Forget the Political Parties. Just Know the State of the Economy

People have began again to look for work. The participation rate has recent risen to 62.9%. However, The Labor Department’s unemployment rate of 4.4% does not tell the true story. 

A huge number of people have simply dropped out of the job market and are not counted.

The depth and severity of the Great Recession after the 2008 financial crisis pushed millions of Americans to the sidelines and discouraged them from looking for work and none of President Obama’s policies helped. In fact, it made the situation worse.

The type of jobs available has been part-time jobs-- less than 30 hours per week due to Obamacare. This reflected a provision in the law that defined “full- time employees” as those working 30 hours or more. 

Under Obamacare’s employer mandate, companies with 50 or more “full-time” employees will be required to offer health insurance to their workers or pay a penalty if at least one of their employees purchases a plan through the healthcare marketplace with a federal subsidy. 

Obamacare raised the cost of hiring along with the minimum wage controversy. Moreover, the average working person hasn’t had a raise in the last 15 years.

The national deficit now stands at $603 billion, but is predicted to go down to $440 billion this next fiscal year.  The national debt doubled over the eight years of the Obama administration to now close to $20 trillion. This was more debt accumulated, in those eight years, than all the previous 43 presidents combined. This was total recklessness on the part of Obama. Fortunately, this increase of the national debt is now slowing down.

The economy has now experienced a growth of 3.0% this past quarter.

There is no new money available for programs, social or otherwise, unless unspent funds are found in the budget or waste, fraud, and abuse are eliminated and the funds redirected. 

However, with the elimination of waste, fraud, ,and abuse in the government’s agencies, no truly beneficial programs need to be cut.

All federal employment should be frozen and any cost-of-living increases should be pegged to the inflation rate. The pensions should be equalized rather than income. All employees should be either on Social Security or on a 401k plan.

By knowing the state of the economy, you can rationally choose the candidates with the best policies to address these issues and not get hung up on party labels, or the race or sex of the candidate. And, most of all hold them accountable. 

Our country is teetering on the brink of self destruction. President Trump is now in office. Now regularly contact your Representatives and Senators and let them know how you want them to vote. 

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The Racist Bill and Hillary Clinton

Hillary impresses me as being cranky, and evil. Bill impresses me as being cranky, evil, and disgusting. Both are fundamentally racist. But, in that both are politicians, they are willing to disguise their racism by attempting to tell Black Americans what they think they want to hear.

This silly notion about how much everyone loves Bill has got to go. This fellow didn’t get the majority of the vote either time he ran for President. If it wasn’t for Ross Perot, he never would have become President the first time.

Hillary married and remains married to the racist Bill Clinton whose mentor was J. William Fulbright, a vehement foe of integration, who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. At his gubernatorial inauguration, Clinton publicly embraced Orval Faubus, the man who stood in the schoolhouse door in Little Rock rather than comply with the Supreme Court’s school desegregation ruling. That’s when Republican Eisenhower sent in the 101th Airborne to enforce civil rights in Arkansas. He has never been asked to renounce these associations nor has Hillary.

Moreover, Bill Clinton still thinks that the 1994 Crime Bill he signed into law which resulted in the mass incarceration of Black men was a good bill. A bill in which Hillary fully supported. Now she wants the Black vote without being able to give any specifics on how she will deal with the profound issues that affect Black Americans. Rev  Sharpton has stated that she must include specifics in her political platform. However, it should be just the opposite, she should be given a Contract with Black America such as Newt Gingrich did with his Contract with America. And, she must be told in no uncertain terms that our vote will be contingent on her public support of this Contract.

All of Hillary’s recent  talk about carrying hot sauce in her purse and talking about CP time just shows how a multimillionaire, senior citizen, white woman can make a fool out of herself trying to identify with Black Americans. 

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