Posted on 08/15/2016 4:59:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Yes, Donald J. Trump has an economic plan. Last week, he received standing ovations and 10-second-long applauses from ordinary Americans who heard him explain how his plan will create more jobs than Hillary Clinton’s.
“Donald Trump doesn’t have a plan! He’s all bluster and no muster,” is a common criticism of the GOP presidential nominee. But the entrepreneur proved his critics wrong when he announced his economic plan in Detroit, MI last week.
Hillary, on the other hand, is a gal without a clear economic vision.
“We are going to raise taxes on the middle class!” and “We are going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business,” are a few of Hillary’s economic “plans.” Of course, she quickly tried to retract her comments. But, make no mistake, one of Hillary’s top economic advisors is Joseph Stiglitz, a man on-record for praising the economy of Venezuela.
Venezuela!?
Yesterday’s New York Times included the headline story: “Hard Times in Venezuela Breed Malaria as Desperate Flock to Mines.” Venezuela’s economy is now so weak than many citizens have been reduced to working in muddy jungle mines—where they have contracted malaria—a disease the country eradicated in 1961. Depressingly, desperate times have reawakened the horrific disease as impoverished Venezuelans resort to working in extremely hazardous conditions.
You know things are bad when even the New York Times admits socialist policies have ravaged Venezuela’s economy. We don’t need a president who receives her economic council from a man who would advise her to make America more akin to a country where citizens line the streets to wait for food.
200,000 new jobs! was Hillary’s promise to upstate New Yorkers when she ran for Senate in 2000. Once safely elected, she delivered results more on par with Venezuela. According to the Washington Post: “…upstate job growth stagnated overall during her tenure, with manufacturing jobs plunging nearly 25 percent, according to jobs data.”
If you’re considering staying at home on November 4; writing-in a third party candidate on your ballot, or—heaven forbid, voting for Hillary—then you’ll benefit from hearing how Trump’s plan will revitalize our economy.
Highlights from Donald J. Trump’s Economic Plan
1.) “Across-the-board income tax reduction, especially for middle income Americans. This will lead to millions of new and really good-paying jobs. The rich will pay their fair share, but no one will pay so much that it destroys jobs or undermines our ability as a nation to compete.”
This is a smart policy for two reasons. First, because the middle class is—for the first time in U.S. history—no longer a majority. President Obama’s socialist agenda has diminished our economy to the point that the average American now makes less than $30,000 annually. Secondly, over the past decade, expatriation (Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship) has risen 15-fold according to Fortune.
Smart, talented and wealthy American entrepreneurs are giving up their citizenship at a historic rate. The United States has the highest corporate income tax rate in the world and is no longer the most competitive place to run a business. Trump’s plan will reverse this trend and allow businesses to stay in America to both create new jobs and raise wages on existing jobs.
2.) Refusal to Pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
“Trade has big benefits, and I am in favor of trade. But I want trade deals for our country that create more jobs and higher wages for American workers. Isolation is not an option!”
To put TPP in perspective, consider that the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was 900 pages in length, and no one knew was inside the bill until after President Obama unconstitutionally rushed it through Congress. In contrast, TPP—which the Obama administration has been quietly developing for the past eight years—is 511% longer, at around 5,500 pages.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has described TPP as a “nascent European Union” that “diminishes the power of the people’s bulwark: their constitutionally-formed Congress” in favor of “global governance.” Yikes.
Under no circumstance should we repeat our Obamacare mistake and “pass TPP so we can find out what is in it,” as Rep. Nancy Pelosi might say. Trump’s opposition to TPP is wise, and a key way in which his policies are superior to those of Hillary.
Recently, Hillary claimed she too opposes TPP. However, CNN unearthed a fascinating list of 45 times Clinton publicly pushed for TPP. Thus, Clinton’s promise to oppose TPP means very little.
We know—thanks to FBI Director James Comey—that Hillary has a track record of lying. She lied about whether she sent or received classified emails via an insecure connection while Secretary of State as well as whether she turned all of her work-related emails over to the State Department—to name only a few of her tall tales that jeopardized U.S. national security.
We simply cannot trust Hillary to keep her promise on TPP.
3.) No to NAFTA
Trump plans to abandon the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed into law by former President Bill Clinton in 1994 if unable to negotiate terms more amenable to the United States.
“…[T]he transfer of jurisdiction to international ‘tribunals’ and kangaroo courts beyond the reach of American voters” has already begun under NAFTA, reports The New American magazine—adding that this phenomenon will “only accelerate” under TPP.
If you’re concerned about the economy and you want to prevent the United States from becoming the next Venezuela, you cannot in good conscience back Hillary Clinton. Donald J. Trump is your best bet on the ballot.
In contrast...
Hillary Clinton: Nowhere girl
Her economic plan would leave the U.S. flirting with recession
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/14/hillary-clinton-has-no-home-base-of-support/
He needs to state he’ll propose immediate across-the-board Federal spending cuts, defense included (but apparently not DoT) - and show a balanced budget in 4-8 years.
...like the rest of us 20-99%ers must do every day for the last 8 years.
“across-the-board Federal spending cuts, defense included”.
If trump ever proposed cutting the defense budget, the media would have a field day with that statement since he has been proposing to make America’s military strong by building it, not depleting it. Like all budgets, there are things that can/should be cut, Trumps support for our military will more than likely NOT be reduced.
“Trumps support for our military will more than likely NOT be reduced.”
You’re right on the politics.
He could increase for troops,VA, and weapons, but the amount of waste there, as we all know, is unreal.
Also, I’m assuming he’s cutting back on overseas commitments like Japan and Europe (making them pay) - but maybe can’t assume savings there yet.
Trump will abandon NAFTA, the WTO, and I assume all the other free trade agreements. So what will international trade look like under a Trump administration?
NAFTA and TPP are omnibus, multi-nation trade bills. Trade under Trump will likely consist of trade agreements with individual nations on a one-by-one basis.
Here is the main difference between Trump and Clinton: If WHAT EVER Trump implements doesn’t work it will be adjusted until it DOES work. Trump ought to hit this point hard.
Hillary doesn’t even have to campaign. She gets a free pass from the media. She’s probably already calling movers to prepare for her move to the White House.
Unbelievable how the liberal media is destroying this nation. They are so biased and don’t hold democrats accountable.
Don’t count on it. She will lose support when she has to stand face to face against Trump in the debates...
Judge Jeanine’s epic rant on Hillary
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/08/judge_jeanines_epic_rant_on_hillary.html
And until those agreements are negotiated? What then? What happens to trade between the U.S. and Canada or the U.S. and Mexico once the U.S. cancels NAFTA but before a new agreement can be negotiated? Same with the U.S. and Europe once the U.S. leaves the WTO? Or the U.S. and Korea once that trade agreement is ended?
Wow! I’m impressed, Kaslin. A thread that clearly shows support for Trump—rather than your usual borderline material that makes Trump look questionable.
I believe that our trade needs to be managed in ways that increase us, not decrease us.
While sounding rather cliche, it is important to note that the WTO has the power to over-rule our trade policies, tax polices, and probably other policies. We surrendered our decision making to it.
At least one other nation filed suit against the U. S. for unfairly tilting the table in it’s business policies, that the other nation saw as creating an unfair situation. In their eyes it made our companies more cost efficient, and that was deemed an unfair competitive advantage.
What was the supposed infraction? The U. S. didn’t tax profits for companies that had already been taxed on them in a foreign nation.
That sounds pretty darned reasoned to me, but the W. T. O. ruled in favor of the other nation. Our tax policies were deemed an unfair advantage.
Should this sort of thing be able to take place, our self-determination abandoned in favor of some collective? NO!
This decreases us. It carves out part of our self-determination.
I would never sign an agreement that saw our ability to set our own policies, diminished.
China demands to be provided the full schematics of anything that is going to be manufactured there. So our corporations turn over those schematics and all patent information for items used in it’s processes.
We GAVE China at least a fifty year jump in technology, and perhaps quite a bit longer, by sending our manufacturing there. Who got the better end of that deal?
Our cities are decaying and theirs have all seen incredible building and resurgence.
These concepts and the corrections needed, are central to a more sound trade concept.
I don’t mind multi-nation trade agreements, but I’d sure write them a lot differently. We have damaged ourselves at the benefit of some nations that want to destroy us, or at the very least usurp us on the global stage.
We have essentially pulled the plug on our nation...
This S has to stop.
Video did not work, but worth visiting, as her excellent rant is printed out.
Of course it works (just checked again). Must be your computer/player.
Of course it works (just checked again). Must be your computer/player.
Go, Trump, GO!
Good Stuff!
These are both SRI. In the past they would make an appointment for him to see the otolaryngologist and the ophthalmologist.
Today we were informed that he needed to first have an appointment with a VA medical doctor to get a referral to see the ear and eye doctor.
These are not new injuries, the VA has been treating him for those items for ten years.
He has a civilian PCP that he sees for anything not an SRI. That is the way he prefers it.
Now they are telling him that he HAS to see a VA doctor for a checkup every year or he can not get his hearing and eyes treated.
So the VA is trying to force veterans to make their facilities their primary facilities under the threat of other wise their getting no treatment at all.
BTW since we have medical insurance this forced checkup will be billed to our insurance.
My comment on point 1, the “liberal” parties in the US (Decomcrats) and Canada (Liberals) are no longer for the middle class. They are now the part of the non-working lower class, the uber wall street rich who survive on government bail outs or looking the other way, and invading “minorities” from Mexico and Muslim lands. It is the GOP and Conservative parties now (not always or all of them) who are left to look after the middle class. Even then there are the cheap labor express portions of these 2 parties that are also giving the middle class the middle finger.
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