TRUMP APPEALS TO A FAN WHO LIKES A STRAIGHT SHOOTER (TAKE COVER)

I hadn’t seen my alter ego, Foley, in several weeks and was glad to see him at the Post Office. ”Who do you like among the Republican candidates?” I asked.   

“Trump, by far.”

“What’s attractive about him?

“He tells it like it is.  I like his building a wall across the southern border of the US and Mexico.”

‘Would it be like the Berlin Wall or like the Great Wall of China?”

“It would be better than both.  It would be impregnable.”

“You mean like the Maginot line?”

“No, no. It will be about 30 feet tall and five feet thick with detectors for anyone trying to dig a tunnel under it. And every fifty feet there will be huge letters on it saying TRUMP.”  That will scare them off."

“Wouldn’t that money be put to better use for our infrastructure repairs and expansion?” 

“No way. Trump is a businessman and he knows how to make deals. Besides he’ll make America admired again.”

“Isn’t that what the Republican Presidents, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover said when they ran a campaign of ‘Back to Normalcy’ and ‘The business of America is business?’ And didn’t their policies of unregulated laissez faire lead to the excesses that caused the Wall Street crash of 1929?”

 “Not at all,” said Foley.  “These are just natural adjustments to the market, like weather cycles. It’s like Adam Smith’s invisible hand.  Usually it guides us to everyone’s benefit but sometimes it gives us the fickle finger. Humans can’t prevent these cycles from occurring but we know to respond to them.”

“And how do we do that?” I asked.

“Let the market remain unregulated and when a bust occurs have the government bail out the biggest banks and corporations.”

“Why bail out them and not the smaller investors and corporations?”

“Because billionaires are too big to allow to fail.  Ask any billionaire.”