KCFlyer
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- Aug 20, 2002
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Just saying that the people who thought he was going to lower prices will be disappointed. Will the other stuff make up for that empty promise? The border....surely is a problem. But I know groceries (a word that Turmp acts as if he invented) were a concern. Will the border success make prices go down? We are at historically high levels of oil production today, but you'd never know that. The price of a barrel of oil today is less than what it was in the non pandemic years under Trump. We can drill more, but will it really lower prices? While I am not a fan of the climate change talk, I do appreciate clean air and water. Get rid of the carbon BS but not at the expense of clean air and water. Tariffs wiil make things cost more. The difference will have to be significant to get a company to consider bringing production to the US. And if they do, we aer so used to paying foreign labor rates that it will increase the price of things people buy.
Trump won in large part because people were convinced the economy sucked. I'm not so sure that prices are going to come down, nor am I optimistic that wages will go up. Any additional profits from reduced regulations will not go to paying employees...it will go to shareholders or stock buybacks.
Biden may have actually helped this new administration by pardoning anybody they would want to prosecute. Prosecutions and investigations don't do a damned thing to help Americans. Democrats have shown that, but it seems like Trump is hell bent on continuing that practice with a different target.
