The U.S. economy is as robust as it has ever been within a classical western economic paradigm. President Trump is good at business, yet it’s non-sustainable business ecologically, and public debt is $22 trillion. Paying interest on the debt is quite costly; nearing a trillion annually. Most of the national income goes to 1% of the population. The share paid to the poorest 50% of the people vs the 1% is comparable to the cost of slopping the pigs for a farmer.
An interesting point is that China is the world’s largest consumer of automobiles. American manufacturers need to sell cars to China in the years ahead, as well as in Latin America and India. Cars are harmful to the world ecosphere in a number of ways including the roads built for them, asphalt heat absorbing parking lots, pollutants etc. Old style non-sustainable economics doesn’t care about reducing the human footprint or pursuing ecospheric synergy with human economic activity. With no U.S. global leadership in moving toward low pollution, non-invasive hypertube mass transit for the majority of substantive human travel, the world will become even more saturated with cars, more forests destroyed, more species made extinct, ocean temperatures grown warmer while the rich have better air conditioning.
Neither Obama or Trump- especially Trump, put any effort into, nor have understanding of, ecological economics. What the United States needs is a good employment rate based on new ecological economic sustainability policy (rf. Amazon.com: Ecological Economics, Second Edition: Principles and Applications (9781597266819): Herman E. Daly, Joshua Farley: Books ). If one considers the implicit weakness of ecospherically unsustainable economic infrastructure- the HES virus (Human Economic Structure), then both Presidents Obama and Trump rate an F on economic leadership.
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