It amazes me as I drive through the country in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula how many Trump/Pence signs I come across. What I find most interesting is the condition of the property of these homes, not gold encrusted, in fact much like my own a money pit. The homes and/or vehicles can be telling, not always, but usually the income and lifestyle of the people whom inhabit these homes. It appears that some people feel electing a person that is ostentatiously much wealthier than the rest of us is for some reason a good idea. Putting sexism and racism aside there are some who find this very quality, his obnoxious apparent wealth, a great thing for our country’s leader.
I know it is challenging to get ahead in the world, however has this not always
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One, yes things are more expensive in some cases, like a new truck (ridiculous). The problem I see is that we can’t have our cake and eat it too. Trump says he wants to bring jobs back to the US, or at least keep them here which is great. However, one substantial reason the jobs leave is to allow companies to hire dirt cheap labor. So if companies cannot outsource cheap labor we will pay more for our stuff. So instead of yelling nonsense about walls and “made in America” let’s consider real policy change and pay every human what they are worth. If we are all paid what we are worth think of the number of consumers you will create to buy stuff from all over the world. In the end, stuff may be more expensive, but do we really need more and more crap? Do we need new cars all the time? Do we need to keep filling our landfills with the outdated IPhone 7’s? Do we need to throw away twenty pounds of food away every month, per person? …show more content…
I do find it hard to believe that Trump, has any idea what making money to this person means. He may be a business man, but it is impossible for us all to be millionaires. Impossible! I continuously hear that he will run our country like a business. I just want to point out two things at this time, I own a small business, and how is it going to help me if the federal government balances their budget? If you consider the austerity that will happen in order to balance the budget it will probably severely hurt me and my customers! Second problem I have is the very premise that our government should be run like a business. We are a group of people that need security and some assistance in running its complex human geography. If we run it like a business, like the prison system is trying and failing to do, you know who Trump will “fire”? Those that are not contributing significantly to the US economy, those that are most vulnerable; that’s the poor, mentally ill and children and next on the list are people that drive trucks like the one in the picture and mine. Businesses are run to be efficient and lean… to make money, without regard to human rights. That was the entire premise of his book and his TV
Throughout Donald's life success was not easy for him or his businesses. The Trump organization revealed that it was 5$ billion in debt in 1990, with as much as 1$ billion spent by Donald Personally. With all the casinos, hotels, and cars Trump had to create a bailout system that would allow him to take out two to three mortgages on most of properties. Unsurprisingly Donald Trump filed for bankruptcy four times. Although he was in the hole, he was able to get himself out and with that I think that he wouldn't have been able to make any crucial business decisions without the help of many bankers and lawyers but also the use of a free enterprise system.
Trump may be known for his wealth but many aspects has shown that he is definitely bad in business. As president, being good in business is one of the key aspects to succeed, because you have to handle the whole nation’s financial matters. Trump boasted that he earned his own money, but he isn’t like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg, who are self-made billionaires who were innovators in their fields. Instead, Trump’s wealth is inherited from his father. Almost all his best-known successes are deducible to family ties or money given to him by his
Donald Trump is a very successful business man that is just trying his hand in politics this election. He was born in Queens, New York on the fourteenth of June in 1946 and later graduated business school at the Warton School of Finance. Other than the acting chairman and president of his own organization, Trump has become a successful author of over 15 bestselling books including “The Art of the Deal.” He is also an Emmy nominee for his show “The Apprentice” which coined the phrase “you’re fired!”(“About Donald J. Trump”). Though he may not have much governing experience, he sure has gotten a lot
Whether people like it or not, America has chosen a President whose policies are not only absurd but could also be detrimental to the nation's economy. Throughout the political campaigns for the presidency from both candidates, Clinton and Trump, have been faced by various controversies. However, Mister Donald Trump has proven to be more infamous. According to his campaign's website, Donald Trump argues for the creation of a wall across the southern United States-Mexico border, as well as having Mexico paid
If President Donald Trump’s actions and intents represent the opposite of economic logic, then what would lead 62,979,879 people to vote for him. Trump’s plan for winning has many parts, but for starters, he largely focused on reviving the lower and middle class’ hopes, spirits, and incomes. The first part of this plan regards the specific language that he utilizes when speaking to the non-wealthy Americans. He is notable for repeating statements such as, “America doesn’t have victories anymore” or “they’re laughing at us”. By utilizing statements such as these, Trump is appealing to his audience’s emotions and implementing scare tactics that will place the listener in a frightened state. He then paints himself as the answer to the fears that
e is extremely successful and sophisticated, his presidential talks were able to resonant with American and that made him win the campaign. However, many people were furious about the fact that Trump was able to deceive everyone and won the campaign because they knew Trump was always wearing a mask whenever he appeared on public and they knew how selfish, greedy and arrogant he was in private. Trump believed that wealth is the only standard to measure a person’s value, he was dismissive of people who were poor. In many of his interviews, he mentioned he was extremely rich, but he always used tricks to avoid paying his employees and many of his employees had sued him for not paying them. When people brought it up during the presidential debate,
After following this year's election, I have acquired a vast amount of knowledge on Donald Trump and his political beliefs. He is an intelligent man. There is no doubt about that. He has many successful businesses, and he managed to somehow convince the majority of the United States to vote him as our next president. However, Donald Trump is a well known sexist and is quite bigoted in his beliefs. The only social class that he cares about is the wealthy upper class, seeing as he is a part of said class. Every choice he makes during his presidency effects this generation and the generations to come. As a fifteen year old who will be affected by all the choices he makes during his presidency, I have many concerns for America when Trump takes office.
