Michael F Schundler
3 min readNov 17, 2019

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It seems almost racist and bigoted that someone would put their personal feelings about Trump ahead of the millions of African Americans, Hispanics, and women that have gotten jobs and improved their compensation under Trump. His policies have been so effective that not only is unemployment at the lowest level in 50 years for nearly every demographic group in America, but even ex felons are not returning to prison because they are finding jobs and several states have had to close prisons because of a shrinking prison population. Many companies are dusting off training programs to help make those that were previously unemployable… employable.

Violent crime rates are down 5% under Trump even after Trump’s criminal reforms that released many felons from prison for non violent crimes and good behavior in prison and partially because felons are finding jobs. So they don’t feel compelled to commit crimes to support themselves.

Poverty rates finally dropped below pre recession levels. The US Census Board noted that in Trump’s first two years in office more than 1.4 million Americans escaped living below the poverty line.

Study after study has shown discrimination and racism are often driven by the economy, which is why two liberal Penn professors who were sure that racism under Trump had become more severe were shocked to learn that racism declined under Trump. People simply feel less threatened when they have a good job and don’t blame race, gender, or anything or anyone else for not having one.

Even home ownership rates hit a four year high at the end of last year. If home ownership rates continue to rise, they could hit a new peak high in 2020. Building equity in a home is one of the key ways Americans accumulate some wealth.

Legal immigrants in this country are closing in on a new high last reached at the end of WW1. At the same time, the total legal immigrant population is about to reach a new high, the racial mix of immigrants is become more and more diverse under Trump. 80% of the legal immigrants entering the country under Trump were non white (debunking the myth that he is trying to exclude non whites from entering the country).

So for the life of me I can’t understand why anyone would want to see Trump removed from office. Seems a small price to pay to put up with his annoying tweets and inappropriate remarks. But I guess some people are so focused on their own agenda they simply do not care about the poor, the unemployed, and the racially oppressed.

Trump is not a polished politician, no doubt about it… he ran for President because he thought he had some ideas that would help this country become competitive… and we have. His core promise was more jobs, higher wages, and a growing economy. His social policy was more jobs, higher wages, and a growing economy. His answer to reducing crime was more jobs, higher wages, and a growing economy. And its working…

If the Democrats had been less combative, Trump would have passed immigration reform, completed more trade negotiations, passed an infrastructure bill, and put price controls in place on drugs to lower health care costs. And once he gets those things done, then maybe it would be time for him to ride off into the sunset. But the Democrats have made it important that Trump serve four more years to complete the goals he set when he first ran for office.

Time to believe less what the media is saying and begin to read the various research and data reports that are coming out on a regular basis… for example… does the average person realize that under Trump…

LATEST EPA DATA SHOW U.S. GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AT LOWEST LEVELS SINCE 1992

Huh? Turns out all that fracking is driving down the use of coal and oil, which produce from more CO2 per BTU than natural gas. Trump is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination… but what he is proving is that many of the nation’s “social challenges” are impacted in a positive way through job growth, wage growth, and economic growth. And here is the real “kick in the pants”… many of the nation’s “social challenges” are adversely impacted through job losses, stagnant wages, and stagnant economic growth. Something to think about in 2020…

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