old salt wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:47 pm
He's saying we're not going to get involved -->
where the cost benefit analysis is murky.
The cost benefit analysis is not murky in the changes to our force levels that Trump has made since taking office.
You fail to grasp the reality that we were already involved in the ME when Trump took office. He has not gotten us involved in any new conflicts
Yes. Yes he has. What are those troops doing in Saudi Arabia if they aren't "involved in a new conflict"? Are they sight seeing? Or did Trump send them because of new and changing threats from Iran/Yemen?
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old salt wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:47 pmHe's adjusted our force levels in the ME -- shifted them around based on the advice of his military commanders. He has done so,
in a cost effective manner.
Cost effective? Jeezus H on a popsicle stick. Trump has blown more money on the military than any other President since WWII ended.
Cost effective?
If this was even remotely true, military spending would go down.
old salt wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:47 pm
Trump alone saw a political opportunity in defending the working people of America's interior whom the coastal elite of both parties had come to scorn, Hanson argues. And Trump alone had the instincts and energy to pursue this opening to victory, dismantle a corrupt old order, and bring long-overdue policy changes at home and abroad.
Great. So now VDH is an amateur economist, and is buying Trump's BS.
Old Salt----go ahead and list what Trump has done for flyover America. For working people. Go ahead. Should be a long list if it got the attention of VDH, no?
For me? He's just about to sign a bill that will stuff about $250K into my pocket each year, while the service on the debt will surpass total military spending in 2026.
And it's the same deal for all the "coastal elite" I know....all living in big cities. All with great, secure jobs. All getting fat tax breaks. All with six or seven figures in the stock market. A stock market propped by trillions of borrowed dollars.
Meanwhile, Trump's forgotten voters? How's that workin' out for them? Any help with health care? Or education? Or good paying jobs with bennies?
At this point, my bag of popcorn is out, and if this is what people want? Okie-dokie. Sit back, munch on popcorn, and laugh as TrumpFans revel in their self-inflicted wounds because they think Trump's meantweets to libs means he's sticking it to them economically. Nope. They're taking all the money and GDP increases, while flyover American burns.
I'm done caring about them. TrumpVoters are 1000% times more smug than libs. I didn't think that it was possible to be more smug than a lib, but here we are. Four more years of burning under Trump.....and we all know they will STILL find a way to blame the libs for their economic hopelessness.