We all worked hard for many years (42 years/4years for two employers) for our Social Security. Just think if we were given that money to re-invest at a rate in the business world and not the government what we could bring home?
People should have a choice on how to manage this money on our own and not through the government when we retire or the government could improve their services to the people in this regard.
A woman dies at age 65 before collecting one benefit check. She and her employer paid into the system for almost 50 years and she collected NOTHING. Keep in mind all the working people that die every year who were paying into the system and got nothing.
And these governmental morons mismanaged the money and stole from the system, so that it’s now going broke.
BEAUTIFUL! And they have the audacity to call today’s seniors “vultures” in an attempt to cover their ineptitude. DISGRACEFUL!
The real reason for renaming our Social Security payments is so the government can claim that all those social security recipients are receiving entitlements thus putting them in the same category as welfare, and food stamp recipients.
THIS IS WORTH THE FEW MINUTES IT TAKES TO READ AND DIGEST!
F.Y.I. By changing the name of SS contributions, it gives them a means to refute this program in the future. It’s free money for the government to spend under this guise.
The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a Federal Benefit Payment ?
I’ll be part of the one percent to forward this. I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you.
Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.
The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a “Federal Benefit Payment.”
This is NOT a benefit. It is OUR money , paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too ! It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.(This should be enough for you to forward this message, If not read on.)
If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that’s close to $180,000 invested in Social Security.
If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you’d have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved.
This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you’d receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.
That’s almost three times more than today’s average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact). And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you’re 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.
Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff ever did (or Lyndon Johnson).
They took our money and used it elsewhere. They “forgot”(oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn’t have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them … and they didn’t pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they’ve told us that the money won’t support us for very much longer. (Isn’t it funny that they NEVER say this about welfare payments?)
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they’re calling it a benefit, as if we never worked to earn every penny of it. This is stealing!
Just because they borrowed the money, doesn’t mean that our investments were for charity!
Let’s take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of the 92% of our population who need it.
After fighting the fight with the left – we knew it wasn’t going to be easy to try to put the pieces back together. Our country has suffered for 12 years under the Democrats and now the pieces are coming together – even after pushing and pulling against the factions. It is not always that you can “move people with kindness,” as we all know,” when you have to use force – that isn’t easy either. Sometime you have to move them anyway, especially when they don’t want to react. Therefore, the actions are not pretty; but, neither are the actions of the moving party.
Citizens have to be patient when action is required. For those who are not happy with the tactics – might want to volunteer to participate in the action and see how you would react to difficult situations. It is easy to be a bystander; but, it not easy to be the leader and perform the job – which in most cases it is life-threatening.
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It’s a year of rapid change, except when it comes to Trump’s approval numbers, AP-NORC polling finds.
By AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX and JONATHAN J. COOPER – Associated PressJul 27, 2025
President Donald Trump speaks with supporters before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, July 25, 2025, in Washington. The President is traveling to Scotland.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eric Hildenbrand has noticed prices continue to rise this year, even with President Donald Trump in the White House. He doesn’t blame Trump, his choice for president in 2024, but says Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats who control his home state, California, are at fault.
“You can’t compare California with the rest of the country,” said Hildenbrand, who is 76 and lives in San Diego. “I don’t know what’s going on in the rest of the country. It seems like prices are dropping. Things are getting better, but I don’t necessarily see it here.”
Voters like Hildenbrand, whose support of the Republican president is unwavering, help explain Trump’s polling numbers and how they have differed from other presidents’ polling trajectory in significant ways. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted in March found that 42% of U.S. adults approved of Trump’s job performance. That is a lower rating than those of other recent presidents at the beginning of their second terms, including Democrat Barack Obama and Republican George W. Bush.
The most recent AP-NORC poll, from July, puts Trump at 40% approval. While that is not a meaningful change from March, there is some evidence that Trump’s support may be softening, at least on the margins. The July poll showed a slight decrease in approval of his handling of immigration since earlier in the year. Some other pollsters, such as Gallup, show a downward slide in overall approval since slightly earlier in his term, in January.
