You’re right, Ribbles. I shouldn’t have lumped you in with livinincali.
Livinincali, what about you? I guess you haven’t come right out and said (that I remember) that you’re a trump supporter. You’ve indicated some support for some of his ideas. You’ve agreed with him that global warming isn’t human-caused. Are you a trump supporter? Do you think he’ll do well? Any positive predictions?
Now that he’s won, are there any trump supporters out there? bg, you are clearly a big supporter. Any positive predictions?[/quote]
Wasn’t a Trump supporter. Voted for Gary Johnson not that he would have changed things that much either. I honestly don’t think who is US president can really effect that much change into today’s economy or policy. Maybe to some degree but not as much as people think. People that think things would be horrifically bad under Trump but extremely rosy under Hillary are delusional. Of course there’s no way for either side to prove they were right so why waste time arguing over religion.
The problem is that even if protectionist policies or major changes to the healthcare system would be good in the long term they will be economically damaging in the short term. Even if his policies were good it might be 10+ years to see the benefit of them and in that case someone else will likely get the credit.
As for global warming nobody really knows how much warming is due to man made warming due to the burning of fossil fuels. Obviously there are other factors such as the sun energy output and just earth’s overall ecosystem that is honestly too complex for us to understand. We can’t even predict local weather that well. We certainly don’t have a complete model for earth’s global climate and what percent of warming is caused by man. The earth has been far hotter and colder before man was even a species on this rock.
Even if you come to conclusion that man made global warming is real and fossil fuel consumption needs to be reduced by 50%, 80% or whatever are you prepared to live with the reduced standard of living that would entail. I don’t think most of the humans on the planet are ready to voluntarily do that. There isn’t a cheap reliable energy source other than nuclear technologies and nobody seems to want to go down that path either. I’m not saying we shouldn’t try to research better energy technologies, but putting some sort of artificial constraint on economic growth via carbon taxes or some other mechanism isn’t the right approach. Honestly most of us living in SoCal are the worst offenders on the planet when it comes to energy consumption and carbon output.
