Rick Manning: Jobs Report Blows Away Recession Fears as Trump Economy Continues to Soar

There were fewer people unemployed in America in August 2019 than there were in August 1975 when we were just shy of 69 million fewer people in the economy.

I graduated from Norco High School in 1975. I am now eligible to collect Social Security. And there are fewer Americans unemployed today than the summer I graduated high school.

If this doesn’t shock you, then nothing will.

Economies can be measured by many things, the number of people who want a job but can’t find one is perhaps the most important political and human measure.

To provide a shorter time frame, there are 4.2 million more Americans in the civilian labor force since January 2017, when Donald Trump became President, and there are 1.5 million fewer Americans who are unemployed today than then. Even as the labor participation rate (percentage of people 16 and older who are in the workforce) has risen from 62.9 percent to 63.2 percent.

A total 5.7 million more jobs have been created.

What we are witnessing is almost an economic miracle. More people are working today at 157.8 million than at any time in history. Fewer people are unemployed this August than in any August since 1974. The last time fewer Americans were unemployed during this month, the pet rock was a popular gift, the Godfather Part II and Blazing Saddles were the two most popular movies and the Vietnam War was still raging.

For all the economic doom and gloom Eeyores, try to find your inner Tigger, because America is working, wages continue to climb, and inflation remains low. And the economy is defying the gravitational expectations of the regular business cycle, largely because Americans are coming back into the workforce; and in spite of the constant negative Nancy news, they are positive about the future.

One final nail in the partisan pessimists down talking the economy coffin is the simple fact that the unemployment rate of 3.7 percent marks the fifteenth time in 18 months that the unemployment rate has been below 4 percent. The last time prior to this run that the unemployment rate was below 4 percent was in January of 1970, almost 50 years ago.

As proof, the much disliked Transportation Security Administration (TSA) with their intrusive blue gloves, reported that the nine busiest days in their history occurred this summer. Note to CNBC: People don’t decide to travel by plane when they believe that their incomes are in jeopardy. Instead they do the staycation which became so popular during the Obama era.

The simple fact is that Americans are not only working but they are making more money today than they have in the past. The household median income rose to a record $61,372 in 2017, as more Americans are benefitting from wage gains earned. The 2018 number will be reported in October, and given the on-going 3.2 percent year over year increases reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it is obvious that 2018 and 2019 will have been even better years for American’s pocketbooks.

With all of the down talking of the economy by political and economic pundits, it is important for people to understand that what they are experiencing in the personal lives is what others are — this economy rocks. If you want a job, you can get a job, and you are getting paid more for the same work today than you were last year without inflation eating away all or more of your wage gains.

Yet, problems still remain. Opioid and other addictions continue to have a hollowing out effect on our workforce. As large as the labor force is, and it’s never been larger, there would be about 6.9 million more people aged 16-64 in the workforce today if the labor participation rate for that age group was the same today as it was in 1997. This addiction crisis is also fueling a homeless problem which HUD Secretary Ben Carson is striving to address.

Here’s the good news, that number used to be 9.7 million, meaning 2.8 million working age adults have reentered the labor force and have jobs, with 16-64-year-old labor participation rising from 72.7 percent in 2015 to 73.8 percent in 2018. The restored hope that this represents is the untold story of renewal that is hidden by a media animus toward Donald Trump that refuses to deliver good news.

But even in a time of unprecedented low unemployment rates, work still remains to be done to bring people who have been left behind, like those with disabilities, out of the shadows and into the workforce. The fact that almost 36 million Americans remain on food assistance programs shows that the economy has not yet lifted enough boats to self-sufficiency. The fact that 8.1 million fewer people are on food assistance than when President Trump took office shows that our nation is heading in the right direction.

America should be celebrating the Trump economic success story, and judging by the summer vacation travel reports, it appears that the people get it, even if the media doesn’t.

Rick Manning is the president of Americans for Limited Government.

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Cuccinelli Fires Back At County Defending Its Sanctuary Policies After Assaults By Illegal Immigrants

On Thursday, the Maryland Montgomery County Council, stung by White House criticism that stated, " … since July 25, 7 illegal aliens protected by the ‘sanctuary’ county have been arrested for rape and sexual assaults," issued a letter insulting the White House, President Trump, acting USCIS Director Ken Cuccinelli, and supposed "neo-Nazi sympathizers" who had criticized their criminal justice system.
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Defiant Pete Buttigieg Insists Presidential Campaign Is Worth Killing the Planet

Pete Buttigieg defends use of private planes for campaigning #ClimateTownHall https://t.co/enEpvvcWcI pic.twitter.com/zs17zuZDw6 — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 5, 2019 It’s ok to kill the planet if it helps you run for president… Via Free Beacon: South Bend mayor Pete “Boat Shoes” Buttigieg has spent more money on private air travel—at least $300,000—than any other candidate […]

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Continetti: Sharpie Story a ‘Winning Issue’ for Trump as He Battles the Media

Washington Free Beacon editor in chief Matthew Continetti argued the media’s obsession with President Donald Trump’s altering a map of Hurricane Dorian’s path is a "winning issue" for him as he continues doing battle with the news media.

On Friday’s Meet the Press Daily, Continetti directly criticized the media for refusing to move on and making themselves Trump’s "punching bag." Host Chuck Todd said he thought Trump stumbled into the controversy and decided to use it to his opportunity.

"He views it: ‘All right, now I’m going to have a war with the media, because I can make the media the enemy on this and my people won’t care,’" Todd said.

"Yeah, this has, I think, been a winning issue for him this week," Continetti said, to Todd’s surprise.

"Winning? Wait, that’s a—winning?" Todd asked.

"When you have an 81 percent approval rating among Republicans, when trust in the media is at a low," Continetti said, "the idea that anyone’s votes will be affected over a three-day controversy over what he might have done with a map or how he might have interpreted an early weather projection of where the hurricane went, is totally, totally wrong."

"The only two things that will affect Donald Trump’s re-election are the state of the economy over the next year and the identity of his Democratic opponent."

Daily Beast reporter Betsy Woodruff pushed back, saying the controversy could hurt Trump’s image with suburban women.

"One of the biggest sources of concern in the White House when it comes to the president’s re-elect [sic] is support, or lack thereof, from suburban women. There’s a recent poll that shows only 30 percent of women in the United States want to see Trump get re-elected," she said.

"Do you think for any of them the Sharpie was the breaking point?" Continetti asked.

"I think women see this as of a piece with behavior that doesn’t seem designed to court them," she replied.

Todd also asked whether the controversy would affect Trump’s ability to go after potential rival Joe Biden over Biden’s gaffes. Continetti responded that, while independent voters may view Trump’s gaffes and Biden’s gaffes differently, it would not stop Trump from going after him.

Continetti also ripped the media for focusing so intently on Trump’s use of the marker.

"His favorite punching bag is the mainstream media. And it takes two to fixate on an issue, I hate to break it to you," he said. "If the press wanted this issue to go away, they could move on to something else. But it’s both Trump and the media that are fixated on this marker, and it’s driving me crazy."

When Todd said Trump should be the "grownup," Continetti replied, "Sure," but brought up the fact that Trump’s campaign is now selling Trump 2020–branded markers as a way to benefit from the squabble.

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No Pro-lifers Need Apply: Vice Says Pro-Life Nurses Not ‘Worthy of Serving Public’

Recently, the University of Vermont Medical Center was accused of forcing a nurse to assist with an abortion against her will, a violation of federal conscience rights laws. According to Vice, the fact that a pro-life nurse objected to performing an abortion “shows we need to be more discerning about who is worthy of serving the public.” So much for the right to choose.

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The Left’s determination to destroy us from within

How deranged and thoroughly despicable are the California and national Left? How depraved is Governor Newsom?  They/he are a collective blight on the nation.  They are not alone in their immorality, in their contempt for civilized society.  Democrats, who have long led their hostage cities and states to inevitable decline, are absolutely to blame for the destruction of their disintegrating realms.  Candidate Barack Obama promised to “fundamentally transform America” and he succeeded in doing just that.  He pushed the Democrat party from what was a semblance of JFK liberalism to abject Alinskyite hate-America radicalism. 

The Democrats now champion socialism, restrictions on free speech, post-term abortion, and the doxing and blacklisting of those with opinions they find unacceptable.  They support the abrogation of the Second Amendment.  In their view, only criminals should and will have guns.  And indeed, they will — like the man who killed seven people in Odessa, Texas, but who failed the background check but still acquired a gun.   

Of course, he did.  That is what criminals do: break laws for which they have no respect. Despite that essential truth, the Left wants to prevent law-abiding citizens from being able to defend themselves.  The left wants law-abiding citizens to be sitting ducks, defenseless against the likes of each and every one of the recent mass shooters.  

The more people the maniacs kill, the better they think their goal of gun confiscation will be achieved.  Any sentient person with common sense knows this is exactly wrong.  The Left believes conservatives who support the Second Amendment, and the rest of the Bill of Rights,  are knuckle-dragging Neanderthals, incapable of  reason.  They think they will soon fall for their gun control nonsense.  They will not.  Maine is now the safest state thanks to its anyone can carry law.

Governor Newsom of California has reached into the gutter for a new and obscene low.  So dishonorable is this man that he signed into law a bill  that “struck down a more than century-old law that required any able-bodied persons 18 years of age or older to assist a police officer who requested help during an arrest.”  San Francisco, Newsom’s former mayoral gig, just named the NRA a terrorist organization.  Next on their agenda will be to designate the US military as a terrorist organization.  That is how much the Left hates the country that has made them wealthy, comfortable and put them in positions of power to control the lives of others.  

Newsom, and the rest of the Democrat governors and mayors that destroyed their own states and cities, have not only  ruined the municipalities that they control, they have destroyed countless lives: those who barely subsist on the streets of these cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Seattle, Baltimore, Chicago (Chicago and Baltimore are the murder capitals of the nation.  Both have among the strictest gun control laws in the nation.)  They willingly promulgate the drug use of their homeless (they pass out free syringes), and seem to tolerate the vast homeless encampments and all they entail:  discarded needles, public defecation, crime, disease — in short, the destruction of the cities they’ve been allowed to take over and ruin.

Homeless encampment in San Francisco (photo credit: Shannon Badlee)

It is not an exaggeration to say that today’s Left is a scourge upon this nation.  No one who values civility and respect for our law enforcement men and women should cast a vote for any Democrat, anywhere.  They pander, promise and lie.  They defend Antifa!  And now, they openly and officially oppose our law enforcement personnel.  

Every Democrat presidential candidate opposes ICE, the agency tasked with stemming the tide of illegal immigration.  They have implicitly admitted their contempt for our police and sanctioned violence against them. They clearly value illegal migrants over citizens.   Newsom’s bill is effectively an anti-police bill.  It is difficult to imagine a moment in the past in which any citizen would not have rushed to the defense of a police officer in need of help.    They were, and still are, our heroes, men and women who sign up to risk their lives to defend us.

The American Left is pushing to transform America into a fascist/communist country.  Climate hysteria is just one avenue they’ve chosen to deceive us.  Frighten the public, disarm the public, control the public.  Is there an upside to this? Not in a million years.  Ask the Jews of Germany in the 1930s-1940s, or in New York right now.  Ask the citizens of Venezuela, Cuba, or Hong Kong.  The Founders knew exactly why the Second Amendment is so vital to our liberty.  

The American Left, for the moment its depravity exposed by Gavin Newsom, is a disgrace.  They are anti-American.  This is now a discernable fact.   The Left under President Obama weaponized our law enforcement institutions, including the FBI, DOJ, and IRS.  Young people are now taught that law enforcement, every branch of it, and the men and women who risk their lives to protect us, are the bad guys to be “milk-shaked,”  mocked at every opportunity, and the criminals, illegal or not, are the good guys, always the victims.  A San Francisco court just overturned the last charge against the man who killed Kate Steinle! 

The Left has turned  our nation’s civil structure and our legal system upside down and they are proud of themselves for doing it!  And they are so deluded they think they are virtue-signaling heroes when in fact they are enemies of Western Civilization. The oft-cited quote by Lincoln was prescient:  “American will never be destroyed from the outside.  If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”  The Left is working hard to do just that, destroy us from within. President Trump is the savior who has selflessly thrown himself upon the pyre of their fury to save the nation.  No wonder they hate him so much.

How deranged and thoroughly despicable are the California and national Left? How depraved is Governor Newsom?  They/he are a collective blight on the nation.  They are not alone in their immorality, in their contempt for civilized society.  Democrats, who have long led their hostage cities and states to inevitable decline, are absolutely to blame for the destruction of their disintegrating realms.  Candidate Barack Obama promised to “fundamentally transform America” and he succeeded in doing just that.  He pushed the Democrat party from what was a semblance of JFK liberalism to abject Alinskyite hate-America radicalism. 

The Democrats now champion socialism, restrictions on free speech, post-term abortion, and the doxing and blacklisting of those with opinions they find unacceptable.  They support the abrogation of the Second Amendment.  In their view, only criminals should and will have guns.  And indeed, they will — like the man who killed seven people in Odessa, Texas, but who failed the background check but still acquired a gun.   

Of course, he did.  That is what criminals do: break laws for which they have no respect. Despite that essential truth, the Left wants to prevent law-abiding citizens from being able to defend themselves.  The left wants law-abiding citizens to be sitting ducks, defenseless against the likes of each and every one of the recent mass shooters.  

The more people the maniacs kill, the better they think their goal of gun confiscation will be achieved.  Any sentient person with common sense knows this is exactly wrong.  The Left believes conservatives who support the Second Amendment, and the rest of the Bill of Rights,  are knuckle-dragging Neanderthals, incapable of  reason.  They think they will soon fall for their gun control nonsense.  They will not.  Maine is now the safest state thanks to its anyone can carry law.

Governor Newsom of California has reached into the gutter for a new and obscene low.  So dishonorable is this man that he signed into law a bill  that “struck down a more than century-old law that required any able-bodied persons 18 years of age or older to assist a police officer who requested help during an arrest.”  San Francisco, Newsom’s former mayoral gig, just named the NRA a terrorist organization.  Next on their agenda will be to designate the US military as a terrorist organization.  That is how much the Left hates the country that has made them wealthy, comfortable and put them in positions of power to control the lives of others.  

Newsom, and the rest of the Democrat governors and mayors that destroyed their own states and cities, have not only  ruined the municipalities that they control, they have destroyed countless lives: those who barely subsist on the streets of these cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Seattle, Baltimore, Chicago (Chicago and Baltimore are the murder capitals of the nation.  Both have among the strictest gun control laws in the nation.)  They willingly promulgate the drug use of their homeless (they pass out free syringes), and seem to tolerate the vast homeless encampments and all they entail:  discarded needles, public defecation, crime, disease — in short, the destruction of the cities they’ve been allowed to take over and ruin.

Homeless encampment in San Francisco (photo credit: Shannon Badlee)

It is not an exaggeration to say that today’s Left is a scourge upon this nation.  No one who values civility and respect for our law enforcement men and women should cast a vote for any Democrat, anywhere.  They pander, promise and lie.  They defend Antifa!  And now, they openly and officially oppose our law enforcement personnel.  

Every Democrat presidential candidate opposes ICE, the agency tasked with stemming the tide of illegal immigration.  They have implicitly admitted their contempt for our police and sanctioned violence against them. They clearly value illegal migrants over citizens.   Newsom’s bill is effectively an anti-police bill.  It is difficult to imagine a moment in the past in which any citizen would not have rushed to the defense of a police officer in need of help.    They were, and still are, our heroes, men and women who sign up to risk their lives to defend us.

The American Left is pushing to transform America into a fascist/communist country.  Climate hysteria is just one avenue they’ve chosen to deceive us.  Frighten the public, disarm the public, control the public.  Is there an upside to this? Not in a million years.  Ask the Jews of Germany in the 1930s-1940s, or in New York right now.  Ask the citizens of Venezuela, Cuba, or Hong Kong.  The Founders knew exactly why the Second Amendment is so vital to our liberty.  

The American Left, for the moment its depravity exposed by Gavin Newsom, is a disgrace.  They are anti-American.  This is now a discernable fact.   The Left under President Obama weaponized our law enforcement institutions, including the FBI, DOJ, and IRS.  Young people are now taught that law enforcement, every branch of it, and the men and women who risk their lives to protect us, are the bad guys to be “milk-shaked,”  mocked at every opportunity, and the criminals, illegal or not, are the good guys, always the victims.  A San Francisco court just overturned the last charge against the man who killed Kate Steinle! 

