I have a little experience in this area.
Developers have to be non-partisan. This is because both the Ds and Rs will have their hands out, and they have to be paid or you don’t get what you need to start turning dirt.
It is that simple, and that corrupt. If you don’t pay, all the little city forums will study your question until the next ice age, and your project will die.
This is what everyone discounts about the guy. Trump could sicken us to the point of rebellion by telling us what had to be done in order to get stuff built over the course of his career. He could make millions selling books about it that would make Clancy spin in his grave.
Maybe Trump realizes it is now broken past the point where before you did what you had to in order to get stuff done. Before, stuff got done.
Now, the only stuff getting done is stuff that is doomed to fail. Solyndra type stuff.
Even Tesla. Great car. Took billions in taxpayer funded money to make nominally viable. Much of that cash goes back into politicians pockets.
Today, Government is a full partner in your business. We used to talk about how the PLA owned 51% of any business you moved over to China, and how commie that was.
We’re doing that here. We’ve adopted that model here.
Either Trump is going to fix it, or we are going to wipe it all out, and I suspect he knows that’s what its coming to.
I don’t feel you understand the nature of the bribes that are happening... you’re thinking ‘small city circa 1930’ . This isn’t al capon stuff... it’s institutional.
Sadly the PPP videos have enraged the few that have seen them but no one seems to be mad about PPP receiving 500 million a year in taxpayer dollars and donateing to politicians they need. It is a slush fund for democrats.