Unfortunately u are right. There really isn't much we can do at this point. We are headed to where Venezuela is at. Ayn Rand predicted this very well

That is definitely true. Hitler had a large supply of shovel ready jobs too.

Very fine line. Ask Snowden.

Accounting-wise, the majority of collections are automatic, and most of the rest is collected in March-April, so there would be a pause before any additional revenue shortfall occurred. But the govt is in over its head already by a half trillion a year. The real result would be from the example being set by Trump in opposition to the state and the banking cartel. The change in the security for any future loans would be devastating to the banksters and as a result, the USD. Trump's life would be in grave peril, imo.

Why? He wants massive government spending in the name of "infrastructure" and is trying to make that easier. He's package dealing that with regulation reform.

It would be good to make approvals easier when the Federal government is in the way of a legitimate project, but Federal approval of that should not be required at all, nor would he be able to ignore the viro laws mandating it. Declaring a super agency "council" for him to make dictatorial decisions evades the whole problem.

With more assassinations by supporters of socialist Bernie Sanders there are shovel ready jobs here, too.

That would be racist obstruction of justice and collusion. Have you no shame?

Where Putin can also terminate his political opponents or common joe with impunity? I'll take the bureaucracy over a tyrant, acknowledging that it's a fine line.

I bet there are
shovel ready
jobs in Iraq and Afghanistan

yeah, hard to win in this political environment.

Maybe its better to live in Russia.

The first stimulus bill was sold as spending on “shovel ready” projects to provide the jobs that would put millions of people back to work.

According to Recovery.gov, the President’s own website which accounts for the stimulus funding (ahem), of the first $787 billion stimulus bill, a full $275 billion has gone un-spent as of August 27, 2010. And of the $512 billion of stimulus already spent, only $18.5 billion (less than seven percent) has been paid out by the Department of Transportation on these “shovel ready” jobs.

Shovel ready programs are rare with all the red tape.
Obama knew of this scarcity and never intended to help the infrastructure.

A mixed message that might be misinterpreted. Part of Trump's appeal was the expectation that business conditions would improve. If people quit buying stuff, business conditions will worsen and Trump will be blamed.

In that regard, Putin has an advantage - he can terminate his bureaucracy. Literally. In the US the bureaucrats are protected from most Executive action by legislation.

I am from Missouri...I'll believe it when I see it..."Show me"...however...if the fed never took the money out of our the states in the first place, each state could do for themselves and I wouldn't have to pay for the infrastructure of others.

The swamp is deep and wide, and will resist. Even Putin said that the bureaucracy in the USA really runs the show here.

The swamp needs the IRS collections to keep alive. It would help much more if people just cut their buying for a couple of months of things that they didnt really need- THAT would send a big message.

I voted for Trump so as to at least slow down the march to socialism and do a little swamp draining. I am behind him 100% on those goals. The establishment correctly has identified what Trump is up to, and is dead set against him.

I saw Oliver Stone's Putin interviews, and frankly was impressed by Putin (not so much with Stone, but at least he kept his leftist ideas to himself in this piece). All this anti russian stuff the left is promoting is just keeping Trump and Putin from really starting to cooperate instead of fighting. Trump would be attacked unmercifully for even talking to Putin at this point, which is a REAL SHAME. The Hillary and Bernie supporters are just willing to sacrifice the USA and keep on trying to stop trump. We need to have better foreign relations with Russia and China, and stop useless fighting in the middle east where we gain nothing.

I should have concluded my thought. . . .to enrich themselves by the destruction of others.

This will be great if he can pull it off.

When Obama tried to do infrastructure, and discovered how long it took just to wade through the environmental studies, he just gave up and spent the money elsewhere. I'm glad to see Trump is tackling the issue of excessive regulation head-on, which is more presidential.

Standing by to be pleasantly surprised by action.

Everyone's motive, but in Trump's case "enrichment" may be getting patted on the head by some people, which may put his motive's in line with ours, the only way we succeed.

The promise of making the government more efficient usually results in it being more destructive efficiently. I don't trust Trump any more than any other politician that might be enlisted. Their motive is not to 'help' the people. It is to enrich themselves.