President Trump transmitted a message to congress, warning them not to cut Social Security and Medicare {Direct Rumble Link}. Many politicians and pundits will look at Trump’s position from the perspective of it being good to campaign for older voters, but that’s not the core of his reasoning.
In 2016 CTH was the first place to evaluate the totality of President Trump’s economic policies; specifically, as those policies related to the entitlement programs around Social Security and Medicare. We outlined the approach Trump was putting forth and the way he was approaching the issue. In the years that followed, he was right. He was creating a U.S. economy that could sustain all of the elements the traditional political class were calling “unsustainable.”
Before getting to the details, here’s his video message and policy as delivered yesterday. WATCH:
Fortunately, we do not have to guess if President Trump is correct. We have his actual economic policy results to look at and see how the expansion of the economy was creating the type of growth that would sustain Social Security and Medicare. This was/is MAGAnomics at work.
♦ On Social Security – Unlike many other 2016 Republican candidates, Donald Trump did NOT call for rapid or wholesale changes to the current Social Security program; and there’s a very good reason why he was the only candidate who did not propose wholesale changes.
With the single caveat of “high income retirees” (over $250k annually), which previously Trump said he was open to negotiating on, President Trump does not consider these programs as “entitlements”. The American people pay into them, and the federal government has an obligation to fulfill the promises made upon collection.
To fully understand how Donald Trump views the solvency of Social Security, you must again understand his economic model and how it outlines growth.
The issue with Social Security, as viewed by Trump, is more of an issue with receipts and expenditures. If the aggregate U.S. economy is growing by a factor larger than the distribution needed to fulfill its entitlement obligations, then no wholesale change on expenditure is needed. The focus needs to be on continued and successful economic growth.
What you will find in all of Donald Trump’s positions, is a paradigm shift he necessarily understood must take place in order to accomplish the long-term goals for the U.S. citizen as it relates to “entitlements” or “structural benefits”.
All other candidates and politicians begin their policy proposals with a fundamentally divergent perception of the U.S. economy.
The customary political economy theory, carried by most politicians, positions them with an outlook of the U.S. economy based on “services”; a service-based economic model.
While this economic path has been created by decades old U.S. policy and is ultimately the only historical economic path now taught in school, President Trump initiated his economy policy with the intention to change the dynamic entirely, and that’s exactly what he did.
Because so many shifts -policy nudges- have taken place in the past several decades, few academics and even fewer MSM observers, were able to understand how to get off this path and chart a better course.
Donald Trump proposed less dependence on foreign companies for cheap goods, (the cornerstone of a service economy) and a return to a more balanced U.S. larger economic model where the manufacturing and production base can be re-established and competitive based on American entrepreneurship and innovation. This is the essence of MAGAnomics.
The key words in the prior statement are “dependence” and “balanced”. When a nation has an industrial manufacturing balance within the GDP there is far less dependence on the economic activity in global markets. In essence the U.S. can sustain itself, absorb global economic fluctuations and expand itself or contract itself depending on the free market.
When there is no balance, there is no longer a free market. The free market is sacrificed in favor of dependency, whether it’s foreign oil or foreign manufacturing, the dependency outcome is essentially the same. Without balance there is an inherent loss of economic independence, and a consequential increase in economic risk.
No other economy in the world innovates like the U.S.A. President Donald Trump saw/sees this as a key advantage across all industry – including manufacturing and technology.
The benefit of cheap overseas labor, which is considered a global market disadvantage for the U.S., is offset by utilizing innovation and energy independence. This was the core of the economic program that created so much immediate GDP growth in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
2017: […] “This policy will be successful in moving the U.S. economy away from low-growth secular stagnation towards significantly more buoyant performance. We would not be taken by surprise by a doubling of the growth rate of real GDP in the U.S. over the next two years, nor by a further significant move up of equity valuations and a material further appreciation of the dollar.” ~ David Folkerts-Landau, Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank
The third highest variable cost of goods beyond raw materials first, labor second, is energy. If the U.S. energy sector was unleashed -and fully developed- the manufacturing price of any given product would allow for global trade competition even with higher U.S. wage prices. This is why President Trump traveled to Saudi Arabia as his first foreign trip, followed closely by a trip to Asia. He was putting the basics of his U.S. economic policy into place.
