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"What specific piece of legislation will you advance” to make child care affordable?"

edited September 5 in Off-Topic
An excerpt from a commentary by HEATHER COX RICHARDSON, September 5, 2024:
Trump’s 2024 campaign is not at all about reality; it’s about a worldview. When asked at an event at the New York Economic Club “what specific piece of legislation will you advance” to make child care affordable, the 78-year-old Trump answered:

“Well I would do that. And we’re sitting down. You know I was somebody. We had Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka was so impactful on that issue. It’s a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that because—look, child care is child care. It’s—couldn’t, you know, it’s something you have to have it—in this country you have to have it. But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to—but they’ll get used to it very quickly—and it’s not going to stop them from doing business with us, but they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about, including child care, that it’s going to take care. We’re going to have—I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time, coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country, because I have to stay with child care. I want to stay with child care, but those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I’m talking about, including growth, but growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just told you about. We’re going to be taking in trillions of dollars, and as much as child care is talked about as being expensive, it’s, relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we’ll be taking in. We’re going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people, and then we’ll worry about the rest of the world. Let’s help other people, but we’re going to take care of our country first. This is about America first. It’s about Make America Great Again, we have to do it because right now we’re a failing nation, so we’ll take care of it.”
And in eight weeks almost half of this nation's voters will vote for this man. No further comment necessary.

Comments

  • edited September 6
    Another rambling, incoherent speech by the ex-president.
    Trump doesn't appear to have the necessary mental acuity
    to lead this great nation nor be the Commander In Chief.
    It's incredibly unsettling that a sizable minority of our population
    still supports this ex-president come hell or high water.
  • An ironic aspect of all this is that Trump's mental acuity (never all that great to start with) now seems to be deteriorating even faster than Joe Biden's. Perhaps it seemed more noticeable in President Biden because he started from a place which was so far above Trump's to start with. It's a lot easier to notice a fall from 90 to 50 than a fall from 50 to 10.
  • edited September 5
    Old_Joe said:

    An ironic aspect of all this is that Trump's mental acuity (never all that great to start with) now seems to be deteriorating even faster than Joe Biden's. Perhaps it seemed more noticeable in President Biden because he started from a place which was so far above Trump's to start with. It's a lot easier to notice a fall from 90 to 50 than a fall from 50 to 10.

    Maybe next week’s debate will be a “redux” of the last one - but with the old shoe on “the other foot.”

  • "Maybe next week’s debate will be a 'redux' of the last one - but with the old shoe on 'the other foot.'”

    It very well may be so!
  • He has all the best words! C'mon! What are you worried about? LOL. The Orange schmuck. It is crazy-nuts, as already noted above, that half the country still adores that FELON-CLOWN. Heads full of "deep state" conspiracies. Cripes.
  • 10 minutes of 'must watch' video from Lawrence O'Donnell, last night on his MSNBC program; regarding the stupid rich people. Seriously, this needs to be watched, understood and passed along. The LINK CC will have to be selected for hearing impaired. Select CC and then English in small pop up. Audio on must be selected, too; as it is at MUTE.

    We've watched Mr. O'Donnell's program over the years. He's a very good thinker and speaker.
    His BIO.
  • Yes, he wrote some of the West Wing episodes. Smart!
  • Crash said:

    Yes, he wrote some of the West Wing episodes. Smart!

    I did not know this.
    Great show!
  • @Catch22: Jesus. We're totally screwed.
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