Posted on 05/13/2019 5:56:31 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Joe Biden, who is currently leading in the polls against the horde of other Democratic presidential hopefuls, believes he can win back the working-class voters who defected to Donald Trump last election and thereby win the presidency. So Biden is trying to convince these voters that Trump was making a lot of empty promises.
“The stock market is roaring. But you don’t feel it,” he said at a rally. “There are — $2 trillion tax cut last year. Did you feel it? Did you get anything from it? Of course not. Of course not.”
Actually, they did get something out of it. A lot, as it turns out.
Not that you’d know it from the way the economy has been covered — or, more appropriately, covered up — by the mainstream press during the Trump administration. They take their cues from Democrats like Biden or Bernie Sanders, who say Trump’s promise to the working class as “a fraud.”
So reporting on the subject tends to be along the lines of this Chicago Tribune headline declaring that “Trump struggles to create blue-collar jobs in key parts of the U.S.”
But the official government jobs data show something entirely different.
We compared job growth by industry for the 27 months after Trump took office in January 2017 to President Obama’s last 27 months in office, using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Overall, Obama beats Trump — 5.5 million to 5.2 million.
But break the numbers down and something interesting emerges. Under Trump, jobs in goods-producing industries — manufacturing, construction, mining — have been increasing at a much faster clip than when Joe Biden was vice president. These are the jobs Democrats are constantly promising that their policies will create and protect.
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Much of the country that was neglected in the 8 years of Obama’s 1.7 growth era are getting those jobs back that just needed a magic wand.
Actually, these were jobs BO, in a rare moment of candor, told the working class were never coming back so they should retrain or learn to code or something.
How quickly too many of them forget.
Conveniently forget.
They cannot see the boom in blue collar jobs.
They cannot see the voters crawling over broken glass to pull the lever for President Trump.
I sense one root cause drives both outcomes
There are large, elaborate, attention-getting “help wanted” signs everywhere I go these days. None a few short years ago when Obama was in.
Nevada does NOT use the “primary vote system”.
They hold Caucuses.
I moved to Nevada in March of 2005. In 2016, I went to my very first caucus to vote for Trump.
The buildings were opened up over 1 hour earlier than expected because so many people were already in live. We ere over 150 from the doors in a 2 wide line & people already were inside.
The locations RAN OUT OF PAPER BALLOTS 3 times that night, and had to open up the school offices to print more.
We were there before the expected opening & were there for about 2 hours, discussing various candidates.
When we left, it was dusk, and the football practice field ws covered in cars & trucks, and the line was over 2 times longer than when we entered and the line was now 4 wide.
The turnout for Trump in other states was just as vigorous.
I am pretty sure it will be better in 2020.
The Dems are absolutely panicked about losing more to Trump.
Unfortunately most of the ones I see are for dead-end positions where the wages haven’t risen for 10-20 years.
I wouldn’t at all mind switching my cushy office job for a blue collar one. What I would mind is paying 2019 bills with 1980 wages.
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