corrected because he gets these false impressions in his head, and they literally cannot be dislodged. so, chris, i gave some of the good economic news, the positive economic news, you know, in the open there. the economic story for the president, all right? so the washington post is reporting that under trump, the jobs boom has reached blue collar workers, which is important. and yet the president still can t get it right when he tweets out wrong information. yeah. a couple things. one, don, i really do people laugh at me when i say this. but i think if donald trump never left the white house and never tweeted, which obviously wouldn t happen, he d be pretty popular in that traditionally good economic news, people feeling confident about the economy always almost translates into presidential popularity. i m not sure presidents deserve as much credit as they get for it, but they usually do. the problem is he steps on his message over and over and over again, whether it s sort o
reached that low. more importantly for the president more than a million jobs added in the six full months of the trump presidency so far. a good number, but remember during the campaign, the president said, get obama out of the way. we ll have a trump jobs boom? if you which ugly compare these six months of trump with the same six months last year, the last year of obama, job growth under president obama was more robust than so far under president trump. that s just the so far, but he said, get obama out of the way. things will get way better. not yet, actually. this is important. most of the job growth has been in the health care sector. the services sector. the president said manufacturing would come back. said mining would come back. infrastructure program would bring construction jobs. again, not yet. only 28,000 new construction jobs so far in the trump administration. manufacturing, up more than that. nearly 50,000. pretty good news. coal mining, the president s in west virginia
killed execution-style two weeks ago sitting inside their patrol car. officer ramos laid to rest last sunday, officer lui s is headed by monks. and cut taxes on job creators to unleash a jobs boom. one of the gop s first act, should be when it takes control of congress next week. some here say forget lowering our high effort in the world rate. just abolish it altogether. john, abolish it? yeah of course you abolish the corporate tax. corporations are ultimately a fiction. they re individuals. we already tax individuals on their income and impose a corporate tax, we are double taxing the earnings of individuals. it s anti-growth, anti-corporate formation and with that anti-job creation. steve, sounds good to me.
where is the new york times on this? and i m just add it up. neil: meanwhile, when we come back, if you build it the jobs will come. that s what the white house is to say with a new 50 billion dollar plan for vacant and foreclosed homes and saying it will lead to a jobs boom. and some of the forbes gang saying more like up next, bigger airlines and planes a lot more angry passengers. king of the air to give travelers a royal headache. d] .allstate. really? i was afraid you d have some cut-rate policy. s nope, i ve got. [ voice of dennis ] the allstate value plan. it s their most affordable car insurance and you still get an allstate agent. i too have. [ voice of dennis ] allstate. [ normal voice ] same agent and everything. it s like we re connected. no we re not. yeah, we are. no, we re not. ask an allstate agent about the value plan. are you in good hands?
unemployment is still stubbornly above 8%, doesn t that prove we do need some help. look at the trend and you know, gary b talks about the facts, what facts? i think this really is his opinion. if you look at since the stimulus in 2009, we ve gained something like 4 million jobs, so, you keep saying the facts don t, you know, support the stimulus, but in fact, it s the exact opposite and when it comes to the deficit, excuse me sh me, while i yawn here. can you find something else to get worried about? i mean, my god, you ve been complaining about this for three years and the economy has been steadily improving, the tactful stock market is up 100% from its lows. look, the unemployment rate is at 8.3%, and it was above 10%, look at the trend. the trend is that it s coming down, we still got to bring it down further, we re only growing at what, 2% or something like that, it s not enough to really create a jobs boom. and that s why we need more stimulus and if we had it, we