The Left has turned  our nation’s civil structure and our legal system upside down and they are proud of themselves for doing it!  And they are so deluded they think they are virtue-signaling heroes when in fact they are enemies of Western Civilization. The oft-cited quote by Lincoln was prescient:  “American will never be destroyed from the outside.  If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”  The Left is working hard to do just that, destroy us from within. President Trump is the savior who has selflessly thrown himself upon the pyre of their fury to save the nation.  No wonder they hate him so much.

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Iowa Teacher Rebuffs Joe Biden’s Handsiness: ‘You Need to Ask First’

Former Vice President Joe Biden was rebuffed after trying to grab the hands of a younger woman in Iowa earlier this week, while talking to her about his candidacy.

Biden, who was publicly accused by several women of unwanted touching earlier this year, had the awkward encounter on Monday while courting voters at a Labor Day picnic put on by organized labor in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Video of the incident, which was published by the Washington Examiner on Friday, shows Biden talking to the 41-year-old special needs educator about his plans for strengthening collective bargaining rights for  teachers in states like Iowa. After a short back and forth, Biden grabs the woman’s hand and clutches it firmly throughout the rest of the conversation.

Although the woman seemed receptive to the former vice president’s message, she later admitted to the Examiner that she was put off by Biden’s handsiness throughout their conversation.

“I think that he means well but, you know, he grabbed my hands right away and that was really uncomfortable,” she said. “He was very close and, in my mind, I’m like, this is part of our problem: Not recognizing that you need to ask first, or can I shake your hand? Not just grab your hands and hang onto them.”

“That bothers me,” she added.

This is not the first time that Biden’s demeanor on the campaign trail has made women uncomfortable. Earlier this year, the former vice president was accused of inappropriate touching by Lucy Flores, the Democrat’s unsuccessful 2014 nominee for lieutenant governor of Nevada. In a widely circulated op-ed, Flores alleged Biden inappropriately touched and kissed her during a campaign event. Following the revelations, several more women came forward to accuse Biden of unwanted touching.

Despite issuing a public apology and promising to be more “mindful” about respecting the personal space of others, Biden has repeatedly made light of the accusations on the campaign trail.

Flores has said those jokes prove the 76-year-old Biden has “not reflected” on how his behavior made women feel.

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Mark Levin: Media Are Hysterically and Desperately Pushing Climate Change Ideology

Nationally syndicated radio talk show host, TV host, author and American lawyer Mark Levin (right) and “Don’t Believe the Liberal Media” sign (left) (MRC Photo)

On his show Wednesday, nationally syndicated radio talk show host Mark Levin called out the media, saying, they “are hysterically and desperately pushing the climate change ideology.” 

“There is a piece in Politico, which is a very liberal, so-called news website,” stated Mark Levin. “In a piece written by Michael Calderone – who’s a liberal – called ‘Will media’s climate change blitz take root.’ …

“Right in the title there is a confession that the media are hysterically and desperately pushing the climate change ideology,” Levin suggested later in the show.

Mark Levin started his discussion by addressing a piece written by Michael Calderone in Politico titled “Will media’s climate blitz take root?” In the piece, Calderone writes, “CNN, MSNBC climate forums promise serious talk, but no guarantee of sustained coverage.”

Below is a transcript, in pertinent part, of Mark Levin’s remarks from his show on Wednesday:

“There is a piece in Politico, which is a very liberal, so-called news website. In a piece written by Michael Calderone – who’s a liberal – called ‘Will media’s climate change blitz take root.’ Now, think about that title.

“Man, we got a lot to cover today. I’ll move from here and there, but I want to spend a little bit of time on this: ‘Will media’s climate change blitz take [hold]?’ What? Right in the title there is a confession that the media are hysterically and desperately pushing the climate change ideology.

“Now let’s step back before I get in to the rest of this article. What is climate change about? It’s the old red movement dressed up as a green movement. This anti-capitalism – and again, the scholarship that I did on this is really quite clear. It’s unassailable. Like Marxism, like so-called democratic socialism, this is imported from Europe, most specifically it’s imported from Germany, this ideology. And what it’s about, ladies and gentleman, is hijacking the environmental movement, hijacking the issue of health and safety, and camouflaging it on behalf of socialism/ Marxism.

“Now think about the climate change movement. What is it all about? An enormous power grab by the federal government, politicians and bureaucrats. And of course, most of the media live and operate inside and around Washington D.C., inside and around New York City. So this is about the further concentration of power.”

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