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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think most middle class folk, with or without degrees, blue collar, white, and grey, all know we will never receive any freebies from any democrat program unless we have HHI at or below poverty. So, our best bet is on a guy who has a greater likelihood of improving job opportunities overall.[/quote]

But that's not the case.  Republicans have consistently failed to deliver on improved job opportunities.  They are also the ones who have promoted "trickle down economics" going back to the Reagan era - where nothing ever trickles down - it has meant that wages for the working class have remained stagnant since the 1980s when adjusted for inflation, even as worker productivity and output have consistently gone up, even as corporate profits have consistently gone up.  It's all being skimmed off of the top, with the richest people getting richer and not sharing the wealth with those who made it happen.[/quote]

Again, no democrat program will EVER "share wealth" with my middle class family. E-V-E-R. Ok? Not happening.  Total fail bye.

Secondly, in case you read twitter and facebook for your news, theres this stuff called outsourcing, H1-Bs, illegal immigrant labor, and relocation of manufacturing to china, mexico, etc. This ABSOLUTELY eliminates jobs for American workers. All of it.

Finally, remind me again what obama did to create jobs? Im drawing a blank. Oh, NOTHING. [/quote]

Lol, you forgot about things like Social Security.  Major fail on your part.

As for outsourcing, got news for you - if you think Trump is going to magically end outsourcing or H1-Bs, you are delusional.  And if you are so desperate to get rid of the illegals then get ready to start paying $10 for that burger because guess who's been the kitchen staff all these years. Plus, he will quite likely kill a ton of American jobs if he tries starting a trade war with protectionist policies and by killing trade partnerships, because it will kill our own exports.  You know what else has been killing jobs?  The free market.  There's no "war on coal" nor even any need for it, the number one thing killing the coal industry hasn't been big evil gubmint regulation, it's been competition from the natural gas industry, along with a lot of the remaining mining jobs being killed due to automation and large scale mechanized operations like mountaintop removal.  Regulation is just the nail in the coffin to an industry that was already one foot in the grave.  But meanwhile people like you ignore the fact that outside of natural gas, the fastest growing jobs in the energy sector are in manufacturing and installing solar and wind.  If those miners want a job they should go to where the industry has gone rather than sitting on their asses whining.  Times change.  We don't have switchboard operators anymore.  We don't have livery stables in every town anymore.  Move on, get with the times.

As for Obama creating jobs, he's been adding on average of over 200,000 jobs a month every single month since he's been in office - as compared to George W. Bush, who was LOSING 800,000 jobs a month at the end of his term.  Fact is, unemployment dropped below 5% for January and February of this year.  But to hear the delusional narrative on FOX News and right wing talk radio you'd think the exact opposite were the case.  When you go around making such fundamentally fact-challenged comments about unemployment it pretty much invalidates everything else you have to say.[/quote]

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