Sunday, March 25, 2018

An honorable man?

I'm still peeved about President Trump signing the bloated budget.  Chuck the Schmuck and the enimedia will play this as a tactical win, a strategic win, and a complete capitulation till the day President Trump leaves office.
Ever built a house? Lets say you finally achieve financial independence. The time has come to create your dream home. The ideas have been swirling in your head for half a century. Ok, twenty years. Now is the time to put dreams on paper, and make it a reality. You've sat down with a designer who penciled out all your wild fantasies. You've taken those crazy nightmares to an engineer, and you now have a plan. Real drawings that will be turned into your dream house by the builder you choose.
You know how big you want it. You know what you want for walls, what kind of bricks, what type windows, every thing is in the take off right down to the lumber crayons. With one signature, you are now committed to your dream, and that builders job is to make it so.
Lets say you budgeted $25,000 for the foundation. The general contractor may shop suppliers and get a steal on the styrofoam forms, make a deal on the steel, and cement a bargain on the concrete and put that foundation together for $19,459. He just saved you a tidy $5,541 smackers. Standard practice is he gets 1/3 of that savings, so in reality, he saved you $3,694 since he will be rewarded with $1,847.
That is money you can save, or plow back in to better windows, or nicer carpet. His share is a hedge against over runs later in the project. It won't be his bonus until the day you get the keys.
President Trump's house is America. President Trump has built many things. He has grasped the bull by the horns many times in New York's insane world and come out under budget and ahead of schedule, and delivered a better product. If he wasn't good, he'd have become a millionaire, then a thousandaire, then a hundredaire, even starting with a hundred million.
So President Trump has been handed the keys to Ft Knox. He has $1.3 trillion to play with, and a September deadline. Congress allocated the money. It is up to him to write the checks. He can now choose to spend every penny, not one red cent, or some figure in between.
This porkulus ends in September short of the fiscal year's end. September brings redemption or it brings demise. President Trump now holds all the cards, the game is war, and he can deal face up. President Trump can make or break the election. how he spends the money will be the tell. Come 21 September some one will be smiling. Any bets on who?

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