from the WSJ :
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have to take into account that unions have been gutted and automation is a significant factor, so real wages didn't grow as much as they could have.
Helix, I was talking about jobs, joBS, JOBS.
No matter what graphs and statistics you're gonna dig out, reality did not match them.
My husband has been a self-employed long-distance truck driver for the last 20 years. He has a flatbed and hauls just about anything and everything that doesn't need refrigeration.
He avoids the west coast because of the trucking restrictions, and he avoids the north east because of the unions.
At the time Obama was elected, a decline in business had already started. Our hope was that main street would pick up under Obama. However, more restrictions were put on businesses and closing of businesses accelerated, which also led to the shutting down of several small and a couple of large trucking companies. My husband saw truck drivers who abandoned their company trucks because their company had shut down overnight without paying them their last check. My husband took loads for companies that existed 5 days ago but no longer the day he delivered.
And that happened everywhere in the US of A - thousands of people were out of jobs without a warning.
Self-employed and small businesses had their health insurance policies cancelled at least 4 years ago because of Obamacare. The first year Obamacare had us by the short-and-curlies and we didn't even dare to go and see a doctor. The following year I told my husband to skip a few loads - which wasn't too difficult as loads were hard to come by -, which put us into a lower income bracket for Obamacare. In other words: if you work less, you got better benefits regarding health insurance.
When Trump was elected, we were at a point where I was looking for a job to keep us afloat. Within half a year after the election, things started to change on main street. Companies increased their output, buyers increased their orders, "dead" companies were started up again by new entrepreneurs and something that we've never encountered before in 20 years of trucking: open checkbook - the guy who needs the goods to be hauled tells you: "Name your price - I'm desperate."
My husband sees the economy booming on a daily basis - all across the continental US of A (except, of course, for those places I mentioned above).
So, forget your graphs and any possible statistics. Obama was a POS for those people who did not receive a paycheck from the state or federal government.
Obama was a POS for main street, no matter what any statistics or graphs show - Obama counted part-time jobs as sufficient.
The people who drew those graphs did not receive their paycheck from main street jobs - they didn't even know what was going on in the real world.
