Your Expectations For The Trump Administration

[gnadfly]

I posted a similar thread in the ASPD days. Back when Obama was taking office I asked "What were you expectations? It has to specific and measurable. It can't be "he's not Bush."
Sadly most of the responses, especially by the Austin Reacharound Crew was "Not Bush."

So again I ask, what are your expectations for the Trump Administration? They can either be results you want him to achieve or results you think he will achieve.

My expectations:
-GDP growth will reach 5% by end of 4 years
-Fed Interest rate goes up 2%
-Unemployment around 5% with many more people in workforce
-NAFTA and TPP re-worked to our advantage
-Major US Market Indexes up 25%
-BLM airtime drastically reduced
-Trillion dollar US infrastructure approved by Congress
-US/Mexico Fence built
-400K dangerous criminals illegally in country deported
-My health insurance premium cut in half

These are some of mine. Yours?

[IIFFOFRDB]

TRUMP will stick to our principals... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2654...-dennis-prager

Source of Human Rights

Left: government

Right: the Creator



Human Nature

Left: basically good (Therefore, society is primarily responsible for evil.)


Right: not basically good (Therefore, the individual is primarily responsible for evil.)



Economic Goal

Left: equality

Right: prosperity




Primary Role of the State

Left: increase and protect equality

Right: increase and protect liberty




Government

Left: as large as possible

Right: as small as possible



Family Ideal


Left: any loving unit of people

Right: a married father and mother, and children



Guiding Trinity

Left: race, gender and class


Right: liberty, In God We Trust and e pluribus unum



Good and Evil

Left: relative to individual and/or society

Right: based on universal absolutes




Humanity's Primary Division(s)

Left: rich and poor; strong and weak

Right: good and evil




Ideal Primary Identity of an American

Left: world citizen

Right: American citizen



How to Make a Good Society


Left: abolish inequality

Right: develop each citizen's moral character



View of America

Left: profoundly morally flawed; inferior to any number of European countries


Right: greatest force for good among nations in world history



Gender

Left: a social construct

Right: male and female




Most Important Trait to Cultivate in a Child

Left: self-esteem

Right: self-control




Worth of the Human Fetus

Left: determined by the mother

Right: determined by society rooted in Judeo-Christian values



Primary Source of Crime


Left: poverty, racism and other societal flaws

Right: the criminal's malfunctioning conscience



Place of God and Religion in America

Left: secular government and secular society


Right: secular government and religious society



American Exceptionalism

Left: chauvinistic doctrine

Right: historical reality




Greatest Threat to the World

Left: environmental catastrophe (currently global warming)

Right: evil (currently radical Islamist violence)




International Ideal

Left: world governed by the United Nations, and no single country is dominant

Right: world in which America is the single strongest entity



Primary Reason for Lack of Peace in Middle East


Left: Israeli settlements in the West Bank

Right: Palestinian, Arab and Muslim denial of Jewish state's right to exist



Purpose of Art

Left: challenge status quo and bourgeois sensibilities


Right: produce works of beauty and profundity to elevate the individual and society



Guns

Left: ideally universally abolished, except for use by police, the armed forces and registered sportsmen

Right: ideally widely owned by responsible individuals for self-protection and the protection of others




Race

Left: intrinsically significant

Right: intrinsically insignificant




Racial, Ethnic and Gender Diversity at Universities

Left: most important

Right: far less important than ideological diversity



Black America's Primary Problem


Left: racism

Right: lack of fathers



Greatest Playwright

Left: entirely subjective; there is no greatest playwright


Right: Shakespeare



War

Left: not the answer

Right: sometimes the only answer




Hate

Left: wrong, except when directed at the political

Right: wrong, except when directed at evil




Cultures

Left: all equal

Right: some are better than others



America's Founding Fathers


Left: rich white male slave owners

Right: great men who founded the greatest society



Purpose of Judges

Left: pursue social justice


Right: pursue justice



National Borders

Left: a relic of the past

Right: indispensable for national survival




View of Illegal Immigrants

Left: welcomed guests

Right: illegal immigrants




Nature

Left: intrinsically valuable

Right: made for man

[Guest123018-4]

I believe he will not be Hillary.

If he can decrease the size of government and along with it our taxes, I will be more than pleased.

I do not care so much about a wall but rather that our immigration laws are enforced.
The leftists "care" about people so they create sanctuary cities filled with immigrants that are not here legally. These "immigrants" drive down the value of the labor market to the point that our citizens cannot make a living wage. Then the leftists cry out that the wage must be artificially increased and blame everybody but themselves.

I hope he eliminates as many bureaucracies as possible and stop allowing those other than legislators to pass laws.

[Jackie S]

My greatest expectation has already been met.

HILLARY CLINTON WILL NOT BE PRESIDENT.

Anything else is just icing on the cake.

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by The2Dogs

I do not care so much about a wall but rather that our immigration laws are enforced.

The existence of barriers along our borders enhances enforcement.

Creating an environment that favors job and income growth for employees, which means positive changes to increase revenues for small business, which drives our economy.

With increased economic activity will come increased government revenues (taxes) even at lower rates to spend on defense preparedness and infrastructure development.

In the second term building on those gains and improving our relations around the world to assure that conflict does not increase and/or spread ... and hopefully reduce that which currently exists. By making it safe to travel abroad and export our productivity we can increase our revenues from overseas and improve our economy.

