Monday, January 2, 2017

predictions for 2017

I've never really done predictions but thought this year would be a good year to try to predict what will, or better yet, what will not happen.
  • President Trump will NOT start a nuclear war.  (maybe 2018 or 2019, but not 2017)
  • We are going to have trade wars with China,  (China's exports to the US amounted to $502.7 billion or 21.8% of its overall imports.  America's exports to China amounted to
    $116.2 billion or 7.7% of its overall exports)
  • There is going to be an increase in police/minority hostilities.
  • There is going to be an increase in protests about minimum wage and about the environment; they will become longer and more violent.
  • Next school year, we will be looking at a problem with decreasing teacher pay and more states going with vouchers so that parents can find their own schools.  With the government out of the education business, college entrance exams will be the only way to tell how the schools are doing.  College expenses will continue up, the only ones applying for those will be those with some means, so we will not know how many poor students are being uneducated.  (This is actually the goal.)
  • Abortion will go to the supreme court again after the new Judge is confirmed--and  it will lose.  We will start seeing the old back alley deaths among the poor and desperate again.
  • While taxes will go down, it won't happen in 2017 and only the top 5% of earners will see it.  
  • The national deficit will go up as corporations are given more perks for doing their business here.
  • A few factories will return, and will hire their new workers at minimum wage.  
  • A new political party will start that is neither republican or democrat, but rather progressive.
  • There will be a rise in hate crimes.
  • There will be a decrease in people trying to enter this country legally or illegally.
  • There will be a new US/Russian Alliance that is focused on trade and defense.
  • The stock market is going to take a turn for the worst after the inauguration causing a return of recession.
  • There will be an increase in air pollution and water pollution and health issues will increase.  Masks will be as popular here as they are in china.
  • The ACA will be repealed and nothing will replace it although several bills will be started that focus on making states solely accountable for their poor people's health.
  • There will be no state of union addresses, but there will be frequent tweets of the union.  All the news will be limited to 140 characters.

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