James Carville: "It's the economy, stupid".

Posted on: January 13, 2019 at 22:29:58 CT

I.e.

1. The tax law changes that make American business more competitive with the rest of the world (i.e. relative corporate tax rates).

2. The reduction in cost and wasteful government administrative regulations, i.e. have a banker friend who tells me there are now 11,000 different federal regulations that apply to his bank. Trump is reducing those.

3. Waging campaigns to modify various trade pacts to more free trade. I.e. Bloomberg recent ran a story that because of its substantially greater population, business, technology development, financial markets will move to China and the 21st century will be the Chinese Century. America is in for the biggest battle in its history to avoid becoming an economic backwater over the next fifty years.

4. There's no reason that our European allies can't carry a larger share of NATO expenses and costs.

An so and so foth,