First, we’ll build a wall to keep Mexicans out. You know those wetback illegals who come across our borders and commit rapes and other crimes – they’re causing a crime wave. We’re going to keep them out, and Trump will also get the Mexican government to pay for the wall. We’ll protect jobs and our citizens, and America will be great again!
Second,
we’re going to deport all 11,000,000 illegal aliens who are already here. No, it doesn’t matter that some families will
be split up or that many of the children in those families were born here. They aren’t citizens of the U.S. and they
don’t belong here. We’ll kick them all
out and America will be great again!
Third, we’ll
put people in the Executive Branch who know what they are
doing because the people who are there now don’t have a clue, says
Trump. Trump claims to know how to run a
business, so he will be able to make this government work for you by hiring the
best people he can find. So he starts by
choosing Chris Christie to stand behind him at every possible moment and Sarah
Palin as worthy of an Executive position in his administration. Look for some more failed governors to make
the list, and remember the Donald’s words: “You won’t believe how great it will
be” - - government will work like it should, and America will be great again.
Fourth, we’re
going to put law-breakers - like young mothers who have
abortions –
in private for-profit jails
because we aren’t going to allow law-breaking to go unpunished, and we are
going to run the prisons like businesses so they can profit from increased
incarceration of people of color
And here are
several additional important things we are going to do to make America great
again:
·
Encourage
people to fight back against those holding different ideas, especially the
“liberal press,” women, minorities, government welfare abusers, gays, and
‘foreigners.’
·
Treat
protestors like vermin and forcibly reject them; they’re nothing but free-loading
hippies anyway – why don’t they just get a job!
·
Bomb enclaves of
terrorists and not worry about damage and death to innocents; kill them all
with atom bombs
·
Encourage
the rich and their businesses to pay as little in taxes as they can arrange
under current laws; use the tax system to pay as little in taxes as
possible. Be the first presidential
candidate not to share tax documents.
·
Oppose
the establishment in every way possible – forget about the fact that they have
some experience in legislating and politicking that might be useful –
government is rotten and wants to take everything we have especially our guns
and our money
·
Attack
groups – like Muslims, women, illegal-status immigrants and individuals when
necessary-- when those attacks help your cause with other groups, without any
regrets
·
Cut
the taxes of the rich but oppose the raising of the minimum wage for workers
·
Never
reveal anything concrete to be done; act only when it looks good for you
·
Obliterate
with words and deeds every SoB that crosses Trump or doesn’t agree with him, or
the Donald simply doesn’t like
It’s time to
rip this phony, self-aggrandizing businessman apart. He epitomizes the medicine man of days gone
by who offered remedies that cured nothing because they never contained healing
substances in the first place. Donald
Trump is a liar and a faker, and a menace to America, not the one who can or
will make America great!
Someone whom
I respect a great deal, Senator Elizabeth Warren, had a few choice things to
say about the BIG-MOUTH EMPTY-MINDED TRUMP in a recent speech at the
annual gala for the liberal nonprofit Center for Popular Democracy, as reported
by Mother
Jones:
“"Let's
face it: Donald Trump cares about exactly one thing—Donald Trump," said
the senator from Massachusetts, according to her prepared remarks. "It's
time for some accountability because these statements disqualify Donald Trump
from ever becoming president. The free ride is over."
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She also zeroed in on a topic that has been a growing
cause of frustration for Democrats (as well as for some Republicans): Trump's
refusal to release his tax returns, as major presidential candidates have long
done. "Maybe he's just a lousy businessman who doesn't want you to find
out that he's worth a lot less money than he claims," Warren speculated. Echoing a video from her
2012 Senate campaign, Warren emphasized that "Donald Trump didn't get rich
on his own." He inherited a fortune from his father, she said, and
"his businesses rely on the roads and bridges the rest of us paid for. His
businesses rely on workers the rest of us paid to educate and on police forces
and firefighters who protect all of us and the rest of us pay to support."
Warren quoted a recent
statement from Trump attacking the 2010 Dodd-Frank law, passed by Democrats
to try to rein in Wall Street, for imposing too many restrictions on bankers.
Trump pledged to roll back the law should he win the White House. "Donald
Trump is worried about helping poor little Wall Street?" Warren said.
"Let me find the world's smallest violin to play a sad, sad song. Can
Donald Trump even name three things that Dodd-Frank does? Seriously, someone
ask him."
