(ThyBlackMan.com) (Excerpts from the book titled, “The Fix This Time” @amazon.com/dp/B00MI3PD2M).
Winning in November is not a slam dunk for Democrats. Right now, it appears Democrats can’t see the forest for the trees. When you are too close to a situation, you need to step back and get a better point of view. When you do this, you will notice there was a whole forest you couldn’t see before, because you were too close, and focusing on the trees. Simply put, Democrats have focused on DACA (Deferred Action for Child Arrivals) and have failed to see that there can be another perspective, when it comes to an actual tax cut for the low and middle classes, creating jobs, spurring consumer demand, and addressing the issue of the exportation of American jobs to China, Mexico and India; and this overall perspective can indeed, lead to “a permanent solution of the issues surrounding illegal immigration and DACA.”
The Democratic party is attempting to put together a coalition of groups based only on numbers, rather than an economic plan on which they can govern. Its what I call an ethnic-issue/anti-Trump based campaign. The coalition, that the leadership of the Democratic party is knitting together are Hispanics, based on DACA (Deferred Action for Child Arrivals), suburban whites based on Mr. Trump’s disparaging behavior toward women, and blacks based on Mr. Trump’s past remarks about African Americans(AA) and his recent and hateful remarks regarding Africa and the Caribbean. Keep in mind, anti-Trumpism is a risky political strategy, recently employed by Secretary Hillary Clinton in her presidential election loss.
It is impossible to compare, a yet to be formalized Democratic plan for governing, with the current Republican/Trump Tax plan passed by Congress in December, 2017. As, all we have from Chuck Schumer, the minority leader of the Democratic party in the Senate, is what the party needs; “Democrats need a strong, bold, sharp-edged, and common-sense economic agenda.” Yet, Mr. Schumer hasn’t so far, presented any details regarding such a plan.
Republicans on the other hand advocate “Supply Side Economics” as a plan of governing.” They say, if you reduce taxes, and regulations on producers, manufacturers, and suppliers, these entities would then take that money and recycle it back into the economy, producing job growth. They are saying, they are in a better position to redistribute this money to consumers then the federal government. We have heard, via the mainstream media, how they will redistribute this money, which they did not have to send to the U. S. Treasury, in the form of taxes.
We are seeing wage increases announced by some businesses and corporations, bonuses by others and promises to build new plants. However, when you add up all the promises and the wage increases announced so far; they amount to less than, $25 billion. And when I use the figure of $25 billion, I am being very generous. Speeches and articles revolving around these promises come down to Republicans blowing hot air!
Do the math! The tax cut, you will remember, came to $1.5 trillion. That means these folks have yet to invest or promise to invest even a third of the money, they have put on American’s credit card; that you and I will have to eventually pay in increased taxes come 2025 and that’s just seven years from now. The probability, this scam will fail is great, if we do not see more announcements forthcoming regarding new projects, that will at least approach the $500 billion mark; and with specific dates, of when shovels will be put in the ground.
A tiger cannot change his stripes, just like Republicans aren’t going to change the nature of their behavior. And past behavior, is the best predictor of future behavior. Republicans, like they have done in the past, will eventually use this tax windfall to enrich themselves (bet on it!), and their big shareholders through stock buy back programs, which drive up the price of stocks. And, increased dividends payments are highly likely, as well.
Nonetheless, Republicans, will mount an ad campaign over the next few months in the millions of dollars, extolling the successes of their tax cut plan; and in most instances, they will overstate the plan’s true impact. Remember, Mr. Trump’s crowd size argument at his inauguration. Republicans nevertheless, will likely win the argument of which party is “making America great again,” in these ads, because Democrats have yet to produce, “a strong, bold, sharp-edged, and common-sense economic agenda.” All, they can do is run competing television ads saying, what the Republicans are claiming, “ain’t so.”
As I said, Democrats are concentrating on an ethnic-issue/anti-Trump campaign, rather then a campaign on how good they can be as a governing party based on a plan aimed at;
1) stabilizing the Social Security program and fighting to get the COLA ( cost of living allowance) reinstated;
2) job creation,
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3) how to grow the economy with a coherent trading policy which addresses the devastation of American communities affected by the exportation of good paying jobs to other countries. These issues connect Democrats to their base, their core constituencies; Baby Boomers, the low and middle class and American workers. Democrats can show, by adopting such an approach and plan, Republicans are not really supportive of these constituencies. This is the way, for us and Democrats not to get fired, and win, come November, 2018 and in 2020!
(A note to those who are purchasing “The Fix This Time.” You can download the book to your iPhone, personal computer or Kindle reader. You do not have to actually read the book.” There is a function from Kindle on the tool menu that allows the book to be read ALOUD to you. It is a stop and go feature which allows you to listen to the text of the book without having to set at a computer screen or look at your phone. Enjoy!)
Staff Writer; James Davis
Mr. Davis is a leading expert and consultant in Financial Analysis and Social Dynamics. He is a graduate of Florida A. and M. University(FAMU), a former stockbroker, and a human rights activist who resides in Sanford, Florida. He was awarded the prestigious Governor Haydon Burns Scholarship to attend FAMU and while at FAMU was awarded the first Martin Luther King Scholarship. He is the author of three books, among them is “The Fix This Time,” Boost Your Retirement Income! Simultaneously Create Jobs and Spur Consumer Demand (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MI3PD2M).
He can be reached through his blog @, (http://www.thefixthistime.com).