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| Bad jobs report and tensions rising in the Middle East. Trump continues to tell the MAGA-faithful, the train hasn't derailed. |
1. Donald J. Trump becomes the third U.S. President to be impeached while in office.
2. The Democrats have no clear frontrunner in the race to replace Trump.
3. The U.S. is on the verge of a war with Iran.
4. Brick and mortar stores are shuttering in suburbia.
5. No one is seeing the results of the Job and Tax Cuts Act passed in 2017.
6. Folks are working one or more jobs to stay afloat.
7. Trump and his administration did subliminal cuts to food stamps, housing credits and disaster relief.
We're in 2020. A new decade begins and yes, the old news is new today.
The final jobs report of 2019 is out and it is something Trump won't brag about on social media.
December's payroll and wage growth missed expectations.
The Labor Department said nonfarm payrolls increased only by 145,000 while unemployment will remain at 3.5 percent.
The job rate is staying at a 50-year low. Mind you that folks are not counting the amount of folks actually working. If there's 335.4 million people working and only 114 million working, that means that at over 60% of American are working.
The U.S. jobs market ended 2019 on a sour note says CNBC. The economists were hoping for at least 160,000 to 180,000 jobs for the month. But it only gave a few sporadic jobs scattered across the 50 states, District of Columbia and five occupied U.S. territories.
Research and manufacturing jobs are on the decline. The only jobs gains in the country were in the service industry. The retail, leisure and hospitality and healthcare industry saw modest growth.
Construction rose reasonably as well as professional and business services.
Manufacturing and transportation have saw decline. The mining industry saw a decline.
Remember the folks in Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania depend on coal mines and seeing that mining is on the decline, "Trump Digs Coal" is just "words and speeches."
There will be revisions. After all, Trump bragged last month about great numbers. So when they actually adjust the numbers we're gonna see very few jobs so far.
Dayton, Ohio is where I reside. There's been extremely slow growth here. We have not seen anything construction in this area. Since the May 2019 tornado outbreak, the U.S. government has been slow on fixing our community.
Residents in Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Puerto Rico, Texas, California, North Carolina, Kansas, Iowa, American Samoa and Hawaii are still waiting on government funding to fix communities.
Nonetheless, Republicans will conclude that Trump's economy is great. Democrats will conclude that Trump's economy sucks. None of them will offer much other than the same old tired talking points about tax cuts, raising taxes on the rich and fixing roads and bridges. The same old shit but from a different face.
No one can wait forever for changes. Congress is made up of old, white and well off politicians.
Any person of color who is a member of the House or Senate are vilified or ridiculed because the white establishment continues to deny a place for everyone at the table.
Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are old white millionaires.
They make up the status quo of politics. They will not work together and solve problems. Yeah, I hate Trump and all that he stands for. But damn it, we need to focus on getting at least things done.
He's impeached. We wait for a show trial and Republicans regardless of witness will not convict him.
McConnell is too toxic to do anything positive his state of Kentucky or the country itself.
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| These guys are the most toxic faces in Washington. |
We still have a dozen or so candidates running for the Democratic nomination. No candidate has emerged as a viable candidate to take on Trump. Impeachment has pretty much soaked up any successes Trump gotten.
Trump's mishandling of foreign affairs has gotten more uncertain. Iran and North Korea has warned that talks with the United States will break off due to the America's reckless president.
Those die-hard Trump supporters will say that his leadership is successful. All the while, they find that their average wages are stalling. Many of these Trump supporters probably lost their jobs. Some are probably losing their homes due to flooding, wildfires and foreclosure.
Food prices, energy prices, rent, city services and college education have risen.
Real Reason To Why Unemployment Rate Stays The Way It Is!
1. DEAD
2. BORN
3. IN PRISON
4. IN PRIMARY SCHOOL
5. IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
6. IN HIGH SCHOOL
7. IN COLLEGE NOT LOOKING
8. VOLUNTEER
9. DISABLED
10. STAY AT HOME PARENT
11. RETIRED
12. QUIT ON THEIR OWN
13. NOT HIRING QUALIFIED
14. NATURAL DISASTERS
15. ACTIVE MILITARY
16. NOT HIRING TOO QUALIFIED
17. LAID OFF
18. FIRED FROM THE JOB
19. DESTRUCTION TO FACILITY
20. OUTSOURCING
21. IMMIGRANTS TOO AFRAID OF BEING DETAINED BY I.C.E.
22. SHAMED BY SOCIAL MEDIA
Let me remind you, that Trump and Republicans believe austerity is the key to a strong economy and job market. The Republicans are not in control of the House of Representatives. The Democrats now control the House and will push for an agenda that Trump will likely oppose. Republicans in the Senate will continue to pass ridiculous laws that hurt the working class and middle class. They are already streamlining federal judges that could rollback years of progress.
The inept Senate leadership of Mitch McConnell is slowly getting covered. He is leading our country into the abyss. The Senate is delaying legislation on sensible gun reform. McConnell and many Republicans are fearful of the NRA and white gun owners. They clearly are ignoring the rest of America being fed up with these constant mass shootings.
Trump and Republicans believe that trickle down economics (i.e. free market capitalism) is helping Americans. Really, it's making people work harder and we're not seeing the benefits of it. So far private equity firms are buying corporations and piling on debt. These corporations can't sustain the debt and are forced to declare bankruptcy and eventually liquidation. Many of our nation's largest companies and start-ups have equity firms investing in them. When the firms want their money, they're going to get their money.
With Republicans trying to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, many of Trump's die hard supporters are going to get a culture shock when they find out their health coverage from their employer is terminated it because they are no longer forced to provide it. Or they'll keep hours lower to keep people from obtaining health insurance.
The Jobs and Tax Cut Act has added trillions of dollars of debt to the economy. The results of the tax cuts haven't produced the stability. It's still considered a very unpopular law.
Trump is destroying the economy. I won't say anything positive about him. Regardless of what happens, this is short-term success.
Here's Trump in the rust belt city of Toledo, Ohio. A city that lost jobs and struggling. The current population of the city is within 284,000 residents. Folks from Indiana, Michigan and Ohio came to the rally.
Don't believe the hype. Even the folks who tour the country to see Trump speak, head to the rally.
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