a rupture of our relationship with Mexico over a stupid campaign vow to make Mexico pay for a wall on its border with the U.S. bodes ill for how foreign policy is going to be conducted under this President. A destabilized Mexico constitutes a great security risk; a hostile Mexico even more so. Down the rabbit hole we go.
Less than a week in office and he has proven himself a foreign policy disaster. Anyone surprised?
Location: Perched on the precipice of the cauldron of truth
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Jan 26, 2017 - 5:58pm
a rupture of our relationship with Mexico over a stupid campaign vow to make Mexico pay for a wall on its border with the U.S. bodes ill for how foreign policy is going to be conducted under this President. A destabilized Mexico constitutes a great security risk; a hostile Mexico even more so. Down the rabbit hole we go.
I really hope his meltdown occurs before he wrecks the economy.
Just to be clear, the border tax is the establishment repub's idea. Trump is on record as being opposed to that tax.
And when it all is said and done, paying for the wall is an expense that should be paid for by the USA. Its our wall. It should have been built a long time ago. It was authorized a long time ago to be paid for by us, not Mexico. But it may be a good thing that it wasn't built yet cuz Trump will do it properly, the first time.
We already wasted that amount of money on Solyndra and other similar companies that went bankrupt that would have paid for it.
We will see what happens in the future to the market. I was simply pointing out that market went up — a lot — during Obama's administration, and I recall hearing from many critics (perhaps you, as well) that no credit was due Obama. I am not arguing that credit necessarily would be due, but it seems rather premature to give Trump credit for market increases, which, as you point out, can be due to many circumstances. If the market has gone up because of speculation of what Trump may do and what that might mean for economic growth, then we will need to see if all that speculation proves true in the longer range. That sound reasonable?
Absolutely. And I was simply addressing Krugman's claim which has already been proven false.
