EliteKiller wrote:Excellent .... finally a poster who is prepared to justify what he says ....
"the protests have Trump rattled" - unless you have insight to his state of mind this is pure guesswork .... crystal ball commentary ....
"really hurt him that his inauguration had far fewer people than the amount of people who marched on DC""It's going to be impossible to gauge how many people exactly attended Trump's inauguration as opposed to the Women's March Saturday"] ... Mayor's Office in Washington ....
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/21/politics/womens-march-donald-trump-inauguration-sizes/What I would agree with is that across the USA more people marched, but then the inauguration was only in Washington so you can't compare ... remember Occupy Wall Street had equally large numbers, but in the end achieved almost nothing and is now a memory ... unless a social protest has a clear end game '
end the Vietnam War' for example, it can't succeed ... it's great to see freedom of speech being expressed, however if the end game is to remove Trump then a few million marchers versus a 330 million electorate? that ain't going to work ... they will get their chance in four years time ... that's just how US Democracy works ...
"lowest approval rating of any incoming President in American history"Now I know the USA has a relatively short history but it is longer than the last century, as the approval question was first asked in the 1940's by Gallup ... the term
'in American History' is clearly false. Now if you had said
'lowest rating since Gallup began asking the question' then that would have been correct ....
fair play for spotting that ....
''nominated vastly unqualified people for Cabinet positions'' - again unless you have personal knowledge of their CV's this claim is bogus, what are the qualifications for a cabinet position? ... their suitability will be put before congress ... they will all get voted in ... are you saying that congress would appoint unqualified people? they may be the wrong people for the job, but that does not make them 'unqualified'
''A lot of Trump voters already have buyer's remorse'' you quote the Huffington Post who are commenting on a Twitter feed? without another election nobody has a clue how voters would vote today ... there's a strong argument that many Dems are even more fed up with their own party than they were three months ago, and that many more Obama voters wouldn't bother to turn out now he's gone ... but it's all conjecture without another election ... wait and see in four years ...
''many won't have health insurance now'' - again you are using a crystal ball commentary - only when the PPACA is repealed, and only if any replacement has no provision for current policy holders, and only if current policy holders are not grandfathered, then and only then could there potentially be policy holders who lose their cover ... as I said it's crystal ball commentary, CNN stuff ... you just have to wait and see ...
"jobs back that are never coming back" - I take your excellent references on this, where I questioned your statement was in its blanket nature ... sure most heavy industry jobs will never return, but jobs in fabrication, clothing, communications, electronics? ... all these have left due to the cheaper costs of completing them abroad and then importing the end product or service back into the USA ... by making the cost of undertaking these jobs comparable in the USA then companies will bring them back ... operationally that just makes sense ... how to do that? import duties, tax breaks, subsidies, that's the tricky bit ... but in theory it can be done ...
It's great to have a poster who knows how to make a cogent argument, I unreservedly apologise for my earlier comments, still think you overstated your case but at least you backed it up .... thanks
Re march vs inauguration numbers: Pictures from the same angle show a more dense and widespread crowd for the march than for the inauguration. While there won't be concrete numbers for either, we can see that more people showed up for the DC march.
Re Trump's Cabinet: Many are unqualified because they lack the necessary experience and competence, and there are conflicts of interest with a few of them:
-Steve Bannon, Chief Strategist: Leninist edgelord
-Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State: close ties with Russia, appears uniformed about world events
-Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education: no education experience, a lobbyist who wants to privatize education, no experience with public education and student loans, stake in a student loan company
-Rick Perry, Secretary of Energy: wanted to get rid of the department, didn't know what the department did
-Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: drill, baby, drill
-Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: grew up in a Detroit ghetto, believes all people have to do is pull themselves up by the bootstraps to escape the hood (failing to realize he's the exception to the rule)
← But like I've said, I wouldn't have minded him as Surgeon General-Jeff Sessions, Attorney General: accused of being racist many times over the years, dismisses civil rights
-Andrew Puzder, Secretary of Labor: opposes national minimum wage (good in theory since each state has different costs of living, but communism works in theory), vocal critic on worker's protections
Yes, I do believe the Senate will approve most of them despite their lack of competency for their nominated positions. A major problem in America today is people tend to vote along their respective party's line instead of going with their conscience. Our partisan government is known for gridlock.
Re jobs: Despite Trump saying he'll bring factory jobs back to the Rust Belt, manufacturing
has already been coming back over the past few years, but not because of tariffs on imports. It's due to automation decreasing costs while increasing productivity. Robots can sew a shirt, construct a vehicle, and put together furniture more efficiently than humans. But, factory jobs aren't going to be the only ones automated; even transportation (e.g., truck drivers and public transportation employees) will be automated within the next 50 years. The problem is going to be reeducating those workers for future jobs instead of giving them false hope about jobs that are never coming back. Also because of automation, a universal basic income needs to be implemented, or there won't be many people who can purchase goods and services.
