I think Democrats and even some GOP fans still cannot grasp why their favorite Establishment Candidate was not able to rise to the top and become the next President Of The United States. To use a quote from another election:
IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!
When you have 105 Million on Foodstamps, 93 Million Non Participants who have given up finding work and have exhausted benefits, and an average 1% Growth over 8 Years while Doubling The National Debt from 9 Million to 20 Million Dollars, and Healthcare Costs Skyrocketing and the Bill for the ACA yet to come due, and have NOTHING to show for it, people may not understand the mechanics and nuances of all of this, but they feel it when they look in the refrigerator and working people see little to eat there, (A record number of children in the US live in poverty and are at risk for hunger and this has not been seen since THE GREAT DEPRESSION.
Americans are hungry and broke, and they see their neighbors on Welfare and Food Stamps seem to have food coming out of their noses. They look in their driveway and see a beat up 15 year old car, a house in disrepair (if they still have theirs) and both parents (if the family is still intact) working 2-3 jobs a piece to make ends meet.
Or worse yet a car payment they cannot really afford but have no choice to pay it so they can keep working, and a mortgage and property taxes that take up every last cent they have just to keep a roof over their heads. And of course they are forced to buy health coverage that barely covers anything and that they cannot afford or face a fine that they cannot afford if they choose not to buy health insurance. Sometimes a family has to choose between a insurance premium and food on the table. What kind of person makes a family make a choice like that?
You can cook the books, and shuck and jive, hoodwink and bamboozle your way in to convincing some people you did a good job as president, but when you have 93 Million out of work with NO Unemployment Benefits, who are not counted in The Obama Regime's "cooked book statistics", all you are doing is operating as an Actor on an Episode of West Wing. Obama is no different than Meryl Streep. He should get a Lifetime achievement award for accomplishing nothing but destruction, while portraying A Fake President, trying to convince us of his Fake Narrative.
These are people Establishment Policies have hurt, not numbers on a ledger sheet.
NAFTA, Sino-American Trade Deal, Korean Trade deal all were championed by Democrats as The Gold Standard of Trade deals, starting with Jimmy Carter who single handedly destroyed our Steel Mills, Textile Industry and Electronics Manufacturing Sector.
But Dems are Globalists, and Globalists believe that you have to dismantle American Manufacturing in order to impose Globalism so it is no surprise that every Dem since Carter has committed High Treason against the US Economy and American Worker.
I will also go on record here that I do not place blame on any single party or person. We have elected nothing but traitors and bums, actors if you will to sell us out since Reagan. Bought and paid for by Wall Street, these Actors, dismantled the only barriers we had that ensured Fair Trade, in exchange for Free Trade, which is just another word for selling out Americans for 30 pieces of Silver.
Any Republican that continued Dem Trade Policy in my opinion is also a Traitor to this Nation. Both George Bush Senior and Junior were also Globalists and Committed Treason against The American Worker as did Carter, Bill Clinton, and Obama Bin Lying.
Unlike some of my Conservative Brethren, I am not afraid to fix blame towards both The Dem and GOP Corrupt Establishment who have sold America out for Globalists. BTW, this is exactly why Left and Right Establishment were frothing at the mouth opposed to Trump who promised To Put America First.
If you think Wall Street and US Corporations don't take Donald Trump's Promises seriously, then think on this, why is Ford, Apple, Fiat, Chrysler, Carrier and others, all canceling their plans to invest Billions in Mexico, and instead re-invest in US plants here. Even GM will eventually come to heel once the GOV appointed CEO is forced to step in line.
And if you want statistical evidence or some hard cold facts on how we were sold out over the last few decades, I have posted some articles below. There are many of them, and I did not even touch the Carter Era where his trade deals decimated our Textiles, Steel, and Electronics Manufacturing Industries.
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Report: US Lost 28% Of High-Tech Manufacturing Jobs
Arlington, VA — The United States lost 28 percent of its high-technology manufacturing jobs over the last decade, as the nation’s rapidly shrinking lead in science and technology in the global marketplace was accompanied by a toll on U.S. high-tech jobs, according to a new study released today by the National Science Board (NSB), the policy making body for the National Science Foundation.
One of the most dramatic signs of this trend was the loss of 687,000 high-technology manufacturing jobs.
Report: US Lost 28% Of High-Tech Manufacturing Jobs
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7,231,000 Lost Jobs: Manufacturing Employment Down 37% From 1979 Peak
Median household income of an American householder who has completed four years of high school peaked in 1973 at $56,395 in constant 2013 dollars. By 2013, it was down to $40,701. That is a drop of $15,694--or 27.8 percent.
