Draining the Swamp.

The media is busy dissecting President Trump's speech to Congress, but there is little evidence they caught on to what was really important. None of the items seen so far referred to the president's plan to "Drain the Swamp".

It may be that I'm assigning too much importance to this plan, but I don't think so. Draining the swamp as Trump put it, means rooting out the behind-the-scenes deals and corruption that has festered in Washington over the years, out of sight of the voting public.

Trump emphasized in his address the need to gut the rampant lobbyist culture and make a further continuation of such practices illegal.

To my mind, this means getting rid of all those sweetheart deals between the people who contract military and commercial supply and the people who handle the money. 

Trump sees something amiss in a new military jet costing a couple of billion dollars. He sees someone cutting himself into a deal somewhere between the buyer and the seller.

Such practices would be familiar to concert goers in Toronto who cannot purchase a ticket to see their favorite entertainers because there are none available at the ticket office. They have all been swept up beforehand by someone who will add a substantial amount to their cost before reselling them to the suckers.

There is no value in such a deal either to the performers or the performance place. The inflated profit goes to the guy in the middle who contributed nothing, but managed to cut himself into the deal with the help of an accomplice at the ticket office.

That part of the president's address was important and Americans should hope he succeeds among politicians whose help he will need to make it happen. Not knowing if some of those politicians helped themselves first will make that risky and interesting. 

The harder they lobbied against Trump, the more likely they have something personal to hide from the people who elected them.

Tackling this form of corruption was an important part of Trump's address, but apparently, few in the media saw it that way. Almost no evidence of that in the articles I was able to access.

No doubt it's a good example of what the lefty media is doing--accenting the negatives while ignoring the positives. At least they are correct in evaluating Draining the Swamp as a good positive for them to ignore.