Hello everyone, Trump is a swine, I don't support the SOB, I don't support politicians, and I feel like vomiting at the thought of our asshole two party system which no one is any longer capable of navigating with any degree of ethics or honor.
Oh, hello again. Here's the shit that's cooking upstairs: I'm thinking there may be a plan to transition the US economy from a very fucked up service economy to a reasonably functioning consumer manufacturing economy. Washing machines and lawn tractors. Dinnerware made here and not in China or Pakistan. Less people working in government and non-government agencies. More factories. Less dependence on government.
I think Trump's plan for right now is to scare people off the welfare system and into what is hoped to become the new semi-skilled labor market. The threat to cut SNAP benefits is like a dull Claymore sword swinging both directions at the poor folks. If it works, people will be more willing, by necessity, to accept lower paying jobs than would be preferred. This will stink for a lot of people, as the cost of housing is exorbitant and beyond the means of the working poor. OTOH, if the fed subsidizes affordable housing programs and at state and city level the money isn't, like per normal, stolen or pissed away on BS, the United States could see a programatic shift from social economics (and corruption) to relatively honest, straight forward goods and services in a private, relatively free market economy.
The cost of real estate needs to go down. The high cost of that shit has been crippling the economy, at household level, for decades now. Pittsburgh used to be affordable, now it's over-priced and hostile. Bad work on the part of leadership. Tsk. If there was a goal to work toward now, it's to achieve a low rent/low wage economy commensurate with consumer manufacturing business models. Thanks for reading.



