Folks,One thing is certain in capitalism: In order for a new
service/product/industry to suceed, it must destroy the old. As the US waits
anxiously for the inauguration of the Trump King, the first people to feel the
new era are the US comedians. Trump is targeting them with daily tweets. Some
of the tweets are so dangerous that people do not know - and have no way of
finding out - if the tweets attributed to him are really his or not. Strangely
enough, Trump tweets are more comic than those made up by the professional
comedians that he is trying to kill.
Take for example the following tweet supposedly from Trump."Loser Jesus dead
for three days and then we are supposed to believe he just wakes up. Fake news.
I like Gods who dont die. Where is the rebirth certificate."
Trump is going to put his hand on the Bible and swear to protect the USA. The
problem is that he wants to do this by proctecting uncompetitive US industries.
He claims he will be introducing import taxes and he will also give incentives
or subsidies for companies who do not send jobs abroad. This is socialism - in
its purest form. Dead or uncompetitive companies are kept alive and drain the
economy by being feed taxes.
The history of the last few US Presidents is that every time a Democrat is in
charge, he leaves office with the economy booming. Every time a Republican
leaves office, the economy is on life support. Obama took the Dow from 6,000 to
20,000 points. To repeat this feat, Trump has to get the Dow to 50,000.
I don't see this happening as Trump enters office as the least popular
President - bar one - and I can almost guarantee you that he will wind up on
the bottom of the list. In the mean time, there are all those precious tweets -
that are killing the comedians and me (and you.)
We are in the new era and live in very interesting times.
Mervyn
