President Trump’s Address to Congress,
Liberal proposal #1
“… We have formed a Council with our neighbors in Canada to help ensure that women entrepreneurs have access to the networks, markets and capital they need to start a business and live out their financial dreams.”
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Bret notes,
Keep in mind that making sure women have access to the networks means they are prioritized over men who may be more qualified. This is a form of affirmative action for feminists.
President Trump’s Address to Congress,
Liberal proposal #2
President Trump’s Address to Congress,
Liberal proposal #2
“I have further ordered (my agencies) … to coordinate an aggressive strategy to dismantle the criminal cartels that have spread across our Nation.”
Bret observes,
This is not so much Liberal as it is naive. The largest criminal cartel in America that needs to be dismantled is the Federal Government in its Corporatist expression.
The cynic would hear this quote and say, “Yeah, the FEDS want to dismantle the criminal cartels because they don’t want any competition.”
President Trump’s Address to Congress,
Liberal proposal #3
“I will be asking the Congress to approve legislation that produces a $1 trillion investment in the infrastructure of the United States — financed through both public and private capital — creating millions of new jobs.”
Bret observes,
Legion are the books from Conservatives blasting FDR for Government make-work infrastructure projects during the New-Deal era. Yet many conservatives today are cheering this President and this speech as if we have found the second coming of John Calvin Coolidge. Trump is proposing Keynesian economics. To spend a Trillion dollars on infrastructure means either printing more money (can you say inflation?) and / or increased taxation. This is pure Liberalism.
Also there is no draining the swamp as long as the swamp is flooded with money. More Government spending means more Government.
President Trump’s Address to Congress,
Liberal proposal #4
“Tonight, I am also calling on this Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare with reforms that expand choice, increase access, lower costs, and at the same time, provide better Healthcare.”
Bret observes,
This is infantile. This is a “Chicken in every pot” type of promise. It is simply not possible to do all this and at the same time to make sure every American is covered by health insurance, as Trump promised in a statement in January,
“We’re going to have insurance for everybody. There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.”
President
Trump’s Address to Congress,
Liberal proposal #5
“My administration wants to work with members in both parties to make childcare accessible and affordable, to help ensure new parents have paid family leave … “
Bret responds,
Paid family leave means those not being on paid family leave are paying for it. Redistribution of wealth program. Pure Keynesianism again.
President Trump’s Address to Congress,
Liberal proposal #6
President Trump talked about the need to introduce efficiency by rolling back regulations at the Food & Drug Administration and at the Education Department. A Conservative President would have instead called for the elimination of these Agencies since they are not Constitutional. It is progressive politics to desire that these unconstitutional agencies have any role at all in prescription drugs developed or in setting policy for Education from Washington.
President Trump’s Address to Congress,
Liberal proposal #7
“I am sending the Congress a budget that rebuilds the military, eliminates the Defense sequester, and calls for one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history.”
Bret observes,
Trump is going to,
1.) Cut Corporate Taxes
2.) Cut Middle-Class Taxes
3.) Spend a Trillion dollars on domestic an infrastructure project.
4.) Reform Healthcare so that it covers all Americans.
5.) Provide one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history.
6.) Increase funding for Veterans
7.) And all this while being fiscally responsible.
Only 5-year-olds believe in the tooth fairy.
In the end, Trump revealed last night, with his address to Congress, that he remains an FDR Democrat. Principled people continue to have next to zero representation in Washington.
