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Donald Trump: Great promoter but terrible CEO

SonOfDaedalus

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He had placed his brother and wife as heads of casinos despite the fact that they had no experience. Trump failed as a businessman but succeeded as a promoter.

I don't think most people realize that his business now is branding. He just puts his band on Hotels. He sells his name--the idea of Trump. The reality is he's not a good businessman.

As president, he's already sunk us deeper into debt and slashed taxes on corps meaning the debt will only get larger unless the economy keeps growing. But recessions are cyclical. We've already been on one of hte longest bull runs in history. His trade wars are already a disaster.

 
SonOfDaedalus said:
He had placed his brother and wife as heads of casinos despite the fact that they had no experience. Trump failed as a businessman but succeeded as a promoter.

I don't think most people realize that his business now is branding. He just puts his band on Hotels. He sells his name--the idea of Trump. The reality is he's not a good businessman.

As president, he's already sunk us deeper into debt and slashed taxes on corps meaning the debt will only get larger unless the economy keeps growing. But recessions are cyclical. We've already been on one of hte longest bull runs in history. His trade wars are already a disaster.

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"sunken us deeper into debt".....What President hasn't? The last one that had us at a surplus was Bill Clinton and even then it depended on how you looked at the numbers. I DO wish that Trump AND Congress could finally get a balanced bill act through Congress. But I don't see that happening. Bush Jr. doubled out debt, Obama doubled it again. I wouldn't doubt that Trump doubles that.

In the end it is up to Congress to get us balanced out. That is literally part of their job. The House is the one with the hold on the purse strings. Not Trump. Not ANY President. Yes, what a President does affects our debt, but Congress can affect it far more. In fact they can stop any policy that a President does that leads to debt. They just have to do their jobs.

So if I were you, if you're really all that concerned about our debt, which IS understandable no matter what side of the aisle that you are on, then you need to start voting for congressmen that has ideas that will actually work on cutting down our debt. And don't just vote and leave it at that. Write letters to your congressmen. Tell them what you think about their proposals. Offer up ideas of your own. Start up non-profit organizations that focus getting your congressmen, and others even, to balancing the budget. And most importantly of all......LISTEN TO BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE!!!! Don't just dismiss something because your political rival said it. Think on it. It might turn out to be the idea that does the trick. I've said time and time again that BOTH Republicans and Democrats have good ideas that should be listened to. I stand by that 100%.
 
SonOfDaedalus said:
He had placed his brother and wife as heads of casinos despite the fact that they had no experience. Trump failed as a businessman but succeeded as a promoter.

I don't think most people realize that his business now is branding. He just puts his band on Hotels. He sells his name--the idea of Trump. The reality is he's not a good businessman.

As president, he's already sunk us deeper into debt and slashed taxes on corps meaning the debt will only get larger unless the economy keeps growing. But recessions are cyclical. We've already been on one of hte longest bull runs in history. His trade wars are already a disaster.

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You are calling his trade policy a failure way to prematurely. Our economy continues to chug along and the rest of the world is begin I got to show signs that they are buckling.

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Kal'Stang said:
"sunken us deeper into debt".....What President hasn't? The last one that had us at a surplus was Bill Clinton and even then it depended on how you looked at the numbers. I DO wish that Trump AND Congress could finally get a balanced bill act through Congress. But I don't see that happening. Bush Jr. doubled out debt, Obama doubled it again. I wouldn't doubt that Trump doubles that.

In the end it is up to Congress to get us balanced out. That is literally part of their job. The House is the one with the hold on the purse strings. Not Trump. Not ANY President. Yes, what a President does affects our debt, but Congress can affect it far more. In fact they can stop any policy that a President does that leads to debt. They just have to do their jobs.

So if I were you, if you're really all that concerned about our debt, which IS understandable no matter what side of the aisle that you are on, then you need to start voting for congressmen that has ideas that will actually work on cutting down our debt. And don't just vote and leave it at that. Write letters to your congressmen. Tell them what you think about their proposals. Offer up ideas of your own. Start up non-profit organizations that focus getting your congressmen, and others even, to balancing the budget. And most importantly of all......LISTEN TO BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE!!!! Don't just dismiss something because your political rival said it. Think on it. It might turn out to be the idea that does the trick. I've said time and time again that BOTH Republicans and Democrats have good ideas that should be listened to. I stand by that 100%.
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Congress holds the power but the prevailing attitude seems to be - my congress critters may not be perfect but (some of?) those other 533 congress critters are the real problem and I have no control over them. So long as spending at about 20% of GDP and taxing at about 18% of GDP yields a congressional re-election rate of over 90% then deficit spending as bipartisan 'budget' policy is very unlikely to change.
 
Kal'Stang said:
"sunken us deeper into debt".....What President hasn't? The last one that had us at a surplus was Bill Clinton and even then it depended on how you looked at the numbers. I DO wish that Trump AND Congress could finally get a balanced bill act through Congress. But I don't see that happening. Bush Jr. doubled out debt, Obama doubled it again. I wouldn't doubt that Trump doubles that.
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Like you said, Bush Jr. was handed a good economy with a budget surplus. He slashed taxes and began a bunch of wars that conservatives supported. Bush Jr. handed Obama a disaster. But by the end of Obama's terms the deficits were decreasing. Much of Obama's deficits were a direct result of Bush Jr's policies.

Bush Jr slashed taxes and claimed that the tax cuts would "pay for themselves" as the economy grew. Guess what? We had the Great Recession and the tax cuts never paid for themselves.

Now Trump is doing the same thing again. Trump's tax cuts are supposed to pay for themselves. I guess we'll never have another recession? Is that what you believe?
 
SonOfDaedalus said:
Like you said, Bush Jr. was handed a good economy with a budget surplus. He slashed taxes and began a bunch of wars that conservatives supported. Bush Jr. handed Obama a disaster. But by the end of Obama's terms the deficits were decreasing. Much of Obama's deficits were a direct result of Bush Jr's policies.

Bush Jr slashed taxes and claimed that the tax cuts would "pay for themselves" as the economy grew. Guess what? We had the Great Recession and the tax cuts never paid for themselves.

Now Trump is doing the same thing again. Trump's tax cuts are supposed to pay for themselves. I guess we'll never have another recession? Is that what you believe?
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Love how you ignored the main point of the post just to continue the rant against Bush and Trump.
 
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