This editorial cartoon from the Atlanta Journal’s Mike Luckovich says it all.
With the release of the August jobs report which showed labor contraction in June, a rising unemployment rate, and only 22,000 jobs created in August, there is more proof that the ship known as the American Economy is sinking thanks to the Gilded Age policies of Donald Trump and his Tariff Loving Screw the Poor and Middle Class Project 2025 team.
To all those people who, despite the track record from Trump One and actually believed his lies that he would lower prices and not touch programs that bail them out, are you tired of the winning yet.
It is important to also remember the last President to record job losses in any of his two terms was Donald Trump.
Joe Biden did not have any months where job losses were posted. In fact, Bidenomics helped take the country out of the Coronavirus Recession, invested in Infrastructure, clean energy projects, and American Manufacturing, and created record levels of employment.
What is not to miss about that?
Need more proof that Trumpnomics sucks. Just listen to Trump voters who feel ignored and deceived now that their purchasing power, thanks to Trump tariffs and ICE policies, has been diminished or they may have to declare bankruptcy because their farm is about to collapse.
Arizona’s Congressional Delegation did not have kind words on the August Jobs Report.
On Trump’s economic policies, Arizona Representative Greg Stanton posted:
“For the first time since 2020 (Trump’s first term,) the U.S. economy lost jobs. With costs climbing and unemployment rising, America’s middle class is being crushed by Trump’s disastrous tariff policies.”
Senator Mark Kelly wrote:
“August jobs data shows what we already knew: In Trump’s economy, unemployment is up and job growth is down. Working families everywhere are hurting, and instead of making things easier, Trump’s tariffs are raising costs and killing jobs.”
Senator Ruben Gallego issued two posts.
The first on the loss of 78,000 manufacturing jobs since the Stable Genius returned to power was simply “Blue Collar Bust.”
This is what happens when you let a Know Nothing Climate Science Denier who disdains solar and wind projects and cancels them becomes President.
Later, Gallego wrote:
“Rising unemployment. Rising grocery prices. Trump’s America is hammering families.”
Finally, do not forget the Reverse Robin Hood Big Billionaire Bill which robs from the poor and middle class to give unneeded tax cuts to the nation’s wealthiest.
In a newsletter, Arizona State Senator Mitzi Epstein reminded her Legislative District 12 constituents of the coming fiscal hardships to Arizonan’s personal and the Grand Canyon state’s fiscal economies, stating:
“HR1 is the budget bill passed by the US Congress that cuts healthcare and programs for children, giving tax favors to billionaires and making our national debt even worse.
The bad news is that it will cost our state $438 million just for the tax changes.
In addition to that, Arizona will have to spend around $50 million more to cover SNAP benefits; that’s the couple-hundred dollars a week for food for people living in poverty. Of course, you’ve heard a lot about how the changes to Medicaid will cause 194,000 Arizonans to lose their health insurance, and about half of Arizona hospitals will be forced to operate in the red.
Rural hospitals will be especially hard hit by HR1, possibly leading to hospital closures, so it is baffling to me how Republican members of Congress in Arizona’s rural districts voted in favor of this budget mess.”
Matt Bennett, the Executive Director of Third Way wrote:
“Usually presidents get too much blame for bad economic data. But in this case, Trump is doing things that are having a direct, demonstrable impact on the economy, and none of them are good.”
Trumpomics is so bad that they are taking credit for Biden/Harris passed Infrastructure Projects and passing them off as their own achievements.
Maybe Joe Biden, because many Americans only see the headlines and bumper stickers, did err by not putting his name on the American Rescue Plan checks he sent out or plastering his name on the Infrastructure, clean energy, or CHIPS projects he approved.
But then again, he was not the egomaniac that Mr. Trump is that craved the attention and glory that the Mad King does.
Just remember, Trumpnomics sucks.
I miss Bidenomics.
You should be too.
Hopefully the American dopes that voted for Trump will finally get it despite the below editorial cartoon from Matt Wuerker.
Hopefully.
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