Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • How We Are Different
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Your Survival Guy
  • The Great Reset
  • COVID-19
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • The Swiss Way
  • Dick Young
  • Debbie Young
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve

President Donald Trump: America’s Blue Collar Jobs Creator

September 4, 2018 By Richard C. Young

Flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, President Donald Trump delivers his Joint Address to Congress at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, February 28, 2017. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

At CBS News, Michael Graham, a conservative columnist for the Boston Herald, explains why, despite incessant negative media coverage of President Trump, his approval ratings continue to rise on average. He writes of America’s jobs champion (abridged):

On Labor Day 2017, the polls were dismal for President Trump — according to Real Clear Politics, his average approval rating was 38.5 percent.

But after a year of Robert Mueller investigation headlines, porn-star payoffs and strange Twitter rants, Trump’s numbers are…up: 42 percent.

A year of virtually non-stop negative media attacks and self-inflicted political wounds, and the president is more popular? How does that happen? To quote Joe Biden from the 2008 campaign trail, “It all comes down to one three-letter word: ‘Jobs.'”

In part because Trump’s job growth is different. President Trump campaigned in the Rust Belt and told men—in particular, blue-collar, non-college-degree-holding men—that their economic future could be brighter, too.

After years of talk about the benefits of globalism and new technology for white-collar Americans, Trump told the “forgotten Americans” they would be forgotten no more, and to a degree, he’s kept that promise.

The top two sectors of job growth under Trump: not financial analysts or college administrators, but the mining and logging industry (up 13.5 percent since the election), along with construction and transportation. In fact, growth in manufacturing jobs over the past year was greater than at any time since 1995. Blue-collar work for blue-collar skills and blue-collar guys.

This comes after years of being told by Washington elites and the media that their way of life was obsolete, that the people J.D. Vance wrote so eloquently about in “Hillbilly Elegy” had no future. Then Trump shows up, tells them they have reason to hope, and jobs—their kind of jobs—follow.  Is it any surprise those workers and their families are sticking with Trump?

And then there’s the way President Trump talks about jobs and the economy. His current NAFTA fight is a perfect example of how Trump frames the jobs conversation in terms of these traditional laborers, as opposed to the broad, positive impact of increased trade.  North America is essentially a $1 trillion trade zone. Much of that trade involves the white-collar economy and high-tech jobs.  But when Trump talks, his focus is manufacturing jobs. He’s demanding increases in the content in cars that must be made by American workers, putting pressure to raise wages from the low end in Mexico to make American wage earners more competitive.

These are relatively small changes on what, in the big picture, is a tiny part of our international trade.  But when these families hear Trump taking on Canada, Mexico and China over trade, they hear him taking on the world for them. 

Read more here.

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for my free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • Trump: "The Jobs President"
  • Tucker Interviews President Trump
  • President Trump Does the Impossible
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Richard C. Young
Richard C. Young is the editor of Young's World Money Forecast, and a contributing editor to both Richardcyoung.com and Youngresearch.com.
Latest posts by Richard C. Young (see all)
  • Pelosi’s Trip a “Pointless Gesture That Brought Us Closer to Military Conflict” - August 9, 2022
  • Who Benefits from and Orchestrated the Trump Raid? - August 9, 2022
  • California’s Progressive Liberals Have Created a Monster - August 9, 2022

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • Tucker Carlson Interviews My Favorite Florida Farmer
  • What Do You Know About Rho-Kinase?
  • DEATH SPIRAL: Crime Soars in Democrats’ #DEFUNDTHEPOLICE Cities
  • Your Survival Guy’s 2022 Super States: #1 New Hampshire
  • “The Losses are Taking a Toll on Their Health”
  • Ron Paul: “Freedom and Central Banking Are Not Compatible”
  • Protection While Traveling in France
  • Democracy & Diversity: Not In the Constitution
  • Why Black Lives Matter Needs to Be Shut Down
  • A Look at the Future of Main Street America

Our Most Popular Posts

  • Who Benefits from and Orchestrated the Trump Raid?
  • The Higher Taxes, Bigger IRS, and More Inflation Act of 2022
  • A Conservative Case for Optimism
  • Your Retirement Life: Let the Slow and Steady Be Your Way of LIFE
  • Pelosi’s Trip a "Pointless Gesture That Brought Us Closer to Military Conflict"
  • Did China Buy Land in North Dakota to Spy on Air Force Base?
  • Kamala Harris Facing the Political Opportunity of a Lifetime
  • DESANTIS RESISTS: Suspends Soros-Funded Destruction of America
  • Who Is Alex Jones?
  • Immigrants Poised to FLOOD THE BORDER After Democrats Reject Title 42

Disclosure

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Your Retirement Life: Let the Slow and Steady Be Your Way of LIFE
  • Resilient Nordic Market Spawns Fast Growing Offshoot
  • If the Phone Doesn’t Ring…It’s Me
  • SHOCK: Home Prices FALL in San Francisco as Market Dries Up
  • Federal Reserve Governor Signals MORE Big Rate Hikes
  • DESANTIS RESISTS: Suspends Soros-Funded Destruction of America
  • Despite All the Money Involved, Crypto Is Still a Wild Market
  • BIDEN UNCONVINCING: Saudis Holding Fire on Spare Capacity
  • Your Seats Await at Newport’s Castle Hill
  • Big Corporations Making Big Investments

Pelosi’s Trip a “Pointless Gesture That Brought Us Closer to Military Conflict”

RIP David McCullough

Your Retirement Life: Let the Slow and Steady Be Your Way of LIFE

Who Benefits from and Orchestrated the Trump Raid?

California’s Progressive Liberals Have Created a Monster

DeSantis Leadership: Good Government and Smart Politics

Copyright © 2022 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives