PHILOSOPHY and PROGRAM
OF TRUMP
This NATION wants radical change
at Economic and Political levels
Trump promised to do so, as Sanders did, but he
was hit & captured
All depends on how our NATION
organize themselves to press for it
Nothing growth from top to bottom.. we have to org
referendums.
Trump has to select the right
people to implement the Prog below.
Hugo Adan, 11/11/16
POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE: The Trump
Revolution in The United States
The New President’s Herculean Task Ahead
By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay Global Research, November 09,
“When
you give [money to politicians], they do
whatever the hell you want them to do… As a businessman, I need that.” Donald
J. Trump (1946- ), in an interview to the Wall Street Journal, July 29,
2015.
….
“We [the
United States] spent $2
trillion, thousands of lives. … Obviously, it was a mistake… George W.
Bush made a mistake. We can make mistakes. But that one was a
beauty. We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle
East… —They [President George W. Bush
and Vice President Dick Cheney] lied… They said there were weapons of mass
destruction. There were none. And they knew there were none. There were no
weapons of mass destruction.” Donald J. Trump (1946- ), during
a CBS News GOP presidential debate, on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016.
….
“In my opinion, we’ve spent $4
trillion trying to topple various people that frankly, if they were there and if we could’ve spent that $4
trillion in the United States to fix our roads, our bridges, and all of
the other problems; our airports and all of the other problems we’ve had, we
would’ve been a lot better off. I can tell you that right now.
….
—We have
done a tremendous disservice, not only to the Middle East; we’ve done a
tremendous disservice to humanity.
—The
people that have been killed, the people that have been wiped away, and for what? It’s not like we had victory.
It’s a mess. The Middle East is totally
destabilized. —A total and complete mess.
—I wish we had the $4 trillion or $5 trillion. I
wish it were spent right here in the United States, on our schools,
hospitals, roads, airports, and everything else that are all falling
apart.” Donald J. Trump (1946- ) in a GOP presidential debate,
on Tues. Dec. 15, 2015, in Las Vegas, NV.
….
“Throughout history, any profound
political and social change was preceded by a philosophical revolution, at
least among a significant section of the population.” M. N. Roy (1887-1954),
in ‘The Future of Democracy’, 1950.
Trump’s rhetoric and
proposals have been squarely anti-establishment and anti-status quo, both
domestically and internationally. As such, Trump’s victory is a political revolution in the making
because it announces a break from American policies pursued by both Republican
and Democrat U.S. administrations since the 1990’s.
For this reason, Trump’s election inspires both fear
and hope. Fear among the established elites,
especially among the dominating Washington media- financial establishments,
because the Trump victory will undoubtedly be seen as a repudiation of their
values and policies. And after last
June’s Brexit, the writing may also be on the wall for the current crop of
European elites, who have also actively pushed for a globalized world, with
open frontiers, illegal immigration, technological changes, and the
de-industrialization of the more advanced economies.
There is hope, however, among those who
have been left behind economically, politically and socially, especially
among those in the American
middle class whose real incomes have been stagnant or declining,
and who have suffered badly from the agenda and policies pursued during the
last three decades. Over the last 30 years, indeed, the upper 10 % and the
super-rich 1 % segments of the U.S. population have greatly benefited from
a shift
from a manufacturing to a service economy, while the bottom 90 %
was left behind.
Many disenfranchised American workers, especially those with less than a high school diploma,
saw in Republican candidate Donald Trump and in defeated
Democratic primary candidate Bernie Sanders the hope to see things change for
the better. It is symptomatic that Americans in large urban areas
voted massively democratic, while industrial and rural areas voted massively
republican. Contrary to polls, the forecasting models that included the
historical context and the desire for change in their prediction had it right.
This is the case of American University professor Allan
J. Lichtman’s model.
Trump’s Herculean task ahead
President-elect Donald Trump and his team have a Herculean
task ahead of them if they are to deliver on the promises they made.
1- Let us begin with the main
foreign policy changes to be expected.
The biggest losers of the November 8 election will be the foreign policy hawks and the Neocons
in the previous U.S. administrations, from the Bill Clinton administration
to the current Obama administrations. They
are the ones who have pushed to rekindle the Cold War with Russia and who have
designed the interventionist policies, which are destroying the Middle East.
It is expected that a Trump
administration will reverse the U.S.-led NATO policy to provoke Russia by
multiplying hostile military moves at its borders. Also, it can be expected
that a Trump administration will strike a deal with the Russian government of
Vladimir Putin to bring the disastrous Syrian conflict to an end. This is bad news for the murderous Middle-Ages style ISIS
organization.
Of course, a Trump
administration can be expected to turn U.S. trade policy on its head. Trade
policy would likely be paired with an industrial policy. In practice, this could mean
that the two large multilateral free trade and free investment treaties, the
Transatlantic Free Trade agreement (TAFTA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Agreement (TPP) will be stopped in their tracks.
2- The main domestic
policy shifts expected from a Trump administration.
A Trump administration will attempt to prime-pump the U.S.
economy through a series of economic policies. After all, candidate Trump has promised
to boost the U.S. growth rate to an average of 3.5 percent and to create 25
million jobs over the next decade. He has also promised the “overhaul of our
tax, regulatory, energy and trade policies.”
How can a Trump
administration stimulate growth? First, by proposing
a massive $ 4.4 trillion tax cut to spur growth, not dissimilar from the
2001-2003 Bush-Cheney
administration $1.3 trillion tax cut program, which met with
dubious results, besides increasing the U.S. government fiscal deficit.
Second, a Trump administration will attempt to boost U.S.
manufacturing jobs. For that, it would have to do better than the
record achieved during the two Bush-Cheney terms, when the United States lost
over six million manufacturing jobs. To reverse that trend, Trump may attempt
to force the repatriation of the $2.1
trillion profits that U.S. companies are holding overseas and
induce those corporations to invest more within the United States. He may also
raise some import taxes to persuade American-owned corporations to create jobs
in the U.S. — To what extent a Republican-controlled Congress will acquiesce to
such a protectionist trade policy remains to be seen.
Finally, candidate Trump has promised to launch a
massive infrastructure
investment program, stating that he wanted to “build the next
generation of roads, bridges, railways, tunnels, seaports, and airports.”
3- The Trump
government’s social challenges
By far, the biggest challenge that a Trump administration
will face will be to make good on candidate Trump’s promise to abolish the
national health program known as the Obamacare. He has proposed to replace the American health care law with a transfer of Medicaid to the states, accompanied by a
state block grant program, and to provide tax exemption for employer-based
health insurance plans, to be extended to individuals who purchase coverage on
their own. Candidate Trump has even flirted with the idea of having
the U.S. adopt a single-payer health care system. It remains to be seen how
such a complex issue can be resolved.
Conclusion
It will take weeks and months before the Trump
administration’s real agenda becomes clear. Under a Donald Trump presidency,
the United States can be expected to change direction on many policies.
As this revolution unfolds, the eyes of the world will be on the Trump
administration and on the new policies it will attempt to implement. Let us
hope that this will be done with care and intelligent thinking, and not in
precipitation and chaos.
….
Economist Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay is the author of
the book “The
Code for Global Ethics, Ten Humanist Principles”, and of “The
New American Empire”.
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