This is ridiculous on so many levels - Saudi “women entrepreneurs”.
I’ve worked in Saudi Arabia and those “entrepreneurs” are bored wives of royal family members whose husbands set up companies for them in order to import nail polish and some approved beauty products lest they go completely crazy out of boredom.
Being unable to drive, walk the streets alone or travel without permission from your husband/father does not leave much room for entrepreneurship, so those idle rich women take out their frustrations on Filipino house slaves.
In Obamacare news, tomorrow is the day Trump has to decide whether to continue to fight the lawsuit filed by the House against subsidies paid by Obama’s administration without Congressional authorization of the funds, a lawsuit he inherited from Obama. If Trump maintains payment of the subsidies and therefore the purpose of the lawsuit, it pits him against members of his own party over an important separation of powers* question. If he eliminates the subsidies, it moots the lawsuit, but insurers will be on the hook for gazillions and will either jack premiums up astronomically or withdraw from the exchanges.
*One of them rule of law, what are the standards regardless of political party issues that political hacks can’t get their head around.
Hmm, typed that quickly and it was clear as mud. Well, we know that Britain and the US have given support to Saudi Arabian regimes for the better part of a century as you said.
What I’d like to know is whether you think this play (lip service to “women entrepreneurs” and the “tremendous” strategic deal and arms pact they got Trump to sign) by the Saudi crown represents a play on SA’s part for a different quality of relationship.
In other words, are they trying to game us (rather than actually play a real above-board role) in your opinion? Does this recent development signify a shift in relations in any way?
I personally think this is a play to Trump’s Jupiterian ego in an effort to con him into arrangements overly favorable to SA.
The fiscal conservative in me is genuinely excited to see Trump unveil something he’s more than 10% knowledgeable about. Imo he should have focused on taxes before anything else to get himself a victory, but this is a happy medium. Hoping for the best!
Ofc not. But at least we’ll get to see Trump put something out that is (hopefully) thought out and half intelligent. Even if everybody doesn’t agree on the final number, we’re overdue to see Trump actually be good at something.
And don’t forget Trump promised he wouldn’t cut entitlements during his campaign. Right-wingers are going to like the idea, whatever the amount winds up being, but what about his populist base?
Assuming they are, it’s because they were lulled into a false sense of security that their entitlements were off-limits. Imagine where we’d be if Trump campaigned on a slash-and-burn approach to entitelements?
