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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAt the start of Trump's term I made 20 predictions. Check out #12
Any Trump voters want to put twenty dollars down on the promises your man made? Ill bet a dollar on each prediction below. In the next four years:
1- The wall will not be built.
2- There will be no special prosecutor regarding Hillary Clintons e-mails or the Clinton Foundation.
3- The percentage of Low skilled manufacturing jobs in the workforce will never be higher than it is now.
4- Unemployment will rise.
5- Your taxes will not go down (unless youre rich).
6- The deficit will be higher every year of Trumps presidency than in President Obamas last budget year.
7- Trump will deport fewer illegal immigrants than President Obama did.
8- There will be no ban on Muslims entering the country.
9- GDP will remain under 4%.
10- More Americans will die from terrorist attacks in the next four years than in the last four years.
11- The Middle East will remain a mess while Putins Russia becomes stronger.
12- We wont get Syrias oil. If anybody does, it will be Russia (but President Trumps Sec of State might get richer off of it).
13- For the first time in more than 8 years, a member of a US Presidents administration will be indicted, or will resign or be pardoned before he is indicted.
14- US oil production will be smaller in 2020 than in 2015.
15- Jobs in coal mining will not increase beyond their peak under President Obama.
16- The price of coal will be higher and the cost of renewable energy will be lower in 2020.
17- In 2020 Barack Obama will have a higher approval rating than Donald Trump.
18- Inflation will increase faster in the next four years than in the last four years.
19- Income inequality will widen; the CEO to worker pay ratio will increase.
20- Donald Trump will be a one term President.
In January 2020, I will pay anyone who wants to take me up on it a dollar for everyone I get wrong, and the he or she will pay me a dollar for every one I get right. Any takers?
blm
(113,091 posts)malaise
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former9thward
(32,077 posts)#4 Unemployment at a 50 year low. #14 is going to be wrong. #18 is wrong. #13 was wrong at the beginning -- ,Obama's head of the CIA David Petraeus was indicted and plead guilty to misuse of classified information in 2015. #12 has bad assumption -- we never wanted "Syrian oil". They have little to begin with. #15 According to CNBC coal mining jobs are up about 2000 from Obama's time. #5 is wrong. Ask any tax accountant. I am not rich and my taxes have gone down. I don't know anyone's that have gone up. #1 is wrong. Not much of the wall is being built but some is. #11 LOL "The Middle east will remain a mess" Well yeah and the sun will rise in the east. Sorta a gimmie.
Polybius
(15,476 posts)You said it a lot better than I could have. Maybe 20 will be wrong as well, God forbid.