John Osborne: “Lost Workers” Are Fueling Donald Trump’s Rise
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So these undereducated rubes will put their racist feelings ahead of actual fact? Billionaires like Trump have been sticking it to the middle class for decades, but since Trump will ape someone’s ignorance, it’s enough to make them forget that he actually creates jobs in China and Mexico, imports cheap labor from other countries to work his resorts in the USA and is actually a Democrat. The GOP/Tea Party courted and enabled these idiots and now they taken over. Good riddance.
Somebody tell John’s Mom not to tie his tie so tight next time he has a picture day. Poor boy looks like he’s about to fall out from lack of oxygen.
It’s pretty cool that he found a barber that can blend his haircut into the shape of his head so well.
I think he’s got some Sleestak ancestry:
http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1382774643/sleestak.jpg
I thought there were federal programs for workers who lost their jobs due to these trade treaties. Retraining, job search help, income assistance etc.
That part is left out. Why, unknown. Anger can help you if channeled right. Get that job Tiger!
I don’t see how someone without a HS diploma can be angry about not finding a good paying job. If these are the Trump voters, they are going to be very disappointed, cause their situation isn’t going to change without pursuing more education or training. Just having completed HS is no guarantee of making enough to get by these days. You really need some sort of trade school or college degree to be some what successful.
I went through a period of scary economic uncertainty around 2008. Did I blame immigrants or minorities? No, I blamed the people responsible…the GWB administration and the banks. There is no excuse for racism, especially basic ignorance of your own circumstances.
First of all, don’t send left-wing extremists to Trump rally to raise hell and harass the attendees and then blame the disruption caused by the leftist on the Trump supporters.
The left is trying ,really hard, to paint the Trump supporters as violent, when in fact, the left is are the ones responsible for the aberrant behavior. The MSM and the Democrat party has gone all in trying to instill this into the average American’s head.
Your recent “study” is one Trump attendee hit a left-wing protester of Trump’s rally. Your “study” shows no more than people in conflict saying and doing things they probably very rarely do.
The people fueling Trump’s popularity are people who are tired of the establishment. Men, Women, the young, the old, etc who are tired of political business as usual and the movement is growing. You can pin this down to a particular political ideology, it is broad based and growing larger every day.
I had a Trump supporter come into my work and loudly claim he hated blacks and mexicans…then proceeded to talk about how he gets happy every time he saw on the news that US troops had been killed overseas. That’s what Trump brings out in people….no media tricks there. Great comany you keep. Old people who never leave their homes or neighborhood are the ones scared and confused….by people like Trump.
I don’t believe you.
one-third of all U.S. counties were “dying.”
South Carolina is one of the Ten fastest growing states in the country, yet 22 of 46 counties are losing population. That is one county short of half.
Deporting 11 million immigrants is going to create a glut of un occupied homes and apartments. Service industries that catered to immigrants will close and layoff workers. There will only be more and more counties with negative population growth.
It is not trade deals that took most of the jobs, it is automation that both replaces jobs and requires higher skills and education for the jobs that remain. Osborne accurately describes the problem, unfortunately the solutions Trump offers either will fail immediately or in the long run.
Much of what Mexico and China manufactures is made with American parts or materials. Their products are not just imported back into the United states, but to other countries around the world. If Trump forced companies to move manufacturing back to the US, they would be more expensive for us and less competitive worldwide. That means less production and less work for the parts manufacturer and their workers.
AS much as we would like to promote buying American made products, that is not what makes an American company successful. For an American company to be successful, it must be able to sell products worldwide. Trump thinks that America makes stupid deals with other countries. That is a simple minded idea. Why would we make bad deals. Is everybody except Trump, stupid? Trump thinks that trade deficits are the problem. That’s not the problem, We only import those things that would be more expensive to produce ourselves.
What we need is a trade policy that makes foreign makets more accessible for American manufacturers and service providers, not one that restricts other countries to our market. For American companies to be successful internationally, they have to be able to manufacture on multiple continents, just like BMW and Volvo. They need to be able to work competitively with suppliers worldwide, just like Boeing. They need to know their products will not be punished with tariffs. They need to know that their foreign owned property is protected, that they can get visas to visit foreign operations, that their patents, copyrights and trademarks are protected. To get those rights, we have to reciprocate.
If Trump raises trade barriers, their may be some short term gain, but eventually our companies will fall behind the rest of the world and will be at a disadvantage trying to catch up.
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Osborne and Manning seem to know what the voters are thinking and what they want, but they never write about policies that might solve the problem. It is almost as if they think a politician’s job is to just pander to the voters wishes regardless of whether or not that solves any problems.
Just saw a video yesterday of a Trump supporter attacking some Muslims and yelling “Trump, Trump, Trump” as well as seeing reports that some Hispanic Americans are also being targeted by Trump supporters. Really sickening the kinds of freaks that Trump has drawn out into the light. Just goes to show that racism isn’t dead, it is alive and well, and David Duke supporting Donald Trump tells you where it all lies.
Your racist family member lacks a High School education and this is my fault? Tell him to obtain new skills, and move. Same thing applies to people living in urban centers of decay, GTFO. Man has moved from one place to another, since the beginning of time, for various reasons, i.e., the streams stopped producing enough fish, they’d hunted the forests empty of meat, to secure better shelter as result of flood, tornado, hurricane, famine, disease, or they’d farmed the land barren, whatever the issue, the got the fuck out, and moved somewhere else. Your relative is no different now that the gubment teet sucker straw man he railed against for decades and decades, wanting daddy gubment, run by a con-man, to give you your life back, such as it was. Help yourself mofo!
leaving many workers in the community without a job (and with only a high school education to fall back on)
And whose fault is that???????