During the campaign Mr. Trump made all sorts of promises……the one that I was impressed with was his unswerving commitment to “draining the swamp” of elites and his non-interventionists rhetoric….
I was hoping that his disdain for the M-IC elites would help put the US on new footing in international affairs…
Now that he was won the election and started naming his cabinet my enthusiasm is waning……he seems to be embracing the very people that he bad mouthed all through his campaign……
As with so much of what Donald Trump has said in recent months, his positions on Pentagon spending are, to be polite, a bundle of contradictions. Early signs suggest, however, that those contradictions are likely to resolve themselves in favor of the usual suspects: the arms industry and its various supporters and hangers-on in the government, as well as Washington’s labyrinthine world of think-tank policymakers and lobbyists. Of course, to quote Yogi Berra at this strange moment: it ain’t over till it’s over. Eager as The Donald may be to pump vast sums into a Pentagon already spending your tax dollars at a near-record pace, there will be significant real-world obstacles to any such plans.
Let’s start with a baseline look at the Pentagon’s finances at this moment. At $600 billion-plus per year, the government is already spending more money on the Pentagon than it did at the peak of the massive military buildup President Ronald Reagan initiated in the 1980s. In fact, despite what you might imagine, the Obama administration has pumped more tax dollars into the military in its two terms than did George W. Bush. According to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, the U.S. currently spends four times what China does and 10 times what the Russians sink into their military.
Source: Is a Trump Presidency Good News for the Military-Industrial Complex?
For all Trump’s disdain for the “elites”….not to mention all of it by Right wing turds….they, the elites, seem to be falling in line with Mr. Trump……
The swamp that was suppose to be drained….seems to be getting a bit more crowded as the days go by……
One last question….is Trump’s phone secure? I mean he thinks that Twitter is better than sliced bread….is it secure? What else does he do on that phone?
No.. the elites are not falling behind Trump. They are acknowledging Trump and ultimately he will fall behind the elites. That’s a given. Hell, he’s already surrendering many of those ridiculous campaign promises, are in the least diluting them, and he’s not even in office yet. Obama is becoming his best phone buddy.. Hillary’s emails are off the hook (assuming she was ever on the hook) and apparently he doesn’t seem to know more than the generals because he surrounding himself with them. Jeez.. and his supporters bought into all this? They certainly have not gotten what they bargained for. They never fact checked.
His anti-elite rhetoric was just that…..but how many of his ardent supporters will hold him accountable? chuq
I’ll bet not a one. To them he’s their messiah.
So much for “draining the swamp”….yet another campaign promise broken….