Additionally, the U.S. has a key strategic advantage with raw manufacturing materials such as: iron ore, coal, steel, precious metals and vast mineral assets which are needed in most new modern era manufacturing. President Trump proposed we stopped selling these valuable national assets to countries we compete against – they belong to the American people; they should be used for the benefit of American citizens. Period. This was the central point of the Steel and Aluminum tariffs.
EXAMPLE: Prior to President Trump, China was buying and recycling our heavy (steel) and light (aluminum) metal products (for pennies on the original manufacturing dollar) and then using those metals to reproduce manufactured goods for sale back to the U.S.
As President, Donald Trump stopped that practice immediately, triggering a policy expectation that we do the manufacturing ourselves with the utilization of our own resources. Then he leveraged any sales of these raw materials in our international trade agreements.
When you combine FULL resource development (in a modern era) with the removal of over-burdensome regulatory and compliance systems, necessarily filled with enormous bureaucratic costs, Donald Trump began lowering the cost of production and the U.S. became globally competitive. In essence, Trump changed the economic paradigm, and we no longer were a dependent nation relying on a service driven economic model.
The cornerstone to the success of this economic turnaround was the keen capability of the U.S. worker to innovate on their own platforms. Americans, more than any country in the world, just know how to get things accomplished. Independence and self-sufficiency are part of the DNA of the larger American workforce.
In addition, as we saw in 2018 and 2019, an unquantifiable benefit came from investment, where the smart money play -to get increased return on investment- became putting capital INTO the U.S. economy, instead of purchasing foreign stocks.
With all of the above opportunities in mind, this is how President Trump put us on a pathway to rebuilding our national infrastructure.
The demand for labor increased, and as a consequence so too did the U.S. wage rate which was stagnant (or non-existent) for the past three decades.
As the wage rate increased, and as the economy expanded, the governmental dependency model was reshaped and simultaneously receipts to the U.S. treasury improved.
More money into the U.S Treasury and less dependence on welfare/social service programs have a combined exponential impact. You gain a dollar and have no need to spend a dollar – the saved sum is doubled. That was how the SSI and safety net programs were positioned under President Trump. Again, this is MAGAnomics.
When you elevate your America First economic thinking you begin to see that all of the “entitlements” or expenditures become more affordable with an economy that is fully functional.
As the GDP of the U.S. expands, so does our ability to meet the growing need of the retiring U.S. worker. We stop thinking about how to best divide a limited economic pie and begin thinking about how many more economic pies we can create. Simply put, we begin to….
…. Make America Great Again!
We know it works, because we have the results to cite.
It was the Fourth Quarter of 2019…..
Right before the pandemic would hit a few months later…. Despite two years of doomsayer predictions from Wall Street’s professional punditry, all of them saying Trump’s 2017 steel and aluminum tariffs on China, Canada and the EU would create massive inflation, it just wasn’t happening!
Overall year-over-year inflation was hovering around 1.7 percent [Table-A BLS]; yup, that was our inflation rate. The rate in the latter half of 2019 was firmed up with less month-over-month fluctuation, and the rate basically remained consistent. [See Below] The U.S. economy was on a smooth glide path, strong, stable and Main Street was growing with MAGAnomics at work.
A couple of important points. First, unleashing the energy sector to drive down overall costs to consumers and industry outputs was a key part of President Trump’s America-First MAGAnomic initiative. Lower energy prices help the worker economy, middle class and average American more than any other sector.
Which brings us to the second important point. Notice how food prices had very low year-over-year inflation, 0.5 percent. That is a combination of two key issues: low energy costs, and the fracturing of Big Ag hold on the farm production and the export dynamic:
(BLS) […] The index for food at home declined for the third month in a row, falling 0.2 percent. The index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs decreased 0.7 percent in August as the index for eggs fell 2.6 percent. The index for fruits and vegetables, which rose in July, fell 0.5 percent in August; the index for fresh fruits declined 1.4 percent, but the index for fresh vegetables rose 0.4 percent. The index for cereals and bakery products fell 0.3 percent in August after rising 0.3 percent in July. (link)
For the previous twenty years food prices had been increasingly controlled by Big Ag, and not by normal supply and demand. The commodity market became a ‘controlled market’. U.S. food outputs (farm production) was controlled and exported to keep the U.S. consumer paying optimal prices.
President Trump’s trade reset was disrupting this process. As farm products were less exported the cost of the food in our supermarket became reconnected to a ‘more normal’ supply and demand cycle. Food prices dropped and our pantry costs were lowered.