That he has great negotiating skills, which would help America get its way with other countries. However, these reasons that claim that his business skills are enough are overlooking the fact that Trump has a long list of business troubles as stated in the article “Donald Trump’s Many Business Failures, Explained”. This article also stated that lost contracts, bankruptcies, deceptions and indifference to bankers are only a few of the troubles in Trump’s business life. Also, his net worth isn’t accurate either, as he himself admitted that he based his net worths off his “own feelings” which often ended up being wrong (Eichenwald). And as a man who doesn’t have any political experience nor a good or honest history it’s almost impossible to say that he knows how to get things done and could help America
A strong market economy needs a robust middle class, mechanisms for upward mobility, and clear rule of law to grow and sustain itself over time. US President Donald Trump has little allegiance to any of these.
Donald Trump owns his own business and people think that might help him as a president. All businesses that have been owned by him have filed bankruptcy four times. He says that he would negotiate all sorts of good deals with foreign countries. How could you be trusted if 4 of your businesses have filed for bankruptcy? Donald Trump has made Billions of dollars that could prove that you’re a great business man that still doesn’t have any proof that he be a great leader in the Government. Unlike him Obama had some experience in Government before his role as president.
Any close examination of Trump’s life will see a man that operates behind closed doors; a man that manipulates the system for his own personal gain. He wrote (supposedly) the book, “Art of the Deal” detailing various manipulation techniques, and has boasted how he would give money to various politicians, so that when the time came he needed something, he could collect on what they “owed” him. During his run for the White House, politicians, once vehemently opposed to Trump, became his biggest supporters. In 1991, Libby Handros released a Donald Trump documentary called, “Trump: What’s the Deal”. In it, he documented countless specious and sleazy dealings Trump made as a businessman. This film was not widely publicized because Trump threatened to sue if it was released. It has only recently surfaced again. USA ran a story by Steve Reiley stating that there are countless testimonies claiming that Trump does not pay his bills. Psalm 37: 21 says, “The wicked borrows and does not pay back, but the righteous is gracious and gives.” Even the millions of dollars he raised for the veterans was not paid until Trump was questioned directly by the news media asking about the money.
President-elect Trump is entering a presidency with an unprecedented conflict of interest between cleaning up Washington’s culture of self-dealing or turning the presidency into an arm of his family business. To avoid serious political damage, he should liquidate his stake in the Trump Organization and put the proceeds in a true blind trust that is run by an independent manager. This sale could be both painful and costly for Trump but he should be willing to make this sacfrice since millions of Americans have put their trust in him to improve their lives and “not treat the presidency as a brief hiatus from his business. I think if Trump were to make this sacrifice he would be making a statement that he’s here to help improve the country and
Trump: the Art of the Deal is both a biography and business handbook from the world’s most prominent businessman, now President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. Donald Trump, in partnership with Mark Schwartz has written this book in a simplistic, but informative manner that allows a straightforward understanding of Trump’s business principles and experiences to be conveyed to the reader. Trump demonstrates this simplicity in Chapter 2: “I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage” (46).
In candidate's Trumps many many campaign rallies he would often say if he was elected there would be "Jobs Jobs Jobs" and that America would win again. Being a billionaire with billions in the bank one would think he would be disliked maybe even hated by the middle class and lower classes, but I have found that he found he's strongest support in the middle class. Though the campaign many called him a blue-collied billionaire and a champion of the working class, many people would say that he had to be a smart man to make himself billionaire even with the "small" loan of a million dollars. While not relevant to the campaign President Trump's winning of the almost all of the Rustbelt, with the most surprising being President Trump's win in the key swing state of Pennsylvania. And so the bastions of industrial-era Democratic strength among white working-class voters fell to Mr. Trump; so did many of the areas where President Obama had better showings in 2008 and
Donald Trump’s main economic plan is to bring back companies that are manufacturing overseas and distributing to the US, back into America. He intends to do so by cutting the tax rate for big corporations by almost twenty percent and taxing them for bringing their goods into the country from elsewhere. His belief is that if we can help larger corporations in America, it will also benefit the middle class (one of Clinton’s primary arguments as to why the wealthy should be taxed more) by bringing more profits into the United States and creating more jobs for the middle class. He has estimated that if we get rid of corporate inversions we could grow our economy by six percent, bring over 3.5 trillion dollars back from overseas and create millions