Address: Trump, Slotkin and Evolution

- The love you take is equal to the love you make.

- Beatles

Different Levels

Your individual choices have a direct bearing on your life. You meet the perfect girl for you, but all you do is seek to nail her. Later in life, you settle. Maybe this correlates to our sad stats on marriage and divorce? On a larger scale, we have our federal government. The decisions these people make affect our lives, especially in the pursuit of happiness. 

Last week, President Trump addressed Congress even though he has not been in office 50-days. It was a State of the Union without enough weight in time to formulate results. However, it is what it is. The Democrats gave their response without facts. At Evolution, we will throw in our two cents.

First 10-Minutes

Just a waste of time with Trump glad handing his loyal followers. The next five minutes had Trump highlighting his election results. Waste of time! He continued a litany of his execuive orders while in the Democratic seating area, party members held up signs, "Liar!" "False!" "Stop Musk!" Waste of time! One Congressman, Al Green had to be removed for being unruly.

Trump's use of the term "common sense" finds us agreeing with his transgender position.

His biggest bravado, "to balance the budget." We hope he can, but seeing is believing, especially with another debt ceiling that is fastly approaching.

Then, in referrence to Musk and DOGE, Trump pledged to drop 10 old regulations before a new one is established. We are for eliminating waste, but the transition should be on a schdule with a plan. Mass layoffs is not a plan.

Trump also pledged to drill for more oil. He uses the meme of the Madden football Raiders. Cool. Trump's crying over fraud in social security is just one of his many uses of exaggeration. I believe that he says crazy things just to set a point where negotiation can begin? 

He did announce some good news: Apple building a plant in the US, Taiwan Semiconductor another plant in Arizona and a auto plant by foreign company in the US. This is good stuff. In military spending, he is advocating that the US build a missile defense shield. We agree. The so-called, on and off again with Ukrainian minerals is a good back-up plan to help Ukraine. It will provide jobs and put money in their economy. Miners do these type of deals every day with streamers that receive a percentage for upfront loans. 

Trump says that he wants ship-building. This is great, but only time will tell. He is right about the Panama Canal. China offers money to poor nations, but makes them put up their resources as collateral. Their Silk Road Project is the poster child for their devious scheme. Eventually, they will be hated for stealing natural resources of countries. His hope for Greenland is up in the air. 

Finally, his tariffs is the right direction, but his approach is tokenism. Our import deficit for January 2025 was a record at $131.4 B. This is over one trillion for the year. If we had tariffs of 50%, we would have $500 B in revenues. You get two positive results. One, you balance the import/export sheet. Secondly, you get exporters that will no longer dump in America because it will no longer be profitable. The vacuum could be filled by an American firm. Keep in mind that we have over 330 million customers. The tariffs should be on all nations so foreign firms can't find loopholes

Democrat Response

Senator Slotkin of Michigan gave the reply. She started out by informing us about herself. When she stated that she is ex-CIA, we, at Evolution knew that we cannot trust her. 

She implied that Trump will only help his billionaire friends. If Trump uses his new-found revenue as tax cuts, he will kill the dollar. However, the Democrats ran up the deficit with no concern for our deficit. She had the gall to suggest kitchen table issues when under Biden, inflation was at its worse level since the 1970s. Her approach is quietly endorsing the beliefs of the One World crowd. No wonder the democrats lost. It is really sad that a great state like Michigan has her for a senator. She creates no love on the peninsula.  We gave our beliefs after the words of the two politicians... Peace.