Category Archives: Presidednt Trump 2.0

02/26/25

The Green Card V The Trump Gold Card I

Good morning, dear reader, today we discuss the existing immigration EB-5 Investor program and the impending Trump Gold Card.

What is the EB-5 progam, Big Red Car?

The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program (administered by the USCIS — US Citizenship and Immigration Service) was created in 1990 as a pathway for investors to attain a green card as a result of an investment in the United States that created at least 10 new jobs.

Since the inception of the program, it appears:

 1. that as many as 240,000 visas (including the families of the foreign immigrant investor) have been granted;

 2. that more than $50B has been invested;

 3. that the US Treasury has generated approximately $20B in tax revenue; and,

 4. that 1.0MM jobs have been created as a direct result of the investment.

The jobs are estimated using the formula of “direct jobs” X 1.5 indirect jobs to arrive at the final tally. Seems a bit tenuous to Big Red Cars. Continue reading →

02/6/25

Dragon Energy

We are only a couple of weeks into the Trump 2.0 administration and I can already feel the palpable improvement — meaning increase — in governing energy emanating from what was essentially a morgue during the Biden administration.

Honestly, I cannot recall the Biden admin, but I turn 74 tomorrow, so that could just be on me. I used to watch Joe Biden walk to/from Marine One and see that Old Man Gait that had that Nascar “pile-up-at-the-turn” quality to it.

When everybody recognized how feeble Joe Biden looked walking to Marine One, the White House assigned people to walk with him so his fragility was not on as direct display thereby validating the concern for the thinking world. Yikes!

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