Author Topic: What's wrong with Trump's Platinum Plan? Two things you must know... (Read 136 times)

RomanCatholic1953 · « **on:** September 29, 2020, 07:51:51 AM »

What's wrong with Trump's Platinum Plan? Two things you must know...
Posted: 28 Sep 2020 02:58 PM PDT

DAILYKENN.com -- Helping black people is not a problem unless, of course, you leave out everyone else.

The plan, according to Trump's website, donaldjtrump.com, is designed specifically for Black America.
The plan is to "uplift Black communities across the country through a $500 billion investment."
• The first problem we see with the plan is that it excludes everyone else.
There are other people groups besides blacks, you know. There are Hispanics, East Asians, a growing number of Southeast Asians and Burmese. And let's not forget the hordes of Muslims moving in from the Middle East, Pakistan, Indonesia, and regions of Southeast Asia.
Where are their Platinum Plans?
Those are just a few of the racial and ethnic groups. Add other groups such as people named Fred, redheads, and those who think they're lizard people — or redheads named Fred who think they are lizard people — you'll see the president's Platinum Plan really comes up short.
I get it. I totally get it. The Platinum Plan is designed to woo black votes away from Joe Biden. 89 percent of blacks who bothered to vote in the 2016 presidential election pushed Hillary's button.
However, "Fully two-thirds of U.S. Muslims identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party (66%)," reported Pew Research. That's a sizeable number. But Muslims comprise only 1.1 percent of the country's population compared to about 13 percent for blacks. So they get left in the lurch.
What about Hispanics?
Unlike Muslims, there are more Hispanics than blacks in the USA.
There were 60.6 million Hispanics in the country in 2019, Pew Research reveals. Compare that to 41.4 million blacks, according to hhs.gov.
And about half the population growth over the past decade was Hispanic. The "U.S. population increased by 18.9 million, and Hispanics accounted for more than half (52%) of this growth,"according to Pew Research.
For number crunchers, the total population of the USA hovers around 328 million.
According to latinodecisions.com, "Latinos backed Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by a 79-18% margin."
Everyone is asking, "Where's my Platinum Plan?"
• The second problem is the long list of promises.
Let's look at the list and ask ourselves two questions:
First, can Trump and the Republicans actually fill these promises?
And, second, do we want them to fill these promises?
1. Increase access to capital.
The last time that happened, lending institutions were accused of predatory lending by issuing loans blacks could not (or would not) repay.
2. Fuel Black-owned businesses.
The role of government is not to fuel businesses, but to provide reasonable laws and get out of the way. Businesses are fueled by aptitude. If you inherit wealth and have no business acuмen, chances are, you'll end up in bankruptcy.
3. Cut taxes.
The president's web site was not specific: Is this a promise to issue race-based tax cuts for individual taxpayers? Or to issue race-based tax cuts for black-owned businesses?
4. Increase education opportunities.
If blacks are currently being locked out of education opportunities, I'd like to know the specifics. To my knowledge, blacks have the same education opportunities as, say, East Asians who dominate in academia. Why are East Asians excelling while blacks fall behind? Solve that dilemma first. Simply giving black students seats in schools is shortsighted and failure doomed.
5. Lower the cost of healthcare.
Will blacks get a discount when they go to the doctor, pharmacy, or purchase prescriptions? Or is the president noting that across-the-board lower healthcare costs will benefit blacks? What's the plan to do this?
6. Further criminal justice reform.
Without specifics, we don't know what this entails. But if the president intends to follow the Democrats' template of releasing convicted criminals back into black neighborhoods, his criminal justice reform will not be advantageous.
7. Make Juneteenth a National Holiday.
Recall that Ronald Reagan signed legislation that created Martin Luther King Day. What measurable benefit did that bestow on black America? Let's call this spade a spade or, better yet, let's call it patronizing.
8. Prosecute the KKK and ANTIFA as terrorist organizations.
Considering the KKK does nothing more than occasionally burn crosses in cornfields, there's little substance to this promise. Absent is — and this should be obvious — prosecuting black-lives-matter rioters, murderers, and terrorists as terrorists. The Klan does not burn down black neighborhoods. But, have you noticed, Black Lives Matter seems to be present in large and loud numbers wherever black communities are burning.
But the Klan? Do they even exist?
9. Make lynching a national hate crime.
Name one black person who has been lynched in America in the past fifty years. I can think of none.
According to britannica.com, "Lynching, [is] a form of violence in which a mob, under the pretext of administering justice without trial, executes a presumed offender, often after inflicting torture and corporal mutilation."
That sounds to me a like routine activity in Anyhood, USA. Visit the website, gunmemorial.org, and look at the faces of the victims. About 80 percent of them are black. Few are white, Hispanic, or Asian.
The summation is: The Platinum Plan should be renamed the Pandering Plan.

* What do you think?

Author Topic: What's wrong with Trump's Platinum Plan? Two things you must know... (Read 136 times)

RomanCatholic1953

What's wrong with Trump's Platinum Plan? Two things you must know...