The Rooster
"Okeydoke"
So, Trump is back peddling about all the tariffs and measures with China to bring American jobs back.
Is that really a surprise?
President Trump has no direction to his administration. Treasury Secretary Mnuchin is setting foreign policy. Was there another session of musical chairs?
Trump is dumping his responsibilities to the closest available scapegoat. The scapegoat is usually the Democrats and President Obama. He throws a temper tantrum when there is real work to do to carry out his campaign promises in hopes it impacts the country's politics. That is not a president interested in the country.
May 21, 2018
By Eileen Sullivan
Washington — President Trump defended (click here) his administration’s approach to trade in a series of tweets on Monday following a three-day negotiation session that ended with little clarity.
In his first Twitter post of the day, Mr. Trump questioned why Democrats and the previous administration did not “do something about Trade with China.”...
Donald Trump cannot fire the President of China, so he let's Wall Street be the excuse maker for his ? policies? According to Mnuchin, Trump can't concentrate on foreign negotiations to end a nuclear threat in the Pacific while deciding on tariff policies to protect and return American jobs.
Wall Street had this great rally when Trump took office. Wall Street is currently spending that rally. When that rally is gone or somewhat depleted in profit taking, Wall Street gets nervous. Wall Street is nervous and Mnuchin doesn't want to look like a fool that provided a fist full of cash in January 2017. Wall Street is not smart. They are greedy and they rely on the government to fill it's cash coffers. It is a bubble and bust Wall Street again. It will fail and probably, just like "W" in the last year of office.
Trump has no resolve for the US economy except to reach beyond rational policy and do as demanded by the people that will produce his jobs that he promised the American people. At the top of that Wall Street list are the Koch brothers, too. The Kochs have a huge interest in China and they haven't got a clue as to how to run their businesses with tariffs in the balance. The private family businesses and Wall Street are freaking. Next, Trump will come out with decisions to sign NFTA, TPP and TiPP. No Iran nuclear signature on a completely clear assessment by the IAEA; but; for Wall Street anything. Giving up the Iran Deal is Trump's politics, can't violate that simply because Iran is in compliance.
Trump is a really weak president that allows the poisoning of people so companies can repopulate their profits and provide jobs that will ultimately result in cancers and deaths. The jobs Trump and his minions are placing back on the job market will ultimately kill people. GOT THAT! The jobs in China Trump is promoting are linked to profitability of his family, company or friends. Why does Trump have a low unemployment rate, because, he doesn't care about the well being of the people.
Some time ago there were studies that came out saying Caucasian men in their 50s were dying prematurely in the USA. What if they are so demoralized by their own lives, they know they will die before their wives? What if their deaths in their 50s are okay with them. What if it is part of their culture? Why is it cancer research is okay with Republican spending?
I talked to them. They know they live life wide open; smoking, drinking and in and out of jail and in and out of marriages and paying for many children's support. They don't care, that is part of being a man. Their lives are what they are and they will work jobs they know will kill them prematurely. Those are the jobs Trump's administration is bringing back to the USA job market. Jobs that were eliminated decades ago because THEY KILL and they not only kill the employees but, the community's mortality issues increase because of adverse emissions. THAT IS THE TRUMP LEGACY AND ECONOMY. Bring back the dead.
And what Wall Street do? What do the Koch Brothers do? They rack in the cash hand over fist. Deaths? The companies do provide health insurance, right? Because as a country we cannot afford to treat every American for cancer.
In Flint, Michigan the Governor and his legislature decided a new definition of Emergency Manager was necessary. This EM was allowed to dissolve democracy and bring the balance sheet of the city's treasury to zero and/or profitability. Without any government oversight and disregarding any given by the Obama EPA, Governor Snyder's ruthless EM ended the era of clear water for Flint, Michigan and dosed the entire city with lead.
I suppose what the Governor and his EM didn't know about the Flint River water was better than actually having a conscience. And, no one will tell me Snyder, a Michigander, didn't know the toxic content of the Flint River which received all kinds of industrial discharge.
That is the ruthlessness citizens of the USA are dealing with; disease once under control is alive again, miscarriages because of in utero birth defects reduces a city's population and children are now known to be permanently handicapped due to lead's effect on the brain and nervous system. An entire town in Michigan was not only dosed with lead causing catastophic health problems; it was ignored and allowed to fester for an entire year, before a pediatrician finding heartache after heartache finally came forward to break the silence. What if the silence wasn't broken? What would Flint look like today.
And the Emergency Manager? The law was rescinded with a vote in an election where Snyder was given a second term. The people didn't mind if Snyder was helping the Michigan economy, they simply didn't want him killing people and maiming them and causing miscarriages. What does Snyder do, once re-elected? He institutes the law all over again. The law that has caused such pain and suffering in Flint, Michigan is instituted all over again. The very same ruthlessness is being witnessed by Scott Pruitt and the USA EPA while he spends the American people's money with abandon for his own creature comforts.
When Donald Trump was elected it was the hope of those that voted for him that he would make the Caucasian man dying in their 50s, grow old. They believed Donald Trump would correct the course of wayward policies in DC that were established by "The Deep State." They believed in Republican rhetoric that if an employer was unfairly burdened by taxes it prevented new jobs from being created. They believed in the Trickle Down theory no matter how completely wayward that was. They believed God would finally shine in them and they would have a better quality of life, rather than squalor where custody of their children hung in the balance due to profound poverty.
Donald Trump speaks the rhetoric and FOX news injects it deeper. There is no magic to end the American suffering. Trump's strategies for jobs and wealth are written by a man Mnuchin that sat in the legislative chambers to state, "I know what I am doing, so vote for the tax reform bill."
Trump has no policies and the country is in free fall. That may be exactly what he wants, too.
