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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: Trump's Cabinet Picks
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:39:04 +1100
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On 19/11/2024 11:38 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:22:13 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/18/2024 3:07 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 09:01:09 -0500, chuck <donnyduck@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Trump the Great Protector has succeeded in duping Americans to fear by
>>>> depending the issues. The outcomes will reduce taxes for the rich,
>>>
>>> The wealth of "The rich" is mostly in stocks or productive
>>> enterprises. If you tax them, they will sell stocks or industries, and
>>> that will cause inflation and unemployment.
>>>
>>> The tax-the-rich thing is mostly jealousy. We should be grateful to
>>> the rich for diverting dollars away from consumption and into
>>> investment.
>>
>> No problem, cut taxes for the rich and then make big cuts in the Federal
>> administrative state, I'm OK with that. The better part of 80% of
>> civilian Federal employees work for the "military industrial complex" in
>> some capacity: DOD, DOJ, FBI, CIA, VA, Homeland Security..
>>
>> That's not what Musk et al are gonna do though. They're gonna be like
>> "We cut the 3,700 people left in the Dept of Education, guys. We did it.
>> we saved the budget."
>>
>> and then just swap the 325,000 military-adjacent employees for some
>> different goons.
>>
>> It's not any secret the kind of Federal government the modern right
>> wants, it's the "night watchman" state. Nobody left in government but
>> jackbooted tough guys stomping around shouting at people and demanding
>> everyone's papers.
> 
> The Left lost big on the election because they make no sense.
> 
> Hint hint.

The hint is that John Larkin couldn't make sense of what they offered.

The reality is that the US has a very high level of income inequality 
and the majority of voters aren't doing well. This doesn't help an 
incumbent government.

Trump didn't have anything to offer except change (and he wasn't all 
that explicit about what those changes might be) but that was enough to 
get him elected.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney