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Originally Posted by Guest
According to statista.com, In Feb 2016 there were only 121.76 million full-time workers in the U.S. I stand corrected, the employed adults equal about 62% of the total. That means that about 48% of eligible adults are not working. I believe that sometime between last year at this time and now, our labor force has been at a 38 year low. Since statistics are sketchy this year so far, I am not sure if we still fit the historical 38 year low.
As for your statement that no other president has had to deal with a recession like this one he was handed, I believe you will find that there have been plenty of recessions that other presidents have had to endure. And remember, Obama was the one that knew what he was asking for when he ran, and Obama is the one that assured everyone that he knew what he was doing. But, he wouldn't listen to his economic advisors, even firing them. NO, he has been responsible for the longest recession OR Depression recovery in history. Blaming Republicans for obstruction is just immature. You know as well as I do that there was NOTHING they could do in the first two years to hinder ANYTHING he wished to do. His own party may have gotten in his way, but not the Republicans. Nope, instead they insisted on forcing Obamacare through, after everyone warned them and the voters did not want it. Proof was the resulting historical congressional massacre on election day.
I believe that the point was the high rate of those that are not in the work force in comparison with employed. Please don't be insulting by suggesting that if minimum wages were higher that would change anything. Min wages are for school kids, retirees and those working a second part-time job. Min wages were never meant for full-time employment.
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The Republicans didn't use the filibuster in Obama's first two years of his presidency. You can capitalize anything that you want, but that is a immature. You are of the misguided impression that the Democrats had a filibuster proof Senate. That wasn't the case.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/did...-for-how-long/
McConnell used the filibuster from day one of Obama's presidency. He is the king of the filibuster of that he has no equal.
The citizens in Mass. didn't want Romneycare either. They had enough signatures to get it on the ballot. The Mass. Senate stopped it from getting on the ballot. Given a chance, Romneycare worked in Mass. States that were in Republican control never gave Obamacare a chance to work.
Minimum wage was never meant for full time employment. Turning full time jobs into part time jobs was also never meant to be. Moving the majority of production jobs oversea because of cheap overseas labor was never meant to be, but that is where we are now. Increasing the minimum wage will get people off food stamps. Republicans keep throwing the number of people on food stamps as being a major problem; however, doing something that will help people get off food stamps is a bridge too far. Republicans would rather complain than fix a problem that exists in their minds.
Does anyone in their right mind think that Trump will be able to change anything? Obama was "hope and change". Trump is selling "change". Hope that anything in DC will change is now out of the question.