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Trumps Top Issues

Spindrift

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The White House web site has listed it's top issues:
America First Energy Plan - Coal, let's dig some more that no one wants and Oil, they need more money.

America First Foreign Policy - We're going to be armed to the teeth so don't **** with us. And because he's the greatest deal maker in the world, trade deals that favor America, which I'm sure every country will be happy to sign on to.

Bringing Back Jobs and Growth - 25 million new jobs! By letting companies keep more of their money! Maybe, just maybe trickle down will work THIS time.

Making Our Military Strong Again - Because we don't have the same number of ships and planes we had in 1917. Let's ignore that we have more aircraft carriers than the rest of the world combined and lots of other ships. But we don't have coal tenders anymore. And how is that going to be paid for?

Standing Up for Our Law Enforcement Community - Let's build that wall!

Trade Deals for All Americans - The worlds greatest negotiator to the rescue again!


Nothing about Health Care or Climate Change.
 
Spindrift said:
The White House web site has listed it's top issues:
America First Energy Plan - Coal, let's dig some more that no one wants and Oil, they need more money.

America First Foreign Policy - We're going to be armed to the teeth so don't **** with us. And because he's the greatest deal maker in the world, trade deals that favor America, which I'm sure every country will be happy to sign on to.

Bringing Back Jobs and Growth - 25 million new jobs! By letting companies keep more of their money! Maybe, just maybe trickle down will work THIS time.

Making Our Military Strong Again - Because we don't have the same number of ships and planes we had in 1917. Let's ignore that we have more aircraft carriers than the rest of the world combined and lots of other ships. But we don't have coal tenders anymore. And how is that going to be paid for?

Standing Up for Our Law Enforcement Community - Let's build that wall!

Trade Deals for All Americans - The worlds greatest negotiator to the rescue again!


Nothing about Health Care or Climate Change.
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Trump's top issue is Feeding Donald Trump's ego.
 
Spindrift said:
Nothing about ...Climate Change.
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Tell me what all the rhetoric about AGW has actually done? The world is still putting out as much CO2 as ever. But you had hoped our next pres would have made a difference?
 
casebro said:
Tell me what all the rhetoric about AGW has actually done? The world is still putting out as much CO2 as ever. But you had hoped our next pres would have made a difference?
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The Paris Accord which was just signed.

I'm hoping our next pres wouldn't ignore it, but given his rhetoric, that's unlikely.
 
casebro said:
Tell me what all the rhetoric about AGW has actually done? The world is still putting out as much CO2 as ever. But you had hoped our next pres would have made a difference?
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Eehn, the world may be, but the US is way down thanks to fracking
 
casebro said:
Tell me what all the rhetoric about AGW has actually done? The world is still putting out as much CO2 as ever. But you had hoped our next pres would have made a difference?
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This is absolutely a case where the answer is, "Yeah, but what would be doing if we weren't trying to make a difference?"

I realize it is deceptive and not as good, but "slowing the increase in CO2 emissions" is a difference.
 
casebro said:
Tell me what all the rhetoric about AGW has actually done? The world is still putting out as much CO2 as ever. But you had hoped our next pres would have made a difference?
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Per unit of production, factually not true. If you look it up, with GDP adjusted by inflation, we are using less CO2 to produce more stuff.

Globally it is still rising , but the "rising" is less than it was before.

if you expected an immediate stop with a fall, you were wrong. The objective were always to try to stop rising too quick, and slowly shifting toward non CO2 producing source, so that over time we reach a point where we don't put as much , possibly reach a log rise. Still bad but not as much as the exponential rise we had.
 
More bs from the website:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-trump

Mr. Trump won the election on November 8 of 2016 in the largest electoral college landslide for a Republican in 28 years.
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In the real world:
Trump did better than Bush the lesser. That's it. And he needs to look up the definition of landslide. And he got 3 million less in the popular vote than Clinton.
 
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The funny thing is that "America first" has always been our policy - it's right there in the Oath of Office.

By declaring it openly, Trump is putting the US in a worse negotiation position: before, we used to appeal to common ideals and mutual benefits.
But if the US admits to being only interested in furthering its own goals, other countries will dig in their heels and negotiate twice as hard.
 
Spindrift said:
Still there for each topic. If they're trying to remove it, they aren't that good at it.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/america-first-energy
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For too long, we’ve been held back by burdensome regulations on our energy industry. President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule. Lifting these restrictions will greatly help American workers, increasing wages by more than $30 billion over the next 7 years.
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No comment really. Naturally this call still be BS word with no action behind, but I have the sinking feeling that this will be the biggest , deepest deregulation that the US will have seen for decades, with EPA and other agency being ham stringed to nothingness.

How much damage can they do in 4 years. Is there any bookie online I can place a bet ?
 
The Great Zaganza said:
The funny thing is that "America first" has always been our policy - it's right there in the Oath of Office.

By declaring it openly, Trump is putting the US in a worse negotiation position: before, we used to appeal to common ideals and mutual benefits.
But if the US admits to being only interested in furthering its own goals, other countries will dig in their heels and negotiate twice as hard.
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Don't worry, Trump is the best deal maker ever. He will work wonders like he did with the USFL, Trump Casinos and Trump Air.
 
Aepervius said:
No comment really. Naturally this call still be BS word with no action behind, but I have the sinking feeling that this will be the biggest , deepest deregulation that the US will have seen for decades, with EPA and other agency being ham stringed to nothingness.

How much damage can they do in 4 years. Is there any bookie online I can place a bet ?
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In 4 years they can put a pretty big dent in nearly 50 years of improvements to water and air quality.
 
Spindrift said:
In 4 years they can put a pretty big dent in nearly 50 years of improvements to water and air quality.
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And trying to damage planned parenthood as much as possible. Also giving universal "access" (scare quote intentional) to health insurance plan.

It will be a fascinating and morbid to watch.
 
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