“What I see on television and read in newspapers from the East Coast is a disconnect to normal Americans like me.” Cincinnati Talk Show Host Bill Cunningham
Normal as in God fearing camo covered gun carrying 4 wheeling bigots whose greatest joy in life is giving anyone smarter than a Palin the finger. Sadly he has something there. Though he leaves out California, Oregon and Washington who have a larger economy than all the hard red states combined. The same West Coast states, like those East Coast States who contribute to the federal economy than take billions out of it as most every hard red state does.
He goes on…
“Let me tell you what. I paid $1.99 for gas last week. $1.99 a gallon, which is unbelievable. Unemployment is really full at 4 percent, and the 4 percent wouldn’t work if you put a gun to their head. Inflation is nonexistent. I can get a 30-year mortgage for under 4 percent. And you have Foxconn spending $10 billion in Wisconsin and Illinois, unbelievable stuff.”
- Retail gas price average for last week was $2.283 per gallon, a year ago in July the average was $2.137.
- After the Great Republican Recession President Obama reduced the unemployment rate from 10.1 to 4.7 when he left office a drop of 5.4 points. We are now in the month of Summer Jobs at 4.3 which is 0.4 drop. President Obama dropped the unemployment rate by 5.5 points. Trump has dropped the unemployment rate by 0.4 points. President Obama was ten times more successful at this than Donald Trump.
- Inflation is no change.
- Mortgage rates have fell from 4.09 in January to 3.98 today. A 0.09 change.
- Foxcomm plans to build a crystal screen factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin with a $3 billion tax incentive resulting in 3000 jobs. Foxcomm said the same thing to the people of Pennsylvania and never showed up. .