The Commerce Dept. then announced that retail sales climbed by 0.4 percent in August 2019, twice as high as the 0.2 percent analysts had predicted. The result highlighted retail sales strength of more than 4 percent year-over-year. These excellent results came on the heels of blowout data in July, when households boosted purchases of cars and clothing.
The better-than-expected number stemmed largely from a 1.8 percent jump in spending vehicles. Online sales, meanwhile, also continued to climb, rising 1.6 percent. That’s similar to July 2019, when Amazon held its two-day, blowout Prime Day sale. (link)
Despite the efforts to remove and impeach President Trump, it did not look like middle-class America was overly concerned about the noise coming from the pundits. Likely that’s because blue-collar wages were higher, Main Street inflation was lower, and overall consumer confidence was strong. Yes, MAGAnomics was working.
Additionally, remember all those MSM hours and newspaper column inches where the professional financial pundits were claiming Trump’s tariffs were going to cause massive increases in prices of consumer goods?
Well, exactly the opposite happened [BLS report] Import prices were continuing to drop:
This was a really interesting dynamic that no-one in the professional punditry would dare explain.
Donald Trump’s tariffs were targeted to specific sectors of imported products. [Steel, Aluminum, and a host of smaller sectors etc.] However, when the EU and China respond by devaluing their currency, that approach hit all products imported, not just the tariff goods.
Because the EU and China were driving up the value of the dollar, everything we were importing became cheaper. Not just imports from Europe and China, but actually imports from everywhere. All imports were entering the U.S. at substantially lower prices.
This meant when we imported products, we were also importing deflation.
This price result is exactly the opposite of what the economic experts and Wall Street pundits predicted back in 2017 and 2018 when they were pushing the rapid price increase narrative.
Because all the export dependent economies were reacting with such urgency to retain their access to the U.S. market, aggregate import prices were actually lower than they were when the Trump tariffs began:
[…] Prices for imports from China edged down 0.1 percent in August following decreases of 0.2 percent in both July and June. Import prices from China have not advanced on a monthly basis since ticking up 0.1 percent in May 2018. The price index for imports from China fell 1.6 percent for the year ended in August.
[…] Import prices from the European Union fell 0.2 percent in August and 0.3 percent over the past 12 months.
So yes, we know President Trump can save Social Security and Medicare by expanding the economy with his America First economic policy. We do not need to guess if it is possible or listen to pundits theorize about his approach being some random ‘catch phrase’ disconnected from reality. Yes folks, we have the receipts.
This was MAGAnomics at work, and this is entirely what created the middle-class MAGA coalition. No other Republican candidate has this economic policy in their outlook because all other candidates are purchased by the Wall Street multinationals.
America First MAGAnomics is unique to President Trump because he is the only one independent enough to implement them.
That’s just the reality of the situation. They hate him for it…
- Donald Trump American Solutions Part I
- Donald Trump American Solutions Part II
- Donald Trump “America First” Conservative Solutions Part III
- Donald Trump “America First” Conservative Solutions Part IV
Author’s note as said in 2016: “If I absolutely did not believe this economic model was doable, I would never expand the concept and place advocacy upon it. I am an absolute believer that we can, as a nation, reignite a solid manufacturing base and generate an expanding middle class.” Yes, I bet on Trump, and he was right.
The solutions to the retirement funding debacle are all being pursued:
1. Kill as many old people as possible (covid, denial of effective covid treatments, jabs, moving sick people into eldercare facilities, etc)
2. Inflate the currency
3. Raise retirement ages
4. Cut retiree medical (see #1 above)
5. Assisted suicide (see #1 above)
6. Dramatically raising heating and cooling costs (see #1 above)
7. Food quality reduction, regulation of nutritional supplements (see #1 above)
Yes, and again – who is it that is really running our country?
Marx said that dealing with a strong working middle class was easy – you grind them between the wheels of taxation and inflation.
Soros and his Committee of Evil (80+ Organizations) and BlackRock (an Executive has 3 Family Members – wife, daughter & brother – working IN the White House).
And as far as your #5 and #7
…consider ‘hospice’ and ‘palliative care’….a patient’s failure to respond to ‘best practices’…and guess what? Rather than provide a procedure or med that they will respond to…but if not covered by medicare/medicaid, guess what? They seem to hasten the end of life.
I know this in my heart. It’s really hard to admit, but I saw it firsthand.
Me Too!…..Lost 4 in my family over the last 5 years. Care was horrible……drug up and let die.
Now there is something called Compassionate Care. Somewhere between being in a rehab hospital and Hospice. Thing is I cannot find out what they really do. A friend of mine was put on it, she needs heart surgery but they deem her too weak, they can’t find the proper size valve for her, and really don’t seem to be looking too hard for one. Another friend of mine has a mom in a rehab and she has heard the term Compassionate Care tossed about about it as well. She was asking me what I know about it, which is nothing other than a friend was “put on it”.
Not sure what the definition of it is where you live, but here’s what they are doing in NC (which I didn’t know). I haven’t read through it all, but it’s basically medical marijuana:
https://www.mpp.org/states/north-carolina/north-carolina-compassionate-care-act-bill-summary/
The very best thing anyone can do is to maintain a healthy lifestyle, lose weight if necessary, get a moderate amount of exercise, wean themselves from prescription medicines (if possible), live debt free (or at least work toward living debt free), do not take the clot-shot, and most importantly tend to your spiritual needs.
IF POSSIBLE to get them off of Processed Foods, and GMO, etc, as much as possible, More than anything else, Now you find terms in the ingredients like Bio-engineered Flavor enhancers, and GUESS what Dept of Faux Chi labs they come from!!!!
The cost of medical care to the med-cartel that owns hospitals and the vast amount of doctors groups has priced out many and not just the old out of being able to live. Let me add in the drug companies that have murdered many many diabetics as an example by jacking up their life saving meds to sky high pricing for no other reason but a fat bottom line.
Kill off a bunch of younger would-be caretakers of the elderly with mandated vaccines (see #1 above).
#8 😎
I had the same understanding back when Donald Trump announced that he was a candidate. I had worked for and with what I called “pushers” back in my days in the arctic oilfields in Alaska over fifty years ago. I learned from them. When one would walk onto a job, you knew – whatever it took – the job was going to get done. And, you knew that you had better be aggressively working toward that goal, or you would not be long in your job. I saw from the get-go that Donald Trump was a “pusher.” I said at the time that no one else running had the ability or desire to make necessary changes. Nothing has changed my mind about that.
Just a comment on one other thing said in this article – food prices. After moving back to the farm (in the “lower 48”), I have marveled at how efficient and productive food production has been in our country. This, of course, is due to incentive – something that drives any market that is operating the way it should. Today, I am appalled at what I see. Our government is actively trying to reduce our food producing potential. In addition to higher energy prices, our government is actively paying taxpayer money to take productive farmland – and productive grassland – out of production. This is not only marginal land taken out and put into the conservation reserve program – this is highly productive farmland that would rent for relatively high money per acre. And this is not only farmland in the corn belt. This is also the case out in good grassland country, where the bids from the government are high enough to out-bid private ranchers.
In summary, the people in power today WANT to reduce food production and raise food costs. Think about that in today’s inflationary economy. Who is it that is really running our country?
The billionaire globalists who believe they have more and better answers than God.
This is their religion.
At one point, PDJT was asked a similar question regarding our rigged elections; one reporterette asked (I paraphrase) Mr. President who are these people you are referring to?
PDJT said (and I paraphrase) You would not even recognize them, they are billionaires who believe they are in control but they are not smart people, they have a lot of money, but they are not smart, because when those in charge are finished using them, they will be discarded. They are useful political tools and you don’t know them.
I believed him when he said that and I continue to believe it, in fact, it’s confirmed everyday when you see what is happening around the world, since the 2020 election theft.
They really shouldn’t underestimate PDJT.
China, in my opinion.
No, not China. It’s the MIC.
The service based economy and the debt driven economy….back in the day, one had to have a really good credit rating to get a Sears card….or American Express….something changed in the late 70’s early 80’s…
Now we are drowning in debt and forced to use a credit card to carry us to payday….
Yet I am still seeing in my neck of the woods outside of Cook County, the massive numbers of warehouses still being built….and this all started around 1990. The warehouses occupy old cornfields.
Going thru Iowa, on 80 West, past Davenport, there used to be lots of small family farms and dairy herds…slowly disappearing.
One thing is for certain, this was planned for way back and is being built upon time over time…
Hitting Central Indiana hard. People may only think of us for corn, but I promise you… take us offline and everyone is going to feel the pinch in a tangible way. Lord help us all.
To be fair, they are improving nature and the environment 🤮🤑
No they are NOT. JUST to be REAL!
Satan.
Exactly.
The people in power want the rest of us to die in misery. This is an active pursuit on steroids.
I am an oldster so I remember all this – for decades the democrats come out
and say that republicans are going to cut/eliminate social security and medicare.
There were cartoons posted of grandma in a wheelchair being pushed over a cliff.
President Trump beat all of them to the punch! And I love it!
Reading your post I would like to add that President Trump along with the prayers that many of us make each day for God to not only give President Trump ideas that will help to save our country but to also help him to implement those ideas. I really feel that divine action is not only helping president Trump but directing the timing of his actions.
Perfect explanation.
thank you Sundance !
keep pounding the facts about the sell out
POS WEF knob polisher Ron DeSantis !
again and again and again
and again and again
just like propaganda until it sinks in !!
A lateral service industry, is health care. I heard a blurb on the radio today, either WLS or WBBM, about how the hospitals are failing to comply with the Trump era rule about reporting prices for consumers. Also mentioned dismal safety issues….and this is one region, Chicagoland.
In the world of steel, aluminum, and widgets both big and small…it is very hard to “quantify” nursing care, respiratory therapist care, phlebotomy care etc…all of the “care” that goes into a hospitalization and or procedure, be it a surgeon or lowly care technician checking a blood sugar. One generic ‘measure’ used, a patient satisfaction survey, all from the ACA, medicare, medicaid, etc.
And we all know about medicare and medicaid tied in with Social Security…the costs as described within this essay.
IMHO, there is still rampant abuse of said system. There is an increase in the practice of “defensive medicine”.
Just within the last week while being admitted for a fairly complex C-Spine surgery, I was given the full cost estimate for the hospital, surgeon and all related services. I was given a 10% discount for paying my relatively small co-pay right then, which I gladly paid. Thanks PDT
Can’t wait to watch the usual grifters come out & tell us all that the cure is to raise the retirement age & cut the benefit amounts.
Coming from hypocrites whose retirements are funded by the taxpaying public whose benefits far exceed ours & will never be cut.
You first AssHats. You first.
Social Security in its current form is unconstitutional and its administration must be ceded to the state governments as required by the 10th amendment.
The federal gubmint & the US Constitution are complete strangers.
Have been for 💯+ years.
SS is not sustainable in its current form, nor is Medicare. I am on both, but I’m wise enough to know that it simply can’t go on as it is.
In 1933, the average age at death was about 60, retirement age was age 65, so few people expected to reach 65. And SS was just to keep seniors out of dire poverty… and that meant a rented room w/board & utilities, bus travel, etc…Very, very basic.
Medicare is broke, it was never sustainable. And now all SSDI frauds are on Medicare, too.
A generational war is brewing between young and old, and it will be a big problem. Knockouts, etc will become common.
Already many younger people resent us oldsters who worked and saved our whole lives to have a modest paid-up house and retirement savings.
It will be bad.
We can start by getting rid of Supplemental SS that goes to people who did not pay in a dime.
The ones who did not pay in a Dime are most often the ones who were already unable to work in their youth, but their parents paid A LOT. I am one of those, and was stricken at the age of 12. It isn’t “visible” with me, but I simply cannot keep up and end up collapsing for long periods of time.
I have contributes and fall in the age range where I had to, to get anything back, but I’ve never heard of anyone else getting as little as I do, and the Illegals get many many times more than I do, even though my father poured a lot into the system through extremely hard physical work since he was 6 yrs old, until just weeks before he died.
I realize you are thinking of those who just played all through their younger years and never did anything useful at all. I am NOT one of those who had plenty of energy to play and none to use for work.
And today, I know more who fall into that category as I do than those who played – or otherwise cheated the system – bcz their parents or grandparents could afford to let them do so. But I think there are more like me, than many people know, because we are a lot more invisible and you don’t see us at the swanky playgrounds – and never did, even when we were young.
There are plenty of ways to fix what is wrong with it that don’t include what the tone deaf, stupid party always proposes.
Maybe *they* can throw a few million of those many billions being sent to Ukraine into the SS pot!!
– and that’s all I can say about that –
EXACTLY SO! Also the Millions they send to their home town riot squads, as well.
