Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Following Trump’s train of thought as it derails on a child care question

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/06/following-trumps-train-thought-it-derails-child-care-question/

“Well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down — you know, I was, uh, somebody, we had Sen. Marco Rubio [(R-Fla.)] and my daughter, Ivanka, was so, uh, impactful on that issue. It’s a very important issue.

But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that — because child care is child care. It’s, couldn’t — you know, it’s something, you have to have it. In this country, you have to have it.

But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to but they’ll get used to it very quickly. And it’s not going to stop them from doing business with us, but they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country.

Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about, including child care, that it’s gonna take care. We’re gonna have — I, I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time. Coupled with, uh, the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country — because I have to say with child care, I want to stay with child care, but those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I’m talking about, including growth.

But growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just, uh, that I just told you about. We’re gonna be taking in trillions of dollars, and as much as child care is talked about as being expensive, it’s, relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we’ll be taking in.

We’re going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people and then we’ll worry about the rest of the world. Let’s help other people. But we’re gonna take care of our country first. This is about America first. It’s about: Make America great again. We have to do it, because right now we’re a failing nation. So we’ll take care of it. Thank you. Very good question.”

3 comments:

  1. I see your yetzer hara is winning over again..

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  2. The problem isn't that he's saying "uh" a lot. The problem is that he's not really coherent. The most generous interpretation is that he means that tariffs he's proposing are going to save Americans so much money that these savings will dwarf the cost of childcare. But his answer is so incoherent that this meaning isn't clear. Not to isn't quoting any numbers to make his case.

    Not to mention that tariffs will actually raise prices for middle class Americans.

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    1. Tariffs are a mixed bag.
      Yes, China dumps cheap products produced by slave labour on Western markets. Want a nice dress shirt? Made in China is $50.99, made in America is $159.00. The thing is, there are consequences to both tariffs and no tariffs.
      With no tariffs, the domestic manufacturing capacity shrivels up and then the domestic market is at the mercy of a foreign power that can be quite hostile when it wants to be. Dependency is not good.
      Tariffs make domestic manufacturing competitive again but drives up prices and inflation. Also not good but perhaps in this case, given the alternative is dependence on Communist China and its dream of world domination is the lesser evil.

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