In his acceptance speech, President elect Trump said, among other things:
We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. We’re going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none. And we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it.
This from a man, who tweeted:
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012
I’ve no idea what to expect now from the Trump Presidency, but it’s an amazing coincidence that the original Blade Runner film was set in In Los Angeles in November 2019, just two years from now.
Hopefully Blade Runner isn’t a metaphor for a Trump Presidency; the weather and the blade runners, especially Gaff, do not foreshadow Trumps Immigration cops; and hopefully the Los Angeles in the film, nothing like the real LA in 2019; and the replicants not an extreme of the automation I wrote about yesterday.
What we don’t know is how Trump will do this. Just running up the deficit doesn’t seem likely given he’s from the GOP/Republican party. Taking much of what he’s said, closing tax loopholes, defunding Nato, closing overseas bases in place like Germany, Japan and more won’t likely save enough money. Your move President Trump.
running up the deficit has differing implications depending upon how it is done. Bush I/II, Reagan way bad, keynes way good.
Indeed. An that raises the question, are Americans willing to do the hard work even if they can find the funding?