Where do I begin?
I’m getting tired of the right wing pundits pounding Trump as hard as the predictable left wingers will. Folks I know who have been good Republicans for many years are now crazy NEVER TRUMPERS. They suddenly become voters with a conscience with Trump when they were silent before with Romney and McCain before him. Talk about do nothing candidates.
Last year before the primaries started, there were sixteen other candidates running for president ranging from private sector smart guys Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina to very experienced politicians with leanings from fairly middle of the road to very conservative; governors, senators and representatives in the congress. There has never been a more experienced and highly regarded gang of presidential wannabees.
So when the Republican primaries are over and Donald Trump is the winner of the election process, some of these pundits and party insiders are outraged because the voters chose a guy they don’t like. A guy whose persona offends them. A guy who is characterized as unqualified to serve because he lacks political experience. A guy they didn’t pick.
Let me tell you, the current president was elected enthusiastically twice without a lick of experience at anything besides “smooth talking”. Frankly, the candidates MY PARTY put out there mostly had a very common characteristic, that of being a lawyer. Remind me what lawyer you can remember who has a résumé with any accomplishments of note. Being a professional elected official with a lawyer background is not a case for accomplishment or qualification.
If you listen to some of our most respected inventors and innovators and they will tell you that their success was not the product of a single try, but a lengthy list of failures leading up to a winner. Jeff Bezos is a champion of trying and failing. Then we get a look at the characterization of Trump and he’s branded a loser because of his failures. Remember the smart guys tell you the only people not making mistakes are people not trying.
The right wing pundits are not happy with Trump even though he was the last man standing after a very lengthy, bloody primary process. Even after a campaign lacking decorum and a seeming lack of reverence and respect for the job he aspires to, the voters still chose Trump and rejected the field.
Now the never Trumpers are willing to vote for Clinton so there is a clear path for a “REAL REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE” to run in 2020. Talk about major stupid! What about what happens during the next four years? How about those SCOTUS appointments? How about border security? How about family wage jobs fleeing our country to the beneficiaries of NAFTA, WTO and now TPP?
Let’s be clear, I was not a Trump supporter when this process started. I would love to have a Constitutional Conservative in the White House to help restore the Constitution in it’s original form as the guiding document for our government. I believe in States Rights. The corruption of the Constitution through crazy Supreme Court rulings that justify ignoring the words clearly outlined in the Bill of Rights and the Amendments distresses me to no end.
I have no illusions about Trumps conservativism. He’s not a conservative. But, he is an American patriot who recognizes the perils of GLOBALISM. The movement trying to diminish the sovereignty of countries in an effort to improve international trade to the benefit of who? Clearly not American workers. Where I would like to see opportunities for farmers and manufacturers in my state to sell their products overseas, it cannot be after we sell our working class down the river. The boardroom characters who see international borders as an impediment to profits can take a flying leap. If the folks running for office don’t put America and American interests first, then where will that leave Ameria? We are being reduced down to a supposed educated elite segment, public employee unions and a service sector economy riding roughshod over the remaining small business owners and middle American taxpayers. None of these groups contributes a thing to GDP. The measure of our economic health is GDP and growth of GDP.
Which of those reliable Republican candidates who lost to Trump were the ones the pundits and conservatives thought should have been the nominee? My first choice candidate was Ted Cruz since he was a Constitutional Conservative, but like Trump, those party elitists couldn’t stand Ted because he actually had principles and honored his promise to the voters in his state to fight for better government. Absolutely vilified by his colleagues in the Senate, by the members of the Republican caucus in the House and by the right wing media. Ted had balls and stood up for principles and he was torched.
Yet, the two candidates who were standing at the end of the election process were Trump and Ted. The darlings of the party were dispatched one after the other. What does that tell you about the sense of the traditional party insiders in measuring their voters?
It had to be very painful to the party insiders to have to hold their noses when they tried to get on the Ted Train to derail the Trump Train. They had to support one guy they hated to hopefully squash a guy they hated more. And, where are the darlings of the Party? Up the trail, whining in their beer!
What I hope to see from Trump is the side his family members tell us exists that will give me confidence that he can be a level headed leader who can appeal to American unity more than Obama. If he is a champion of women and minorities in his business empire, he needs to bring those folks out for the rest of us to see and hear from. I know that if I ask Clinton or Sanders or even Obama how many jobs they have personally created they won’t have an answer for me. Or, how many contracts or treaties they have negotiated personally that might demonstrate their negotiating skills and they won’t have any examples. How about listing any accomplishments in their working life that might suggest they have the skills or life experiences remotely qualifying them to run for anything, let alone President of the United States.