7,231,000 Lost Jobs: Manufacturing Employment Down 37% From 1979 Peak
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Manufacturing Job LossTrade, Not Productivity, Is the Culprit
The United States lost 5 million manufacturing jobs between January 2000 and December 2014. There is a widespread misperception that rapid productivity growth is the primary cause of continuing manufacturing job losses over the past 15 years. Instead, as this report shows, job losses can be traced to growing trade deficits in manufacturing products prior to the Great Recession and then the massive output collapse during the Great Recession.
Manufacturing Job Loss: Trade, Not Productivity, Is the Culprit
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China Trade, Outsourcing and JobsGrowing U.S. trade deficit with China cost 3.2 million jobs between 2001 and 2013, with job losses in every state
Since China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, the massive growth of trade between China and the United States has had a dramatic and negative effect on U.S. workers and the domestic economy. Specifically, a growing U.S. goods trade deficit with China has the United States piling up foreign debt, losing export capacity, and losing jobs, especially in the vital but under-siege manufacturing sector. Growth in the U.S. goods trade deficit with China between 2001 and 2013 eliminated or displaced 3.2 million U.S. jobs, 2.4 million (three-fourths) of which were in manufacturing. These lost manufacturing jobs account for about two-thirds of all U.S. manufacturing jobs lost or displaced between December, 2001 and December 2013.
Among specific industries, the trade deficit in the computer and electronic parts industry grew the most, and 1,249,100 jobs were lost or displaced, 39.6 percent of the 2001–2013 total. As a result, many of the hardest-hit congressional districts were in California, Texas, Oregon, Massachusetts, and Minnesota, where jobs in that industry are concentrated. Some districts in New York, Georgia, and Illinois were also especially hard-hit by trade-related job displacement in a variety of manufacturing industries, including computer and electronic parts, textiles and apparel, and furniture.
The growing trade deficit with China has cost jobs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Using a new model and new congressional district data to estimate the job impacts of trade for the 113th Congress, this study also finds that job losses occurred in every congressional district but one.1
China Trade, Outsourcing and Jobs: Growing U.S. trade deficit with China cost 3.2 million jobs between 2001 and 2013, with job losses in every state
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Washington helped China snare U.S. manufacturing jobs, study says
The United States lost 3.5 million manufacturing jobs from the end of the 2000 to the end of 2007 and China was almost entirely to blame, a new research paper says.
The constant threat of tariffs – basically a tax on imported goods – largely ended in 2000. The Clinton White House and Republican-led Congress agreed to grant China the permanent right to be treated like other U.S. trading partners such as Europe or Japan. While tariffs can still be applied, the process is more complicated and takes longer to deploy, sometimes involving U.S. or international court hearings.
The new level of policy certainty, Pierce and Schott argue, spurred more U.S. manufacturers to shift plants and jobs to China to take advantage of lower labor costs. They no longer had to worry about sudden increases in tariffs when exporting their goods back to America.
The loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs accelerated sharply after China’s trading status was upgraded. Manufacturing employment fell to 13.7 million in 2007 from 17.2 million in 2000, according to the U.S. Labor Department.
Before 2000, the number of U.S. manufacturing jobs had barely changed in 20 years.
The erosion in manufacturing is also a big reason why the U.S. economy failed to add many jobs in the first two years after the 2001 recession. The economy only started to add jobs at a faster clip in 2004 and 2005 as growth in other sectors offset the loss of manufacturing employment.
Washington helped China snare U.S. manufacturing jobs, study says
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China Industrial Production Gains 6.1% In October
11/13/2016 9:15 PM ET
Industrial production in China expanded 6.1 percent on year in October, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.
That was unchanged from the previous month, although it missed expectations for a gain of 6.2 percent.
The bureau also said that retail sales were up an annual 10.0 percent - also beneath expectations for 10.7 percent, which would have been unchanged from the September reading.
Fixed-asset investment gained 8.3 percent on year, beating forecast for a gain of 8,2 percent, which would have been unchanged.
China Industrial Production Gains 6.1% In October
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China PMI: Chinese manufacturing gains for third month
China PMI: Chinese manufacturing gains for thrid month
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China’s Manufacturing PMI Hits Multi-Year High in November; Service Activity Gains Momentum
December 1, 2016 01:02 GMT
China's Manufacturing PMI Hits Multi-Year High in November; Service Activity Gains Momentum
