
Donald Trumps wildly improbable capture of the GOP nomination, therefore, is the most significant upheaval in American politics since Ronald Reagan. And the proximate cause is essentially the same. Like back then, an era of drastic bipartisan mis-governance has finally generated an electoral impulse to sweep out the stables.
Accordingly, the Donalds patented phrase that we arent winning anymore is striking a deep nerve on main street. But that is not on account of giant trade deficits or a faltering foreign policy and failed military adventures per se.
Indeed, it has very little to do with any patriotic impulse with respect to Americas collective polity, and everything to do with voter perceptions that they personally are not winning economically anymore, either.
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What is winning is Washington, Wall Street and the bicoastal elites. The latter prosper off finance, the LA branch of entertainment (movies and TV), the SF/technology branch of entertainment (social media) and the great rackets of the Imperial Cityincluding the military/industrial/surveillance complex, the health and education cartels, the plaintiffs and patent bar, the tax loophole farmers and the endless lesser K-Street racketeers.
Consequently, most of Americas vast flyover zone has been left behind.
Excerpt, read more at Zerohedge.com
I would love to have some financial experts chime in on this thread
0.5% GDP is the only figure needed to understand we’re making the same salaries we did twenty years ago, yet the dollar buys less.
And if you don't like it, you'll be automated or H-1B'ed out of a job.
Thing is the US has been governed by lawyers/politicians. Maybe a business person who knows how to run organizations will be better? Know negotiating (unlike Kerry or Hillary). What, is Hillary going to go on a world tour with her reset button? In two hundred languages on each button?
Trump came on the scene at the right time. Odumbo, along with the majority of long term crooked politicians have done their damndest to destroy this country and fill their own pockets but We The People have had enough. The hopeful “savior” surfaced at the right time and won the hearts and votes of all of us who want to save what’s left of this nation. With Trump and God’s help, it shall be.
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