Monday, April 07, 2025
Most People Disapprove Of The Job Trump Is Doing
The chart above reflects the results of the Economist / YouGov Poll -- done between March 30th and April 1st of a nationwide sample of 1,626 adults (including 1,465 registered voters). The margin of error is 3.3 points for adults and 3.1 points for registered voters.
Republicans Don't Care About Working Men And Women
Republicans would like you to believe their policies would be good for all Americans. They want you to believe that when they give more to the rich, the rich will then let some of that money trickle down to benefit everyone else in our society.
But that policy didn't work in the late ninetieth and early twentieth centuries. It just made the rich much richer and everyone else poorer - and resulted in the Great Depression. Fortunately, FDR and the Democrats changed the policy. The result was several decades of growth and economic equity.
But around 1980, the Republicans gained enough power to change economic policy - and they went right back to the failed "trickle-down" economic policy of the past. And that change once again favored the rich to the detriment of everyone else. While the rich saw their income grow by 300 to 400 percent, the bottom 80% of Americans struggled to keep up with inflation.
And the Republicans refused to initiate any policy to help working men and women.
They blocked all attempts to raise the minimum wage to a livable wage, which would have lifted millions of workers out of poverty.
They made it harder to start or join a labor union, even though that would have helped workers climb into the middle class.
They blocked efforts to make sure women received pay equal to that of men.
They promoted the deportation of low-wage immigrants (who were doing jobs Americans didn't want) and promoted the importation of skilled immigrants (to take good jobs that Americans did want).
They are now trying to substantially cut programs needed by the working class - like Medicaid, which many depend on to cover the children and their elderly parents (in nursing homes). They also are doing serious damage to Social Security and Medicare, which workers depend on for their retirement years.
Now they are allowing Donald Trump to impose tariffs on almost every country - a move that will raise prices on nearly everything. This won't affect the rich (who have enough money to buy what they want - no matter the price). But it will take a huge bite out of the already stretched-thin budgets of workers.
Republicans have done their best to make the richer much richer, but have done nothing to make life easier for working men and women.They, like Trump, are big on promises - but promises mean nothing if not followed by actions. Their actions don't help workers. Too often, those actions hurt them.
Sunday, April 06, 2025
The Public Knows The Tariffs Will Hurt Average Americans
The chart above reflects the results of the YouGov Poll -- done on April 3rd of a nationwide sample of 3,631 adults.
Where The Voters Are On Social Security (And Where They Think The Parties Are)
The charts above are from the Economist / YouGov Poll -- done between March 30th and April 1 of a nationwide sample of 1,465 registered voters, with a 3.1 point margin of error.
Over 1200 Cities Nationwide Protested Against Trump On Saturday
Over 1200 cities across the country saw protests against Trump and Musk on Saturday. And there were even protests in England, Germany, and France.
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