Posted on 04/26/2018 7:49:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
I hate to disappoint liberals and the liberal mainstream media. But they haven’t a clue why I voted for President Trump. They either don’t understand…they’re blind, deaf and really dumb…or they’re purposely misrepresenting my views.
So, here goes. Here’s why I voted for President Trump (and I think many of the 63 million Trump voters will agree)...
Because I’m a member of the 3.8%.
Forget the infamous 1% the media loves to quote and discuss. That’s the super rich who the media wants you to resent. That group has no effect on your life. What matters is the 3.8%.
A new study is out. It shows that 3.8% of Americans work over 60 hours a week. I’m one of them. I work 60 hours a week, in a slow week. I think people with that kind of dedication, discipline, and work ethic should be celebrated. People in that 3.8% should be thanked by government, not targeted by the IRS.
For me, voting for Trump wasn’t about “racism” or “sexism” or “homophobia” or “Islamophobia,” or the myriad of other things liberals claim. I voted for Trump because I’m sick of working 60 hours and then being targeted, mocked, denigrated and punished.
I voted for Trump to turn around the economy that Obama killed with taxes, regulations, Obamacare, climate change and a thousand other ignorant, radical, liberal (ie socialist) policies meant to redistribute wealth and empower lawyers, bureaucrats and regulators.
My vote for Trump was about MAWA: “Making America Work Again”…and MEHA: “Making the Economy Hum Again”…and MARA: “Making America Rich Again.”
Liberal Democrats like Obama and Hillary represent the over 100 million Americans on some form of welfare or government handout. The people who think government owes them something.
Trump was the first president who cared about the 3.8%. The people who put in all the long hours. We needed someone to fight for us. Someone to celebrate us. Someone to reward us. Someone to say, “You did build that. You are what makes America great.”
I voted for Trump because I knew he'd turn around the economy and help those who work the long hours...versus those who think they deserve a short work week, a job guaranteed for life, or a check from government.
I don’t care about Stormy Daniels. There clearly was no Russian collusion. These are all distractions to prevent American voters from seeing the simple truth- The U.S. economy is booming again. Trump is succeeding. Trump is a breath of fresh air.
Want proof? I turned to one of the smartest guys in the room - Mark Skousen, economist, business professor, financial expert and the founder of FreedomFest- a prestigious economic gathering held each July in Las Vegas with 2,500 attendees from across the globe. After crunching the numbers, he has come around to agreeing President Trump is doing a magnificent job of growing the economy.
Here are the facts you won’t hear in the liberal mainstream media. Skousen reports the U.S. economy under Trump is exploding like nothing since Reagan. The Fed and media quote GDP - which has made a dramatic recovery under Trump. But the more accurate gauge of the economy’s health is a new stat called GO for “Gross Output.”
GO reflects the full value of the business supply chain and business to business spending. This model therefore better recognizes the vital contributions of entrepreneurship, capital investment and innovative technology.
Skousen’s new measurement of economic growth was featured in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal. The results under Trump are remarkable. For three quarters in a row under Trump, GO accelerated. The supply chain took off in the fourth quarter of 2017, growing at a 7.5% annualized rate. That’s more than double the rate of GDP growth and the fastest pace since before the Great Recession. Real GO, which includes both GDP and the supply chain, rose at a 4.7% rate.
Skousen says this boom in business activity should translate into higher economic growth (GDP) soon. In other words, the numbers indicate President Trump has dramatically turned around the US economy. And the best is yet to come!
The 3.8% was right. Trump is good for the Americans who get up early, go to work, and pay the taxes. That's why the 3.8% will always support Trump.
Hear, hear!! As a fellow member of the 3.8%, I second your sentiment Sir!!!
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I too am one of the 3.8%, as I suspect are many here, along with some retirees who would have been among the 3.8% when they were in the workforce.
This may be a bit simplistic, but over the last century or so there have been two types of economic expansions. One is technology driven, such as the rise of electronics and autos in the 1910-20s, or the computer/internet boom of the 1980-90s, while the others are production-based, like the massive production of armaments in the 1940s, along with the expansion of housing and transportation in the 1950s, and the return of manufacturing and fuel production now. Technology and production booms both occur when government frees up business to do what it does well.
Trump is doing what FDR did in the 1940s—getting us out of a depression and on the road to economic strength—and he’s doing it without a war and government funding. He will never get credit for it in the history books, any more than either Coolidge or Reagan will get credit for fueling the technology booms of their eras, but those of us who understand the times will have to keep shouting it out so that enough people will hear.
One reason the IRS targets them is because they feel they will be too d@mn busy to fight if the shakedown amount they demand seems reasonable and less expensive than fighting.
Been there. Done that. Wouldn't recommend it.
Great post
GDP includes government “services”.
Same here, 3.8%’r
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My workload is variable month to month, but half the weeks of the year I am well into the 3.8 percent. Had one month where I worked 300 hours.
Agreed. We did not vote for a spiritual counselor. We knew he had a past. We voted for our future.
Calvin Coolidge, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump are/were Republicans and Capitalists. Franklin Roosevelt was a fascist, without the snazzy uniforms. Fascism, of course, is a breed of socialism. Big Media are also socialists, so cannot give credit to anyone other than a socialist for doing anything good.
Hillary has a past.
Trump's past includes adultery and divorce.
Hildebeeste's past includes corruption and murder.
That's an easy distinction to make.
Hildebeeste's past includes corruption and murder, followed by...uh...nevermind
THATS an easy distinction to make.
Uhhh ... she's a "Huma-sexual"?
Not personally, I will admit, part of that 3.8% who work 60 hours, but do consider myself as part of the working middle class. The Republicrats firstly represent the non-working poor. I’m not interested in the non-working poor. I think they have it pretty good, and already have too much voting power. And they represent the rent-seeking members of big business and Wall Street. Those that survive on direct or indirect government subsidy or favoritism or on the provision of cheap illegal labor.
So was Wilson, and so was to a smaller degree the other Roosevelt.
Quite so.
I’m retired now but while employed 60 hour weeks weren’t uncommon...50 hour weeks were typical...and 40 hour weeks were all but unheard of.
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