Donald Trump has made quite the splash in the political community these last couple of days. He's made some smart moves, however, it's hard to ignore the signs of both environmental destruction and economic turmoil.
Let's start with the economic portion.
Donald Trump wanting to build a wall at the US/Mexican border has been well known for quite a while. He wants one that rivals the Great Wall of China. His initial plan during his campaign is that Mexico would pay for this wall; mind you, estimated costs range from 15-20 billion dollars.
It has been decided that the US taxpayers will foot the bill for this wall. This goes against his promise to make Mexico pay for the wall AND his promise to lower taxes for all. On top of this, the Mexican president is has publicly stated that Mexico will not pay for this wall that they don't even want. BUT DON'T FRET. Donald Trump, in a recent interview with ABC, said that Mr. Pena (Mexican president) has to say that and assures us that Mexico will still pay for the wall in some kind of transaction, however, he was extremely vague about it. What happens when they don't pay for the wall? Will Mr. Trump threaten them with War? Does he believe that Mexico is indebted to the US?
Environmentally: Another major point of Trumps campaign was to bring production based jobs back home. 2 initiatives to do this is [b]1. To lower corporate taxes assuming that the extra money will be redirected towards the American job market and 2. Reduce environmental regulations because they are "out of control."[/b] and yes, he did say they are out of control in his meeting with the major car manufacturers.
This may actually bring production jobs back homw, however, there are major environmental consequences of bringing factories here. There are major air pollutants as well as possible toxic waste generated as a by product of factories, especially without environmental regulations in place to prevent it. As an added bonus, Trump froze the EPA, whom mainly conduct environmental research which would most likely fight the disregard of environmental regulations with scientific proof.
And if that's not bad enough, the poor air quality will like to more illness. These employees, most likely working minimum wage, will not have any affordable health care in place to make up for the rise in health risks.
TL;DR: Mexico wont pay for the wall, the taxpayers will, and there will be minimal environmental regulations on the stateside factories which will lead to environmental and health harm with now affordable health care system in place. These 2 things will destroy America, and those who voted for him should be ashamed by this display of idiocy and dishonesty.
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He won't destroy America. But, he will destroy the last remaining shreds of civility and mutual respect for one another in American politics. We're locked into a very dangerous cycle. It reminds me of pre-civil war divisions and rhetoric. The abolitionists claimed slavery wasn't a "necessary evil" as the South had argued. They weren't the victims of history and British slave imports. Their dependence on slave labor wasn't justifiable. That alone was a lot for Southerners to swallow. Then abolitionists went further and said that slavery is not only very evil but slave owners themselves are incredibly evil. Most people know that story. What most people don't know is that from the founding until a few decades before the Civil War, Southerners DID regard slavery as morally wrong but an inescapable evil because their entire economies relied upon it. It was only in reaction to being labeled morally inferior and evil that they invented the argument of racial superiority for slavery. My point is that as one side radicalizes it's rhetoric, the other side radicalizes theirs in defense. Polarization grows and grows until something bad happens.