whats really gonna change for you?

with all the doom and gloom aside. Lets keep it real. Presidents don't change that much of the ordinary American day to day. Your local political persons have more to do with your liVes than the POTUS. Yet I'd be most people know little about their assemblymen, councilmen, mayors, senators, reps, and the rest, than what the Prez is about. Sure POTUSes can set some tones and influence public opinion, but if you grew up watching School House Rock like I did, you know how the whole thing works. There are few things any POTUS can do with out congress, and would be called a tyrant if he did, then factor in the States ...

This usually comes down to scary cultural issues and the people that we are afraid are in the ear of the POTUS. W, had gay rights. OOOH the church busses came around for that one. If the gays get to marry it's over. Then Obama really came out (no pun) for it. Well gays been able to marry for some time now, and most of the ones I knew who went out and tied the knot have been divorced and remarried and got to see just how miserable marriage can sometimes be. I recall my Dem friends that thought the sky is falling when W was reelected, but the sun came up, The pubs that lost their collective sh!t when Obama was elected and reelected, the sun came up. All the folks that went into depressions when Trump was elected ...the sun came up. Heres the kicker, if Biden wins, many on here will lose their minds for a minute, and if Trump is reelected I will cry, but the sun will definitely come up again

Along with lack of leadership during a crisis, I think for many Trump is simply an embarrassment, to what I think the office is. Also to the rest of the world. At some point people started to look at "normal people", or "people like me" as someone that could relate to as good holders of the highest office. No I don't think Trump is like me, hes nothing like me, but for many, they know him...hes drunk Uncle Al for me, that I only see at Thanksgiving and can't stand half the things that come out of is mouth. To some they totally relate to a know nothing like Trump, or Sarah Palin. I don't want someone like me. I want a Potus that smarter than me. That can point out countries on a map and stuff like that.

Point is whats really gonna change?

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Re: whats really gonna change for you?

Jul 17, 2020, 11:58 AM

Legit questions...
My honest opinion that this take is a bit naive. Here's what will change in my world:

POTUS sets the initial budget that everyone works from. It's called the Presidents Budget. It establishes the baseline. If Dems have the white house and/or all three houses, the DOD budget will be reduced. As I have worked in defense my whole career, this is obviously of interest to me. I believe the US' global presence is largely what maintains global peace. Without the US "policing" the world, many regions will destabilize. Many innocent people will die as a result of dictators, genocide, etc. From a personal standpoint, my business is mostly a defense contractor. We do a lot of R&D (as opposed to making bullets, for example) and those budgets tend to be somewhat stable. Plus my son is an F-35 pilot. The infrastructure required to maintain a flying force is unimaginable for the average person. Ditto for things like an aircraft carrier - these things are very sophisticated and complex systems.

POTUS exec orders. As we have seen they can have significant effect on the way various agencies carry out their roles. Trump has erred on the side of de-regulation which is good IMO. It gets the gov't out of the way. Biden will undo all of this.

Leader sets the tone. I have experienced over the years very definite "flow down" of ideas and policies of the POTUS. For example, Obama's people were anti-business. The increase in the number of freaking useless audits and oversight from equally useless bureaucrats was ridiculous. My company is not huge, but small either - we are mid-sized with ~1500 employees. We had to reserve several offices (and pay rent for them) to house federal auditors who literally were full-time on site at our corporate HQ. It takes about a year of a new administration before the flow-down starts to become noticeable.

Supreme court judges selected by POTUS. It has real effects if one of your pet causes/interests has a SC decision rendered. E.g., 2nd amendment. Abortion.

Trump pushes back on PC BS. Biden will not and his VP will be worse. Biden will embrace these ideas and victimhood. This creates more laws, regulations, agencies, etc. that start to monitor and count all the victims and perpetrators. Unless you have been in my job (federal contractor), you cannot appreciate the BS things we have to do in response. Ultimately, our overhead costs are passed to our customer (the gov't) so all it does is cost taxpayers more money. Thus, our taxes go up.

Green new deal. Biden is not for it explicitly, but he supports some elements of it. The environment zealots do not care about feasibility of technology and will believe what they want to believe. This will waste millions and billions of dollars that we taxpayers will have to pay.

Ethics. I think we have seen (and will be proven soon, hopefully) of the massive corruption of the liberal Obama administration. The FISA warrant and FBI actions are disgraceful. It all starts at the top - low morals and ethics there flow downhill. Admittedly, the effect on me is indirect.

Taxes. Biden will roll back tax cuts. This will cost me more money for sure. For nearly as long as I can remember I have itemized deductions. Trump's tax changes made the standard deduction such a good deal that my usual amount of deductions were less than the standard. Thus I've taken the std deduction for the last two years.

I have to stop, b/c that's probably too much reading already!

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Yeah I would say that under a normal administration

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I rarely see any changes. But taxes, like Trump fouled up

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I wish I knew.

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It was never going to be doomsday. Republicans love to

Is that a Filth Lopez or a Double Sneaky Sanchez?

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I think it's fair to accuse you of saying it doesn't matter

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