Did Billy Cunningham mention the Trumpster's lousy February jobs number last night?

If he did I must have missed it.

20,000 jobs in February, worst performance in 9 years, but Billy Cunningham blathered on about how socialism fails and how Americans enjoy a high standard of living because of great companies like Kroger, Amazon and Walmart. No mention of this huge anomaly in the Trumpster's so-called economic boom.

I can remember when Walmart was widely perceived as the enemy by wide swaths of America because it destroyed mom and pop stores wherever it decided to leave its giant footprint. Walmart defended itself against this opposition with its "Buy American" policy, but those days are long gone now. Walmart and Amazon are now storefronts for Communist China and the globalism which took away America's best jobs for ordinary folks. And the tax breaks generally provided by state and local governments these days to get big businesses to locate where they are is hardly capitalism, but favoritism, state capitalism and fascism. Too much of American life is now the people vs. government and business allied together against them.

But more to the point is that Billy Cunningham's idea of a great America is an America that consumes, whereas the Protestant ethic which truly made America great was the one where people saved, invested and consumed beneath their means. I guess that ethic is not part of the Sunday homily at Billy's church.

It has been because of losing touch with this real meaning and practice of capitalism which has produced the moribund economic conditions where socialism now appears more attractive to growing numbers of Americans for whom capitalism-light has failed to deliver.

Too bad Billy doesn't really get it.  

Whites are over 77% of the population, but received just 7% of the net new jobs since the Great Recession as of Feb 2019

up net 963,000 in Feb 2019

up net 6,569,000 in Feb 2019

up net 3,023,000 in Feb 2019

up net 2,637,000 in Feb 2019

Hispanics took 50% of the net new jobs.

Well Trump used to love her, but it's all over now

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's All Over Now The Rolling Stones 1964

MAGA, the one weird trick two Republican impostors used to turn the whole country blue

Suicide of the Trumpster

Using the historical average of labor participation, 2.3 million more people age 16-24 should have been in the labor force in 2018 than were

The civilian labor force level of people age 16-24 averaged almost 21 million in 2018, 55.2% of the civilian noninstitutional population age 16-24 averaging 38 million. Upping the participation rate simply to the average of 61.2% for all the years shown in the graph below would have raised their labor force level to 23.3 million, 2.3 million higher than actual. 

Too bad for them, the low paying jobs they need to get work experience and a leg up on life are being taken by immigrants imported by the millions by the two political parties.

The ones we don't kill in the womb we torture in other ways.

America's future Ilhan Omars

Ilhan Omar channeling Norman Vincent Peale just like Trump

Trump throws Coulter under the bus just like every other woman he has used

Trump used Coulter, not for sex but for the immigration issue, which he stole from her book. Now lies like a rug about it, same as ever. No "wall" is being built. There are renovations only using "fence". Illegal crossings are soaring. Catch and release is soaring. No one's fault but Trump's alone.

Another Trump supporter peels away: When you've lost MAGAMILF1776, well, you are FINISHED

We are into Trump's third year as president and Ingraham Angle is still blaming policy failures on Obama holdovers

When exactly is Trump going to become president of the United States? After 2020? We don't have time for the training wheels to come off.

Maybe Trump's policy failures on immigration are HIS FAULT. Blaming Obama holdovers is ridiculous when Bush 41 cleaned house on accession by firing all the Reagan administration holdovers OVERNIGHT.

This reminds me of nothing so much as the Limbaugh Theorem, not holding the president accountable for his own policies, except now Republicans are doing it.

Trump is doing nothing because that's the way he wants it. It's politics, not policy, and for playing politics with the nation's integrity and security, for that alone he shouldn't be president right now, let alone in 2020.

Trump is every bit the scoundrel now his past life says he always was.

Taxpayers fund commercial flights for illegal immigrants

 

Trump's had strong wage gains in excess of 3% in six out of the last seven months for 80% of workers

Aug: 3.1%

Sep: 3.4%

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Nov: 3.4%

Dec: 4.2%

Jan: 3.3%

Feb: 3.5%

Keep in mind that wage gains were similarly strong just before and even during the Great Recession.

