Trump Wants To Sell Government Assets

I hesitate to question Donald’s economic logic, given his past success, but:

As president, Donald Trump would sell off $16 trillion worth of U.S. government assets in order to fulfill his pledge to eliminate the national debt in eight years, senior adviser with the campaign Barry Bennett said.

“The United States government owns more real estate than anybody else, more land than anybody else, more energy than anybody else,” Bennett told Chris Jansing Sunday on MSNBC. “We can get rid of government buildings we’re not using, we can extract the energy from government lands, we can do all kinds of things to extract value from the assets that we hold…”

However, when pressed on whether the United States could sell off $16 trillion worth of assets, Bennett responded affirmatively on Sunday.

“Oh, my goodness,” he said. “Do you know how much land we have? You know how much oil is off shore? And in government lands? Easily.”

He could be right. God knows he has the proven financial track record and by comparison, I have barely graduated kindergarten. Yet I can’t help but wonder, if the global economic system is going to collapse and we will have to electronically print currency, why not keep the debt until we eventually inflate the currency and then pay it off with worthless, inflated dollars?

At this point, I’d rather see China have worthless debt markers when the collapse goes down, rather than valuable properties of the nation. They might go to war for the property more than they would for the debt – the old you own the bank if you owe it too much.

Trump really raises the most fascinating r/K question of all though. Is collapse necessary? To this point I have assumed it is, and still do. I believed Donald would K-ify the nation to some degree, on top of the angst already building. But here, Donald appears to be trying to restore the entire nation’s health, as if he wants to save everything, and reset it back to where it was in the fifties.

Could one hypothetical leader with a brilliant understanding of human psychology apply enough K-stimuli to the population to K-ify it without a collapse? Could he reinstill competitiveness, aggressiveness, loyalty, patriotism, and a demand for excellence, in large enough amounts, to recreate the 50’s attitude? Would such an artificially K-ified nation then cut the largess, fight the corruption, eliminate the waste, and insist on honest leaders who would restore American greatness? If he then restored the financial foundation of the nation, could he simply reset the entire nation back to an earlier state of greatness?

I still feel $20 Trillion is just too much, even for Donald, especially given the corrupt congress he will face. If he sells $16 Trillion in assets, they will pillage that overnight and give it to every donor and special interest group around.

Plus you have the low IQ, Michael Brown crowd, which seems to multiply too fast for the rest of the nation to keep up with it. Dysgenics in the absence of real Darwinian selection is real, and only Darwin will address that. Looking at it purely from an ecological perspective, Darwin always returns, because in his absence the dysgenics will always get bad enough to bring him back. It is like gravity or the sun rising in the east.

Yet, could a perfect leader reK-ify his nation hypothetically, at least in part? Clearly George W Bush did exactly the opposite, eroding the conservatism, and handing the nation to Obama and a vastly empowered SJW set.

Clearly Donald intends to try, so we will see. Yet there is a small part of me which feels as if America has a giant Band-Aid on it, and the least painful option might just be ripping it all off at once, with a full on collapse, a bout of Darwinian selection to clear out the dead wood, and the full reset which would follow.

It would seem the most likely path.