If the only qualification for the job based upon the pundits and the elitists is years in government and nothing else, we are in serious trouble. That is why the people are rising up today. The people are sick of the party elite picking lawyers and Goldman Sachs finance guys as the leadership since they will reliably kiss the ring of the industrialists. Surprise, surprise!
Donald Trump is the candidate that reflects the will of the Republican Party voters so the party elite better get used to the idea. What is troubling to me is the failure of our elected official to honor their voters in favor of the lobbyists and contributors. They need our votes but sell out for the money. A Donald Trump sends the message that our votes are not for sale and where we would have liked to support a traditional Republican candidate, there weren’t any out there we could trust. I’ll take my chances with Trump. He may not be a proper politician, but proper politicians are proven losers.
Vote for America this November by voting for Donald Trump!
No Loss for Words 
Build American, Employ Americans, Buy American
by Steve DanaI can remember a couple years ago when the Boeing Company was planning the 787 Dreamliner program and where to build the airplane. There was mega competition between our state and a bunch of others. I remember a half dozen state representatives from various states making a case for Boeing building the factory there. Attracting Boeing jobs to their states and the economy created by those jobs is the thing we want for our whole country moving forward with the Trump administration.
The state of Washington was eager to throw in the kitchen sink to keep jobs here while South Carolina made a similar offer and was rewarded with an assembly plant.
Don’t tell me that every manufacturing company in and out of the US isn’t playing that same game. Who is willing to give up the farm for the jobs our company brings when we choose your state or country.
If our government adopts regulatory policies, tax policies and trade policies that encourage businesses to move jobs out of the country, can we be too surprised when they do move to Mexico, China or Viet Nam?
When the goal of our elected officials is to tear down our country in order to build up foreign economies it all makes sense. The New World Order folks are determined to level the playing field and it will happen at the expense of Americans and America. For me, whatever we do needs to consider American interests first, period.
The two sectors of the economy growing in our country are Service and Public Employees. Since we need a robust service sector to take care of us this group cannot be outsourced. We are making it really easy for immigrants (illegal or legal) to get jobs in the service sector. The problem is that they are the lowest paid sector and only insures that the workers remain poor.
The health care industry is one of the fastest growing service sector components, it does include workers in upper income areas, but since it’s closely tied to insurance companies, it isn’t really a free market industry. Consider how many doctors are retiring because of the government and insurance company restraints. Health care is a growth industry, but because of the regulation and insurance it’s not as much a profit center it once was.
The Public Employees range from Police and Fire Fighters, to city, county and state public works employees, transportation workers and many social service agencies. Federal agencies also employ millions of Americans. The good news for these employees is the pay tends to be higher than service sector jobs. The bad news is public employees work for a non-producing segment of the economy. Public agencies rely on the private sector economy to produce the revenues that feed the growth of government agencies. Can you think of any government worker that is paid the minimum wage?
The bottom line is we need a very robust tech segment coupled with a robust manufacturing segment to create the jobs required to have a growing, producing economy that will produce tax revenues to feed government’s needs. The role of government is to be good stewards of the public funds but since they didn’t have to work or sacrifice to make that money, it is often squandered.
The key is not the government, but the private sector businesses that produce the products and services and jobs that make up a healthy economy.
How could NAFTA or any other international trade agreement that encourages American businesses to move their facilities out of the country be good for Americans?
It used to be that there were American companies and foreign companies. Now companies are international or not affiliated with a country; they are looking out for their share-holders first, second, third and last. Privately held American companies are an exception but they represent a small percentage of businesses and a large number of employees.
If we want to grow the American economy, we need to create incentives to retain businesses and jobs here like we did with Boeing while we consider appropriate penalties for companies that move their jobs off shore but want to sell their goods here in America.
The answers are not simple, but since the companies don’t have allegiance to America first then I’m not as likely to cut them slack if their decisions exploit our economy but don’t enhance it.
If Americans believe that they will get a fair shake from any international government or company, they are nuts. We need to fight for our economy even if it means some consumer goods are more expensive. Build American, Employ Americans, Buy American.
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