What will happen if Democrats win the midterm elections by a landslide on November 6, 2018? How much power will Trump lose?
If land slide by democrats: stock market crashes, businesses stop hiring and move jobs to foreign countries, unemployment rate increases, pension funds- 401k's - IRA's - all retirement accounts drop and people must work longer, wages will decrease again, causes social security to run out faster than estimated (pre-2030). they'll try to eliminate tax breaks and pro-growth legislation. Might even reinstate many of the anti-growth regulations that President Trump got rid of (e.g. Frank Dodd Act), ease up on illegal immigration........pretty much nothing good!
Are Americans really bad people?
The last thing I wanna do is offend anyone. But I was born here in the US while my parents were immigrants from southern Italy. Growing up they would often feed me lies on how Americans are stupid, fat, lazy and they are cold people while they always seemed to make Italians look like perfect angels. This caused me to develop a patriotic attitude for my county. But my question is are Americans really like this or is there just good or bad people every where?
If the government shutdown persists until January 3rd, what can Pelosi and the Democrats do to reopen government if Trump still refuses to budge on his wall?
What can Pelosi and the Democrats do? They can compromise. That’s the way policy making works. That’s whats going to happen in the end, and everybody knows it, it’s just a matter of when. The president will not get a bill that he approves of 100%, and neither will Congress. Compromise now and get it over with. Stop with the dick measuring contest and do some actual work.Trump was asking for $5B and the Democrats are offering $1.5B. Trump compromised and is now asking for $2.5B. It’s time for the Democrats to accept it or counter offer. It is NOT time for them to sit on their hands and do nothing.People treat politics like professional sports. We all have our favorite team and we want them to win. It’s just natural, right? Wrong!In Washington there are two opposing teams fighting against each other. We all want our side to win. But that’s where the misconception lies. Neither side is our team. There is only one team here and that is the American public. And right now we’re losing, because the two groups that claim to be representing us are actually representing themselves. They want to win for their own glory, not win for us.Do your job, compromise, and do it now. It doesn’t matter who has the ball or who scores. It’s not a game.
Explain to me "Trickle down economy" concept (read the whole question first).?
The whole point of the trickle down economy is that by lowering taxes on the rich will increase jobs for the middle class like you said. Their logic is that the more wealth a business owner (like yourself) has, the more likely they will create jobs to help the middle class. But there is a fundamental problem with this effect. It assumes that business owners will invest in the US economy. And this simply won't happen like you described, because the returns for investing in the US economy are not as high compared to foreign markets. What you described is trickle up economics, where if the middle class has more money to spend, they will spend it, as opposed to the more wealthy upper class, which choose more times than not to invest their surplus funding. It has been proven time and time again that trickle down economic theory does not work. Bush, Reagan, Kennedy all advocated this policy, but really only the middle class ended up worse off.