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Old 12-10-2017, 09:47 AM
 
Location: Homeless
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Does that silent majority include the 94 million Americans out of the labor force?


Trump and his followers only take credit for anything good that happens. Something bad happens it's Hillary, Obama or the lefts fault.
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Old 12-10-2017, 09:52 AM
 
Location: USA
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Trump and his followers only take credit for anything good that happens. Something bad happens it's Hillary, Obama or the lefts fault.
Hashtag: Tribalism
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Old 12-11-2017, 05:11 AM
 
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"be prepared to live in a world wherein you are constantly offended by imagined slights"

P0T, meet kettle.
Hard for me to be offended when I'm still laughing at you taking personal offense to a simple three letter word!

Maybe we should petition the board mods to add the word "ilk" to the list of forbidden forum words?
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Old 12-11-2017, 05:45 AM
 
Location: Dangling from a mooses antlers
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In other news; the middle class has less purchasing power than it did in 1995
You can blame that statistic directly on the flow of illegal aliens into our country. They have decimated wage levels in most blue collar jobs.
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Old 12-11-2017, 10:16 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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You can blame that statistic directly on the flow of illegal aliens into our country. They have decimated wage levels in most blue collar jobs.


I have all the evidence to confirm this to be the truth.
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Old 12-21-2017, 11:22 AM
 
Location: Kansas City, MISSOURI
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Here in upstate NY there are new factories opening up everywhere, with good union jobs paying $25/hr to start, plus full benefits and pension, with only a high school diploma required. There are literally thousands of these jobs waiting to be filled. Our local economy is on fire, and people are saying that it’s just like the good old days of the 1950s and 60s. Car dealerships are selling so many $40,000 pickup trucks that they are having trouble keeping enough in stock.

Thank you president Trump!
Here's a bit of reality on that supposed upstate NY factory job explosion:

Hiring stalls across region during November - The Buffalo News

How much has manufacturing jobs grown in the Buffalo area in the past year? A whopping 0.2%. In fact, overall job growth in the area has been the weakest since 2009.
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Old 12-21-2017, 11:28 AM
 
Location: NE Mississippi
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Hard for me to be offended when I'm still laughing at you taking personal offense to a simple three letter word!

Maybe we should petition the board mods to add the word "ilk" to the list of forbidden forum words?
WHAT??!! You.... You.... You.... ILK!
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