09-28-2015, 04:24 PM
(09-28-2015, 02:53 PM)Au165 Wrote: "because I say so" is not a plan for making something happen.
It actually is. What he's telling you, in his very direct and unpolished manner, is that this is what he wants out of a negotiation. And if he doesn't get it then he's cutting off aid, he's ripping up agreements on technical breaches, and he's imposing tariffs and other retaliatory trade actions.
All that he CAN do, and has more or less said that. Disagree it will work and believe it's bad policy, but stop buying the lazy and ignorant reporting that says he somehow has less of a plan than others and can't do anything he's saying. And I suspect part of the reason for his surge is while everyone standing around crying "you can't do that, that won't work!" others are saying "we haven't tried that and what we did didn't work!".
Like I said, I think he's a clown. But it's interesting to me that he is making a number of good points and talking about some important issues that most politicians have avoided talking about, and the response from the lapdog establishment media is to dismiss him and convince you he's not actually saying anything.
Again, it's just humorous because what Trump is basically talking about is protectionism - even going so far as to use that liberal buzzword "fair trade" - and promising middle class tax cuts wholly unsupported by some trivial tax increases on the wealthy. The mainstream media would be eating this up coming from Bernie Sanders or Hillary, but with Trump it's suddenly unworkable hyperbole.
