[FRIAM] What do we do Now?

[Alfredo Covaleda Vélez]

Sorry Frank. My post loose the point. Speech is correct, is people who can
make a difference.

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez <alfredo at covaleda.co
> wrote:

> Maybe Trump’s presidency and Brexit, will lead to the end of
> Globalization. Movement of capitals, people, goods and services are key
> elements in the actual global order. Your next president trusts in a closed
> economy to improve US home´s incomes . Maybe he is supposing a local
> consume which will be enough to improve internal economy. He pretends to
> make capitals to return back or attract new ones to USA. But, I’m not sure
> if talking loud and being rough is enough to improve economy. USA minimum
> wage is around $7.95/hour while in my lovely third world country, for
> example, it is $0.99/hour. I guess manufacturing in USA is expensive, even
> more if he will increase the minimum wage (just a little) as he said during
> campaign, and even more if he avoid some kind of immigrants, who are cheap
> workers inside USA boundaries and help to reduce costs in some part of the
> production chain. Maybe Trump does not understand what is competitiveness
> because he is not an industrial, he is just a real estates and
> entertainment man. I wonder if improving infrastructure can help to create
> 13 millions of jobs. ¿Where does money come from to build or repairing
> bridges and highways? He has said he will reduce number of taxes and
> abolish some others. He criticized Hillary because of his connections to
> Wall Street, and now he chooses a former executive of Goldman Sachs for
> Treasure Department. ¿Where is the difference?
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> Managing economy like a real estate business is not the worst part, maybe
> there is a little probability he will succeed, but I don´t think he will.
> Probably the worst of everything is that he has already generated negative
> social impacts and probably he will make to lose US social achievements. He
> has already increased local racism tensions giving steps back in the
> construction of a civilized nation. Somewhere I read that the woman elected
> by Trump to be chief at the Department of Education, was the first person
> who transferred public budgets to private education. It is a bad sign.
> Starting from his position as Climate change denial, not only regulation
> will be weak, but some kinds of scientific research will lack of support.
> It is bad, if factories from China will return to USA, USA will be again
> the most pollutant country in the world.
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> He has already achieved a lose of confidence and respectful from the
> «friendly world» with respect to USA, and I am sure it is a factor when
> people make consume decisions (my next pair of shoes will not be wolverine
> brand).
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> 11/09 was not the break point, nor 2007 - 2008 financial crisis. Maybe
> Trump’s presidency and Brexit are an inflection point.
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> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Wasn't that a recent thread?
>>
>> Here's a suggestion:
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW0NguMGIbE
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>> Frank
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>> Frank Wimberly
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