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Subj : Re: Your tax dollars at
To : Dale Shipp
From : Gregory Deyss
Date : Wed Dec 11 2019 07:50 pm

On 11 Dec 2019, Dale Shipp said the following...

DS> Please tell us all what it is that Trump has done to lower the
DS> unemployment rate?

As promised here ya go.

"African American unemployment is the lowest ever recorded in our country.
The Hispanic unemployment rate dropped a full point in the
last year and is close to the lowest in recorded history. Dems did nothing
for you but get your vote!"

The strength of the labor market in 2018 also was widespread, affecting
people of all backgrounds and education levels throughout the
nation. Over the course of the year, multiple new records for low
unemployment rates within demographic groups were set. In December 2018,
the unemployment rate for Hispanics fell to a series low (4.4 percent),
matching October 2018. Record low unemployment rates were also
achieved this year for African Americans (5.9 percent in May), Asians (2.2
percent in May), and individuals with less than a high school
degree (5.0 percent in July). In November 2018, the unemployment rate for
teens (ages 16 to 19) was at its lowest rate since 1969.
The November 2018 unemployment rate for individuals with a high school degree
but no college fell to its lowest rate since 2000, while the October 2018
unemployment rate for individuals with some college education dropped to its
lowest rate since 2001.

Stock Market under Trump Everyone is impressed with the performance of the
stock market under President Trump's especially Trump. Stocks have risen in
nine of the first ten months of the Trump Administration, a record that no
other U.S. president can match. That goes back to President William McKinley
in 1897; before 1896 there were no stock indices.

Stock market's value under Trump has grown by $6.9 trillion to $30.6
trillion. The stock market has added $6.9 trillion in market cap since Donald
Trump was elected president. That is already nearly half of what the market
grew by in all eight years of the Obama administration.

The continued low unemployment rate and the consistent employment gains of
more than 100,000 jobs every month in 2018 demonstrate the effectiveness of the
Administration's economic policies. As workers continue to come off the
sidelines, there also remain opportunities for sustained employment growth as
we enter the new year.

Since the day he took office a year ago, President Donald Trump has been the
subject of relentless media attacks. He's been targeted with negative media
coverage like no president in recent history, even as the stock market soars
and thousands of new jobs are created. Which begs the question? why exactly
does the media hate Trump? The easy answer is that the mainstream media is
dominated by liberal reporters who were desperate to see Trump's rival,
Hillary Clinton, win the presidency. But the whole truth is a lot more
complicated.

The fact is, mainstream media outlets know they created Trump they just never
expected (or wanted) him to become president. And now the media is doing
everything it can to try to undermine Trump's presidency. The numbers don't
lie. The same media that rails against Trump now did everything it could to
ensure he became the Republican candidate for president. At the start of the
Republican primaries in February 2016, there were 17 different candidates
seeking the party's nomination. The collection of candidates was difficult to
sort through and it was hard for most candidates to get any national traction.
But the media found a candidate it wanted to advance in Trump. From February
until the primaries ended in June, Trump got media coverage with an estimated
value of $55 million, according to a Harvard study. The next closest
candidate, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, got $19 million less in coverage.
And despite what's happening now, the coverage of Trump at the time was not
negative.

The Harvard study found that 63 percent of coverage from the New York Times
and 74 percent of the coverage from USA Today was either positive or neutral.
So did the mainstream media actually want Trump to be president?
No way. Media outlets knew Trump's bombastic personality was good for ratings
and helped sell newspapers and they took full advantage. But they never thought
Trump would win and perhaps they even thought, because of his limited political
experience, he'd be an easier candidate for Clinton.

But once Trump and Clinton locked up their nominations, the media turned on
Trump fast. The same media outlets that helped get Trump nominated railed
against his speeches and debate performances, and even dredged up old issues
from his private life (which they ignored during the primaries).
The media did everything in its power to ensure Trump would lose and the
negative coverage continues to this day. Reports show that the coverage of
Trump's first year in office has been three times more negative than what his
predecessor Barack Obama received.

What we're seeing is not fair and honest reporting. We're seeing a case of
buyer's remorse from a media that still can't come to terms with the fact that
Trump won. The media knows it helped Trump win the Republican nomination and
gave him a platform that he used powerfully to win the presidency. The media
thought Trump was fun that he wasn't serious and that it could take him down
and ruin him whenever it wanted. But the media was wrong and it hates being
wrong. That's why the media hates Trump. Because he outsmarted the media at
its own games. By the time reporters realized they'd been outfoxed, Trump had
an army of millions of patriotic supporters behind him. And try as they might,
mainstream media outlets can't undo that.

DS>
DS> Ditto about the stock market (and how much that matters to most of
DS> America)?
DS>
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