What the current White House administration is doing right now is akin to the short-term-gain-focused changes one would do in a company to please investors who want to short:

* Remove or shrink employee (citizens) benefits

* Stop investing on R&D (education), just ride on what you currently have

* Alienate potential customer base and partners (other nations)

* Drive away top performing employees (citizens, entrepreneurs)

* Make sure your company is not attractive to new hires (alienate immigrants)

* Increase long term debt by giving bonuses to already rich people (tax breaks to millionaires)

This is going to come back to bite the country back in a decade or so, and it. Is. Not. Going. To. Be. Pretty.