The common
belief is that people with a business background are apt to be effective
managers in governments. However, it is
my contention that business men or women are actually at a disadvantage in
government. They are used to operating a
business by Executive order, expecting underlings to carry out their every
wish. If managers or workers don’t
perform their duties as ordered, they can be fired. In business, that usually works without a
problem (given the facts of lower union membership and loss of collective bargaining
rights in some states). In a government -
especially federal government – firing anybody is not an easy process.
More
important, perhaps, is the tendency of departments, offices, commissions, agencies
of all kinds to have their own loyalties, their own rules, their own norms and
standards, and their own milieu. Often
there is a perceived need to ‘protect’ or ‘enhance’ their unit, which leads to
resistance and delay in implementing orders from POTUS. It is the nature of the beast and is not
necessarily confined to public agencies.
A business background (rather than experience with politics) can often be
a disadvantage in such a situation that is loaded with political and other-than-business-like
operational issues, like having to represent others fairly.
Of course,
there is that labor union thing that the Donald does not take to with great
enjoyment. He doesn’t like bargaining
with underlings. Unfortunately for the
Donald (and other big businessmen who have worked in the White House or in the
federal bureaucracy) powerful unions exist, in addition to Civil Service rules
and laws which also lay down a good number of job protections for all to
obey. One large union is the National
Federation of Federal Employees considered "a key player in backing
collective bargaining and appeal rights of [federal] employees." As of
2007, NFFE represented about 100,000 federal workers (Wikipedia). But other
unions exist on the federal level meaning that different unions represent
workers in different departments. The
American Federation of Government, the International Association of Machinists, the National Treasury Employees Union and the National Association of Government
Employees (a division of the Service Employees International Union)
also represent federal employees.
Trump’s modus
operandi are related to his particular business background. In some circles it would be described as a
‘cutthroat’ approach, where allies are used and enemies are abused and often
obliterated. In real estate and
development, it is important to operate in such a manner – to rise to the top
of the heap – because the one who grabs power gets the deals, controls circumstances
and produces profit. The latter
operating principles are not necessarily the most helpful in the implementation
of non-profit programs, policies and guidelines. Nor are they helpful in terms of
relationships to other countries and peoples – often described as ‘diplomacy’
which for a developer, is useful only so long as the person being ‘wooed’ is
not aware of the sham and is not resistant to ‘charm.’ Otherwise, they are written off as undesirables
and are abandoned by the wayside.
Trump’s
background in the real estate business, and his political campaign so far,
provide us with clues as to what it will be like to have him in the Oval
Office. Moreover, the experience of him
so far provides clues as to what he will be doing (or NOT doing) for YOU, the
voter-citizen.
Trump says that CHAOS
will happen under a Clinton administration, but that is a stretch when Clinton
has political savvy, legislative experience, diplomacy and executive
functioning in her background while Trump has only the dictatorial model of business
administration in his. Where will that
chaos show itself under Trump?
1)
Conflict
with either a majority or larger plurality of Democrats in the Senate. Trump will alienate and abuse this group if
they don’t act as he directs. If any
moderate non-Trump-supporter Republicans remain in the Senate, they may give
him some trouble as well. If the Speaker
of the House remains a non-supporter of Trump, expect some delay on most Trump
proposals in that House.
RESULTS for YOU: continued deadlock and delay in any
major legislation that affects your life, among these items: minimum wage, public
transportation, infrastructure, public education, healthcare coverage including
Medicare & Medicaid.
All of this is going to catch up with your daily life, and
you will have losses and increased costs that you did not expect, mostly
resulting from inattention to your needs.
However, there will be some actions and changes that become law, and
thus make it into your supposedly isolated life.
One example: Trump wants all
states to be able to pass gun carry laws that apply to all public places. How safe will your children be in school once
the Donald signs legislation for a countrywide carry bill? Whether teachers carry or children carry or
both, your children will be in danger of being shot in their classrooms and
school environs.
Example #2: watch out for Trump
trying to please Evangelicals by signing legislation that allows religious
objections to health care provisions – birth control specifically – you won’t
be covered in many cases. Or, if you are
a member of the LGBT community, watch out for new laws that allow discrimination
against you by using religious exemptions. That particular ploy could become
rather routine, so watch out for religion becoming a pawn in the attempt to
curb certain actions that are now legal (like abortion) but won’t last for
longer than 50 days in a new Trump administration.
Example 3: Do you like the stability of Social Security, Medicare and
Medicaid? Well forget it. No matter what you have heard, none of these
systems is in serious funding trouble now, but the chaotic approach of
Republicans will reduce each of them to a state of total vulnerability by means
of SS personal accounts, Medicare vouchers and contraction of benefits when
Medicaid is administered by states that can’t afford current administrative
support levels. Add to that the repeal
of Obamacare and you are in the worst bind ever in terms of healthcare
coverage. You won’t be able to afford
anything but the very basic coverage replete with co-pays, limits to overall
coverage, no coverage for your young adult children, and lots of minimums and
maximums that will have you in limbo financially before you know it.
2)
A
vote for Trump for President means even more Chaos
in our lives. How about war? Don’t care much for it? But those in the
appropriate age group will for certain end up in the Middle East or Asia and
Africa fighting people that Donald Trump decides need a lesson in American
greatness and might. Given what he has
said already about Muslims, eliminating radical Islamist groups, threatening to
use atomic weapons, and standing up to China and Iran and Syria and the Caliphate,
we will be at war within a year of Trump assuming control. Many will not only
be asked to volunteer to risk their young lives, but I believe a draft will be
restored to show that America means business because it is so great. Then recall that war spreads its chaos at
home as well as overseas. Prices rise,
shortages occur, families lose members, over-spending becomes a necessity and
as a nation we become more vulnerable to the hate and disgust of other
nations. Given the belligerent attitude
of Donald Trump, the chaos of War is inevitable.
3)
Another
inevitable proposition: Donald Trump, if elected President, will savor the
moment(s) he gets to nominate a Supreme Court Justice! He has already indicated
that he will be looking for someone opposed to abortion, in favor of protecting
our borders, and pro-business. Need we
say more? His first appointment will
restore the conservative majority on the Court and from that base will emanate
the chaos of decision after decision that
will undo civil rights, long-term voter and consumer protections, equal justice
for rich and poor alike, and the separation between church and state. Trump’s first appointment would come right
after his inauguration (assuming that President Obama’s nomination is never
considered), and then we would experience a series of decisions unseen in the
history of the Court.
4)
Let
us be sure to mention the chaos that will
be created when this man of the Big Deal makes decisions based first on what he
considers convenient, next on what is provocative, and finally on what is powerful. In other words, Trump changes his mind on
policy, principles and actions based on what is right for his image and status at
the moment. He can change from pro-life
back again to pro-choice, back again to pro-life; or from punishing mothers who
have abortions to punishing only doctors who perform them, back to punishing
mothers again. And, just to remind you one
more time -- one more chaotic action based on a false premise of religious
freedom: Abortion will be made illegal, and many people will suffer because of
that, not just doctors.
5)
But
finally, let us not forget the CHAOS that inevitably
results from the misuse of power by those who hold government offices,
especially the Presidency. Recall, if
you will, the enormous chaos caused by Nixon’s use of staff, his Attorney
General, White House lawyers, his Watergate “plumbers,” surveillance by government
agents, and the accusations of use of the FBI to embarrass and perhaps charge
enemies with crimes. Nixon misused the
powers of his office to protect himself and to damage his enemies. This is what we shall face if a pathological
liar, a narcissist, a man who prefers to obliterate and destroy enemies, and a
media-hater who favors muzzling of the press when they seek accountability from
him. If Trump gets elected this year,
look out for the all-encompassing CHAOS just
waiting to devour us.
Again, the
Donald can say one thing one day and something else the next day, and still
think he’s being consistent and not chaotic. Creating chaos by changing one’s policies from
day-to-day simply to always be able to conclude a deal, is not how you run a
government. Certain steady principles
are needed in the public sector simply because people’s lives are affected, and
so is governmental functioning; no one can depend upon or determine how they
stand when CHAOS reigns.
Chaos is not an effective strategy or operational paradigm. Chaos costs money, chaos
affects lives adversely and chaos takes
stability and tears it to shreds.
WE MUST
SPREAD the WORD: DO NOT VOTE FOR TRUMP! Why vote to fill your life
with the chaos of a right-wing
government built on the all-too-prevalent dictatorial management style of
corporate America? It will not be to our
benefit or honor, as a just and generous People who constitute and revere this freedom-loving
Nation, to have it ravaged by the likes of one man placed in an office for
which he is eminently unqualified.
Remind
everyone you know that "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute
power corrupts (men like Trump) absolutely" (with apologies to
Lord Acton).
