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kentuck

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Fri Jun 28, 2019, 08:37 AM Jun 2019

Ask the farmers and the coal miners how their economy is doing?

The stock market may be doing better but it is not the best economy "in history", as Dear Leader is prone to utter. The huge tax cuts and the ensuing debt and deficits are not good for the average American.

The farmers were already under water before all the spring floods. The trade war had taken its toll already. Trump has offered them assistance two or three times, but the complaints are that the big corporate farmers get most of that assistance. Some smaller farmers are getting 10-15% of what their crops would have brought. Many of them are Trump supporters.

So, too, are the coal miners. Trump picked up his shovel and he walked to the mine. He loaded sixteen tons of imaginary coal. The coal industry has lost jobs since Trump was inaugurated and there are less coal miners today.

But, that should come as no surprise. Trump lies about the economy just like he lies about everything else. A lot of people are going to pay a huge price for his bullshit and his incompetence.

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Ask the farmers and the coal miners how their economy is doing? (Original Post) kentuck Jun 2019 OP
Yet they will vote GOP. Nt USALiberal Jun 2019 #1
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