He's kept more promises than any other.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 10/22/18 at 16:39:07:


Not hard to keep promises that say you'll just reverse everything the previous administration did by executive order.  It's like promising to breath...

T And T Garage wrote on 10/22/18 at 19:09:23:


Wadda load.
Utter nonsense

The CEO of my company agrees with this article, a section of which I pasted below.  He never talks social politics which leads us to believe he leans strongly to the left. But he's a smart man whose lead our company to the top in our industry. He knows how to read the business landscape.

Competitiveness: It might not make a lot of mainstream newspapers, so let us inform you: The World Economic Forum just ranked the U.S. as the world's most competitive economy for the first time since 2008. A lot has happened since then, but mostly the U.S.' No. 1 ranking is a result of the surprise election of Donald Trump.

It's also yet another bit of evidence for why policies truly matter. The last time the U.S. stood atop the WEF global ranking of 140-plus countries, President Obama had just been elected. But he had yet to sign the growth-killing Dodd-Frank and ObamaCare bills, or a wasteful "stimulus" of nearly $1 trillion.

For the next eight years, the U.S.' competitiveness ranking slid, pretty much until Trump was elected and reversed the slide with tax cuts, deregulation and trade renegotiations that pushed U.S. GDP growth roughly 50% higher than it was under Obama.

It was a stark admission by the global group, which includes many of the world's left-leaning elite and superwealthy CEOs and entrepreneurs, of the strides made under Trump. For the record, the U.S. ranked as low as seventh place but got no higher than No. 3 under Obama.

Eegore wrote on 10/23/18 at 06:49:07:


That's a great point Eegore.  Saving a company like GM was a must.  The stimulus was needed.  Yes, it cost a ton, but look what happened to the deficit in 4 years.

There is credit to deregulation.  However, there is also credit to checks and balances.  The financial crash of 2008 was because the banks weren't held in check.  They sold crappy loans to unqualified customers and then sold that debt off - knowing it was a bad deal.

We can't let predatory lending and cheap money drive our banks down that same road.  Dodd-Frank has had parts of it repealed - for better or worse.  If we let capitalism run rampant, the same exact thing will happen as it did in late 2007 (IMHO).

and while we grew, we had slavery, child labor, crazy pollution, poison products, etc...  

so while I can be convinced that some regulations are too burdensome, let's not throw them all away just cause!!!  okay?

WebsterMark wrote on 10/23/18 at 11:19:39:


well, that's good to hear, cause all the anti-regulation rhetoric and the destruction of the EPA, Education departments over the last 2 years and the rollback of financial regulations... I just assumed you all were going to just rollback everything to get back to whenever it was that you thought America was Great,

so, what's the base level of regulation you are comfortable with?