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hollowdweller

(4,229 posts)
1. If things are decent now and he feels they are terrible.
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 01:59 PM
Jan 2017

If he improves things a little bit, I don't see how he prevents some politician from doing the same thing to him and taking his supporters.
 

golfguru

(4,987 posts)
2. i don't care who will do it,
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 02:01 PM
Jan 2017

but the obvious fact is the richest counties in country are around DC. Politicians have gotten richer while middle class has lost ground. That populist message Trump has been spouting for 18 months has obviously resonated. I am willing to bet Bernie would have defeated the Trumpster.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,705 posts)
3. His billionaire Cabinet is going to make us all better...
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 02:07 PM
Jan 2017

His billionaire Cabinet is going to make us all better, especially his Treasury Secretary who foreclosed on Granny over twenty seven cents.

Johonny

(20,684 posts)
6. All he can do is refer to the America that never existed and he wasn't actually a part of anyways.
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 02:29 PM
Jan 2017

Unemployment is low, it's his own party that blocked construction projects on infrastructure, and the government spending (on the poor) actually has the biggest economic boon so he honestly has nothing, knows nothings, won't help.

 

golfguru

(4,987 posts)
7. Why is unemployment low when
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 05:30 PM
Jan 2017

94 million working age American are without jobs? Why we don't count them, simply because they have given up looking for jobs?

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,705 posts)
9. That number includes retirees , the disabled, caregivers, and those in school.
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 05:40 PM
Jan 2017

All Americans 16 years old and up: 253.9 million
Americans in the labor force with a job: 152.1 million
Americans in the labor force without a job: 8.0 million
That leaves 93.8 million Americans not in the labor force. But a lot of them are not in the labor force for understandable reasons.
44.0 million are retired.
15.3 million are disabled.
13.3 million are taking care of a family member.
13.2 million are in college or job training.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/04/news/economy/donald-trump-94-million-people-out-of-work/

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