But even those shifts are within a relatively narrow range, which is typical for Trump. The new AP-NORC polling tracker shows that Trump’s favorability rating has remained largely steady since the end of his first term, with between 33% and 43% of U.S. adults saying they viewed him favorably across more than five years.
Those long-term trends underscore that Trump has many steadfast opponents. But loyal supporters also help explain why views of the president are hard to change even as he pursues policies that most Americans do not support, using an approach that many find abrasive.Persistently low approval of Trump’s job performance
Trump has not had a traditional honeymoon period in his second term. He did not in his first, either.
An AP-NORC poll conducted in March 2017, two months into his first term, showed that 42% of Americans “somewhat” or “strongly” approved of his performance. That is largely where his approval rating stayed over the course of the next four years.
The recent slippage on immigration is particularly significant because that issue was a major strength for Trump in the 2024 election. Earlier in his second term, it was also one of the few areas where he was outperforming his overall approval. In March, about half of U.S. adults approved of his handling of immigration. But the July AP-NORC poll found his approval on immigration at 43%, in line with his overall approval rating.
Other recent polls show growing discontent with Trump’s approach on immigration. A CNN/SSRS poll found that 55% of U.S. adults say the president has gone too far when it comes to deporting immigrants who are living in the United States illegally, an increase of 10 percentage points since February.
“I understand wanting to get rid of illegal immigrants, but the way that’s being done is very aggressive,” said Donovan Baldwin, 18, of Asheboro, North Carolina, who did not vote in the 2024 election. “And that’s why people are protesting because it comes off as aggression. It’s not right.”
Ratings of Trump’s handling of the economy, which were more positive during his first term, have been persistently negative in his second term. The July poll found that few Americans think Trump’s policies have benefited them so far.
Even if he is not a fan of everything Trump has done so far, Brian Nichols, 58, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Nichols, who voted for Trump in 2024, likes what he is seeing from the president overall, though he has his concerns both on style and substance, particularly Trump’s social media presence and his on-again, off-again tariffs. Nichols also does not like the push to eliminate federal agencies such as the Education Department.
Despite his occasional disagreements with Trump, though, Nichols said he wants to give the president space to do his job, and he trusts the House and Senate, now run by Republicans, to act as a safeguard.
“We put him into office for a reason, and we should be trusting that he’s doing the job for the best of America,” Nichols said.Overall views of Trump have been fairly steady since 2019
Trump has spent the past six months pushing far-reaching and often unpopular policies. Earlier this year, Americans were bracing themselves for higher prices as a result of his approach to tariffs. The July poll found that most people think Trump’s tax and spending bill will benefit the wealthy, while few think it will pay dividends for the middle class or people like them.
Discomfort with individual policies may not translate into wholesale changes in views of Trump, though. Those have largely been constant through years of turmoil, with his favorability rating staying within a 10-percentage point range through the COVID-19 pandemic, a felony conviction and attempted assassination.
To some of his supporters, the benefits of his presidency far outweigh the costs.
Kim Schultz, 62, of Springhill, Florida said she is thrilled with just about everything Trump is doing as president, particularly his aggressive moves to deport anyone living in the country illegally.
Even if Trump’s tariffs eventually take effect and push prices up, she said she will not be alarmed.
“I’ve always had the opinion that if the tariffs are going to cost me a little bit more here and there, I don’t have a problem with that,” she said.
Across the country, Hildenbrand dislikes Trump’s personality and his penchant for insults, including those directed at foreign leaders. But he thinks Trump is making things happen.
(Yes, it is easy to be nice to everyone when they are not ripping you off; but, everyone needs to understand – our past leaders have allowed the foreign countries to take advantage of the U.S. – DOGE proved that and our foreign aid was completely out of hand by having to borrow money to give to them with a debt of trillions. Was that okay?)
“More or less, to me, he’s showing that he’s on the right track,” he said. “I’m not in favor of Trump’s personality, but I am in favor of what he’s getting done.”
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As the old saying goes, you can please some of the people some of the time – but not all of the people all of the time.
The original purpose of flooding the country with anti-conservative rhetoric is the release of the Russiagate story about former President Obama which is akin to treason and the left is trying to smother it with the Epstein story.
