I would have to say that Trump is clever in signing executive orders that he claims will help the people and help the economy. Besides the constitutionality of these executive orders and the inability of his people to coherently talk about the details of these orders, these will help the people or economy very little. What these orders do is again deflect blame from Trump. By claiming that these orders break the deadlock between the House and the Senate, Trump is able to say that he is doing something for the American people.
Instead of $600 weekly, the unemployed will get $400 if the states are willing to put up $100 of the $400. If the state you are in is not able or willing to pony up the $100, you will get nothing from the Federal government. Payroll taxes will be delayed, not eliminated for now. But if you have no job, no wages, this would not help you at all. Trump says that there will be extension of no evictions. But that is not true if you read the fine print. In any case, there will be no improvement in the economy if all these executive orders are enacted. And who complained about Obama's executive orders in the past? None other than Donald Trump.
But by signing these orders, Trump can claim that it is the Democrats who are delaying relief to the people by not coming to an agreement. This is especially true that the Democrats are taking Trump to court over constitutionality of these orders. The people don't care about the legality of it, they just want relief. So this may actually hurt the Democrats. I say let these orders go through. With virus still surging in many areas of the country, nothing will help the economy anyway. The U.S. economy decrease 32% in the last quarter, while that of Germany decreased 10% and that of China increased 3%. When these orders do nothing to change the situation, Trump will be responsible if these orders were put into action. If the Democrats delay the implementation of the orders and things continue south, then some people will think that the Democrats are responsible.
I didn't realize he could do that so we will see how far this goes. It was a shrewd move and I can't disagree with what you wrote. I'm not sure if it'll help much for him in the election though. The Democrats have to hammer that they wanted the $600 to continue, so the people who are unemployed would rather have that than $400. Maybe he's counting on states that have Democratic governors to not be able to come up with the $100.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like college football and fall college sports is a no go. I am actually concerned that there won't be basketball now, since we haven't been able to contain the virus. It's not like the NBA where you can put the teams in a bubble. The only thing I can think of is that they play the games in empty arenas.
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technically he can't do most of these since Congress is supposed to control the purse string. But if it goes to court, it may not resolve before the election. In the meanwhile, Trump will say that by going to court, the Democrats are preventing the people from getting relief. In reality, what he proposes isn't going to do enough. So let Trump and the GOP do what they want to do and see the bad results before the election.
ReplyDeleteWell, college basketball doesn't involve anywhere as many players as football. So if they can isolate the players in a dorm like the bubble of the NBA, travel by charter and come home on the same day, maybe that would work. But it is stupid if regular students are not safe to be on campus and basketball players are isolated except when they play and practice.