Are you implying he should appoint people not loyal to him. Where did you learn that leadership strategy? But isn't he looking for position for Romney and Cruz, they're not loyal to Trump...
One thing that I agree with Trump's policy is that he is going to make EU nations pay for protection from NATO. For decades US has been taking the burden of their defense budgets and in turn these nations enjoy social programs like free healthcare, enhanced welfare schemes, enhanced unemployment schemes etc. It's about time other nations pay for US defense protection umbrella and in turn US is able to offer some sort of free healthcare for its citizens. 28 NATO members paying average $3B a year can save nearly $100B a year from the US defense budget. Also, some sort of protectionist whip applied on China can also work in gaining some extra revenues to offset national debt. Even 10% duty on good imported from China (-$367B net against US) can translate to roughly $40B annually. China is sitting on $3 Trillion of hard currency reserves and is in good position to start making concessions to major trading partners. It is extremely important however, that the savings are translated into cleaning up the "internal financial mess" like debt, rather than ratcheting up expenses in areas uncalled for.
If that is directed to me (there is a quote feature ya know) the answer is NYCity. And that is exactly why I call him Trumpie. We have seen this reality show long before it ever hit the airwaves.
What do they call Hillary, Hillaryie? Obamaie? Bad enough we let them name the Yanks, next it will be the Metsies.
Are you for real? Do you actually understand WHY the US has been involved with providing "protection" to the EU countries since WWII? It has NOTHING to do with defense and EVERYTHING to do with CONTROL. Take the cherry away from them and they will go wherever is convenient. Lol, just look at Iraq. How many billions was poured into that place to effect regime change and they have gone straight back to Iran when they could as its the most beneficial LOCAL alliance. All we did for the actual country was bomb the shit out of it, spread DU munitions all over the country that cause generational birth defects and cancer, "rebuilt" part of what we destroyed with 85% worthless projects which were built to line big multinationals pockets AND saddled Iraq with the debt for those worthless builds for the profit of corporations. Add to this that since the US killed Qaddafi (who had been stopping migrants from the middle east flooding into Europe for the last 15yrs), there has been an UNPRECEDENTED wave of mass migration fleeing the wars and destabilization in the middle east caused by US foreign policy and the EU is wearing the full brunt of that cost. If you seriously think that the EU will tow the line and follow were the US points its finger if "defense" spending on these countries is cut off, you haven't studied history much or understand the scope of the impact of US foreign policy and its trickle down effects in the greater region. Its a bribe. Nothing more, nothing less. That is painted up and paraded around to look like mutual cooperation. Hardly the EU that is receiving the most US foreign aid. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/fullpage/top-10-us-foreign-aid-recipients-17534761 http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/11/politics/us-foreign-aid-report/ Also, the EU doesn't "enjoy" social programs for free. They PAY for them with some of the highest tax rates in the world. They also strangely enjoy some of the best living conditions and standards in the world.... Funny that. Instead of some private entity (corporation) sucking off the public tit as happens in the "for profit" motive countries, these countries all pay a little extra per person and then PUBLIC money is used to provide PUBLIC services. Instead of some of the PUBLIC money being siphoned out "for profit", ALL the PUBLIC money is used to deliver PUBLIC services. In the PUBLIC purse, profit is the waste of PUBLIC money. Some sort of protectionist whip........ Offset national debt.......... Who do you think is carrying a LARGE % of the US national debt.... CHINA! They have a bigger stick to use in that regard if push comes to shove. With their $3 trillion in reserves as you pointed out, they have the financial ability to take a loss on US debt and crash the market if need be and still come out on top...... If push comes to shove. Add to that that everyday Chinese investors are heavily invested in US debt and it will be them that wear most of the fallout if China needs to dump US debt in retaliation for some ill conceived financial attack on China's economy. China has a LONG history of putting the countries needs before the peoples and they don't really care if 30 - 50 million die in a transitional process. That's the luxury (and curse) of a 1 party government. So, in the process of this "protectionist whip", when the Chinese economy slows even more and then their shadow debt starts collapsing, which will then spill over into the normal debt markets, which in turn causes a major economic crash for China, what then considering that CHINA is the only thing keeping the world economy still ticking along? Crash that economy and we will finally start to see just how systemic the 2008 crash truly was. No more band-aids over the cracks, the whole thing will fail spectacularly, spilling over into EVERY country in the world (apart from maybe Iceland as they already kicked the bankers out, took the financial hit short term instead of re-inflating the bubble and cleaned up their system). Instead of making "concessions", what China is really in the position to do is BUY UP resources, commodities, supply and transport infrastructure WORLD WIDE. Which is exactly what they are currently doing. Do a bit of research about what China has been doing in regards to infrastructure and resource purchasing, building and investment. Of particular interest is the African continent (long over looked by the West as there isn't a lot of oil there compared to middle east which controls OPEC). China has a 100year plan ALWAYS. And they follow it. They understand time and longevity, how to set goals and actually achieve them. They kowtowed to the West, allowed themselves to be exploited for cheap labor, we in the West made MAD profits and things were great. China understood the game long term but. While they allowed themselves to be exploited, they gained a skilled workforce, massive infrastructure, technical abilities that enabled them to advance far faster then any other country. They offered MASSIVE financial relief to relocate manufacturing to their country that resulted in MASSIVE profits for corporations which in turn resulted in massive profits from an export economy for China. Once China had trapped the manufacturing ability, they had already won the game but we in the west continued to marvel at all the PROFITS we could make short term. - Lure the tiger off its mountain lair. - Remove the ladder when the enemy has ascended the roof. If your interested in understanding the Chinese process, have a read of - Book of Qi (The 36 Stratagems) Well worth the time and China's long term strategy will become very apparent. Real money could come from closing corporate tax loop holes. Instead of allowing tax havens to hide US consumed goods and the profits from that market, every single thing sold domestically MUST pay tax domestically. But most importantly, if we want DOMESTIC economic growth that in turn builds a strong domestic economy, we need INNOVATION. Thanks to our short term goal of profits, we have created a massive Chinese labor pool that is impossible to compete with in labor costs. The last time we had MASSIVE domestic growth and innovation was during the space race when MASSIVE amounts were invested by the government into R & D that then flowed on into private enterprise in ALL fields. Pure science creates untold breakthroughs that are then able to be financially exploited. Relying on the "for profit" motive does not create a lot of breakthroughs very fast. Its why we are stagnating now because other countries have the same capability AND cheaper labor. Or we can just go back to doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome...... After all, its working out great so far as long as your not middle class.
On the whole it looks like Trump will try to create jobs by spending on the infrastructure. How will he pay for it? printing money ofcourse. He does not have any practical plans on how he will bring jobs back from China and Asia. He needs to cut government, cut defense, charge EU for NATO protection, bring annual per capita cost of healthcare from $9K to $4K ($4K is standard in western nations). Hopefully that way he will release $1T in savings to be put into infrastructure repair and growth and create jobs in the process. Closing corporate tax loopholes would be nice also, investing into innovation like Robotics will down the road bring labor price parity vis-a-vis Chinese factories. Btw, US had oil glut from Shale oil for few of the last 5 years. What happened to the revenues or funds saved from not importing oil? Where did all the money vanish, all the while national debt kept on balooning!
I suggest he should appoint people who will be the most suitable for a position. That's what he promised.