Galley Slaves

I got news for ya, almost everybody starts at min wage. I worked for free as a kid to learn my trade. worked hard, didnt hang on the corner, didnt goto the club and applied myself and now have a great UNION job.

Lol! You sound like my dad

worked for me and every member of my huge union.

My dad made good money in a union job and my mom was a housewife. Those were different times

I make good money and all the guys in my union (Ibew local 98) too. TODAY. We are the busiest we have ever been. The old heads say the past year and a half is the best ever!

Glad to hear it:)

Did you know that donald j. trump was making $200,000 at age 3 from his dad?

You aren't a slave nor are you "trapped" at a job if you can be fired.

trump is not helping America be capitalist. He is helping businesses make money, pay workers less, and legislate winners and losers. Backed up coal, chose winner. Applied tariffs to solar from China, chose loser. Shoved through the Keystone pipeline, chose winner. Left Paris Climate Accord, chose losers. Deregulate worker health and environmental protections, chose losers. Tax cuts, businesses win. Hobbled ACA, chose losers. Undercut the CFPB, chose losers, people, and winners, abusive banks that do not care about customers. He moved to relax radiation exposure standards, allowing workers to be exposed to more radiation, because it was "too costly". That affects, negatively, health workers, nuclear power workers, and coal/petroleum workers.

my wages are up, we are actually working instead of sitting around waiting for the local to call us.The old guys in my Union said it has never been this good.Are you a laborer?

I don't deny that some people have gone to work, or back to work. I also note that grains are demanding less money at market and people are losing money there. Tiny view on the big picture.

well the Unions are the Biggest picture and we are all doing well. We were hurt by NAFTA. Both Bush and Obamas economies were bad but they are not fully to blame, NAFTA was.

How were we hurt by NAFTA? Couldn't sell milk to Canada? A few less parts made in the US? Or was it a lower "average wage" among auto employees? These are pretty much the things changed. And it has yet to take effect.

I did read about the Dodd-Frank bill limiting smaller loans and that could have been a huge drag on the recovery. The following article may support that idea. Silly Democrats not being obstructionist.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/19/why-democrats-voted-to-roll-back-obama-era-banking-rules/

Sorry, I didn't check any list to see if this article is left or right.
https://www.theperspective.com/debates/businessandtechnology/nafta-hurt-america/

At the very least, the propping up of wages in the new NAFTA sounds promising, but I am far from an economist.

I did link to Washington Post, but I did not quote from there. Perhaps I barely used it as a reference, but I don't think I reiterated any points that I did read. Not a quote.

Nafta let companies manufacture trillions of parts in mexico, automotive, industrial, etc. all those ppl lost their jobs. Our union and most others give you a pamphlet of what to buy made is usa, it used to be like a book, after nafta it was a sheet of paper.Ross Perot even said "If Nafta is passed, you will hear a huge sucking sound and that will be jobs going to mexico" etc.Manufacturing jobs got killed by it.

This article seems to look at it from differing points of view.
https://www.theperspective.com/debates/businessandtechnology/nafta-hurt-america/

I've read or heard backing information on every single one of the topics I mentioned. You saying "not true" doesn't change the facts.

I wrote down those names. No promise I'll see much of their articles. I don't judge the name of the organization often. I look at the content of the article. Are you claiming my declarations of winners and losers false? The other things did, in fact, happen. These are references to things that trump did. It is objective. How many more ways can I say these are things that were done?