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Originally Posted by polak
Don't let facts get in your way:
Unemployment:
GDP Growth:
Access to healthcare:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/ea...ease201605.pdf
The fact that Trump was able to paint some bleak picture of the American economy and actually get away with it was a massive failure on behalf of the American media. Now the unskilled workforce thinks that some how Trump is going to get them a job tightening screws on an assembly line for $20 an hour like it's 1955. |
This is what people just aren't able to see. When you walk into a department store, the kid folding shirts is making NA money, the cashier is, the manager is, the HR person, the accountant is, and so fourth, yet somehow that shirt is priced at $15 on the bargain rack. So how can a product priced below many wages be sustainable if that product didn't come from Bangladesh at only a few cents?
Do people think they're just going to take jobs from China and India? Not unless they're willing to make a few cents a day, have no safe working conditions and no labour laws, no pensions, and no benefits. That, or people are going to have to live without their smart phone, without their cars, without their 10 sets of shoes and all the other benefits of first world living.
Knowing these people, I doubt they're smart enough to give anything up, so they'll just have to accept the jobs aren't coming back