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jwhop | Stunning MAGAnomic Sentiment: Small Business Optimism Survey Second Highest Reading in History…. August 14, 2018 sundance The National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) is an assembly and survey of small business owners throughout the U.S. In the latest survey (full pdf here) overall optimism is the second highest ever recorded at 107.9 (the highest reading was 108 in 1983). http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/14/stunning-maganomic-sentiment-small-business-optimism-survey-second-highest-reading-in-history/
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Randall | Thank you, President Trump! |
Randall | And the DOW just can't seem to drop much for very long. |
jwhop | quote: Originally posted by Randall: And the DOW just can't seem to drop much for very long.
That's right, and the press can't seem to depress the stock markets even with their obsessive talk of "trade wars". |
Catalina | Too bad the benefits are not going round http://mobile.twitter.com/ottensam/status/1035133391564288000/photo/1 |
jwhop | Believing the wrong people will leave you clueless. http://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/wages I make that about $.54 per hour which translates to more than $92 per month increase in average wages just since August of 2017. |
Catalina | So the dept of labor are now pushing fake news too? Get a horse 🐴🐢 |
jwhop | quote: Originally posted by Catalina: So the dept of labor are now pushing fake news too? Get a horse 🐴🐢
If it's you and clueless Sam Otten verses the Department of Labor, I'll take the Department of Labor every time. Oh, and Btw, that's not the Department of Labor, it's the Bureau of Labor Statistics chart. |
Catalina | Are you for real? Both BEA AND BLS are part of the DEPT OF LABOR. |
jwhop | In the known universe, it's proper to call agency departments by the name they publish under. In this case...The Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
jwhop | Majority of Blue Collar Workers: We’re Better Off Under Trump than Obama JOHN BINDER 3 Sep 2018The majority of blue collar American workers say they are better off today with the economy under the direction of President Trump than they were during the Obama years, a new poll reveals. In a Harris Poll of more than 1,000 blue collar U.S. workers in fields such as construction, manufacturing, maintenance, and agriculture, a majority of 55 percent of workers said they are better off with their jobs and economic opportunities than they were five years ago, when President Obama was in the White House. The vast majority, 85 percent, said their lives are headed in the right direction and 69 percent said their local communities are on the right track. A majority of 51 percent of blue collar workers said the United States is headed in the right direction under Trump. About eight in ten blue collar workers say they are optimistic about their future and that the harder Americans work, the more successful they will be. Even more,86 percent of blue collar workers say they are satisfied with their jobs and 91 percent are “proud” of the hard work they do. Roughly 70 percent of blue collar workers say the American dream is alive for working and middle class Americans like themselves. The optimism of America’s blue collar workers comes as Trump has sought to revitalize economic patriotism in the U.S. economy through immigration enforcement and tariffs to protect American industry and jobs. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/03/m ajority-of-blue-collar-workers-were-better-off-under-trump-than-obama/
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Catalina | Lol. Your statistics are from the same source as mine.. so no need to diss them is there? They are about two different dynamics taken from the same figures. The average wage has been driven upward by the many liabilities that have raised minimum wage. This does not disguise nor address the fact that higher wages have pulled even further away from the bottom rung and profits ditto. |
jwhop | "This does not disguise nor address the fact that higher wages have pulled even further away from the bottom rung and profits ditto." Let me remind you that higher company profits permit higher wages to be paid for the same amount of labor. Or, perhaps you prefer the Communist system of state ownership of the means of production...where it was said: “They Pretend to Pay Us, and We Pretend to Work” |