The real Donald came back–what a jerk

Donald Trump's speech in Arizona the other night was useful and important. As flip Wilson used to say, what you see is what you get. We saw a despicable dishonest miserable human being. When I was younger I used to work as a laborer on construction projects. We would be paid on Friday and go out for a few beers. Occasionally, someone would have too much and start ranting about how stupid and corrupt everyone in Government was. That would be followed by statements that this guy if allowed could fix everything in short order. That is what Trump reminds me of–a drunk in a bar.

Let's start with his dishonesty. He claims the American economy is terrible. In fact it is the best in the world. Unemployment is 4.9% the poverty rate has been falling since 2012. Median earnings have risen by 5% in real terms in the past two years. In Arizona, Trump appeared to blame our economic woes on illegal immigration from Mexico. In fact, in the last few years we have a net negativmigration from Mexico. The administration has deported 2.8 million point illegal immigrants from Mexico. All studies indicate that illegal immigrants from Mexico provide a net benefit to the American economy. When Trump is in the mid west he blames America,s  mostly imaginary problems on the Chinese. Were he to go to the Pacific Northwest, he would probably blame economic woes, real or imagined, on the Canadiens.

He is going to seal the southern border to keep us secure. How many terrorists have come to the United States across the Mexican border? At present, the Canadians are admitting at least 10 times as many immigrants from the Middle East as the United States. What about that Canadian border?

Trump says that any immigrants will have to agree to American values. Based upon his recent speech, apparently immigrants will have to profess a firm belief in fear, anger, intolerance and selfishness. There is no doubt that terrorism practice by  Wahabi.fundamentalists is a serious problem. But his border wall solution is delusionary. Terrorism is a world wide problem requiring a sustained cooperative and difficult effort.
All of the things he claims he would do would require a vastly larger federal government
He has no foreign-policy. He has economic solutions that are totally imaginary and would cause ten  to $15 trillion in deficits if adopted. Have we not seen enough?