Donald Trump might win the election. I think he is the least of four evils but make no mistake about it, Trump is no tea party candidate.
The cornerstone of the tea party movement was opposition to the bank bailout and Obama stimulus. After all, the TEA stood for “taxed enough already” and tea party activists (correctly) said that the real level of taxation was federal spending (what isn’t paid by tax revenues is borrowed, adding to the federal debt and increasing inflation).
My high school classmate Vince Lanci, a successful commodities trader was interviewed by Kitco about gold prices. He predicted that Trump would attempt a federal infrastructure spending program which will make Obama look as frugal as Ron Paul :
“He is a builder/contractor at his core and he will SPEND on infrastructure like a drunken sailor. He will try to pass a stimulus package that makes FDR look like a piker,” Vincent Lanci said. “Imagine handing the U.S. Treasury to a real estate developer? … Sky (literally) is the limit.”
This will be deliciously ironic to me when it happens. I promise you that I will oppose the Trump stimulus package and laugh at the justifications offered by the “patriots”. Obama’s “shovel ready” jobs program was wrong, as will Trump’s be.
In many ways, Glenn Beck will be proven right.