The “end of world” meme angrily percolating from the media, has found energy in Trump Cabinet announcements. During the past election campaign this deplorable media has exhibited its Marxist leanings, as is willfully exhibited by the crowd at CNN which might as well be called the Communist News Network, led by the likes of Zakaria, and which has given a show to Maoist agitator Van Jones. It will never approve, but can this media ever come close to understanding Trump’s Cabinet choices?
Sadly, the media will continue to carry water for the Democrats who have been shoved into the far left ideological abyss, clamouring for ever bigger government intrusion on personal freedoms and stifling the Nation’s entrepreneurship.
Let me state up-front that I deplore the actions of the senior bankers, Wall Street and the too-big-to-fails over the past twenty years, for reasons I’ve endlessly enumerated here on FA. Now lets assess Trump’s decision to attract billionaires which is giving the media such brain eroding hyperbolic gyrations.
Trump is reversing a long-standing tendency to pick lawyers and ideological hacks. Obama’s cotery of appointed fools is ample evidence of what happens when socialists take control of power. For eight years the government bureaucracy has exploded with the hiring of ideological comrades, and the killing of ‘new company’ creation. What policies were these political hacks executing? Obama’s and Jarrett’s. They were provided marching orders and they followed their leader(s).
Trump has been given an opportunity to lead the Nation out of the Obama doldrums and slump, both nationally and internationally. For anyone looking, it is evident that Trump knows how to surround himself with talent. It should be noted that his operations have more female executives than the average American corporation. He picks those he believes will do the best job. What job? The job he has committed to doing — igniting the creation of good paying jobs instead of the ‘part-time job’ creation we have witnessed for years, which has resulted in reduced incomes. Other important objectives are to squash the personal invasion and abuse of Obamacare, as well as end the ill-advised and objectionable Quantitative Easing which has created such vast disparity in our society.
Aside from Trump’s claim that he will get rid of thousands of the activist Obama’s ‘pen and phone’ freedom-suffocating executive orders, which have burdened the Nation in very typically socialist fashion, he also knows that he has to deliver a turn-around.
Reining-in the vast build-up of bureaucracies across all departments will need concerted, determined and knowledgeable effort, as well as unusual and experienced talent. Trump may not be able to bring “zero based budgeting” determination to the government departments, however he can bring to bear “zero based budgeting” mindsets and attitudes to lead those departments. This will be vastly different from the zealot posture that has been deeply ensconced across all government departments for eight years.
I have always maintained that for a leader to be effective, he or she must do the following: Select the right people, doing the right thing, heading in the right direction.
Trump has built a successful business being an effective, determined and inspiring leader. He has chosen individuals whom he believes know what they’re doing, are intelligent, are people he respects, who can understand a vision, who can focus on goals, and can execute.
Regardless what their views on specific elements of America’s affairs, these men and women will be loyal to the President, not to their previous organizations, and not to Congress. Trump is determined to implement his vision for a strong Nation. Strong in all respects, from financial to military.
People believing the MSM tropes that Trump simply intends to make himself and a few of his friends richer, don’t understand Trump, and are only continuing to accept proclamations from the very same media which told them that Clinton would win and why. Trump isn’t going to the Oval Office for money. We have become jaded with decades of Clinton maneuverings and other politicos selling ‘influence’ and ‘access.’
One of the more idiotic squeals this week has been around the supposed “friendship” between Rex Tillerson and Putin. When one reaches prominence in business, ‘people’ take your phone call. Putin is obviously an acquaintance, but the media’s perplexed mental inversions over his “friendship” are clearly signs that the hateful media is standing in ignorance. Plus, Tillerson is no fool and knows exactly who Putin really is, and he would have received detailed debriefings before he ever had a first meeting with him — because THAT is what you do when you’re heading into an important business negotiation, and few private individuals have access to the vast resources Tillerson has been able to tap. His perspective will be refreshing given the moonbeam fantasies we have witnessed such as Obama’s and Kerry’s inexperienced rose coloured views of Iranian leadership.
Even after winning the election, Trump continues to daily repeat his commitments to the Nation. Trump continues to demonstrate that he is and will continue to be a disrupter, clarifying the morass that has gripped America for too long.
He has developed a direct communications link with the public, a connection that brought him enough votes for the Presidency. That is his ‘political capital.’ He will use it to move Congress to his agenda, if and when necessary.
Trump is stepping over a threshold from business leader to President, and as he passes into this next stage of his journey at the age of 70, there is little doubt that he is taking seriously and personally his responsibility to apply his capabilities toward improving the circumstance of his fellow Americans. The non-ideologue team he is pulling around him will follow his program.
And as Confucius said, “Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.”
A constituent of the vast baby boomer generation with a career which has been fortunate to know the ponderous corporate worlds, as well as the intimately pressurized, and invigorating entrepreneurial domains of high tech and venture capital, I have harvested my share of mistakes meandering through corridors of enterprise from Silicon Valley, to London and endless, colourful, sometimes praetorian points in between. The voyage has provided an abundance of fodder for a pen yielding to an inquisitive keyboard, a foraging mind, and a passionate spirit.
