10-21-2017, 07:07 PM
(10-20-2017, 08:06 AM)SteelCrysis Wrote: I'll let Ben do the heavy lifting on this, but as for benefiting the middle class, Trump has opened up insurance so that there can be interstate competition.
It remains to be seen whether that will "help the middle class".
Trump hasn't really done much so far, no major law passed. (which should be easy with majority in House and Senate)
To me Trump seems like the last of an old guard "I know how business works I must be a leader" type guys. A man out of time whose ideas are from an era that hasn't existed for a long time in this country.
More women than men go to college now, the population is almost 30% non Caucasian, gay folk are a significant minority population, and we're living a lot longer at huge expense. (not to mention being about the only market on the planet that does not regulate pharma prices)
Trump's mentality seems rooted here:
An America that hasn't existed for decades.
The poor see him as some kind of savior of business who will return the factory jobs, but the guys who own the factories can't bring them back with the huge labor cost disparity, they answer to board of directors, not DJT.