Re: The American 2016 Presidential Elections & The Ongoing American Saga
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The millions who are suffering over here will see no damn difference from someone who should be acting better than she is.
In fact, there is. Contrary to what you believe, Hillary does have coherent economic policy, among policies in other areas. But this election has shifted away from policy debate to keeping an insane moron away from the presidency. How it will make a difference to poor is that economists seem to be in agreement on what Trump's few, and vaguely stated policies will do. That is to plunge the country straight into recession. Trade war with China? 35% tariff on Mexican imports, which will not automagically cause a new factory to spring up in Ohio or some other "rustbelt" state but will cause in increase in consumer prices, thus reducing spending and the end result is recession and the newly unemployed being thrown into poverty. There's no telling what economic havoc his China policy will cause, but it will dwarf the damage done by his Mexican one. On domestic economic policy, Trump has the same "trickle down" economics that increases the deficit every time and the money never trickles from the rich to the middle and lower classes.
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