12th November 2016, 8:38 PM
Doing more to get companies to pay their workers in other countries more is a very good idea, but matching US wages isn't; the standards of living in different countries are very different, so you need a lot more money to live decently in this country, or Europe or such, than in much of the third world. I agree with paying them more, but matching US wages would never happen, companies would find ways around it. And it'd be quite a bit more money than those people need to live similarly to someone working for that company here.
In other news, since Trump won, we've seen news stories saying that:
- He is completely unprepared and did not think, or really want to, win. There's a picture of the group watching returns at Trump HQ I presume, everyone else is cheering while he looks quite down. And that news article saying that he doesn't really want to live in the White House and would rather stay in Trump Tower ("can I come home on weekends, like members of congress?")... lol.
- He is totally unprepared and doesn't have a set transition team yet, much less much of a clue what kind of administration he will have. Only NOW has the press bothered to start asking questions about what Trump actually believes about issues. Umm, this is something you should have been pushing hard for months ago you know! The first big question is, will he go with the Steve Bannon of Breitbart for his Chief of Staff, or Reince Preibus of the RNC? Or will it be someone else? That'll say a lot about which directon he goes in.
- Will he decide to take on the Republican Party on issues such as the trillion-dollar infrastructure bill he wants to pass, or his signature anti-lobbying reforms? Republicans they have blocked such things for years now, of course, but Trump just doesn't care about deficits like a post-Bush Republican "should", so how hard will he go after his own party for this stuff?
So yeah, his incompetence and ignorance are so massive they're almost amusing, and it will be interesting to see if he really takes on his party, that won't help his chances of getting much done. And we don't want them to get much done, with how bad it'll surely almost all be!
On the other hand, of course, probably the worst effect of a Republican administration will be the massive damage it is sure to have on the climate. He's already talking about trying to find a way out of the Paris accords, putting a climate change denier in charge of the EPA, etc. How can people be so unbelievably stupid that they deny the terrifyingly obvious on this issue? It's incredibly sad for any slight chances we had for warding off some extremely bad effects of global warming... which is, of course, already a problem, but it'll get much much worse.
In other news, since Trump won, we've seen news stories saying that:
- He is completely unprepared and did not think, or really want to, win. There's a picture of the group watching returns at Trump HQ I presume, everyone else is cheering while he looks quite down. And that news article saying that he doesn't really want to live in the White House and would rather stay in Trump Tower ("can I come home on weekends, like members of congress?")... lol.
- He is totally unprepared and doesn't have a set transition team yet, much less much of a clue what kind of administration he will have. Only NOW has the press bothered to start asking questions about what Trump actually believes about issues. Umm, this is something you should have been pushing hard for months ago you know! The first big question is, will he go with the Steve Bannon of Breitbart for his Chief of Staff, or Reince Preibus of the RNC? Or will it be someone else? That'll say a lot about which directon he goes in.
- Will he decide to take on the Republican Party on issues such as the trillion-dollar infrastructure bill he wants to pass, or his signature anti-lobbying reforms? Republicans they have blocked such things for years now, of course, but Trump just doesn't care about deficits like a post-Bush Republican "should", so how hard will he go after his own party for this stuff?
So yeah, his incompetence and ignorance are so massive they're almost amusing, and it will be interesting to see if he really takes on his party, that won't help his chances of getting much done. And we don't want them to get much done, with how bad it'll surely almost all be!
On the other hand, of course, probably the worst effect of a Republican administration will be the massive damage it is sure to have on the climate. He's already talking about trying to find a way out of the Paris accords, putting a climate change denier in charge of the EPA, etc. How can people be so unbelievably stupid that they deny the terrifyingly obvious on this issue? It's incredibly sad for any slight chances we had for warding off some extremely bad effects of global warming... which is, of course, already a problem, but it'll get much much worse.