As an extreme moderate, I could never understand this mentality. You have pre-determined that whatever Trump is going to do will destroy the country. The mentality "my opinion is right, and if you think different, you are an asshole" is something that makes me believe anyone who is to either extreme with no room to compromise is the true asshole.
Climate Change (and not doing anything to stop it) will destroy our country and the world.
More in depth, here is what he says he will do, if given the chance.
Donald Trump said:
"Six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC:"
5 of these will never survive Congress. Term limits? Barring White House officials from lobbying...not gonna happen. Keep in mind, this is one the key things his supported want...and they won't get it. The one that has legs is:
"SECOND, a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce the federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health)."
This will lead to fewer inspectors (of which we already have too few) for oil rigs, mines, industrial plants, etc. This will lead to accidents, death, explosions, and environmental damage. Without inspectors, corners get cut. I would not be surprised to see another Deep Water Horizon type incident.
"Seven actions to protect American workers:"
"FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal."
$50 trillion is approximately the total of all worth (money, coinage, etc) in the world (excluding derivatives). I'm not sure what he means by $50 trillion (is that over 1 year, 10 years, 20 years). Let's ignore that as artistic flair and get to the second part. Oil is a global market. The reason US pumps are turned off is because it's a lot cheaper to extract oil in Saudi Arabia vs hydraulic fracturing in Texas, North Dakota, etc. US jobs in the oil industry requires lower global supply and higher demand. US oil jobs will come back when you are paying $3+/gallon at the pump. And don't get me started on coal. Will he bring back the horse drawn carriage and get rid of the evil automobile? Sometimes it's best to let an industry die and retrain the workers (hell, it'll probably be cheaper, when factoring in externalities, to just pay all coalworkers a salary for 5 years to learn a new trade).
"SIXTH, lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward"
Pipelines leak. Leaks are bad for the environment. I disagree with this policy, but I don't believe it's evil (shortsighted and based in greed, yes). This is a difference of opinion.
"SEVENTH, cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure."
Climate Change is bad for the world and the country. I also don't believe that fixing our water and environmental infrastructure (whatever that means) is something that Congress will approve. Obama tried to get approval for more infrastructure spending and was shut down by Congress.
"Five actions to restore security and the constitutional rule of law:"
"FIRST, cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama."
This is vague. which are unconstitutional?
"SECOND, begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Scalia from one of the 20 judges on my list, who will uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution."
This is what Presidents are usually supposed to do. In fact, I think Obama already nominated a replacement. The Senate leadership loves the Constitution, so I assume Merrick Garland will be confirmed now, making this a moot issue for Trump.
"THIRD, cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities. ★ FOURTH, begin removing the more than two million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won’t take them back. ★ FIFTH, suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered “extreme vetting.”"
I disagree with all of these, but that is the prerogative of the president. This will probably lead to an increased cost for food and many other services as Americans aren't fond of backbreaking labor for low pay. If enacted, Tomatoes and other vegetables are going to be very expensive.
I'll get to page 2 eventually.