Agreed. Basically this boils down to a combination of sustained economic growth as outlined by Sundance along with some realistic program changes.
The boomers are too politically powerful as cohort to take on and it wouldn’t be very fair to them. As a result Gen X, 1965-1980 will get the shaft.
Raise the full retirement age for Gen X to 70 in one swoop. Then gradually raise it by 3 months for every year of birth for a decade culminating with a full retirement age of 74.
That brings the age much more in line with the reality of the program original goal; the last few years of life get a subsidy not a decade or more.
Modify time paid to qualify from 10 years to 25 years of full-time employment. 74-18= 56 years of adult working life. If a woman has three kids and steps them two years apart, delays reentry to workforce until the youngest child is 6 that’s a decade less of working life; 56-10=46 years to perform 25 years of full-time employment.
End spousal benefit options, this is an individual program, people must make their own individual choices and live with consequences.
For Medicare make it a funded HSA maximizing patient choice among providers with catastrophic care backed by govt. Block grant Medicaid and Obama care funding to the States; let federalism flourish.
A lot of us Gen Xers assumed SS would not be around for our retirement. We have planned on taking care of ourselves, a lot of us higher earners will simply retire and live off savings. We won’t work until we are 74 to pay for the folly of our boomer parents. My parents are always welcome to come live in my home and I will take care of them, but I’m not going to work until I’m 74 for the generation who screwed is all over.
The current generation od slothful kids is part of the SS problem . Non workers pay nothing into the ponzi scheme .
This is why the Chinese Communists, probably inadvertently let loose with Covid when it could have been isolated! They were on the same path as the Soviets were in the 1980’s and COULDN’T afford another Trump Term in 2020! With his tarries and forced trade deals put together by Peter Navarro he was going to grind them down and put them in a very precarious position via their own populace! He may still emerge victorious if he is elected in 2024 because he will be coming with a VENGEANCE! 🫣
I’m convinced it was on own government who released the virus, and that China is being framed.
The underlying fact of PDT’s success in making life better for Americans was that he couldn’t be bought. It was never in doubt that the entire Covid scam was based on China and the Globalists getting smoked financially by PDT’s MEGA policies. The entire crooked global financial system was disrupted by PDT. Was the “virus” released on purpose, YES, was it used to steal the 2020 election and remove PDT from the WH, YES, has America’s middle class been devastated by the globalists and the war on US energy production, again YES. Certainly looks as though the whole destruction of America was planned well in advance.
I recently posited to a friend that the whole “no new taxes under for those making under 400k” was really a way to prevent the middle class from using their new found wealth to influence politics. To wit, once your done with all that you want to support/buy/experience, the remaining disposable cash becomes a powerful force multiplier that can shift political winds in opposition to Wall St.
Put differently, only those with the “right” political views are allowed to break that ceiling. Its a “Big” little club and they don’t want you in it, nor do they want you creating a credible competing club.
DJT represented an existential threat to the club in the form of a successful middle class poised to execute a hostile takeover of the GOP in terms of money and activism. They couldn’t let that happen.
It’s worse actually if you figure the effect of inflation in as many years.
What did that $400k buy twenty, or even ten years ago compared to today?
What will that buy in a few years time?
Sucking up to donors is never a good look. Being pals with any Bush is a really bad look. Ron should remain in Florida until he can use better judgement at the national level. He is making common cause with Republicans that made a drug addict, irresponsible gay guy into a serious candidate that Ron barely beat.
🤔It took President Trump dragging Ron DeSantis across the finish line
😈Now Ron DeSantis says, “show me the money 💰 🤑 ” and no respect to President Trump.
I figured out that the govt was trying to replace (kill) me when I was 30.
Took me a while, admittedly.
No Borders, No Justice, No taxes
Yeah, wtf would Wharton graduate know about economics?
The dim view is we want to give you a smaller piece of the pie.
President Trumps view is screw that let’s make more pies so everyone gets a bigger piece!
Dims cow towing to the globalists wanting it all so long as they get a bit more now……the future? The useful idiots are no longer useful.
I think Mr. Trump wants everyone to have their OWN pie.
I agree with all of Trump’s policies but one, and that is the possibility of means testing for Social Security with the $250,000 threshold. I realize his opinion is not set in stone on this. The Social Security money is not the government’s money, was never the government’s money, and should not be treated as a hand-out when you retire. It’s your money and my money! I did not ask for the money I EARNED to be taken by force from me.
Means testing is a form of socialism. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/social-injustice/
I absolutely agree with you.
Social security is the only entitlement .
We are entitled to it because we paid for it.
Whether we wanted to, or not.
The biggest ‘entitlement ‘in the U.S. today, in my opinion, is the entitlement given to political careerists.
Medicare could be viewed as an entitlement, which by the way we must pay for.
It’s a Ponzi. What we paid went to pay our parents and grandparents.
All the future “surplus” has been borrowed out by Congress since 1968’s “Unified Budget” under LBJ. … And has been borrowed out and and replaced with IOUs ever since… Neither party has been willing to stop it, and as of around 2010, there WAS NO SURPLUS LEFT.
The problem with MAGAnomics, from the elitist point of view, is that there isn’t enough money in it for them.
America First means putting the regular, working class American citizen first, not the multinational money manipulators.
RdS 5’2″ cuck supporters:
BAN hedge funds and the Pentagon sucks.
Thanks.
THE MOST PEACEFUL PRESIDENT EVER!!!
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-Children matter too
Excellent!
What’ll fix Social Security right now is to make Congress, the President, the Supreme Court , and all other federal government employees become subject to the very same law all the rest of us are under. You can bet the farm that Social Security will be “fixed” right now if we all have to live by the same rules.
You be right!
You can kiss MAGA goodbye after Trump leaves the stage and this article is a perfect example of why my statement is true.
Trump, like Reagan, are one-offs. Totally unique.
“America First MAGAnomics is unique to President Trump because he is the only one independent enough to implement them.”
The term MAGA is already becoming a joke, just like the term conservative did after 2000.
Couldn’t agree more. Both were rare eagles found only in difficult to locate aeries.
I hope Trump crushes him. He’s certainly small enough for Trump to step on! It will be nice to see DeSantis looking up to him.
Why “the Big Club” hates ‘Trump’ (and fears HIM and Us/.
Because the most vulnerable wing, of the Uniparty bird, has ALWAYS been the R wing.
Take out the R wing, and the bird can not fly.
And, from the escalator ride on, DJT was an arrow, aimed right at that R wing.
The Uniparty had managed to create a monopoly, in the marketplace of ideas, thru chicanery.
This insured that THEIR policy intiatives steadily advanced, without any REAL opposition or pushback, despite the views of the majority of the people.
They had rigged elections, and a controlled MSM, with Big Tech on their side,…there was NOTHING to stop them,…until Trump.
And, they have been fighting a losing battle, ever since he stepped up, committing forced errors, and sacrifice plays, ever since,…and in the process destroying the weopons that had been most effective at getting them so close to their ultimate goal.
What good is it, to control all of the Institutions, if you destroy the credibilityof those Institutions?
Their mistakes are many, but the fatal one, for them, was not stopping PDJT from winning, in 2016.
And there is no way they can recover the ground lost, now.
I don’t have a quibble with the success of Trump’s economic platform, but that’s not what you are arguing here, Sundance.
The questions are, what level of economic growth is required to sustain Social Security and Medicare? And does Trump’s economy meet that level of growth on a sustainable basis?
A growing economy is an undeniable positive, but the most recent estimate of unfunded liabilities for Social Security and Medicare is over $100 trillion. Does MAGAnomics clear that hurdle?
How about all the money that was stolen from SS and Medicare is put back; that’s a start.
More people working, means more people putting money into the SS system (which I don’t agree with the theft system, but I digress) which can sustain SS and Medicare. Baby Boomers were told that money would be there for them, they count on that money to live. The books need gone over with a fine tooth comb and people booted off the SS system that never paid a dime into it.
Barack Hussein Obama laid it all out in 2009 when trying to convince people that his “healthcare” bill was “good”.
Obama told a woman that maybe her elderly mother shouldn’t have received a pacemaker – that maybe she should have just taken a pain pill (and died) instead of still being alive at 105.
It’s time to organize. Let’s start with everyone on this thread. Once the government executes a murder plan against its own citizens its relationship with the people is irrevocably severed.
Larry Kudlow has been citing statistics that the Federal plus State and Local governments, are now consuming 42% of GDP! This is obscene. We The People need to push our State Legislatures to vote for the Article V Convention of States to cut government at all levels back to their Constitutionally-mandated scope and size. In particular, the 16th Amendment must be repealed – the only way to cut government, is to de-fund it.
