The Real Story by DICK
MORRIS, Published on
DickMorris.com on April 25, 2017
The really odd thing
about Trump's hundred days is that, Euclid notwithstanding, the whole is
greater than the sum of its parts. The
record of Trump's hundred days is much better than the sum of his actual
achievements. And, in a way, that was to
be expected. It is the idea of Trump,
much more than the reality of his actual programs, that represents radical
change. And it is a belief in the kinds
of decisions he will make -- more than any specific policy reversals -- that is
persuading entrepreneurs to invest money, create jobs, and take risks where
they never would have done so under Obama.
Look at the comparison
between the whole and its parts:
The Whole
• Job growth up 30% over Obama's last three
months
• Dow up 11%
• NASDAQ up 12%
• Existing home sales up 4%; New homes up 5%
• Illegal border crossings down 71%
• Trade deficit down 10%
• Barometer of current economic conditions
highest since November 2000
• Biggest jump in business confidence in eight
years
Quite an impressive
track record.
But ObamaCare is still
on the books. The Border Wall is not
even begun. Trump's signature proposals
are still just proposals.
So why the improvement?
Its that business people
and job creators have confidence in Donald Trump. And because, on dozens of different fronts,
they can see that there is a new management in town.
EPA: Get Out Of The Way
• Keystone Pipeline approved
• Reversing Obama regs on power plants
• Rolling back vehicle emission standards
• Killed regs on small streams and rivers
Seal The Border
• Banned refugees from terrorist nations
• 5,000 new ICE agents
• No federal money to sanctuary cities
• Big cuts in H1-B Visas
Crime
• Rescinded federal orders to local police
limiting law enforcement
• Formed task force on opioid abuse
• Ordered study on cutting attacks on police
Trade
• Imposed $3 billion in fines
for illegal imports
Healthcare
• Ordered flexibility in rules for insurance
plans
Draining The Swamp
• Banned lobbying by former govt employees for
5 years
• Lifetime ban on lobbying for foreign goats
• Cut two regulations for each new one
• Eliminated rules for federal contractors
• Federal hiring freeze
• Audit of all federal agencies
Good measures to be
sure, but hardly enough to account for the turnaround in confidence and
business attitudes.
So the real change, as
always, was putting Trump in the Oval Office.
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