Have the Trump years been hard on you?

Wealthy? I don’t think you understand what that term means.

 

I believe you.

 

I’ve been in the workforce since 1987. These trump years have been very lucrative for me. After four years of trump, I could take a two year vacation, and one year of that six year average still beats any prior year. If you aren’t making money hand over fist today, you’re doing it wrong.

 

I am 26, it’s been hard on me physically but from a wealth perspective I am living the dream.

Trump’s kept me employed as a cashier at dollar tree so I am happy.

 

Wage and GDP growth are relatively stable, but hardly stellar, and they have been that way since 2010. The unemployment rate has been steadily dropping since 2009. What hasn't been steady is corporate profits those have shot up since 2009. That said little of this has anything to do outside of certain sectors (most notably health care, and manufacturing) has anything to do with who the president is, or even what the tax rate is. This is the kind of empty headed cheer leading from teams red, and blue that comes from a two party winner take all system of republicanism.

While you are out here sticking it to them ******* welfare queens to borrow the vernacular consider the following. Did Bear Stearns get a job? Did Lehman Brothers pull themselves up by their bootstraps? Did Wachovia, Wamu, AIG, Merrill Lynch, J.P Morgan, GM, and Citigroup stop having kids? Or did they get the biggest welfare check of them all? I'm supposed to celebrate the Democrats or the Republicans because they've "handled" the economy so well? All they have done is write checks to put the house of cards back together. On top of the checks and breaks many companies receive constantly from municipal, and state governments. Now that is the real dream.

Our political process is developing deep, and dangerous flaws that are combining centralization of economic power. What is needed is not regulatory exemption, and social welfare abolition. We need regulatory, and social welfare reformation, and to do that we need sober thought, and a political system, and political parties more focused around building coalitions for good ideas than either obstructing or railroading lukewarm half measures that do nothing but give folks like yourself something to make snarky comments about.

Also what the hell does marriage have to do with affording your kids. I see just as many people with wedding rings using food stamps with a basket full of kids. When you get a divorce are the kids you had while married suddenly less expensive than if you just had kids and didn't get married? I've heard of thinking inside the box, but you're inside a freaking matchbox.

 

The last three years have been hard on me. But I can hardly blame President Trump for my dad dying and my having one of my great toes amputated.

 

The unemployment rate is on the downtrend, I think were okay.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

 

For the most part, the past three years have been better than I initially expected.

My greater family is thriving and my lifestyle has been less stressful than it has been for a long while.