Trump's 20,000 jobs added is the worst performance for a February in nine years

"the nonfarm payrolls count ... was not disrupted by the shutdown"

Alexandria the Great complains of "dark money" in politics but has plenty of her own

AOC’s chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies:

Tom Anderson, director of the National Legal and Policy Center's Government Integrity Project, said: "It appears Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her associates ran an off-the-books operation to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, thus violating the foundation of all campaign finance laws: transparency." ...

Adav Noti, the senior director of the Campaign Legal Center and a former FEC lawyer, said the arrangement was highly unusual and seemed intended to obscure the destination of the funds. "None of that makes any sense," said Noti. "I can't even begin to disentangle that. They're either confused or they're trying to conceal something." ... "It does seem like there's something amiss. I can only think of really two likely possibilities for this sort of pattern of disbursements," said Noti. "One is the scam PAC possibility — they're really just paying themselves and they’re concealing it by using the LLC. The other is that there’s actually another recipient, that the money is going to the LLC and then being disbursed in some other way that they want to conceal."

As of right now, Trump will not win reelection with Michigan

More bad news for President Donald Trump in latest Michigan poll:

But since only 31 percent of all of those surveyed said they would definitely vote again for Trump, it shows a problem for Trump even among those who would be expected to be his most loyal supporters — the 42 percent who identify as Republican voters. "The vote to re-elect numbers are 31 percent — 11 points below the (Republican) Party identification. That spells trouble for him," said Porn. "And there are people who are saying they like him, or are giving him a positive job rating, who are still saying they won't re-elect him. That gap is a problem." ... For the poll, EPIC-MRA of Lansing randomly surveyed 600 likely voters in Michigan between Sunday and Thursday of this week. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.

Democrats are frauds, but Ilhan Omar is a stupid fraud: In 2017 she LOVED Obama, now he's a murderer

Lying to the infidel. It's not a bug, it's a feature.

Ilhan Omar: Obama’s a ‘pretty face’ who got ‘away with murder’

 

Jared "open borders and free trade for Israel" Kushner is the prime mover working to expand legal immigration to the US

Trump is "encouraging the invasion at the border"

Ann Coulter is finally starting to put 2 & 2 together: Does Trump WANT to stop the invasion?

As everyone knows by now, Trump pulled the campaign trigger in 2015 about one month after reading ADIOS AMERICA. He had found his issue. It was not his issue. It became his issue. He had found his angle, his tool.

Immigration restriction marked Trump out from all the other candidates. It got him elected, narrowly. The tilt to the libertarian open borders Mercers with Conway and Bannon in August 2016 nearly did him in. He prematurely tracked to the middle (DACA waffling in Arizona townhall, showing he was never sincere), and once in office, did nothing of substance about the issue. There was no liason to Congress on the issue in the White House, coordinating policy. All the appointments in the White House were opposed to immigration restriction save one here or there, confounding his supporters to this day. It was not a priority, until after the House was lost. None of the cabinet appointments were restrictionists, but for Sessions, whom he neutered early over what really matters, muh MAGA presidency.

Now he returns to immigration, putting it front and center as a matter of what, policy? No, as a matter of the reelection campaign, as it was in the beginning. It's an election tool, a campaign issue like abortion has been for decades. He never really intended to do anything about it, and doesn't now, except in a half-hearted kind of way where if he gets lucky with it here and there as a matter of policy, so much the better. That keeps the believers believing, as does the dumpster fire he's created at the border. He keeps signaling over and over again since losing the House how he wants more immigrants to come here than ever before. Well they're coming over like never before! Trump created the National Emergency. Trump created the surge at the border. He wanted it. He needs it. We are in a political campaign.

Donald Trump will go down in history as the man who forever put the stink on running as an immigration restrictionist, which is why you never trust a "former" Democrat with the leadership of your party. It ain't called stupid for nothin'. It was Ronald Reagan, after all, who started us down the road to exporting all those jobs Trump now says he wants to bring back.

How's that working out for you on this winter day reporting a mere 20,000 new payrolls in February?

We are screwed. "Conservatives" and "Republicans" have failed us, utterly. And that much Coulter already knows.

Trump as state capitalist: Once was a one-off, twice is a Freudian slip

Trump's brain has no room for the individual qua individual, only for the individual as representative of a brand. The higher reality, the organizing principle of society is the group and the corporation, without which the individual doesn't exist. In that sense he's a good Aristotelian:

Tim Cook is Tim Apple, Marillyn Hewson is Marillyn Lockheed.