This is straight out of Back To The Future, with a soupcon of The Jetsons thrown in. Donald Trump intends to remake America in his own image, not that that’s anything new. He’s just gotten a bigger than usual brainstorm and folks, we are going sci fi. Trump is holding a contest for people to develop Freedom Cities, “reopen the frontier, reignite American imagination, and give hundreds of thousands of young people and other people, all hardworking families, a new shot at home ownership and in fact, the American Dream.” And you can have a flying car. Everybody gets a flying car. Politico:
In a video set to be released on Friday, Trump will call for a “quantum leap” in the American standard of living.
Trump’s plan, shared in advance with POLITICO, calls for holding a contest to design and create up to ten new “Freedom Cities,” built from the ground up on federal land. It proposes an investment in the development of vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles; the creation of “hives of industry” sparked by cutting off imports from China; and a population surge sparked by “baby bonuses” to encourage would-be-parents to get on with procreation. It is all, his team says, part of a larger nationwide beautification campaign meant to inspire forward-looking visions of America’s future.
“Past generations of Americans pursued big dreams and daring projects that once seemed absolutely impossible. They pushed across an unsettled continent and built new cities in the wild frontier. They transformed American life with the interstate highway system—magnificent it was. And they launched a vast network of satellites into orbit all around the earth,” Trump said in his video.
“But today, our country has lost its boldness. Under my leadership, we will get it back in a very big way. If you look at just three years ago, what we were doing was unthinkable, how good it was, how great it was for our country. Our objective will be a quantum leap in the American standard of living,” Trump said.
Trump campaign advisers acknowledge the new set of plans are out of the ordinary. But they note he’s made other eye-popping proposals before — like purchasing Greenland from Denmark. They offered analogies to Abraham Lincoln’s campaign for the transcontinental railroad, Teddy Roosevelt’s vision for a national park service, and Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System.
Intriguingly, Trump is channeling Democrats on this one, notably John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Cory Booker.
As for “baby bonuses” to encourage the next baby boom and tackle America’s slowing birth rate, Trump appears to be (knowingly or not) borrowing a page from others, like Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.). During the 2020 campaign, the New Jersey Democrat proposed “baby bonds,” which would set aside funds in a savings account for every child in America.
This is the new Donald Trump, folks. Visionary extraordinaire. Forget about going back to the 1950’s, we’re done with all that. Now we’re going forward to the 2150’s. As usual, Trump’s plans are “heavy on imagery and light on details” as Politico puts it. Again, Trump thinks life is a TV show. That’s what we’re dealing with. He’s just rewritten the script.
So, are the people who’ll be working in these “hives of industry” going to get paid a living wage (you know–like union workers got back in the post-WW2 era which led to the most recent major “boom”) or are they going to get paid like the workers in China? The only reason we “import” so much from China is because businesses (like Walmart) like the prices the Chinese can sell those products for (because the labor cost is negligible). And, technically, a lot of those “imports” aren’t really “imports” since many US companies have factories in China and have substantial investment in Chinese-owned factories.
As for that population boom, how will said population boom affect the environment? I mean, we’re already seeing problems in Arizona, Nevada and Southern California because of too many people living in a freaking desert and wanting to do silly things like grow crops and have lawns and gardens and live in houses that are a comfy 75 degrees while the outside temperature is a pleasant 110. Large areas along the coast risk becoming uninhabitable, either from rising sea levels or problematic hurricanes and storm surges.
And, it’s kind of funny that Trump wants to pay people to have more babies but, at the same time, spend money to block people from immigrating. Personally, I doubt he’s talking about an amount of money that would make having those children worth the effort. Last year, the Brookings Institution estimated that it would cost more than $310,000 to raise a child from birth to age 18 (by comparison, in 2015, the estimated cost was “only” $233,000).
“Baby Bonuses”? Even for the Brown and Black ones, or just to force more White ones?
He said back when he was infesting the WH he only wanted “European” (as in WHITE) immigrants so there’s not a fucking chance in hell he’d be okay with paying bonuses to any parents that weren’t of WHITE EUROPEAN ancestry. In fact, Stephen Miller has probably already written up the policy complete with a provision to make everyone else PAY a penalty for reproducing!
what we were doing was unthinkable
It sure was.
The GOP is always “forward-looking” from 1950.
He’s out of his mind. Those were ideas in the 20s and 30s…in science fiction.
(Think of the regulations needed for flying cars! Just the licensing stuff would prevent this from happening.)
He is out of his mine and has been for a loooong time!!!!!
Are the operators of Politizoom aware that some of your advertisers post ads for GQP and RWNJ support? While reading this article, I scrolled past a dozen or so ads by “Public Advocate of the United States” urging support for MTG’s bill, stop gender insanity in schools, and protect our children from the radical left agenda, among other GQP talking points.
This isn’t the first time I’ve encountered this, and I’m not sure if it’s related to algorithms in the Opera browser or Google. Is a anyone else seeing this