American Consequences - September 2020

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

prismatics and it begins to rain horse feathers while the pixie dust gums up the machinery of government that the gloom begins.]

_______ Building on the incredible achievements of President Donald J. Trump's first term in office, [ creditable achievements there may have been, but it's the miscues, muddled messaging, Tweet-blurts, and administrative

JOBS Create 10 Million New Jobs in 10 Months [That's 33,333 jobs per day, 1,389 jobs per hour. About the only way the government could create that many jobs that quickly would be to ban the Internet and legally require that every e-mail message, Google search, grandchild-picture Facebook posting, and item of advertising spam be personally delivered to you by a federal employee. We used to call this the "Post Office," and I was under the impression that the Trump administration was critical of that institution.] Create 1 Million New Small Businesses [Let's be frank about this... The only people who would have the grit and gumption (and desperation) to start a small business in the current economic mess would be 1 million new immigrant families.] Cut Taxes to Boost Take-Home Pay and Keep Jobs in America [As a Republican, I hate taxes. But, as a Republican, isn't there a deficit – which goes unmentioned in the Trump platform – that I'm also supposed to hate? Nor do I see how boosting take-home pay keeps jobs in America. It's the employers

chaos that have been in credible] the president's re-election campaign

today released a set of core priorities for a second term [so similar to the core priorities for the first term that they amount to a plea for a do-over] under the banner of "Fighting for You!" [With the amount of fighting that's going on in America at the moment, maybe the president should specify exactly which "You" it is that he's fighting for.] President Trump's boundless optimism [one way to put it] and certainty in America's greatness [despite it needing to be "made great" again] is reflected in his second-term goals and stands in stark contrast to the gloomy vision of America projected by Joe Biden and Democrats. [Actually, there's nothing "gloomy" about Joe's "vision of America." Biden is projecting a beautiful PowerPoint presentation of candy-flavored rainbow benefits, programs to give everybody a flying pony, and pixie- dust domestic and foreign policies. It's when the flying ponies collide with the marzipan

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