Whether political or business or social or economic or personal, is it not all political? It is a privilege to write, and an even greater privilege to be read by anyone, and sometimes with the wind at my back the writing may occasionally be legible. I do not write to invite scorn, nor to invite respect, but if I get really lucky the writing can stimulate thinking. I also write for the very selfish purpose of animating my own processes, and engaging the best of what life offers. Above all, whether biting fire or swatting shadows, I am grateful to be gifted the freedom to write and publish whatever flows down to the keyboard. To all those who enabled this freedom, and to all those standing guard to preserve it, I am indebted.
http://rsbn.tv/watch-president-elect-donald-trump-rally-in-grand-rapids-mi-live-stream/
Go to the 3 hour 14 minute point.
Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Levarus is introduced.
Trump asked him to head up the American Manufacturing Council.
This AMC will be tasked with bringing industries and jobs back to the USA.
What is amazing is that Trump is not waiting to take office to do this.
He is doing it NOW!
An R & D center will be put in place in Michigan BEFORE Trump takes office.
Is he ”lazy,” as some in the media allege?
Doesn’t seem so.
@Nanny G: #1
Nanny G., agreed, “lazy” has never been a descriptive that could be intelligently attached to Trump, and as much as the media hates him and will lie about him, that will remain so, IMHO, unlike the current Oval Office resident golfer.
I asked myself; who would fall for the lies from the media?
Well, it turns out, plenty of folks do.
Today, I’m watching the EC activities on CSPAN.
It’s live which means they take callers between the states’ actions.
A caller claimed that Trump is ”unqualified,” because he’s a businessman……AND ALL business owners are the natural extention from the slave owners of America’s past!!!!!!
He really believed that.
It’s kind of like how Spain used to be Muslim and therefore all Spanish gov’t not Islamic is somehow illegitimate.
Muslims, many of them, do believe that.
But this guy, this caller was from America.
He had a chance to read more than one book all his life.
Why is he so dumb?
So brainwashed against capitalism?
Could it be that Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States was what he studied in school?
Sure sounded like it.
Add yet another: Wall Street billionaire Vincent Viola, for Secretary of the Army.
Better then a cabinet of whining little snowflakes
@Nanny G: Look at Greg. He believes all the silly lies from the media because he and the others have no intelligence to know the lies from the truth. I would challenge any liberal person who posts here to list 10 poor people who have employed them in their lives. Obviously, successful business men have knowledge and qualities that others do not have. Also, billionaires do not need to set up a “foundation” to take pay to play millions from foreign governments.
Yep. Another regulation-strangled billionaire, chosen to look out for the best interests of American workers and their families…
The swamp isn’t being drained. It’s being turned into a golf course lake, and the alligators infesting will be even bigger and more numerous than before. The people who voted in favor of the project are going to become alligator food.
@Greg: You are so funny! Trump has not even been in office 1 minute and you predicting action totally inconsistent with his past. We should appoint more community organizers to run the US. I am sure the new ones will work out much better than the past ones. (Greg, I was making a joke!)
Actually, I am predicting actions that are entirely consistent with his past.
@Greg: Then prove it. Relate every prediction of yours with a comparable action in Trumps past that is relevant. You can not because you do not even know what you post since you are just a parrot!
You apparently didn’t follow the story about the Trump University bait-and-switch scam too closely.
Trump is is confidence man. He has promised many things—a wall, mass deportations, the prosecution of Hillary Clinton, a full lock-stock-and-barrel repeal of Obamacare, Chinese and Mexican good tariffs, dumping or renegotiating NAFTA, a ban on Muslim entry into the US, bringing manufacturing jobs back to the heartland, the return of coal, no changes to Social Security, a quick solution to ISIS… Trump is in the business of selling promises. No one can deny he’s very good at it. That’s been his personal road to success. Behind him, though, he’s left a trail of abandoned developments, unpaid and underpaid contractors, never-ending lawsuits, and bankruptcies.
It’s hard not to notice that “draining the swamp” has thus far involved trucking in even bigger alligators. Maybe that’s part of his secret alligator control strategy. I guess we’ll soon find out.
@Greg: Why is that different than any other university that can not educate their students well enough to get a job? Trump was never found guilty of anything, right? You are all blow and no go! You can not relate one thing to support your position. By the way, there are more things in the swamp than alligators. Besides, Trump is not president and you said you are making your comments based upon past performances. All you can do is parrot, not real observations or rational thought on your part. Go to the Huffington Post where you will be welcomed with open arms. You lost and everything you prophesied over the past years has proved to be wrong. Go take some more pills.
Trump won’t be a real president. He’s only going to play one on television. Republicans may cancel the show mid-season.
Whatever happens, you’ll hardly be able to blame democrats for it. Republicans will control the the presidency, the House, and the Senate. (Well, maybe not the presidency—and therein lies their problem. Donald Trump isn’t really a republican. Nor is he a democrat, or a liberal, or a conservative. He’s a billionaire miracle no-stick skillet salesman, who has now been given a global Twitter audience and nuclear-strike capabilities.)
