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@chameleon54 wrote:

@ Digi, I,m also not a huge fan of trickle down economics. Its a classic case of the the rich get richer while the poor can eat cake. I,m also not a big fan of Trump either.

 

BUT....... The broad figures on the U.S economy show the " little people " are doing much better under Trump, than workers here in Australia.

 

Unemployment in the U.S is running at 3.8 %.....one of the lowest figures IN FIFTY YEARS !!!! ...........Compare that to Australia's latest figure of 5.4%, down from 5.6% last month.

 

Average hourly wage growth in the U.S is 3.2%, against an inflation rate of 1.5 % giving a real wage increase of 1.7%

 

Compare that with Australia where private sector wages growth is currently running at 1.9 % against an inflation rate of 1.8% giving a real wage increase of barely registerable 0.1% 

 

Sure Trump comes across as a complete wally, his big wall idea is plain stupid and he appears to be a risk to global stability but when it comes to whether the average U.S citizen is better off under a Trump administration, the facts speak for themselves.

 

As the U.S left wing haters have been caught out peddling their corruption and lies, you have to wonder.  Maybe the U.S voters made the right choice after all and maybe Trump is not as stupid as he looks.

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Statistics are capable of being incredibly misleading, though, especially if they are just percentages.

You have to look at the type of jobs being created, and stuff like how many a person has to have to be able to live comfortably. It's all well and good to say that unemployment is at a low, but if people have to work 3 part time jobs (because that's all they can get) are just barely making ends meet, there's still massive problems. 

Plus, the industries where he's created the most jobs are either dying, temporary and / or will do a lot of damage to the environment in the long term. 

Personally, I find the man himself absolutely abhorrent, in pretty much every single way, and I don't buy into the "he's just doing bad or stupid stuff to distract people from all the good he's doing" rhetoric - the American people aren't cats, who need to be entertained with a big, dumb fuzzy orange ball while someone else adminsters the worm meds they don't like but really need, lol.  (think back to the government shutdown he caused not so long ago, that was weeks that government employees went without pay, because he wanted to have a tantrum over funding for the stupid wall - around 800k US government employees that he crippled financially not just during, but for several months after - those are not the actions of a man who cares about the long term effects of his decisions on the people he serves).

Nor do I buy into the "they're out to get him - he must be doing something right", thing. Maybe, he's actually just doing stupid stuff because he has no education, understanding, or forethought with regards to economics, the environment, and many other political issues that are just as important as number of jobs available, or immigration, nor does he appear to have any regard to the long term effects of his decisions and actions, and people want to take him down because he's doing a lot that's either wrong, or actually dangerous.