Not only do I hope this is true, I hope he is wildly successful. I never expected President Trump to be wildly successful in the first two years of his term. He is in charge of the executive branch and that is what he can control. He has achieved more success than his detractors will credit him for and less than I’d hope for. The only chance we American’s have is if the swamp is defeated in 2018.

This one will become very interesting. Grants certainly are discretionary. Every executive branch agency makes the rules on how the grants are dispensed. The Supreme Court has consistently ruled that agencies can do this. The Justice Department in this case has said they will continue. If the Supreme Court gets involved and says that they can no longer do that, it will force Congress to do their job and actually make decisions. All goodness from my perspective.

The rest of the world learned a different lesson from the fall of the Soviet Union than the United States did. A huge military drained the wealth out of a country. While we’ve spent the years since then growing our military spending, they’ve concentrated on economic growth. And they are succeeding.