[tinypenis]

More hate crimes.....against white people. More sjws rioting.

[gnadfly]

Originally Posted by IIFFOFRDB

TRUMP will stick to our principals... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2654...-dennis-prager

You know you pasted something 10 pages long that could of easily have fitted onto one page if you used "paste as text" and done a little editing. The kicker is you didn't specify whether you were left or right.

just sayin'...

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by gnadfly

You know you pasted something 10 pages long that could of easily have fitted onto one page if you used "paste as text" and done a little editing. The kicker is you didn't specify whether you were left or right.

just sayin'...

A "link" is nice .... that way one has an option ..

....and it doesn't get "downloaded" .. on the one's computer.

[Rey Lengua]

Originally Posted by Jackie S

My greatest expectation has already been met.

HILLARY CLINTON WILL NOT BE PRESIDENT.

Anything else is just icing on the cake.

+1 !!!! And that shrilLIARy won't be making any nominations to SCOTUS !

[Old-T]

Originally Posted by gnadfly

I posted a similar thread in the ASPD days. Back when Obama was taking office I asked "What were you expectations? It has to specific and measurable. It can't be "he's not Bush."
Sadly most of the responses, especially by the Austin Reacharound Crew was "Not Bush."

So again I ask, what are your expectations for the Trump Administration? They can either be results you want him to achieve or results you think he will achieve.

My expectations:
-GDP growth will reach 5% by end of 4 years Too much of this is out of the hands of the president to "control" so I don't know that I have an expectation on this one.
-Fed Interest rate goes up 2% OK
-Unemployment around 5% with many more people in workforce That would be good, but 5% may be a bit too optimistic.
-NAFTA and TPP re-worked to our advantage Agree, but the changes might be less than some want.
-Major US Market Indexes up 25% Again, may be a bit optimistic. I think anything over 18% would be very good.
-BLM airtime drastically reduced Hopefully many of the fragmenting vocal groups will be less visible, because there will be real progress on reducing the underlying problems.
-Trillion dollar US infrastructure approved by Congress I certainly hope so, and one with as little wasted pork as possible.
-US/Mexico Fence built I will be surprised if this one happens.
-400K dangerous criminals illegally in country deported OK
-My health insurance premium cut in half Yours might, but at what cost? This is a blob of silly putty--reduce yours, it balloons somewhere else. Unless both parties take this one off the front page and work on something in a truly non-partisan way this is going to be an ugly mess for a lot longer than four years.

These are some of mine. Yours?

Overall I think that's a good and reasonable list. Except for the last one--in today's Politics Is About Winning mindset I don't expect any viable solution to the health insurance problem any time soon.

The one I would add to my wish list--but it is every bit as difficult as health care--is sound educational reform.

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by Old-T

The one I would add to my wish list--but it is every bit as difficult as health care--is sound educational reform.

That should be easy:

Dismantle the "Department of Education" (or least defang it) and enforce the 10th amendment ... let the States control their own educational programs and curriculum.

[Old-T]

Originally Posted by LexusLover

That should be easy:

Dismantle the "Department of Education" (or least defang it) and enforce the 10th amendment ... let the States control their own educational programs and curriculum.

And how would that fix the problem? The DOE has NOT be a productive organization--I grant you that--but getting rid of it does not fix the problem. Fixing education will take at least 16 years of dedicated non-partisan cooperation. It has to be fixed from 1st grade on up. And the DOE is not the reason we focus on "fixing"things once kids get to HS when we have set 12+ years of rot into their K-12 education.

Eliminating DOE will fix very little. Within five years we would likely be back to Separate But Equal, and the quality of schools in rural WV, MS, urban ghettos, and on reservations would be be no better. Paying exorbitant amounts of money to bus one student to a different school because of trumped up "orthodox Judaic needs" (NYS) is a LOCAL travesty, not a federal one. Schools in parts of FL with outhouses because "there is no $$ to fix the toilets"--while a school in the same school district with a different ethnic demographic gets a new gym (nothing was wrong with the old one) is a LOCAL decision. School buildings in mostly native American area of SD with almost no heat is a LOCAL decision. The city of Albuquerque currently paying 4 different heads of APS (and two Univ presidents) because they keep hieing/buying out criminals and buffoons is a LOCAL incompetence. There is very little evidence to say that state or local control will make things any better.

[TheDaliLama]

Italia Italia Italia

[rexdutchman]

IIFFORRDB +++++++++100% (however w/ all the damage the libertarts have done 4 years may not be enough tome)

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by Old-T

And how would that fix the problem?

What "problem"?

Some folks need to "create a problem" so they can "fix it"!

Let's assume for the purposes of this discussion that you had a good basic education before moving onto "higher education," and you accomplished the academic skills to qualify to experience "higher education" ... which means you had good RRR's that facilitated your self-learning and self-regurgitation skills so you could absorb material and repeat it on exams and thereby graduate from some level of "higher education," if not a "vocational school" that provided you employment skills.

At your age you accomplished that WITHOUT THE "DOE"! Right?

You know the old saying: If ain't broken, don't "fix it."

And, according to your success story, it WASN'T BROKEN until the Liberals decided they know more about "education" than those hicks from wherever you went to primary and secondary education.