Commentary by Jeff Burgar

It’s said, if you can’t come up with solutions, don’t run off at the mouth talking about problems.

As in, complain about crime, but have good and workable suggestions how to fix problems as you see them.

Sounds good. It’s quite a proper way to conduct one’s life. Don’t go through your days rattling doors, whining and crying about everything you see. Unless you have at least given the issues some decent thought how to turn the issues around, don’t go crapping on people supposedly trying to do their best. Except politicians whose only answer is throwing money at a problem. Or passing an unenforced law.

Donald Trump, president of the United States, is a better example.

Trump gets endless rounds of criticism from all directions. From both inside and outside his own country.

Tariffs are one example. Mass deportations are another. His relations with other countries are almost what one expects of alcoholics and addicts.

That’s where the person you just met at the bar is your new best friend, and your old friends and family are now your worst enemies.

Which in Trump’s case seems to fit his thinking about Russia, and yes, Canada, Mexico, Europe and NATO.
Maybe Donald Trump is indeed drunk. Drunk on power. Drunk on influence.

Drunk on a gang of people around him who are scared witless of telling him “No!” Or who just love to see him crashing each and every day through a new china shop.

Media these days is full of criticisms about this bull. But even if his methods seem undesirable to many, isn’t he right?

Isn’t he right that Canada, and too many other countries, look to America as their great protector?

Canada, as one example, instead of spending money on military, spends it on social and welfare programs with no real accountability.

America itself has allowed millions of illegal immigrants to flood its lands. Do they all have jobs? A
re they all contributing to society in some way? Canada in particular needs people wanting to build a better life. We should welcome all such.

But allowing those crossing into America, and supporting too many them (to become) part of the trillions of dollars of debt America has accumulated? Trump says so. Nobody answers that.

Trump’s tariff war is his idea of ‘bringing back’ millions of manufacturing jobs to America. These were jobs off-shored to countries with cheaper wages, no environment concerns, sketchy track records of human rights, and of course, few or no democratic institutions or governments.

Trump wants to bring back manufacturing to America, along with all the engineering, design, the patents and innovation that means.

He wants America to welcome those who want to build better lives and are willing to work to do that.

He wants other countries who share his ideals of a free world to stand alongside America as fair partners, even if they can’t, because of size, be equals.

Yes, he has the crappiest way of trying to get there. But he has answers to problems.
Yours?