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The media also gives a false impression of the economy. During the terms of President Obama and President  Biden, they reported jobs gained but not jobs lost. That gave the impression of increasing employment. For instance, when President Biden took office, he laid off all the Census workers and hired new ones. They promoted the number of new hires but failed to mention that they were replacing existing workers  so there was no job gain. They also failed to mention that they were Census workers and the positions would have been filled even if the economy collapsed and government workers were the only ones working. It also varies by State and the media highlights  losses but doesn’t tell people they are in liberal States. President Trump has lowered taxes and reduced costly government regulations which has enabled businesses to expand and stimulated the economy   however, liberal States have continued to maintain their own high taxes and government regulations  so businesses are fleeing those States to conservative States where taxes are lower and there are fewer government regulations. The media tells people how many jobs are lost when businesses close  but does not tell people that those jobs are not lost but simply moved to other States. Stores are also closing in liberal States due to high theft due to lax law enforcement and high wages required by higher minimum wage requirements and inflation in those States. That is not due to President Trump’s policies but to policies in liberal States.

Many people are turning against President Trump because of the problems with inflation but fail to realize how complex the economy is. You can’t fix it with a simple change of policy. President Biden set Trump up with massive expenditures after he lost the election which fueled even more inflation which kicked in as President Trump took office. While Trumps tariffs did cause some increase in prices, they were necessary to force other countries to remove their tariffs. The US has allowed foreign goods in free while other countries have tariffs to protect their industry preventing them from buying American goods which destroyed American manufacturing and has created a massive trade deficit for years. We have been spoiled on cheap foreign goods but they have come at the expense of American jobs. American’s demand for higher wages have made it  difficult to compete with cheaper foreign goods. It will take a while to rebuild America’s manufacturing. Some companies are hesitant to expand because they will face a return to higher taxes, renewed inflation, and more government regulations, if liberals return to power in 2028.

Welfare has hurt African Americans more than Whites because it was very difficult for males to get work that paid a living wage and a higher percentage of African-Americans families are single parent families, so a higher percentage of them have had to depend on it. Slavery destroyed families and men did not have to support a family. Jim Crow laws prevented Black men from getting work and an education so mothers had to support the family.  Welfare continued to disrupt the families by keeping men out of the home. Since desegregation, some Black men have taken responsibility to better themselves and have worked to build strong families but most grew up without a father in the home and few have any role models to guide them. They have been helped as they have been able to get an education and get better jobs which has enabled them to move out of the slums and see White families that are functioning well but they are struggling to overcome two hundred years of broken families.

Many of our major cities have been controlled by those who push welfare as a way of controlling the people. While they claim to be helping people, they create serious problems that create frustration and anger. Until recent welfare reform, welfare made people dependent and discouraged recipients from developing their abilities to help themselves. In addition, welfare required that the husband leave the family before they could get welfare unless he was disabled, which tore families apart. While welfare reform now puts limits on how long people can be on welfare and tries to encourage self-support, it has had to overcome three generations of families dependent on welfare. Many welfare recipients have never known anyone in their family who supported themselves and wasn’t on welfare. It is hard to overcome that.

Democrats have shown a continuing trend to push socialist control through welfare programs. They started during the depression and have continually worked to expand the number of people dependent on the government for support by expanding the number of government workers and benefit recipients dependent on the programs. They tell them to vote Democrat or the Republicans will cut the programs. The initial programs created jobs and did a lot of good by paying people to work so they had money to buy goods and services which also helped the businesses. However Democrats quickly expanded them and began paying the people directly rather than providing jobs. While they required the person to look for work, they discouraged them from working because they could make more on welfare. The housing crisis of 2008 was created by President Clinton when he forced banks and loan companies to take on loans to people without clear ability to repay them. It led to mass defaults in repaying loans which led to bank failures. During the housing crisis, President Obama loaned money to banks and companies  and placed them under government control until the loans were repaid so they had control of the companies as well as having control over those on welfare. They did the same with the auto makers. By giving the money to the companies, the workers were paid but didn’t have any work because the people weren’t able to buy cars. If they had given vouchers to the people to buy cars the workers would have had work and still get paid, without government takeover of the car companies. President Trump worked to get people back to work and saw record low unemployment right up to the outbreak of the epidemic.