The thing about Trump is he wants to do it, he wants Vets treated and cared for properly. Trump will adjust his plan if it doesn’t accomplish the results he is after to give Vets the best care and eliminate the problems, waste and inefficiency. Trump is a solutions guy not a politician who is more concerned about his public image than actually fixing the problem.
I have looked at trump’s alleged solutions, and instead of real market reforms, he is basically trying big government “solutions” that are implemented drop the top, down.
This is familiar to him. He’s a crony capitalist, and he’s made a bunch of money as a crony capitlost. He took a fortune of some tens, or perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars from his father and turned it into as much as $4 billion. Crony capitalism has treated him very well.
On the other hand, you’re arguing that if his statist “solutions” don’t work, he’ll keep trying until he finds something that does work.
That’s an assertion that you are inferring from his alleged business success.
But the evidence is that when something doest work for him, he disengages. He walks away.
Besides his four bankruptcies, he’s had many smaller businesses from which he’s walked away. Starting with his four bankruptcies, he’s walked away from Atlantic city. He says he got out before Atlantic City became unprofitable. But it’s still profitable. There are other casino and hotels operators there still making money. There is increased competition. It is harder to make money. Operating margins are slimmer. But some operators still make money. But trump, instead of figuring out how to fix the businesses in Atlantic City, ultimately walked away from them. As well as smaller ventures such as trump steaks, trump mortgages, trump vodka, and trump: the game.
That’s all right. As a busunessman, you might try a number of ventures, and onl y stick with the ones that work out. trump has done that well. He has taken a formidable fortune from his father and kept pace with that fortune probably a little faster t h an inflation. Many come into large fortunes and squander them. trump has not. He will pass a larger fortune to his children than he received from his parents.
But in government, walking away may not be a viable option. At least if you’re not going to leave the people hanging.
In private business, if you walk away, you may directly affect some laid-off workers you may stiff some contractors, some bond holers, but the damage is limited.
In government, if you walk away, you may affect hundreds of thousands, or millions. Or even all of us.