COMMENTS POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER
Not much to a reader’s observation about Putin and Trump
being similar.
In fact, they are almost opposites in many ways.
Putin is soft-spoken, strategic in his thinking, and
cunning.
Trump resembles nothing so much as a perpetual drunk
shooting his mouth off at whatever crosses his path.
Trump is a walking emotional explosion.
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In response to a
reader who thinks big businessmen make good leaders:
Big businessmen and generals virtually always make poor
presidents.
They are used to barking out orders, but that does not work
in the real political world.
Clever persuasion is what's needed, a quality Trump lacks
utterly.
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To a reader who thinks
I don’t realize the importance of the economy in the election:
Oh, I do think I ``realize.``
After all, I am a retired chief economist for a large
Canadian company.
Anyone who understands classical economics knows that a
government leader has very little to do with the performance of the real
economy.
They do like to pose and strut around and take credit for
what goes right, but it is mostly empty-headed nonsense.
The one way government can assist an economy is doing its
basic job of providing essential infrastructure, avoiding wasteful spending
like stupid wars, and seeing that the children receive good education. The
United States has failed in every one of these essentials for decades,
Republicans or Democrats making no difference.
You also fail to really comprehend Clinton`s election slogan.
He was reminding himself of the importance of speaking on the campaign trail
about what is important to ordinary people. In American politics, speaking
about a subject is almost never the same thing as actually doing something
about it if elected.
That was certainly true of Clinton, a pretty classless president
who had not one admirable achievement.
As for Trump, he is a big-mouthed fraud, a confidence man, not
an expert on economics, full stop.
