Most Important Point from Scott Pelley’s Interview with Trump

I’d like to thank Scott Pelley for giving Donald Trump the opportunity to answer a question on how you bring jobs back to the United States. Other than that I think Scott was absolutely worthless. His agenda appeared to be bully the interviewee to illicit an emotional response. If you watched the 60 Minutes interview you would have seen Scott fire off questions like a machine gun, cutting Trump off mid sentence as he was trying to complete his answer. Perhaps he was trying to display his dominance by manhandling the interview. Personally, I think Scott’s behavior was classless modern infotainment not journalism; create a self-serving story line to boost ratings even if it generates a false narrative. In this case, in my opinion, the false narrative Scott was creating was “Trump is a maverick lacking the suitable emotional demeanor to be President”. Thankfully Trump maintained the rational even keel one would expect from a billionaire entrepreneur.

During Scott’s interview Trump showed that he is a rational businessman, and the theatrics on display at debates may be those of a brilliant strategist playing to the crowd. However, I wish that the rational businessman had provided more substance to his talking points, and elaborated on the details of things like financing his wall and the breakdown of his tax plan. At this point I don’t agree with Trump’s tax plan, mainly because I don’t know how it works. I wouldn’t try to come up with a new plan, I would employ an amended version of the fair tax model (a flat income tax with waivers for low income families, a lowered corporate tax rate to incentivize profit repatriation, elimination of the current tax code and its 10 billion tax loopholes and corporate incentives, the abolition of the IRS with the United States Treasury assuming revenue collection duties, and a shrinkage of the bloated federal government to balance the budget).

Even though I would have preferred a little more meat with my potatoes, Trump gave the one answer that makes him the only candidate that anyone who is unemployed or underemployed should vote for. How do you pay for all these plans Mr Trump? By bringing jobs back to America, and making America great again. Well how do you bring jobs back to America?

The answer to bringing jobs back to America, and whether or not a politician follows through with the actions required to answer that question, is the most important issue in American politics today. On this issue Trump is the ONLY candidate who is serious about bringing jobs back to America. In my last blog post I touched on globalism’s origins, and how it led to job flight in America. I didn’t talk about how industrial espionage can compound the job flight problem by permitting foreign corporations to steal proprietary information to produce and market a comparable product. For example when GE outsourced their manufacturing processes to countries with cheap labor and lax government oversight GE opened Pandora’s Box. GE’s foreign manufactures were then able to clone the products they were  providing to GE, and sell their identical cloned products in the open market at a discount, thus undercutting GE and other name brands whom they manufactured products for. So besides losing middle class jobs to foreign countries we have actually lost entire industries, and this trend will continue until we stop outsourcing.

We break NAFTA because we don’t need free trade; we need fair trade. That is the underlying core of Trump’s answer to bringing jobs back to America. Scott being a confrontational corporate mouth piece, not an expert in international law, interrupted with “You can’t do that because it’s against the law. You’re going to break international law?” The majority of voters, who breeze over subjects like international business and politics, need to take the time to listen and research subjects like this. NAFTA and other free trade agreements like it are portrayed as great achievements making international business easier and better for consumers.

You can now get an 80 inch TV for under $2,000.00, and five years ago that same TV would have cost $15,000.00. Isn’t free trade great? What no one tells you is that the only winners in free trade agreements are multinational corporations. Free Trade Agreements permit multinationals to exploit developing countries until those countries become too expensive, and then, like locust, the multinationals move on to the next victim of their predatory practices. That’s why the chronological history of manufacturing labels in America looks something like this: made in America, made in Japan, made in Taiwan, made in Korea, made in China. When China becomes too costly we’ll see the move to India, Vietnam or some other country where corporations can get away with sub standard wages, working conditions, and regulations.

But it doesn’t really matter because you won’t be able to afford that $2,000.00 TV anyway. With the implementation of socialist policies, like a mandated minimum wage spike and healthcare regulations designed to enrich insurance giants, the job supply in this country will continue to plummet as the free market tries to fight back against crony capitalism and corporate feudalism. Companies will downsize in a ratio that brings the cost of labor in line with their industry; think automated customer checkout in retail locations with one employee to supervise multiple lines instead of multiple checkout clerks. The clerks that remain will go from full-time to part-time to side step the employer healthcare mandates, and if you don’t like it too bad because the demand for work far exceeds job supply. There is someone that is waiting in line to take your job. You can’t even afford that 80 inch TV that Globalism is trying to sell you.

So if you are unemployed or underemployed and desperate to feed your family you should be voting for someone that is willing to fight the Globalists. If you think it’s terrible the way those companies exploit people by paying them $5 a day in sweatshop conditions you should be voting for someone that is willing to fight the Globalists. If companies that skirt by environmental regulations to destroy the planet infuriate you, then you should be voting for someone that is willing to fight the Globalists.

I don’t think Trump is perfect, but he is the ONLY candidate who has openly said I’m going to fight the Globalists!

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