Would having Donald Trump as President with all his business expertise help uplift our most dire red states out of poverty? Because in a real business perspective, they'd probably get cut loose.

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Rooster Cogburn , Rooster Cogburn, answered

Good question. Although I'm not much of a supporter of his, he is a good businessman. He might be able to do some things with the economy that our previous lawyer presidents haven't done before. Hopefully he can. But you're right about dumping some states because they were money losers. He can't do that so the alternative is to build them back up into profitable states again. I suppose he would be good for business. Much better than his opposition. Still scares me though as there is so much more to being a President than being a good businessman.

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Ray Dart
Ray Dart commented
The vast majority of his "working capital" was inherited. His father, as a property developer had vast tracts of property in the NY area by the time Donald was introduced to the family business. In real terms, allowing for the huge inflation in property prices his 7 billion does not look THAT good.

The one thing he did do right was to survive his first bankruptcy and rebuilt.

I DID admire that at the time, although it does seem that "connections", favours and luck may have had more to do with that recovery than actual business acumen.

A lot of people have also lost a lot of money in the wake of his business failures (and even the few successes).
Ray Dart
Ray Dart commented
Sorry, not sure where I got "7 billion" from.
Rooster Cogburn
Rooster Cogburn commented
Never hear any of that here now that he is running for Dictator....I mean President.

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