Commentary: With his recently announced appointees to key Cabinet and White House positions, President Elect Trump is showing his true colors. They are either loyalists or his billionaire buddies. Where is someone representing the blue collar white workers that put him in office?
Will Steven Mnuchin, (designated Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs Executive) be concerned about people who now struggle to pay their mortgage while stiffing them when they lost their homes after the great recession; will Betsy DeVos (Designated Education Secretary and passionate advocate of private education) be concerned about the well-being of Public Schools that educate most of those blue collar workers' children; and will Jeff Sessions, (Designated Attorney General with a history of racist comments) enforce current civil right laws?
Health and Human Services (HHS) estimates that 60,000 New Mexicans will enroll in the Affordable Care Act in 2016. Average premium was up 7% in NM this year. What will happen to them when Tom Price (designated Secretary of HHS and severe critic of AFA) do when it is repealed? Replacement talk is a joke and will not have federal subsidies for those below a certain income.
The KOCH Brothers are dancing in the street with all the talk about cutting taxes for the rich and getting rid of environmental regulations that impact their multi-billion dollar bottom line.
A colleague of mine in Canada recently wrote me an Email saying this—“Since Trump is appointing people who are primarily loyal to him and not representative of the electorate, and will have control of the House, Senate and Judiciary—he could at some point declare himself EMPEROR!”