Before the deluge

Days of future past--the Trump economy

A couple of years before the Great Recession, I began seeing pieces--and not Chicken Little, The Sky Is Falling pieces, but thoughtful pieces generally from economists--that our economy was not as strong as it appeared and that an ugly crash was coming.

And we all know how that turned out.

Sadly I am seeing those same kinds of pieces again, showing that many of the same actions which caused the last downturn are being repeated, or speculating on how bad Trump's trade wars are going to hurt the economy.  Even worse, while George W. Bush was a moron, at least he had the good sense to surround himself with people (though free enterprise/capitalism mongers to a fault) who had some semblance of knowledge concerning our economy.  Not so Donald Trump, a moron who has surrounded himself with other morons (mostly from his own family) who will do little more than stand on the toilet seat and watch the American economy swirl down the drain, while the rest of us suffer the ravages of yet another economic collapse caused by republicans.

Please know that I am not hoping for an economic downturn to thwart Trump--I've seen firsthand how much recessions can hurt a family's finances.  But we need to prepare for it, and react to it in such a way that, like Herbert Hoover before him, we make sure that republican incompetence on the economy sticks to Trump and their party like stink to shit.

And twenty years without a republican President sounds mighty fine to me.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee