Trump’s absurd claim that 92 million Americans represent a ‘nation of jobless Americans’

[Gothmog]

I keep hearing this sad talking point from right wingers https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/09/16/trumps-absurb-claim-that-92-million-americans-represent-a-nation-of-jobless-americans/?tid=pm_politics_pop_b

“Right now, 92 million Americans are on the sideline outside of the workforce, and they’re not a part of our economy. It’s a silent nation of jobless Americans.”

— Donald Trump, speech to the Economic Club of New York, Sept. 15, 2016

Trump is grabbing onto a GOP talking point that first emerged in 2014 when the official unemployment rate starting falling below 7 percent. (It is now 4.9 percent.) Republicans started citing a decline in the labor participation rate, which has occurred largely because the baby boom generation has begun to retire.

But here, Trump expresses the rate as a raw number (“92 million Americans”) and then amps up the rhetoric by referring to a “nation of jobless Americans.” But this is rhetorical poppycock, as we will demonstrate.....

The Pinocchio Test

As you can see, it is absurd to claim that 94 million Americans are on the sidelines of the economy and are part of a “jobless America.” You can’t be jobless if you don’t want a job.

Only a small percentage of these people want a job, as the rest are retired, in school, on disability or caring for children. No matter how much Trump wants to suggest the economy is on the rocks, the fact remains that the unemployment rate is below 5 percent — which is pretty good by any measure.

Four Pinocchios

[Gothmog]

1. Right-Wing Economy Myths: Labor Force Participation

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Yep, all those elementary school kids and nursing home residents.

Just sitting on the sidelines as the rest of us work.

[C_U_L8R]

3. In Trumpworld, being old or disabled is no excuse for not working.

Same goes for children, who Trump probably views as leeches on society
who should out to be working in the mills and factories.

[whistler162]

4. He is correct what with those

nasty child labor laws and everything!!

[world wide wally]

5. He'll probably make retirement, hospitals, and preschool against the law

No SS, No Medicare. No Medicaid. No unemployment compensation

[Angry Dragon]

6. PERHAPS IF tRUMP HAD HIS CLOTHES MADE IN THE USA MORE PEOPLE WOULD BE WORKING

[Ilsa]

7. It's amazing that people will swallow this swill. nt

[smirkymonkey]

8. And he's only going to make it worse.

It's not like he actually gives a shit or anything.

[NastyRiffraff]

9. Understanding Trump

To understand Dump, we really only need to know one thing:

HE DOESN'T CARE.

He cares ONLY about himself. Everything else; his lying, his complete lack of empathy, his reputation for retribution, his lack of even basic curiosity about the world, let alone about political procedures and policies that will be part of his job, his record of cheating workers and contractors, his dismissal of anything that he doesn't want to believe no matter how reputable the source, points to

HE DOESN'T CARE.

We missed having a highly qualified woman in the White house. Instead, we have this monster.

[Gothmog]

14. Trump cannot tell truth from fiction

Trump is a sad puppu

[sheshe2]

10. Drumpf lies.

Who knew?



K&R

[Gothmog]

13. I am shocked, shocked I tell you

[Cha]

11. No one Lies as much as dump and those trying to prop him up.

What is their agenda?.. the two bit hate salesman is an idiot and so are the ones buying this shite.

Thank you for this, Goth.

[Gothmog]

12. Thanks Cha