I have been called a hater on facebook, too many times to count. I have been called a socialist, a libtard, that I hate our country and that if I don’t love it, I can leave it. All this because I disagree with the President and the GOP. But, the truth is, I don’t hate them, I hate their policies and will continue to fight against those policies as long as they don’t benefit main street America. I’ve chosen to focus on the facts behind President’s Trump’s, sometimes inflated and sometimes completely false claims. There is no opinion in my list, just facts and a simple Google search will verify their authenticity. All these facts come from either government reports or from conservative and/or market websites. So, let’s get started.
1. Since becoming President, he has created 2,000 coal jobs, but 10,000 renewable energy jobs have been lost. In total. Currently in the US, there are 77,000 jobs in the coal industry, while there are 800,000 jobs in the renewable industry. Over ten times the number of jobs. In many parts of the country, it’s now cheaper to tear down a coal plant and build a new natural gas or renewable plant in its place than to continue burning coal, yet an Energy Department memo reveals a potential plan to try and save coal power in the U.S. by forcing utility companies to buy electricity from coal plants.
2. The most important issue of the conservative movement has always been the establishment of a free market, but how can Trump’s bailing out of soybean farmers to the tune of 12 billion dollars be considered free market. BTW, farmers already get $20 billion every year and according to the conservative Heritage Foundation site and 90% of those funds go to millionaires. Sounds more like a vote buy off, than free market. And Tariffs are anything but free market either. They are the ultimate regulation and the people hurt the most are the American consumer. China isn’t paying the tariff, we are, as consumers.
3. The GOP and the President claimed that the recent tax cut was intended to do two things. First, to promote innovation for job creation, and the second was to increase wages. Since it passage in December, “Real wages” for manufacturing workers (after inflation) have fallen 1.8%. Meanwhile, how did corporations spend that revenue gain from the tax cut? Six billion went to workers and innovation, and 171 billion to shareholders, and still, currently the stock market (by definition) is in a correction.
4. By the end of Obama’s administration, the annual deficit had dropped almost 50% to less than $600 billion. This year, the Congressional Budget Office have estimated that because of the tax bill, the deficit will go back to a trillion by next year. Currently, it is over $800 billion. Also, the Republicans, who proudly wave the flag of fiscal conservatism, have yet to present one balanced budget.
5. President Trump claims he has created 3 and a half million jobs since taking office and that it is unthinkable job growth, but in the last 18 months of Obama’s administration, more jobs were created than in the first 18 months of the Trump administration.
6. Under the new budget, the GOP is proposing to cut some $554 billion out of Medicare over the next decade, and in the June budget by the House, the GOP called for a 4 billion dollar cut in social security over the next 10 years. In April of this year, 233 Republican representatives voted to steal the 2.9 trillion dollar surplus of the social security. Fortunately, that wasn’t enough to pass the bill.
THIS IS A BIG ONE FOR VETS
7. Under Obama, there was a 50% decline in homeless vets through his program. According to The Military Times, since Trump took office, that number has risen and last year the head of the VA told states that Obama’s program would be shut down. Pressure from veteran advocacy groups stopped this from happening. At least for now.
A RANDUMB THAWT?
Learn the difference between hatred and criticism. Simply said, hatred requires no knowledge, while criticism is knowledge based. So, ask yourself if this is the America you want? Is looking through the rear view mirror better than out the windshield? Greatness lies in the future, not the past. As Einstein said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Never settle for anything less than quality and understand what benefits your neighbor, benefits you. Before you jump, know how far you have to leap to survive. And, most important, look for the questions and the answers will come. I know it may seem like it’s too time consuming, but you owe that time to America if you want it to remain great.
Now, does that sound like hate, or love of country?