Right. Trump has a higher approval rating than Obama did at this point. A roaring economy. No major wars going on. An unemployment rate that hasn't been this low in 50 years (1969). Wages experiencing their biggest hike in over 10 years. Record low black and Hispanic unemployment. Etc., etc. etc. Yeah, of course Republicans should dump Trump!
The difference is, in 1969, only the full time jobs were counted in that count. Only males were counted in that count. Only jobs that provided more than 35 hours a week employment were counted. And there WAS a raging war going on and those people fighting it weren't in that count. I remember 1969 well. Jobs were all over the place. The Draft took many of the workforce that would be counted out of the system. I should know, it removed me that year. I went from a very secure well paying job to a whopping 50 bucks a month Military Job without my consent. In reality, that condition ended in late 1970. Yes, the draft went on until 1973 but from 1971 to 1973, most were not taken like before. Now you had those people on the job markets once again. The numbers went up after 1970.
I got my hands on a study by AT&T in 2002 about the job market. 2002 was a pretty good year, one would think. When you took the figures the way it's figured today, it came out as about a 10% unemployment rate. The study broke it down. It separated the full time from the part time. When added the part time with the unemployed you came up with a whopping 25.4% rate. That's worse than the 24% rate during the worst of the Great Depression. From what I can see about the job market today where we have lost some Full Time jobs to Part Time, it should be still about the same.
Then you ask why we are not in a deep depression? We are lied to and enough people like you buy into it that it prevents panic. And the ONLY differences between recessions, down turns and depressions is panic.
They use a different count these days. They count ALL jobs, even part time, as employed. They count males and females as well. The job counts that you are using are artificial and are easily manipulated and often are. So don't use the 1969 and back figures as comparison. They were arrived at a completely different equation.
Do I believe that the economy is doing better? No. Minimum wage gets an increase of say 10 percent or more to make up for the cost of living hikes. The problem is, the new cost of living goes up that and more leaving those that are just above minimum wage poorer. Meanwhile, the Middle Class Jobs are getting less in pay. The Middle Class is screwed.
I had to replace my keyboard and mouse last night. That 49.95 keyboard ended up costing me 59 bucks. My electrics and gas went up. The Gas at the pumps went up. I am going to have to buy some clothes and you can bet those went up as well. Of course that 2.3% cost of living increase I received was to compensate for that but the real increases of COL went up many times that. Oh, did I mention my rent went up 50 bucks a month as well? And that 2.3% increase in my check bumped me up a tax bracket and I paid more taxes per dollar than the year before. Sorry, Dude but I have to invoke your name on this one, it's a real BOHICA.
We are so used to being lied to that many actually believe the lie. And, cupcake, it's just not the Republicans spreading that lie, it's both sides depending on who is telling the story. The only difference is, Trump is just better at telling that story than the others.