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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]True. It's the economy, stupid. [/quote]

Can you imagine a single mother working 10 hours a week at two part-time jobs, working her a$$ off to feed her 2 kids, and watching Hillary during the debate say Trump said mean things! and Trump is a racist!

And at the same time she hears Trump say he'll create more GOOD-PAYING jobs.

I'm pretty sure this single mother's listening will find Trump more appealing because she feels he's talking directly to her and her needs.[/quote]
Did you mean 10 hours a DAY?

And unemployment is down under Trump, the lowest in 17 years. I believe I heard it's below 4%, which is considered "full employment." That's showing up in food stamp usage, too, which is down after a big uptick under Obama. Business is booming.

The jobs created under Obama were largely part-time, too, and that was in response to Obamacare regulations. He unwittingly created a disincentive to bringing on full-time staff. So you ended up with more people like your single mother example, struggling with two PT jobs, and where neither pay benefits.[/quote]

Not under 4% yet - the last official report was 4.1%.  But unemployment has been on a steady and consistent decline since 2010.  There's no inflection point in the data from when Trump took office, it's all just a consistent continued trend from Obama.  https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

Trump has done nothing meaningful to create additional jobs.  He did a few things like repeal regulations that kept coal mining companies from dumping toxic mining waste into rivers but that has only produced a few hundred jobs.  At the expense of polluted rivers.  Wages as a percentage of gross domestic income has been doing up since 2013 after years of steady decline, but Trump and the GOP are now fighting any attempt to raise wages tooth and nail.  I'd like to see some evidence to support your notion that they want to raise wages.[/quote]

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