Trumps American Dream

Subject: Trumps American Dream.

Is the non diplomatic, hard nose politico/economic leveraged stance of Donald Trump paying off, at least for the Americans.
Is the billionaire, take it or leave it posture of a president who leads the most wealthy and creative country in the world not for the first time asking questions which should have been asked in the past.
One of the nagging worries many people have over in this country is that 'welfare' has become institutionalised. Go back a 100 or more years and the fear of the workhouse ran deep through the poor in this country. The shame in being placed in an institution which registered you as being unable to support yourself ran deep. People who were undoubtedly poor had in their minds eye a symbol of themselves of being poor but independent. As a class of people they held each other in respect, they talked the same language and had the same aspirations. There was a code of conduct which people struggled to uphold but their self respect was tied up in that sense of self respect amongst their neighbours and workmates which signified their humanity. The strictures which governed behaviour was not part of any imposed rule book but it meant so much to be respected by your peers for upholding financial discipline as well as managing, despite the frugal nature of your life, a clean house, a disciplined house, and behaviour that brought at least muted praise.
The world has changed in so many ways and in so far as working class society, part was due to the codification of what society and government thought at the time was the basic minimum in a civilised society and it heralded in the advent of the welfare state. Secure in the knowledge that a baseline was in place, society was for the first time free from the clinging fear of the consequences of being sick or temporally out of work.
The under pinning of a base line below people should not be allowed to fall was one of the most humanitarian moves this country has ever made but the society it sort to protect changed over the years and as assumption of 'rights' took over certain people made it their life's work (an oxymoron if ever there was one) to get as much from the benefit system for as little effort as they could get away with, even with the caveat that, except in unusual circumstances, the proceeds from a life on welfare was pretty meagre.
The Americans never bought into the system of a government safety net, except for the means tested very poor, and it was accepted to be the responsibility of the individual them-self to dig themselves out of the hole they were in.
On an international scale and for reasons of self interest they did become the quartermaster of the world after the Second World War. It's this role that Trump feels his country no longer should sustain  countries who are no longer destitute and that the costs of political institutions brought into being to save the world from falling into conflict again such as the UN and NATO, the myriad bodies who provide aid and support to nations who themselves have become rich, that this is crazy and that countries like China, Germany, as well as the Oil States should pay their fair share.
He is an unusual President in this way. No diplomat and not a believer in the status quo he has shook the world to its core by asking questions about what were clearly economic anomalies and in some cases down right theft of American benevolence.
The balance of feeding the global economy and at the same time to pump Prime it with American debt was until Trump appeared set to continue but the outrageous success of the Chinese economy based on low wages, central planning and factory conditions which were out of the question in the West was a question that needed addressing.
His belligerent "America First" was a cry which his predecessors seemed afraid to address but not for the first time Donald Trump with all his lack of grace seems to have provoked a resumption of American self confidence.
We could do with a little of that snake oil in this country since we seem out of ideas to remedy our own plight.