Ebonhawke

A commentary on Trump's potential economic plan

http://www.vox.com/2016/12/21/140443...p-navarro-ross

Ebonhawke

I'm going to guess that there will be multiple instances of Trump finding out about changes to legislation and programs through the media because they were included as 'riders' in pieces of legislation, that Trump was too busy 'winning' to actually read.

Jerseygirl

The penny obviously hasn't dropped. I only post in this thread now because I know you will be all over me like a bad smell. You never disappoint.

Giantaxe

Maybe a moderator should stop your trolling this thread then

But at least we cleared up who was playing cat and mouse.

Jerseygirl

dakota44

Get ready for an economic downturn. Trump team floats tariffs - CNNPolitics.com

zargof

It wonder how many of the free market capitalists in the GOP will take the time to remove Trump's dick from their mouths so they can object to this.

morpeth

Obama had no experience in an executive position in government nor leading an organization of any size in the private sector. If someone is hired to do a job generally some level of experience preferred. Having said that, considering his lack of experience whether one agrees with his policies or not, he didn't do too badly in running the government for 8 years. Unlike Trump while Obama did portray himself more of a centrist that he was, I do think people who voted for Obama had a fairly good idea of what they were getting.

In Trump's case yes he has had executive experience, but who on earth knows what the country is getting. The Patreus example is a good one- after months of going on about emails and corruption, to even consider Patreus is beyond hypocritical. His other cabinet picks while some are quite qualified people, do seem the opposite types one would choose to "drain the swamp".

Steerpike

Trying to be optimistic ... If there's one thing Trump could do that the liberals would never have the balls to do is to re-invigorate the nuclear power industry. I'm convinced now that nuclear power is a necessary evil, and I believe that with sufficient investment and research, it can be made safe. But the Democrats are just never going to be able to overcome the environmentalist faction that will never allow nuclear power.

Doubt it will happen, but something to hope for.

SultanOfSwing

That's what I am trying to hold on to as well, but sadly it seems that for now the only nuclear angle he's interested in is the weaponised one.

RoadWarriorFromLP

Let's Fukushima everything up!

RoadWarriorFromLP

Vox is right to be skeptical, but I had to wince when it got the GDP formula wrong.

dc koop

They've had nuclear power plants in France for years. Has anyone ever heard of a meltdown in one of their plants? I haven't. If they're built properly and plant personnel thoroughly trained in operation and safety they're far better than the coal burning lung destroying polluters who only the misguided think are still safer.
That being said I don't think nuclear power is a viable alternative for quaky old California. The San Ofre plant was decommissioned years ago

Giantaxe

No fatalities but a bunch of smaller accidents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...country#France

Plus their nuclear power operator seems to be having a lot of issues with its plants:

France’s nuclear-energy champion is in turmoil | The Economist

dc koop

But will they scrap them as they did in Germany recently?