Get REAL Democrats!

My anxiety level is rising with each Democratic debate I watch…in fact, I don’t think I am going to watch any more of them—it is too disturbing.  Last night’s slug fest was truly disappointing.  None of the combatants exhibited anything like a Presidential demeanor.  They looked like squabbling schoolyard bully wannabees trying to seem tough.  They are spending all their waking hours refining their arguments about why their opponents will not beat Trump in November.  That is so shortsighted!

What they SHOULD be doing is recounting all the broken promises made by Trump which he lies

about to the American people.  Instead of beating each other up about how many bills they passed or who wrote what legislation or who said what to whom 20 years ago, why aren’t they pointing out what has happened in America over the past three and half years, and what the current trends are:

(the links are the supporting reports)

-- People are working two to three jobs to get by, wages are essentially flat, and layoffs are on the uptick

-- Trump is trying to end you and your family’s coverage for pre-existing medical conditions—along with all the other benefits of the ACA—in a lawsuit now in federal court.

--four in 10 adults can’t afford to pay an unexpected $400 expense, per a recent report by the Federal Reserve

-- the Congressional Research Service found recently, Trump’s tax cut resulted in corporate profits that “grew faster than wages" and worse, "ordinary workers had very little growth in wage rates."

-- wage growth is virtually non-existent. In 2019, after you subtract inflation of nearly 2 percent, the average American worker will see a net wage increase of slightly over 1 percent.  One percent!!

--2019 has been a “bloodbath” for the trucking industry, with approximately 640 trucking companies going bankrupt in the first half of the year alone, that’s more than triple the number that went bankrupt in all of 2018

-- For the 12-month period ending September 2019, Chapter 12 bankruptcy filings by farmers are up 24 percent from 2018—the highest level since 2011. Even worse, there has been a spike in suicides by farmers linked to their economic despair.

--in reality only about 50 percent of Americans own stock. And a whopping 84 percent of those stocks are owned by Americans in the wealthiest 10 percent of households

-- In 2014, under President Obama, we hit over 5 percent economic growth in one quarter and 4.9 percent in another.  Trending downwards, with last quarter our economy growing at barely 2 percent, down from nearly 3 percent the year before

-- the percentage of Americans currently working or looking for a job is almost unchanged since he took office?

These are the real legacies of the Trump years!  Why isn’t anyone talking about these FACTS!  These are facts reported out by agencies of the Trump administration—it is not fantasy—this is what’s happening NOW!

Add to these sobering economic trends, the FACTS that regulations to protect our citizens against fouled water and air have been rescinded by the Trump Administration, shortening our collective life spans.  We have withdrawn from agreements around the world with allies having to do with trade, arms, climate change, etc.

Given four more years of this downward spiral, what do they think will be left of our republic by 2024?

That is what they need to be talking about!---not how many women Bloomberg might have told bad jokes to!