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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTrump Just Told The Truth . . . Two horrifying policy announcements (Huffington Post)
Trump Just Told The Truth, And Its More Terrifying Than His Racism And LiesGrant Stern
11/05/2016 05:37 pm ET | Updated 9 hours ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-just-told-the-truth-its-more-terrifying_us_581e495ce4b0102262411844?section=us_politics
Donald Trump just released a pair of true statements about policy . . .
only days from the election ending, Donald Trumps campaign just released the Republican nominees plan to cut $100 billion dollars in federal climate change spending over eight years, presumably to pay for the ridiculous tax cuts to the rich he proposes.
In late October, Trump also announced another policy; to turn Americas highways and byways into a for-profit business venture . . .
The Trump private roads and transportation plan was unveiled on Oct. 27th, but the full impact took a few days to be understood.
When the Republican candidate claims at rallies to want a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending, naturally voters assume that the assets would be publicly owned and free to use.
. . .
In fact, Trumps transportation infrastructure plan would privatize most of the new construction, make it all toll driven and concentrated in wealthy areas . . .
Luckily, Bloomberg noticed something amiss and reported extensively on the pernicious Trump campaign climate change spending plan:
Donald Trump says he would save $100 billion over eight years by cutting all federal climate change spendinga sum his campaign says would be achieved by eliminating domestic and international climate programs.
. . .
Anyone who doesnt want new taxes on driving, big giveaways to the ultra-wealthy and to end Americas investment in a green economy had better come to grips with the sad facts of the situation
As you can see, when Donald Trump tells the truth about his plans for America, its definitely more terrifying than his racism and lies.
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Trump Just Told The Truth . . . Two horrifying policy announcements (Huffington Post) (Original Post)
ColemanMaskell
Nov 2016
OP
Trump is a lobbist dream, you flatter him and he'll roll over and do anything for you!
Foggyhill
Nov 2016
#4
Cha
(306,832 posts)1. And, he's too drumpfucking stupid to know how terrifying
that is to voters with actually working brains.
Foggyhill
(1,060 posts)2. Those climate change spending are essentially R&D investment in the future,
So, Trump wants to make the US a backwater place dependent on others for Energy and
and not having any of the tech benefits of owning the intellectual property related to those future energy technologies.
In Trump's world, things like the Internet would not occur cause you know,
telephones are such great communication tools that you don't need anything else.
He'd have cut funding to DARPA on that internet thingy and given back a monopoly
to AT&T to screw people over with poor, overpriced phone service till the end of time...
Or until Europe or China saved us by selling us this shiny new tech and making all the money from it.
JHan
(10,173 posts)3. This has the fingerprints of his advisor Stephen Moore all over it..
Foggyhill
(1,060 posts)4. Trump is a lobbist dream, you flatter him and he'll roll over and do anything for you!
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)7. he's a shit-filled monster... that can't go away soon enough