When did the Wall Street Journal become a tabloid paper? Was it with this issue? We all know when the One World Order were shifting chairs in Europe – a lot of that side of the world responded with, “No Way Jose.” And, they held their ground and would not accept illegals coming into their country and even built fences. In the U.S., with the Democrats in control – illegals in the millions flooded our country. What happens when this occurs – it changes your culture because the traditions and the Constitution were left on the cutting room floor of newspapers. Now, our conservative President is swiftly sending the illegals back to their home country.
This is what is happening in the U.S. especially in the world of newspapers/TV which are owned now by liberals. Most of the CEO’s are former Obama/Biden employees and that is why all of the bad publicity and “take down” orders of our President.
In response to the WSJ paper (with a new CEO from the Netherlands) tried to take down our conservative President by still ragging about the Epstein story and used the owner of the WSJ as the prop of the main story. Did the retired owner realize the paper was using him as the main story before attending a function sponsored by our President? If not, then, this is elder abuse by using the elderly person without his knowledge.
07/30/2025
The struggle for power is still evident. Whoever wrote this story has provided their side.
The American people struggled through 12 years of Democrat control which did not end well. We almost lost our country to SOCIALISM via the Obama/Biden facade. There will always be evil in all of our lives and this story/opinion proves it. It always ends with sex as being used against mankind.
The American people are tired of being used by the Democratic Party to further their own ambitions which is to tear up our country. The REAL Democrats need to realign their party and quit allowing the progressives to use their funds to take over their party. Make them establish their own party (like AOC/Talib).
Let’s hear from Mr. Latour and his side of the story. There was more than one birthday card sent and why did the WSJ just use one in the story – being President Trump?
The following information is interesting:
“I’d like to thank Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch and Robert Thomson for their trust — and for their deep and continued support for and investment in quality journalism and the national and international institution that is Dow Jones,” said Mr. Latour. “Our role is more important than ever before. Our millions of readers and users in the U.S. and beyond are all faced with uncertainty in time ahead and our unique brand of factual news and analysis serves to help them make decisions in business, finance and personal life. Will Lewis and the team have left Dow Jones in great shape. We are well positioned to take The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Newswires, Factiva and our other brands to more people everywhere and continue — and accelerate — our growth. As always, our mission is to help people put the truth to good ends.”
The most interesting part of the above information was:
As always, our mission is to help people put the truth to good ends.”
“As always, our mission is to help people put the truth to good ends.”
How many more gotcha stories will be used to continue this persecution of one person? Who would believe that a “birthday” card would be such a story. After all – what is the difference in the Biden/Obama illegal immigration story and the Epstein story? Were they both using “sex” in the process?
Fox founder Rupert Murdoch steps down from his media empire, handing it to his son Updated September 21, 2023
David Folkenflik
Rupert Murdoch, 92, is stepping down as chair of his global media empire, which includes Fox News and The Wall Street Journal.
Rupert Murdoch, the media magnate who built an unmatched global media empire over seven decades from a single newspaper he inherited in his native Australia, announced on Thursday that he would step down.
“I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change,” Murdoch wrote in a memo to employees at Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and the many other properties that make up his two corporations, Fox Corp. and News Corp. “The time is right for me to take on different roles.”
Murdoch’s career has been marked by a singular drive for business success, an eagerness to have sway over elections and policies, and the repeated eruption of scandals. Fox News, which he founded in 1996, has played an increasingly prominent role in his profits, his influence, and his crises.
In his note to staff, Murdoch, 92, took a shot at unnamed elites, saying they “have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarified class” and said most of the rest of the media was in “cahoots with those elites.”
His elder son Lachlan Murdoch, who has been leading the companies with him, will become the sole chairman of both Fox Corp., the broadcast arm of the family’s holdings, and News Corp., which encompasses newspapers and book publishing. Rupert Murdoch will become chairman emeritus.
The changes will take effect in November, when the two companies, together worth about $26.5 billion, have their shareholder meetings. While they are publicly traded, Murdoch is considered to control more than 40% of their voting shares. Bloomberg estimates his fortune at more than $8.2 billion. From tabloids to papers of record
Through outlets he acquired and others he founded, Rupert Murdoch ultimately dominated journalism and politics in Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. Outside the U.S., he leveraged his outlets to support politicians from the center-left to the far right. In this country, his sway is almost entirely limited to the Republican Party.
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, right, huddles with Preston Padden, president of network distribution for Fox, during a hearing of the Federal Communications Commission in May 1995. A generation later, Padden says Murdoch is unfit to hold the licenses for local television stations due to Fox News. Media.
A former Fox executive now argues Murdoch is unfit to own TV stations Though Murdoch built his fortune initially on populist tabloids, he bought prestige newspapers such as the Journal and the Times of London to reach elites who forged policy and set consensus. He also created The Australian in 1964, that country’s only national daily.
That high-low approach, and his willingness to boost favored politicians, gave him entrée to top leaders in Australia and the U.K.; those seeking office would fly thousands of miles to court him. He did not have the same level of access in the U.S. except when former President Donald Trump, whom Murdoch privately disparaged, was in office.
President Donald Trump hosted NewsCorp CEO Rupert Murdoch at the FIFA Club World Cup Final just days before The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had written a “bawdy” birthday letter to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for Epstein’s 50th birthday.
Murdoch was among several high-profile political and media figures who joined Trump in his suite at the World Cup final on July 13, the Associated Press and CBS News reported. Others included Attorney General Pam Bondi, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and football legend Tom Brady.
The Context
Trump and Murdoch have had a cozy professional relationship for years, with Murdoch’s media empire—which includes Fox News and the New York Post—publishing a slew of stories that have been favorable to Trump, from when he was a Manhattan real-estate tycoon, to when he entered politics and finally when he became president of the United States.
But Trump’s relationship with Murdoch reached a boiling point this week, when the Journal reported that Trump was among dozens of people who wrote letters to Epstein celebrating his 50th birthday in 2003. The story threw a wrench into Trump’s repeated efforts to distance himself from the disgraced businessman as the administration grapples with the fallout from its handling of the investigation into Epstein’s 2019 death in a New York City jail.
What To Know
On Thursday, four days after Murdoch joined Trump at the FIFA final, the Journal reported that the president was among the people who wrote letters to Epstein celebrating his birthday. Trump’s letter is said to have featured several lines of typewritten text surrounded by the outline of a naked woman, sketched in marker, and included Trump’s signature.
“Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret,” the letter said, according to the report.
When the Journal approached Trump before publishing its story, the president said in an interview that the letter was “fake” and threatened to sue the paper if it published the explosive report.
Trump raged against the Journal in a Truth Social post on Thursday after its report was published, saying he would sue the paper “shortly” over its “defamatory story.”
The president said he had “personally” warned the outlet and Murdoch before they printed the report that he would sue them if they pressed ahead with publication, and said that Murdoch had assured him that he would “take care of it but, obviously, did not have the power to do so.”
Trump said on Truth Social that in addition to the Journal, he plans to sue Murdoch and the Journal‘s parent company, NewsCorp.
“The Press has to learn to be truthful, and not rely on sources that probably don’t even exist,” he wrote, adding that he “looks forward to suing and holding accountable the once great Wall Street Journal.”
Newsweek reached out to NewsCorp via email outside of normal business hours for comment.
The public and media’s renewed focus on Epstein exploded after the Department of Justice, released a memo last week concluding that the sex offender died by suicide in 2019 in his Manhattan jail cell and that the government was not in possession of an “incriminating” list of Epstein’s “clients.”
The memo threw cold water on years of conspiracy theories—amplified for months by Bondi and other Trump administration officials—suggesting that Epstein was killed as part of a government cover-up. In the days since, Trump administration officials have alternated between saying there are no Epstein files and that the files were a “hoax” perpetrated by Democrats.
Trump also lambasted his supporters as “weaklings” and said they got “duped” by the Epstein “hoax,” despite the fact that his own officials, including Bondi and Vice President JD Vance, had repeatedly suggested that Epstein’s death was a cover-up.
What People Are Saying
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X: “The Wall Street Journal published a hatchet job article with a FAKE ‘birthday letter’ that is supposedly from 2003 … The WSJ refused to show us the letter and conceded they don’t even have it in their possession when we asked them to verify the alleged document they’re basing their ENTIRE fake story on.”
She added: “When has President Trump ever spoken like the conversation alleged in the fake WSJ story? That’s not at all how he speaks or writes. The WSJ knowingly published false information to smear the President of the United States.”
Democratic Representative Sean Casten of Illinois wrote on X: “Like all things Trump, this is simultaneously disgusting and entirely unsurprising. He is exactly who we always understood him to be.”
Technology reporter Kara Swisher reacted to the report on Thursday evening, telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper: “Even if he denies it … it creates a feeling, and especially online, that gets amplified and really weaponized in a lot of ways. So it’s not going to end here until he releases these files in some substantive way, which he seems reluctant to do…”
What Happens Next
Trump asked Bondi on Thursday evening to produce “any and all” grand jury testimony relevant to Epstein, subject to court approval, in order to put an end to what he described as the “ridiculous” publicity Epstein has gotten over the last week.
Update 7/17/25, 11:32 p.m. ET: This story has been updated with additional information and context.
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The Host of the WSJ is Almar Latour and is from the Netherlands. It looks like Mr. Murdock’s “word” didn’t reach Mr. Latour?.
Why is it that Democrats can never steer the economy ship? Is it that they are too busy usurping our coffers and aren’t smart enough to manage the budget as DOGE proved?
I hope the voters realize that you have to understand how the world works – and keep the people in office who understand how the government works in order to keep the boat afloat. How many times do we have to learn the hard way that the Democrats do not have the capacity to run the country. Their mentality is limited and we hope the country understands that. Obama/Biden were the least capable. We must establish an IQ test for future candidates. We have people now in our government who do not understand how the world/government works and that is the problem.
The twelve years of Democrat control almost sunk the country. Look at all of our blue states – not good. The citizens better “listen up” and learn from what we have been through.
If you don’t like the name Republican – you had better learn from what we have been through. The left almost took us into SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM with their ignorance. The Democrats need to clean up their party of the AOC/Bernie Sanders/et al progressives and bring back the real Democrats.
The spending by the Obama/Biden progressives was out of control as we all know. Ignorance was bliss with them as we witnessed. It is time now to remain true to the Constitution and throw out all of the bums who caused our demise.
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US President Donald Trump during a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, after the announcement of a trade deal on July 27 2025 – Evelyn Hockstein / Reuters
“Sometimes you have to take the medicine,” said President Donald Trump, back in April, as markets plummeted and the world convulsed in response to his “Liberation Day” tariffs. He denounced his critics as “Panicans”.
Four months on, and the panic has all but passed. After initial discomfort, the patient appears to be digesting Dr Trump’s unorthodox treatment and is responding well. The key to recovery, it seems, is to accept that the global economic order was wrong and the Donald is right. It’s funny how often this seems to be the case.
The stock markets quickly recovered from their slump and hit new highs this week, after the European Union struck an initial trade agreement with the United States. The EU has accepted a 15 per cent levy on its exports to the United States and promised to buy many more American goods. In return, America gave away almost nothing. This is Trumponomics 101: he wins, you pay.
The extent of his domination can be seen in the fact that Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the EU Commission, and Keir Starmer both came in turn to Turnberry, in Scotland, to perform the diplomatic formalities, while he took time out from playing golf on the course he owns. For his part, the gracious host flattered his guests by calling them “tough negotiators” even as they essentially accepted all his terms. This is the Art of the Post-Deal: he flatters, you keep paying.Related video: History behind tariffs, nothing new for American Presidents (KOAA Colorado Springs, CO
History behind tariffs, nothing new for American Presidents
The British Prime Minister grimaced as Donald Trump lectured him on the benefits of low taxation and strong borders as well as the evils of Sadiq Khan and wind turbines. But Starmer knows, deep down, that the only aspect of his premiership which has gone well has been his negotiating of the political weather system that is Donald Trump. Britain bowed to Trump’s agenda first, and was duly rewarded with a 10 per cent levy on all our goods, the lowest on offer.
It’s strange to think that only last year, as Trump campaigned for re-election, the expert classes on both sides of the Atlantic frantically debated whether Trump was serious about imposing a 10 per cent levy on all imports, certain as they were that such a move would tank the financial system. In fact Trump went much further than anyone expected and slapped additional “reciprocal tariffs” on countries, some as high as 50 per cent. But his initial aggression was so bewildering that now the world is falling on his lesser-though-still-significant tariffs as a blessed relief. This is classic New York real-estate stuff: frighten the wits out of opposing parties with a ruinous initial threat, then watch them cave in gratitude when you agree to be slightly less exacting.
“It’s complicated but not that complicated, when you get right down to it,” Trump told von der Leyen on Sunday. The simple truth, which he understood but the rest of the world couldn’t quite admit, is that every country desperately wants access to the US market, which is why he, as America’s Commander-in-Chief, must have the upper hand on global trade. The leverage is his, inevitably.
It’s too soon to say the trade war is over, of course. The deals with Britain, Europe, Japan are only “frameworks” that could fall apart as officials work through the details. And then there’s China, still the factory of the world, and the hardest piece of the Trump trade puzzle to solve.
But what’s clear is that America is now in a far more commanding position on trade, even with the world’s second biggest superpower. And that’s down to Donald Trump’s belligerence. He can pause, and pause again, but he doesn’t fold.
Trump understands that, beyond economics, protectionism is a very useful cudgel in diplomacy, because tariffs are like sanctions. America can make warring nations fall in line by threatening to impose steep export taxes if they don’t comply. Last week, Trump used the threat of US tariffs to help broker a peace deal between Thailand and Cambodia last week. He did the same with DR Congo and Rwanda earlier this month and India and Pakistan in May. He wants to be remembered as a peacemaker, and it’s obvious now that Liberation Day is part of his anti-war strategy. This week Trump pleased Starmer and the EU by promising tariffs of up to 100 per cent on Vladimir Putin’s Russia if the conflict in Ukraine doesn’t end in less than two weeks. That’s because he knows that punishment tariffs on unpopular countries are a useful way of keeping allies content.
Back in America, Trump’s political opponents point out that, while Wall Street seems to be enjoying a bounce, the Main Street economy is suffering. Basic economics suggests that tariffs have to be “tax on consumers”, as companies inevitably pass extra costs on to customers. And Americans have been telling pollsters that, as well as inflation, concern about the impact of Trump’s tariffs has made them reign in spending. Yet consumer and business sentiment in the US is actually ticking up not down, and the latest surveys suggest that almost 50 per cent of Americans rate the strength of the US economy as “good”, up from about 35 per cent at the start of the Trump presidency.
Free traders might still grumble about tariffs taking the world backwards. But others are starting to acknowledge that Trump could be late capitalism’s last, best hope.
Trumponomics may force consumers to pay more, but he is taxing Americans less. His administration just extended his significant tax cuts from his first term and added tax relief for pensioners, as well as on people working overtime or for tips. At the same time, the White House can point out that inflation is going down and its “external revenue service” is bringing in $20bn each month in tariffs, which helps reduce America’s vast and fiscally unsustainable deficit.
This is not quite the “golden age” that Trump voters promised when he came into office earlier this year, but the president isn’t exaggerating when he tells reporters that America is “the hottest country anywhere in the world.”
The danger is that, while Trump milks us all on trade, other countries will suffer and become more resentful towards America. We’re already seeing the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) coming closer together as many regard the United States as an avaricious hegemon.
But that process was underway long before Trump first became president. The truth is that Trump has defied the increasingly unpopular economic orthodoxy that has ruled the world since at least 1995, when President Bill Clinton’s America helped found the World Trade Organisation. And he’s winning.
Freddy Gray is deputy and US editor of The Spectator
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We hope that voters learned from this hard lesson. Not just anyone can be a candidate for office. For heavens sake, VET YOUR CANDIDATES. We need people who are smart – not smart alec’s..
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