Interesting, Jen ... wish they would publish that in more mainstream papers to get to those that are being influenced by Trump. WSJ readers are like Financial Times readers.
I remember in 2000 when Bush was running, just before we returned to the UK. My dad's neighbour (a banker) a dyed-in-wool Republican was lamenting the fact that if Bush got in, the economy would tank. The original philosophy of Republicans is to spend less and have less public services. And although they always pump up the defence budgets, they do spend less and give tax breaks to the wealthy, still blindly believing in trickle-down economics.They do not understand globalisation, that you cannot keep running things the same old way and not keep up.
An example: American was too late to the game in steel production and lost out to Asia and Europe. The US steel mills clung onto the antiquated Bessemer method when the technology had moved on and did not change till the end of the 1960s.
Why fix something that had not broken yet? The levees in New Orleans were judged to need upgrading but Repulican were determined not to spend the amount recommended by the Army Corps of Engineers. So, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina:
www.progressmichigan.org/2015/08/hurricane-katrina-an-indictment-of-conservative-government/
Sadly, conservatives haven’t spent the last decade learning the lesson that Katrina washed ashore – a country that fails to invest in itself will fail. They refuse to believe that government can do anything correctly, despite the facts to the contrary. Instead of repenting and working to make America great, conservatives have used New Orleans as a laboratory for further experiments with people’s lives.
And just for fun.... remember Leona Helmsley?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Helmsley
We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes. New York Times, Jul. 12, 1989
LOL, just found this quote by her, too!
I wouldn't believe Donald Trump if his tongue was notarized.
