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Only 49% of Americans approve of Trump’s economy
Posted on 10/26/18 at 10:42 pm
Posted on 10/26/18 at 10:42 pm
I heard that on Fox News and thought, “who’s suffering under Trump’s record job creation and booming economy”?
Then it occurred to me, we have more jobs than bodies to fill those jobs. We have more people on disability, I believe it’s like 10 million working age people are receiving disability benefits of some sort.
So who are the people who don’t approve of Trump’s handling of the economy? Obviously it’s the people who are afraid their gravy train is gonna get derailed. I know two people, one is a family member by marriage on full disability, the other is a friend of the family, full disability.
Either one could work plenty of jobs if they wanted to but they don’t have to. Maybe not what they were doing but with a little retooling they’d be good to go.
Then it occurred to me, we have more jobs than bodies to fill those jobs. We have more people on disability, I believe it’s like 10 million working age people are receiving disability benefits of some sort.
So who are the people who don’t approve of Trump’s handling of the economy? Obviously it’s the people who are afraid their gravy train is gonna get derailed. I know two people, one is a family member by marriage on full disability, the other is a friend of the family, full disability.
Either one could work plenty of jobs if they wanted to but they don’t have to. Maybe not what they were doing but with a little retooling they’d be good to go.
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Posted on 10/26/18 at 10:46 pm to Bass Tiger
His rating on the rcp average is solid, it's like +8 on average.
Posted on 10/26/18 at 10:48 pm to Bass Tiger
frickers that are about to have to get off the porch and get a job are hating this economy
Posted on 10/26/18 at 10:50 pm to Bass Tiger
GEOTUS could give every American a million bucks each and they’d still complain. Considering there is a minimal shot to get them on our side, why does he even try to bridge the divide? Seems futile to me. Only ones he should be concerned about bringing over are the blacks and Hispanics. White liberals are programmed and retarded by nature so they’ll never wisen up.
When’s the last time you heard of an Obama syncophant say “know what? I voted for Barry but I really like what Trump is doing”. Delusional dumfricks.
When’s the last time you heard of an Obama syncophant say “know what? I voted for Barry but I really like what Trump is doing”. Delusional dumfricks.
Posted on 10/26/18 at 11:10 pm to Bass Tiger
i'm 60 and on full disability and I am loving what Trump is doing, it's not about me, it's about what is best for America and Americans
Posted on 10/26/18 at 11:13 pm to Bass Tiger
I'm gonna go ahead an play devil's advocate, in that the economic growth hasn't spread out evenly at all. Big winners of this boom are still the mega-rich. I think the 2008 recession and bank bailout at the expense of homeowners was the ultimate dagger to the heart of the middle class and without October-style Soviet revolution you'll just never be able to prop up the middle class again. Working class Americans are resilient people, but they can be bled so much by vultures of WallStreet and Washington DC.
Posted on 10/26/18 at 11:18 pm to Bass Tiger
That’s because only 49% of us fricking work!
Posted on 10/26/18 at 11:20 pm to Bass Tiger
Lots of people are under employed. Working 60+ hour weeks and multiple jobs for crap wages and mediocre health care.
I live in Nashville and the economy recovered here 5 years ago. I got $7500 cost of living raise in 2016 on top of a yearly 5% performance raise.
Lots of people here though are struggling to make ends meet. There are grown men with roommates or people having to take over an hour commute for work because nothing in the city is affordable.
Inflation and the cost of living are severely outpacing wages in a lot of places.
I live in Nashville and the economy recovered here 5 years ago. I got $7500 cost of living raise in 2016 on top of a yearly 5% performance raise.
Lots of people here though are struggling to make ends meet. There are grown men with roommates or people having to take over an hour commute for work because nothing in the city is affordable.
Inflation and the cost of living are severely outpacing wages in a lot of places.
This post was edited on 10/26/18 at 11:25 pm
Posted on 10/26/18 at 11:21 pm to BamaScoop
Imagine what the nation would be like without the ones that don’t.
Posted on 10/26/18 at 11:23 pm to BhamDore
That has nothing to do with TRUMP...... that has everything to do with greedy landlords jacking up rent and rental space for businesses.
Posted on 10/26/18 at 11:26 pm to BhamDore
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Working 60+ hour weeks and multiple jobs for crap wages and mediocre health care.
I call bullshite.
I hire guys, and it's tough to recruit now... even at $3k/mo with company vehicle, housing, and gas. Not a shitty job, either.
There are so many jobs out there they can ghost and get another job and it doesn't matter.
Posted on 10/26/18 at 11:46 pm to BhamDore
quote:
Lots of people are under employed. Working 60+ hour weeks and multiple jobs for crap wages and mediocre health care.
I live in Nashville and the economy recovered here 5 years ago. I got $7500 cost of living raise in 2016 on top of a yearly 5% performance raise.
Lots of people here though are struggling to make ends meet. There are grown men with roommates or people having to take over an hour commute for work because nothing in the city is affordable.
Inflation and the cost of living are severely outpacing wages in a lot of places.
THIS.
EXACTLY.
THIS.
Real wages are less than cost of inflation- food and housing went up in price disproportionately to wage increases. People are hurting, without a doubt. All this talk of stock market can pound itself in the a-hole- stock market is 0 sum gain. Half of it is bubbles and speculation by hedge funders.
The massive heist of 2008 was an all-time redistribution of wealth in the American history. Banks should have failed an people should have been allowed to stay in their homes.
And nobody on WallStreet even went to jail. Riddle me that.
This post was edited on 10/26/18 at 11:48 pm
Posted on 10/26/18 at 11:49 pm to Bass Tiger
I’m just curious who gets all of the polls sent to them. I don’t know a single person who I know that has ever been part of a poll before an election.
It’s all made up bullshite.
I have lived a long time and i have never ever been asked to be part of a political poll
It’s all smoke and mirrors. I would think with the 45 years of living on this earth in the USA.. I have never once been asked to vote for a bullshite poll... land line, cell phone, in person...
Politics is WWF Wrestling. It’s all fricking FAKE
It’s all made up bullshite.
I have lived a long time and i have never ever been asked to be part of a political poll
It’s all smoke and mirrors. I would think with the 45 years of living on this earth in the USA.. I have never once been asked to vote for a bullshite poll... land line, cell phone, in person...
Politics is WWF Wrestling. It’s all fricking FAKE
This post was edited on 10/26/18 at 11:53 pm
Posted on 10/26/18 at 11:57 pm to FLTech
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That has nothing to do with TRUMP...... that has everything to do with greedy landlords jacking up rent and rental space for businesses.
Neither Obama nor even Trump really improved financial well-being of middle class. At least Trump has marginally improved the overall economy, but the redistribution of wealth will certainly continue. The wealth disparity has basically reached a runaway point- you can't catch up to the mega-wealthy because they have too much money and can take too many risks average man/woman who's living from paycheck to paycheck cannot. It's past the point of no-return, and the end point of it is either violent revolution or Robocop-Future Detroit-type society with police state and very poor populace leaving in slums.
I don't know, maybe I"m too pessimistic, but it's not hard to see through this S&P and Dow smokescreen. True, people have more job opportunities, but wealth inequality keeps rising. That cannot continue forever.
Posted on 10/27/18 at 12:09 am to CobraKaiNeverDies
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The massive heist of 2008 was an all-time redistribution of wealth in the American history. Banks should have failed an people should have been allowed to stay in their homes.
While I agree that the banks should have been allowed to fail; enlighten me on the "people should have been able to stay in their homes" issue. Because I took out a loan on my house in 2004, which was previous to this 2008 Domesday and I still have my house. Was I lucky? Did I do some crazy thing that these other people didn't or couldn't do? I'd like to know so that I can spread the message to help those in trouble as I don't recall doing anything special when I took out my loan.
Please help me understand so that I may help others.
Posted on 10/27/18 at 2:39 am to Geaux-2-L-O-Miss
An act was passed that "forced" banks to offer loans to people who would not have qualified in the past. You had individuals, with no qualified income buying a home, with no money down, and no mortgage insurance, with a "adjustable negative interest loan", the interest rates tick up, the housing market ticks down, and suddenly you are left with a note worth far more than the house and you cant afford to pay it so you walk away.
They didnt "lose their home" they lost a speculative gamble, they should have been renting in the first place.
They didnt "lose their home" they lost a speculative gamble, they should have been renting in the first place.
Posted on 10/27/18 at 3:37 am to Geaux-2-L-O-Miss
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While I agree that the banks should have been allowed to fail; enlighten me on the "people should have been able to stay in their homes" issue. Because I took out a loan on my house in 2004, which was previous to this 2008 Domesday and I still have my house. Was I lucky? Did I do some crazy thing that these other people didn't or couldn't do? I'd like to know so that I can spread the message to help those in trouble as I don't recall doing anything special when I took out my loan.
Please help me understand so that I may help others.
While it was wrong for some people to gamble on a housing bubble and write checks their arse couldn't cash, the big banks were doing the same derivative gambles but on a bigger scale. So it came down to banks failing and not being able to collect on debts owed through those worthless derivatives they already profited on, or letting the people some of who were duped into getting houses they couldn't afford. I'm gonna side with regular people on that, because it's better for the economy that way. Actually, if people were allowed to stay in their homes and banks failed, the housing wouldn't have as dramatic of a crash because there wouldn't be this sudden oversupply of housing inventory in 2009-2011.
Obama and Bernanke and other heathens in the establishment sold working people out for banksters. Let's never get distracted from that.
Posted on 10/27/18 at 3:43 am to trinidadtiger
quote:
An act was passed that "forced" banks to offer loans to people who would not have qualified in the past. You had individuals, with no qualified income buying a home, with no money down, and no mortgage insurance, with a "adjustable negative interest loan", the interest rates tick up, the housing market ticks down, and suddenly you are left with a note worth far more than the house and you cant afford to pay it so you walk away.
They didnt "lose their home" they lost a speculative gamble, they should have been renting in the first place.
Banks were packaging these weak CCC rating loans into derivates and selling them as AAA stock making huge profits. Then it was banks getting bailed with everyone's tax dollar those vs regular silly people.
frick that. I hope you're not trying to apologize here for Wall Street greed on here. Banks don't run the economy. One crashes another one pops up- they don't produce anything, it's a service or taking someone's money and lending it to other parties. No need to glorify it as "too big to bail".
This post was edited on 10/27/18 at 3:44 am
Posted on 10/27/18 at 4:31 am to Bass Tiger
quote:Perhaps related to the fact >50% of Americans receive more in 'welfare' than they pay in taxes?
Only 49% of Americans approve of Trump’s economy
That would seem to correlate.
Posted on 10/27/18 at 5:37 am to CobraKaiNeverDies
What happens on Wall Street has nothing to do with me and my personal decisions.
No one forces you to buy a home.
No one forces you to invest in stocks.
No one should sit around and compare themselves to others. It’s not healthy. Work hard. Pay your bills. Save for the future.
No one forces you to buy a home.
No one forces you to invest in stocks.
No one should sit around and compare themselves to others. It’s not healthy. Work hard. Pay your bills. Save for the future.
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