Donald Trump

Fascinating comments from DonaldTrump tonight after winning the Florida primary.
I find it interesting that he keeps talking about rebuilding the US military when the US spends more than the next 7-largest countires combined in military spending.

He rightly talks about taking care of returning veterans, but fails to mention that it was the Republican congress that blocked increased spending in medical treatment for vets. A bill that was co-sponsored by Bernie Sanders. It was like when Sarah Palin blamed Obama for her son beating up his girlfriend. He was suffering from PTSD as a returning vet. Ignoring the fact that it was her party that refused to increase benefits for returning veterans.

He actually said that the US needs to look after rich people so that they can look after America.
This is an area that I notice in Canada and the US. The poorest people, particularly white people who are under-employed embrace rightwing politics. It goes back to the Reagan Democrats. Trickle down economics. Look after the rich and elite and you will benefit from their table scraps. They will get richer and some of that wealth will trickle down to you. Blame immigrants, non-Christians and foreign capitalists for your lack of success. Never mind that the elite business owners are the ones that took advantage of free trade to move your company to Third World countries, with cheap labour and lax health & safety standards. Trump will give them a stern talking to and convince them to make their products in America.

The other favourite line of the Conservative movement is that Trump will protect second amendment rights. There is no attack on gun rights in America. Obama is not trying to take away your guns. When George W. Bush bankrupted the American economy, started wars under false pretences, almost lost the auto and banking industries, his great defenders claimed that his job was to keep America safe. Except for 9/11. After 7 1/2 years Obama has kept America safe. He gets no credit for that.

What is Trump going to do to replace Obama care. Is he going to take health care away from millions of people? What is his plan? When he deports millions of people, where are his corporate friends going to find cheap labour? Where is America going to find people to pick crops and work menial jobs? He is going to kick out the Muslims, until he can figure out what to do with them. Why do I suspect that Muslims from Saudi Arabia will be exempt from that rule?

Trump is also going to rip up the Iran deal. Of course there is no plan to replace it. He is upset that Iran was paid $Billions to sign the deal. Of course the money was Iran's to begin with but was frozen by the UN and US. Never mind that the deal was negotiated with all of the US major allies.

Trump's only plan to make America great again is his superior negotiating skills. He is going to talk the Mexicans into building a wall and convince American companies to build their products in the USA.