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Per the Murdoch-owned, conservative Wall Street Journal, Trump is an idiot.
The U.S. trade deficit looks almost certain to expand in the year ahead, and that will have important consequences for the economy.
Trump has pledged to narrow the trade deficit, but in 2018 it has widened instead, coming to $503 billion in the year through October versus $451 billion over the same period in 2017.
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Nearly all of us missed this one two months ago. While enjoying a brief celebration that Jeff Sessions was leaving the Attorney General position, he was doing one last thing to significantly harm our nation. And of course, by the next hour, Trump had done something else stupid and then we had a corrupt acting-AG and this story below never hit the mainstream news.
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The New York Times published a shocking, incredibly thorough piece on December 26, 2018. Kudos to the authors for the painstaking efforts to report on this direct harm being inflicting on so many communities, our children, our future. The link to the full article is included at the end and Smart Dissent highly recommends it as essential reading. Here's a brief summary:
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Expanding the number of immigrants rounded up into jails isn’t just policy; it’s big business. GEO Group expects its earnings to grow to $2.3 billion this year. Like other private prison companies, it made large donations to Trump’s campaign & inaugural.
These are dangerous times for undocumented immigrants. ICE has been super-charged by the Trump administration. And ICE’s empowerment has been lucrative for the companies that both cage and employ immigrants...
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Over the past two years, Trump and Republicans have pushed through a massively unpopular tax cut that drastically lowered taxes on the wealthiest people and corporations. This caused a massive budget deficit.
Their solutions to the unfathomable loss of revenue to fund our government is save money by hurting the lower and middle class any way they can. In this case, Trump has canceled the 2019 pay raise for federal employees.