Although 35% of unemployed Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, compared to just 25% for President Trump, when it comes to the two key issues Trump campaigned on, this same group sides with the president by large majorities.
This is not surprising. When it comes to the dual-horror show of illegal immigration and Obamacare, no group is in a more vulnerable position to feel their disastrous effects than those among the unemployed.
A poll conducted by Express Employment Professionals shows that 57% of the unemployed want Obamacare repealed, while only 43% disagree. On the hot button issue of illegal immigration, a full 58% agreed that they would have an easier time finding a job if there was less illegal immigration, compared to just 42% who disagree.
A plurality of 39% believe Trump’s policies will have a positive impact when it comes to creating jobs, compared to 35% who believe those policies will have a negative impact. Twenty-six percent believe there will be no impact.
However, on the personal issue of their own job search, only 18% believe Trump’s policies will make it easier to find employment, while 30% said those policies would make it harder. The remaining didn’t know or said there would be no impact.
The “unemployed” are defined as those “capable of working (whether or not they receive unemployment compensation benefits). Excluded are those who are currently retired, choose to stay at home, or are unable to work due to long-term disability.”
These results, I think, are in large part due to the rise of alternative media, which has done superb work educating the public on the perils of illegal immigration and Obamacare, especially when it comes to job creation.
If Americans were restricted to having access only to the mainstream media, they would continue to be wildly misinformed on both issues. The partisan propaganda campaigns launched by the national political media, and done so as a means to protect both of these objectively destructive policies, have been financed to the tune of billions of dollars by massive corporations. These disinformation campaigns have also been well-coordinated across all media platforms. While the exact opposite is verifiably and demonstrably true, their message has been that illegal immigration and Obamacare are good for the economy.
This, of course, is absurd.
Illegal immigrants not only steal jobs from American citizens and legal immigrants, this flood of illegal labor depresses wages.
Obamacare is a stone-cold job killer, a death-spiraling boondoggle that adds tremendous expense to the cost of hiring, most especially the hiring of full-time workers.
Obamacare is also utterly useless to the vast majority of Americans who are not chronically ill. Even if the unemployed are having their premiums subsidized by the government to some degree, the insanely high deductibles that accompany Obamacare insurance plans render it as pointless as a screen door on a submarine.
Obamacare has also exploded the cost of overall health care. So while the unemployed might have something called “health insurance,” thanks to $5000+ deductibles, out of their own pocket, they are paying even more money for the health care services they do use.
The good news for the unemployed is that despite a feckless Republican Congress and fascist left-wing judges, what Trump has been allowed to do has dramatically decreased the flood of illegals coming across our southern border — and by “dramatic,” I mean by an incredible 67% (compared to last year).
Obamacare is a stone-cold job killer, a death-spiraling boondoggle that adds tremendous expense to the cost of hiring, most especially the hiring of full-time workers.
On the issue of Trump’s push to (kind of) repeal Obamacare, it has passed the House, and while it certainly faces a tough go in the Senate, there is reason for optimism knowing that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is at least taking the idea seriously enough to devote considerable resources to working something out.
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