AND IN THAT REGARD, TRUMP IS BATTING .500
HE IS CORRECT ABOUT THE WITCH HUNT ASSERTION BUT LESS CORRECT ABOUT IN HIS VILIFICATION OF CUBA HOWEVER UNDERSTANDABLE HIS REASONING.
LET'S DEAL WITH CUBA FIRST.
Donald Trump's speech last week in Florida was Red Meat to those who had fled Castro's Cuba. He rightly condemned the damage the Castro Boys had done to their island where Canadian Tourists flock and Political Dissenters rot in filthy cells.
But dear Reader, Trump was wrong do this.
I did not agree with much that Obama did as President but I did agree with him when he...and the Pope...reached out to the Castros to restore some sort of normalcy after 60 plus years of neglect and animosity. Simply stated...the US Policy had failed to bring Castro Cuba to its knees and it was time for a new and more enlightened approach.
This new approach - i.e. trade, and lifting travel bans had an excellent chance of success given Russia's declining influence on the island and the aging of the two Castros...and especially now that Fidel has passed away into history.
Trump's incendiary comments will only serve to stiffen resolve of the islanders loyal to the Castro legacy to dig in and carry on their resistance to everything American.
I believe the motivation for his speech was Trump's quest for flattery and praise wherever and however he can get it. But he was wrong to look for it in Florida.
Which leads me to his comments about Witch Hunts.
Here Trump is bang on ... the Progressive Left and its Cheer-leading Media is out to get him on any Trumped Up issue they can dream up and boy can they dream up some doozies. Take their silly insinuation that Trump somehow colluded with Russia in trying to influence the course of last November's Election.
I have decided that I will not lower myself to give the Left the time of day in these blogs to their juvenile and nonsensical musings.
Rather, one of my favourite sayings is 'the proof is in the pudding' meaning words mean nothing...what counts are outcomes.
So here are the real issues I will be watching ...being the issues of real concern to people like you and me (in no particular order):
1. Get out of the Paris Accord....Done
2. Reduce the Corporate Tax Rate from 35% to 20% or lower...OS
3. Approve the Keystone and the Dakota Pipelines...Done*
(will not be satisfied until these pipelines are up and going)
4. Force NATO Members to contribute their fair-share that is to say, 2% of their GDP...Progress has been made but time will tell if President Trump has been successful in this important area.
5. Force the World's Outliers back into line - e.g. Russia, Iran, Syria, North Korea, China, Pakistan, Turkey, ISIS and their ilk...OS
6. Improve the Dysfunctional School System by allowing more Charter Schools...OS
7. Make significant inroads in improving Conditions in the Ghettos...OS
8. Cut Red Tape e.g. Cancel Numerous Regulations ...OS
9. Fix Their Dysfunctional Health System...OS
10. Close the Southern Wall to illegal immigration...Underway
(even though the promised Wall has yet to be built, beefed up border security has dramatically reduced the volume of illegal immigrants entering into the United States from Mexico)
11. Restore the Military which was allowed to seriously decline under Obama...OS
12. Balance the Budget...OS
13. Greater Protection for the Unborn and the Infirm / Elderly...Unknown
14. A push-back on Unisex Washrooms / Showers...Unknown
When I do my final assessment of Donald Trump and his Administration the above will be the issues I will focus on and not the nonsensical chatter of the Desperate and Hysterical Progressive Left.
Trump's success or failure with regard to these 14 important subject areas will determine whether or not he goes down as a Very Successful President or as a Failure as was the case with his predecessor.
As I see it...
'K.D. Galagher'
