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She was. No democrat could name any of her accomplishments during the campaign. It's relevant to the discussion about Secretary of State Tillerson's performance, which has been outstanding.

 

From a not right-wing source (I read it yesterday):

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/what-trump-is-actually-accomplishing/535458/

Trump Has Quietly Accomplished More Than It Appears
The chaos, legislative fumbling, and legal jeopardy should not obscure the ways that the administration is remaking federal policy in consequential ways.

 

You're wrong about NKorea and Iran and China. Russia is of the media's and democrats' making. Demonizing them to no end, regardless of merit to the claims.

 

People pay when they go to the clinic or doctor's office or whatever.

Works like the post office. People pay for stamps, which funds the operations. Fees might be a little higher for the basic stuff to offset cost of the major stuff.

For poor people who really need help, there's already welfare programs that could adapt to providing assistance.

This set up gives government incentive to control costs. There's no profit motive whatsoever in the government run care providers. Doctors would be paid salary instead of per surgery, for one way of cost control.

If you have insurance, use it as normal. If you want to pay cash to a doctor yourself, feel free. If you don't and get sick, go to the government system and get care at cost or less. If you want birth control, a checkup, or whatever, go see the government HMO.

 

Apparently.

I think he's accomplished things. That was the question asked. Not whether I approve of which ones. Some I do approve of, some I don't. The ones I don't are significant, too.

Thanks for the insult.

 

Here's an accomplishment I like. He ended one of Obama's wars. Or at least our participation in it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/world/middleeast/cia-syria-rebel-arm-train-trump.html

During a White House briefing early last month, the C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo, recommended to President Trump that he shut down a four-year-old effort to arm and train Syrian rebels. The president swiftly ended the program.

The rebel army was by then a shell, hollowed out by more than a year of bombing by Russian planes and confined to ever-shrinking patches of Syria that government troops had not reconquered. Critics in Congress had complained for years about the costs — more than $1 billion over the life of the program — and reports that some of the C.I.A.-supplied weapons had ended up in the hands of a rebel group tied to Al Qaeda further sapped political support for the program.

 

This was good, too.

https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2017/07/31/trump-considers-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/

Trump considers withdrawal from Afghanistan

(apparently, surrender is now off the table though)

 

And this isn't an accomplishment yet, but definitely going in the right direction.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/us/politics/tillerson-north-korea-negotiations-missile-test.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/us

U.S. Opens Door to Talks With North Korea, While Flexing Military Muscle

 

A point of the atlantic article is that many of these changes cannot be reversed. They're government programs after all. And many of the changes involve lifelong appointments to hundreds of key positions.

 

I quote:

Trump may get to appoint several more justices to the high court. And in the meantime, he’s filling up lower courts with lifetime appointees. As the veteran Democratic official Ron Klain wrote recently, “A massive transformation is underway in how our fundamental rights are defined by the federal judiciary. For while President Trump is incompetent at countless aspects of his job, he is proving wildly successful in one respect: naming youthful conservative nominees to the federal bench in record-setting numbers.”

 

Can't unbuild the Keystone XL Pipeline.

 

They weren't on pause. The N Koreans blew up ever increasing in size nuclear bombs during the Obama administration (and W, too).

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/asia/north-korea-missile-program-sabotage.html

An examination of the Pentagon’s disruption effort, based on interviews with officials of the Obama and Trump administrations as well as a review of extensive but obscure public records, found that the United States still does not have the ability to effectively counter the North Korean nuclear and missile programs. Those threats are far more resilient than many experts thought, The New York Times’s reporting found, and pose such a danger that Mr. Obama, as he left office, warned President Trump they were likely to be the most urgent problem he would confront.