Nevada has spoken. The caucusing yesterday was not a repudiation of Trump but a confirmation of his broad based appeal to even hispanic voters. Looks like Jeb voters spilled into his winning 42% of the vote with the Jr senators each sharing about 20% of the vote. Experience and age will always Trump youth and inexperience. Reagan used this great one liner against one of his opponents in a debate with devastating results, right up there with Trump's conjoining Jeb Bush and "low energy".
It is looking more and more like a Trump victory on the republican side, and the SEC is poised to catapult Trump even further along in his quest. The support for Trump is wide based and spans all demographics. Women, men, low skilled workers, high skilled workers, low education levels, high education levels, the rich and the poor. The only demographic he does poorly with is the permanent parasite class which depends on government for its handout, be that small welfare checks or large contracts for government subsidies and favored contractees. Losing here is the country club elites of the GOP who have become more Pirates than Party. The pirates are not happy.
Trump threatens to end the business as usual between K Street and congress. The money will still be in Washington, but getting an unfair share will have just gotten a lot harder for some and easier for others...
No one is advocating ending welfare for those who truly need it because it is much easier to feed people than it is to jail them. But higher level insider dealings will be looked at as optional and perhaps the funding to say determine why many lesbians are so fat to the tune of a million and a half dollars, may be cut. Government backing for losing industries such as ethanol and solar may face greater scrutiny.
It has long been my contention that government is make work for the barely employable, but it has been taken to insufferable levels. And now the people in government are under the belief that they do not work for the people and in all honesty were the country a dog, the people and tax payers would be the body and the government would be the tail. That the tail is wagging, no beating the hell out of the dog is an understatement. The tea party uprising in 2010 was the uppity dog's attempt to stop the bleeding from the relentless beating, and the tail's response was to deny tax exemption status through Lois Lerner and the revenuers over at Treasury with the blessings of both parties. More proof the tail is above the dog and aloof.
If Trump's victory shakes up this upside down relationship and brings some honesty and accountability to these bad actors and can refocus on serving and protecting the people and the country, then it will have all been worth the trouble.
It is high time to crop this tail. The dog has finally had enough. A 13 trillion dollar economy with a 4.5 trillion dollar tail is ridiculous!
Mr. Trump, build that wall and trim that tail!
Trim the deficit by reducing each government worker's pay by what ever the percentage the deficit is of the gross revenues. This would give each department incentives to make government run more efficiently.
I am
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center 100 and 10 percent government subsidy free
Live Subsidy Free or Die!
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