Doing that with an already broken Voting system is a guarantee for 80% of the population to be sent through the Gulags.
It is an evil thing to work that way for the Shysters, to have RIGGED Constitutional Conventions, where the SUPER MAJORITY is GUARANTEED to LOSE EVERYTHING including their LIVES.
If they won’t pay attention to the original Constitution, they won’t honor a new one.
Government’s core tasks, and only priorities, should be: secure the safety of the citizenry by reducing crime; secure the safety of the country by controlling the country’s borders, and by maintaining an appropriate military force; and enabling economic growth, especially by promoting and enabling cheap, reliable energy availability to all citizens.
Anything else government does, is superfluous and should be suspended until those three priorities are achieved.
First, the Treehouse is the only place I know where I can get this kind of analysis and get it consistently.
Second, there is no question that the Trump presidency improved my life in pretty much every way, with the exception of my own stupid mistakes.
The Uni-Party club is not my friend in any way. Certainly not the Uni-Party (upper half) Democrats and definitely not the Un-Party (lower half) Republicans. These people are actively working for themselves, their families, and their financial backers. They are working directly against me personally and every other freedom-loving American.
THIS is how a real President speaks!
Russ Vogt has been saying this on War Room for weeks. He was one of Trump’s economic advisors and I assume he is still talking to Trump, or at least Trump is listening.
SS and Medicare do not need to be touched. There are PLENTY of other things to cut. Heck, we’re spending almost a trillion on the Military Industrial Complex. And for what? Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and maternity battle fatigues? Just about every institution can be cut and no regular “Joe or Jane” in America would feel it, except for the bureaucrats in the institutions and I simply cannot bring myself to feel that bad for them.
When the debate host put the question together for the republicans candidate for president that will let us know what the goal is and we will be pissed.
You have been impeached twice.
You are the cause of the insurrection.
You held top secret documents and had the FBI get them back.
On and on it will go.
Sundance, that was an excellent article, laid out in some detail. What I gather from it is Donald John Trump is the ONLY man capable of really saving America, if it isn`t already too late. Without doubt, President Trump is the most feared man in the World because they all know he can bring the United States of America back to its absolute best, Militarily, economically, energy independence, manufacturing capital of the World, the one Country everyone will want to come to and live, and also, the rest of the World will continue to live in the shadow of the Greatest Nation on Earth. That is why it is imperative for President Trump to win the 2024 Presidential Election.
Thank you Sundance!
I hope you will continue to re-introduce this important information to us again and again.
We readers are all too likely to be misled by the outrage game, but real information of the kind you is important to keep us focused on the big picture!
Thank you for Continuing to Explain this Situation to people who are interested in the Truth!
I am frankly Stunned at the Conservatives who want DESPERATELY to believe that DeSantis is “IMPORTANT” to have on the TRUMP TEAM – and usually as “More important to Trump”, than Trump is to DeSantis.
Sometimes, people and their Stage Door Johnny CRUSHES on “Flashy People” just makes me CRINGE so strongly.
Sprinkle enough Sugar on Arsenic Popsicles, and they would eat them up all day long and tell you how nutritious they are, if they could only live that long.
They are so exasperating.
Like people who fall for Every Chain Letter Pyramid scheme that comes along, and keep on falling for each New one!
So what did any of this have to do with Ron DeSantis and he was your headline?
Guv Ron == Establishment Republican CON Inc Wall Street $$$ thots =./= MAGAnomics
There is nothing conservative or good for the economy in government “dole” programs. It hurts any economy to rob from Peter at the point of the gun of tax extortion, to give freebies to Paul.
And Paul in that saying also represents the looters, not just welfare queens.
The problem is not taxing, but government spending.
Learned a lot from that article. Thanks.
Medicare and SS are not “entitlements” for those of us that worked for 50+ years paying into them.
It’s “Small return on our large investment”, actually.
DeSantis Advisors Are Reportedly Preparing For His 2024 Presidential Announcement https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/01/29/desantis-advisors-are-reportedly-preparing-for-his-2024-presidential-announcement-n2618878
I won’t vote for Desantis, and I don’t think he has a chance against President Trump.
No Trump, no vote. Down ballot eGOP’ers beware. There are not many Republicans in this country. When Trump supporters stay home, the eGOP’ers get washed away by a Blue Wave…again.