@Greg:
If Trump is not conservative or Republican, then what the hell are all the commie, lib, socialist progressives so concerned about? Sounds as if you think he’s ‘really’ on your side. I haven’t looked into ‘Trump University” too much, but I’m gonna guess most of what is out there is by the libs, so the odds of finding the ‘truth’ is somewhere between 0 and -1. If you read any brochures on Trump U, would you send them your money in exchange for what they offered? Is there freedom of the press here? Is it legal to make a binding contract if both sides read and sign the agreement? Sounds if most of those that invested in Trump U feel as if they got value for money paid. Sounds like some losers are just continuing to lose.
Do you feel like you got what Obama promised you? A president of the USA that won’t wear a flag pin on his lapel? A president that will walk right by a US Marine saluting him and totally ignore him? Is that what you voted for?
But this story is about Billionaires in the cabinet, of which there are two. Why is that something for someone to lie about. Facts are facts. quit making it up.
First let me say to James Raider: Excellent write up. I think Trump is really going to be working to make America Great Again. It started it’s downhill slide during the 4 years after Ronald Reagan left office and has had very few corrections in it’s course since that time. While some things were changed a little during GWB’s admin, the slope was so steep, it was hard to make meaningful changes in direction. Well, I am very impressed by the appointees to Trumps cabinet and to his advisory level jobs. He is going to make meaningful changes in people and direction of the country. The USA will be a vastly different place, at least in attitude, after the first 4 years of Trump’s admin.
This statement is in the original post, I’m not sure it’s accurate. I’m not sure that Obama has ever been involved in policy making in this admin. I think he is only following the directions of his handlers as passed thru by Jarrett. I think the only policy the handlers allow Obama to be involved in is how many rounds of golf he plays per week and how many vacations him and his family can get planned and taken.
So, now we are going to see the difference in two admins: One who’s objective was to socialize the country and to keep the existing power structure in place, the other one who’s objective is to Make America Great Again. Those that were happy with what they have, stay your course. Those that want the country to be Great Again, get on board, there are still seats available.
@Greg: Apparently you failed to read beyond the msm skewed headline, again, Greg.
The son of a truck driver from Brooklyn, Vincent Viola started the electronic-trading firm Virtu Financial in 2008.
He took the company public in April 2015, Viola graduated from West Point in 1977 and New York Law School in 1983. Viola also owns the NHL’s Florida Panthers.
ESPN listed five reasons this season’s Panthers might be the franchise’s best team ever.
#1 was:
Just for the record, Secretary of the Army is NOT a cabinet job. It is cabinet ‘level’.
@RedTeam: #15
RedTeam, I feel strongly that Trump will spend all of his time, 24/7, ensuring that this happens. He will energize “business” and will create jobs, plus, also critically important IMHO, he’ll put hundreds of thousands of lobbyists out of work.
He will make sure that the team around him, regardless their ideology, implement his agenda. They know what they’re doing, and how to do it, . . . they’ll execute.
I suspect that you’re right on this, but he enabled the “use” of the office of the President to push policies he actually didn’t really care about. Other that being a glad-hander who lies seamlessly off his teleprompter, after 8 years I doubt he’s grown from his community organizer roots nor does he seem to love the country that provided him so much. As I’ve written often here, Jarrett is the president and she’s his handler, doing what she’s been directed to do by the money behind her.
She knew she couldn’t take the limelight from him, but the next few years may well see her really hateful character come out of the closet.
@Nanny G: #16
Nanny G, Amen on that — Obama showed zero leadership while in office on anything. Looking pensive isn’t a demonstration of leadership or intelligence.
He spent more time meeting with Marxists, race mongers and union leaders in the Oval Office than he did with business leaders.
Business leaders were only useful for political cash raising. He has never understood business and it’s too late now.
He’ll just head off in the D.C. sunset, and continue producing community organizers, since now his “International Globalist In Chief” gig has crashed and burned in the cauldron of universal disinterest.
I find it refreshing that Trump is hiring cabinet members that have demonstrated success outside of the leviathan of government bureaucracy. It is an added cherry on top that his picks instill such outrage in leftist individuals, who have spent the last 8 years so aggressively jamming anti-American wrenches into the machine of American tradition.
Nice people, wouldn’t you say?
Trump’s N.Y. campaign chief Carl Paladino calls for Obama’s death from mad cow disease and Michelle to be ‘let loose in Zimbabwe’
@Greg: I know, and you ‘should know’ that he is/was not Trump’s campaign chief. But with that said, Moochelle is not proud of the USA, so why should she stay here? Is Zimbabwe the correct place for her? That’s up to her.
Paladino was the Trump campaign’s co-chairman in New York.
@Greg:
Leftists rioting because they don’t like election results. Black female anti-Trump protestor caught on video post-election shouting, “White people need to die!” Multiple democrats characterizing Trump voters as racists, homophobes and misogynists. Obama calling voters who opposed him as “bitter clingers”.
Pardon me for not feeling guilty about something one Trump supporter said, nor in giving zero credence/validity to leftist agitprop virtue-signalling outrage over the aforementioned comments.
@Greg: Greg, that’s a ‘fake news’ site.