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Which is what you got. There was zero substance on anything except immigration. "Make drugs prices lower" is not a policy proposal. "Make the VA better" is not a policy proposal. "Make it easier to fire federal workers" is, but it's a nonsense policy proposal.
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Agreed on drug prices.
Disagree on firing federal workers. Why shouldn't they be as fireable as everybody else? And what efficiency is gained by making that workforce (or any workforce, for that matter) immune to performance based culling? (Fed career service workers are already protected from political firing.)
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Aside from $1.5 trillion on infrastructure he didn't propose spending anything. That's one reason it was empty.
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It's $200 bil or so in direct cash, the rest is guarantees. It's like a giant infrastructure SBA.
He can't explain it because he didn't have the time, and nobody in the audience, including most of Congress, would understand it. Most of the public/private marketers use a 20 or so page booklet to explain how those things work.
Streamlining the permitting process is also a brilliant idea. The media is bullshitting about how this is all relaxing of environmental regs. It's actually focused on speeding up the permitting issues at the local and state levels. The feds are punctual. The municipalities and states move at the speed of molasses.
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I'll give him credit, though, that on infrastructure it sounded like he was expecting actual federal spending and not only PPP fantasies.
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Do yourself a favor. If you discuss this shit with someone who actually knows it, don't say, "But what about tolls?" or "They're selling highways to hedge funds!" Those are the questions from the cub reporter at the local newspaper. Don't be that guy.
