Real (after inflation) income is *RISING*. Why is the media pushing doom and gloom about the Trump economy when the facts say just the opposite?

[RingOfFire]

[exitseven]

democrats will do and say anything to get back in power. They lie about everything and the fake news repeats it over and over again. Soon the more gullible among us actually believe it even thought they see the opposite with their own eyes.

[midnightmoon05]

Goes to show how people are so easily brainwashed. The sad part… they just repeat what the news says… I just walk away from people like that. More than 90% of my school are like that.

[exitseven]

@midnightmoon05 Yes, I teach at one of the state colleges and I feel like there is a target on my back.

[midnightmoon05]

That’s why I don’t discuss politics or my personal life at work.

[RingOfFire]

I went back to college in the late 80s. Two of the courses I took were in American history from a "renowned" Harvard history professor. I thought I was in a science fiction movie. The entire curriculum was about how America enslaved black people and committed genocide of the Indians. And if you were daring enough to even call them Indians in class or on exams, you would receive a failing grade.

Two full semesters and probably about a half hour total of the entire class time was spent on any of the incredible things America did for humanity. This was not learning, it was indoctrination. I could not believe what I was seeing. It was those classes that woke me up to what was happening in America and how the educational system was being infiltrated by forces that wanted to destroy this country. If it was happening in the Ivys, I knew it had already progressed to a dangerous movement even back then.

[exitseven]

@midnightmoon05 I had a Trump sticker on my office door and I think the person in the next office ripped it off. When she found out I as a Trump supporter she stopped talking to me.

[Snakeyes7]

I'll believe it when I see it. When my rent goes down, gas prices start falling like a brick and individual soda bottles don't cost three fucking bucks then I'll take Trump's word for it.

According to Vance, our gas prices are skyrocketing because Iran keeps attacking our ships. What are we standing around for? Go get em already.

[RingOfFire]

Under what other president did your rent go down?

[Snakeyes7]

None in my lifetime, that's for sure. All I think needs to happen for that to go down a little bit is to lower property taxes, but the mafia loves getting their rent on things we supposedly own.

[RingOfFire]

It's taxes that are killing everything, not so much inflation. True, inflation under Biden was the worst in almost a half century and prices in his term rose faster than income. But both of these things have been improving under Trump. Wages are rising faster than inflation and taxes at least on the federal level are lower for the average household. Prices overall NEVER go down. The only way to better affordability is to make income increase even more than inflation so that the RELATIVE cost of things doesn't increase. If you have to spend $5,000 more a year on expenses, but your income goes up by $5,000, you haven't lost ground. That is the target to shoot for. But the crooks in government are working against it by forever increasing taxes so people can never get ahead.

[Snakeyes7]

I wasn't talking about inflation but I agree. We should at least stop the federal reserve from printing our money into oblivion. Last I checked they still haven't stopped doing that since the pandemic.

Income tax and social security (a textbook ponzi scheme) need to be abolished too and that would boost the wages spectacularly.

This isn't Trump's fault but I work in a small tech company and they can't afford to pay me any more than they already do so I haven't been seeing any wage increases myself in years.

I want to find another place to work but, as something I blame a lot of politicians in general partially including Trump for encouraging, DEI and the trend of companies hiring work overseas instead of Americans already puts me, a cis white heterosexual male, at a disadvantage because I do not have enough oppression points to be considered in most cases. It's technically illegal for them to do that, but they can do it all they want because all we do is fine them instead of throwing anyone behind bars, if we even prosecute them at all.

For now, I'm thankful I even have a job in tech right now and even have a degree in IT as my school could have just swatted my application away.

[RingOfFire]

It's a tough situation for you, but I've been there myself when I was your age. The key is to prevent those who are trying to "fundamentally transform America" from succeeding so that you will have the same opportunity to get past the rut you are in at the moment that I did. No career is a perfect path, but with hard work and ambition, America has always been the place where you can past the rough spots. I want it to stay that way for your sake, and so does Trump. I have no doubt about that.

https://youtu.be/eUMuYCpXJ0A

[Snakeyes7]

Obama fundamentally transformed America alright. Its unrecognizable now and sadly, I don't think the America I grew in with will ever come back.

[RingOfFire]

Never count America out. All it takes is enough people to defend it to succeed.

[Snakeyes7]

I hope so. It's also how we do it that worries me.

[Cidknee]

This is what they do. They will say anything and do anything (murder included) to get votes.

[strateguy632]

because they hid this fact no one knows but you published this. poverty fell to 10% wow. another trump acheevment!

[MrChinaski]

Fair.