The biggest issue: Congress!
Mate27
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It is a strong possibility that Obama Care gets repealed, a conservative Supreme Court Justice gets appointed, and US protectionistic policies get pushed through quickly the next two years!
This is what is probably rattling the markets in the short term, but once the calm settles in all will be back to prosperity. What we saw last night is the power of democracy, which is why you never bet against the U.S.
What say you will be the biggest outcomes of a unified Chief and Congress? Does Paul Ryan keep his job as Speaker?
This is what is probably rattling the markets in the short term, but once the calm settles in all will be back to prosperity. What we saw last night is the power of democracy, which is why you never bet against the U.S.
What say you will be the biggest outcomes of a unified Chief and Congress? Does Paul Ryan keep his job as Speaker?
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It'll be interesting to watch.
Where I"m cautiously optimistic is around gun policy and immigration policy.
I think the real wild card in all of this, is whether the Republicans having control of all three branches of government can restrain their fringe elements enough to govern responsibly, and having said that, I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt and wish for their success. Because if they succeed we succeed.
My concern is that with as much control as they have right now where is the check and/or balance on absolute power to prevent authoritarianism from rearing its ugly head and taking us in directions we absolutely don't want to go.
1] Fixing Obamacare or replacing it. Hillary wanted to continue with only increasing fines for not joining and moving toward government paid healthcare with a bureaucrat in charge. Trump wants to repeal and replace.
2] Supreme court judges: People were worried about losing their rights, first and second as well as all the rest not the least of which is seizure of the rights of each state.
3] The lose of the sovereignty of the USA to the world government. She was for it he is against it.
In other words he wants to tel the UN to FUCK OFF and she want the let UN to take over us including running our elections but leave her in charge(as they have proposed several times because we require citizenship and voter registration to vote that they deem unfair to no citizens).
Ya, It isn't just fringe elements, though ... on social issues, I don't think abortion limits are a fringe element, they're Republican base. My generic concern about Republican power (rather than Trump in particular) is around social issues ... about the only things I"m comfortable with Republicans on, when it comes to social issues, is guns and immigration. Luckily, I suppose, the appointment of a conservative justice just returns us to the status quo of the last 8 years -- 4-4 with Kennedy as a moderate swing vote, and as long as he's around, I don't think abortion gets outlawed, for example, at least that's the hope. Porn and drug policy, policy towards LGBT, I dunno, more cause for concern, perhaps.
I hope to hear the Donald's signature phrase many time directed toward bureaucrats "YOUR FIRED":
IRS commissioner who uses his position to harass political enemy s of the status quo.
The head of the VA and prosecute the incompetent crook
The head of the EPA for Flint's water not to mention the mine sludge in the west and using the agency to illegally subvert the law with regulation even when a judge directs him to stop!
The list goes on!!
The corruption from power mad bureaucrats lining their pockets and each one protecting their fiefdom is nauseating.
Remember the government shutdown and no one noticed until the administration started shutting down this that we considered essential that had been funded to make headlines. You could fire virtually every other employee at the federal level and no one would notice they were gone for years.