JimofPennsylvan
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The media has made a big-to-do about President Donald Trump's one hundred days in office and as expected there was a heavy focus on Trump's "try to figure it out as we go" strategy on tariff's which we now know has given us a negative GDP growth for the first quarter and almost certainly a recession and higher prices for the American consumer. Some media outlets have tried to give President Trump a good grade on some subjects but really they are not giving a fully accurate analysis the truth of the matter is that every significant matter President Trump has touched he has screwed up for the American people! The Wall Street Journal in their principal editorial article yesterday said Trump has done well on the energy issue and southern border issue but if they considered America's best interests at heart they would recognize that he has screwed these issues up too; the Trump administration has or is slated to approve more Natural Gas export terminals but that is an incredibly stupid move fist off America is the largest Natural Gas exporter in the world and before President Trump was sworn in this January there was uncompleted LNG export terminals in the works America has extremely low natural gas prices which is extremely valuable to America from a low electricity price, cheap heating and inexpensive various manufacturing feed stock standpoint since natural gas in America is largely produced in shale fields which have a very limited life span and are not universally popular across America future shale production will not be plentiful and will lead to higher natural gas prices, so Trump here is trading some of America's future prosperity for short term reward to energy investors. On the southern border Trump has managed to ruin one fortuitous outcome of the recent elections which was that the American people en masse wanted illegal immigration stopped with his efforts to deny illegal immigrants due process and his decision to do things like stop distinguishing between long-term productive immigrants and criminal immigrants. On this overall issue Trump recently revealed one major problem with his ability to do a good job as President, Trump recently said there is approximately twenty plus million illegal immigrants in America you cannot expect my administration to give all twenty plus million due process. He is so unknowledgeable about policy, that is the whole point behind the comprehensive immigration reform movement because the U.S. government practically will not be able to legally deport twenty plus million illegal immigrants; prudent Americans want the federal government to permanently stop and shutdown the foreigners illegally emigrating to America and once they have proven they have solved the incoming problem then we can legalize the illegals that have been in America for a moderate to long period of time and solve this problem for America!
The media has really missed the most alarming lesson about Trump's one hundred days in office, it is Trump's behavior that the media treats as a footnote about the Trump administration that is the most dangerous aspect of the Trump Presidency. No President heretofore in America's history has used the President's regulatory power as a weapon to force Americans and American businesses to submit to his will in matters unrelated to the subject of the regulatory power in question. It is astonishing and alarming beyond words how this President coerces even the most powerful businesses to bend to his will with his veiled and unveiled threats of the use of the President's regulatory power. America's most prestigious law firms which are supposed to be champions of rights and to be unintimidatable acting like they are the cowardly lion character in the Wizard of Oz and agreeing to Trump's terms and giving unheard of amounts of free legal work. Or this past week Amazon, America's largest or second largest retailer, when they made a media release that the company on their receipts for customers was going to report how much of the price the customer paid was due to the Trump administration' s tariff's; and how Trump that day telephoned the CEO and principle owner of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, and shut down that action by the company. Now Jeff Bezos is the third richest man in the world and is largely universally viewed as in the select elite group of America's Oligarchs he is a devout globalist he is one-hundred percent against trade barriers as a matter of fact he recently shockingly implemented a policy for the Washington Post which he owns that their editorial pages are to always defend personal liberties and free markets and to not allow any article to be published that violates these principles; and Mr. Bezos caved on this call with Trump like he was a house of cards and a key card was yanked out, not standing up for the American consumer and the education of them about these poorly thought out tariffs which will raise prices!
America cannot do anything about this "authority abusing" Donald Trump he won last year's election so we are stuck with him for the next three and a half years as President. But once he gets out of office both bodies in Congress in bipartisan majorities should pass the same resolution calling out this abuse of power by the President where the President's regulatory power is used as a weapon to penalize a person or business in America where the impetus for the use of this power is not the subject matter of the regulation but ulterior reasons. This should be labeled as not consistent with American values and a person that holds the character where they would abuse power like this is "unfit" to be President of the United States! It is important for the Congress to do this so America never sees a person like President Trump from this vantage point become President again! The world has seen before this Trump like abuse of power; if people in America were asked who is the most abusive authoritarian leader in the world many many American's would say Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia. Well Mr. Putin on his way to power followed this play book of Donald Trump, after the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990's a few Russian Oligarchs built large Russian energy companies; these Russian energy companies offered power to Putin because the wealth of these energy companies could be used by Putin to build a powerful army and police state. So what did Vladimir Putin do he without justification conducted investigations into these energy companies and found wrongdoing where none existed and fined and criminally charged these oligarchs out of their companies. A President's abuse and misuse of regulatory power is crystal clear governmental wrongdoing and the American people need to shut this behavior down like the sky is falling on it or our Democracy and the rich quality of life it provides will be a victim to this wrongdoing!
The media has really missed the most alarming lesson about Trump's one hundred days in office, it is Trump's behavior that the media treats as a footnote about the Trump administration that is the most dangerous aspect of the Trump Presidency. No President heretofore in America's history has used the President's regulatory power as a weapon to force Americans and American businesses to submit to his will in matters unrelated to the subject of the regulatory power in question. It is astonishing and alarming beyond words how this President coerces even the most powerful businesses to bend to his will with his veiled and unveiled threats of the use of the President's regulatory power. America's most prestigious law firms which are supposed to be champions of rights and to be unintimidatable acting like they are the cowardly lion character in the Wizard of Oz and agreeing to Trump's terms and giving unheard of amounts of free legal work. Or this past week Amazon, America's largest or second largest retailer, when they made a media release that the company on their receipts for customers was going to report how much of the price the customer paid was due to the Trump administration' s tariff's; and how Trump that day telephoned the CEO and principle owner of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, and shut down that action by the company. Now Jeff Bezos is the third richest man in the world and is largely universally viewed as in the select elite group of America's Oligarchs he is a devout globalist he is one-hundred percent against trade barriers as a matter of fact he recently shockingly implemented a policy for the Washington Post which he owns that their editorial pages are to always defend personal liberties and free markets and to not allow any article to be published that violates these principles; and Mr. Bezos caved on this call with Trump like he was a house of cards and a key card was yanked out, not standing up for the American consumer and the education of them about these poorly thought out tariffs which will raise prices!
America cannot do anything about this "authority abusing" Donald Trump he won last year's election so we are stuck with him for the next three and a half years as President. But once he gets out of office both bodies in Congress in bipartisan majorities should pass the same resolution calling out this abuse of power by the President where the President's regulatory power is used as a weapon to penalize a person or business in America where the impetus for the use of this power is not the subject matter of the regulation but ulterior reasons. This should be labeled as not consistent with American values and a person that holds the character where they would abuse power like this is "unfit" to be President of the United States! It is important for the Congress to do this so America never sees a person like President Trump from this vantage point become President again! The world has seen before this Trump like abuse of power; if people in America were asked who is the most abusive authoritarian leader in the world many many American's would say Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia. Well Mr. Putin on his way to power followed this play book of Donald Trump, after the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990's a few Russian Oligarchs built large Russian energy companies; these Russian energy companies offered power to Putin because the wealth of these energy companies could be used by Putin to build a powerful army and police state. So what did Vladimir Putin do he without justification conducted investigations into these energy companies and found wrongdoing where none existed and fined and criminally charged these oligarchs out of their companies. A President's abuse and misuse of regulatory power is crystal clear governmental wrongdoing and the American people need to shut this behavior down like the sky is falling on it or our Democracy and the rich quality of life it provides will be a victim to this wrongdoing!