perma- The 90million + out of the work force does include retirees, etc. as you point out but the Labor Participation rate is the lowest since WWII. How can that be since unemployment is below 5%. Do you see how fake the rate is ? Forbes, using different scenarios calculates the unemployment to be anywhere from 14% to 40% depending on the factors being considered. We all know that the 4.2 or 4.5% is a bogus number . I hope that the Trump administration will address this once the more important agenda items are taken care of. We have been using this fake formula for years but that does not make it right. America First !!!

I am confused, was under the impression that conservatives and the right wing were big fans of free trade.

Now trump does this. Or actually the g20 does this on behalf of trump..

so are you who voted trump happy with this???

http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/18/news/economy/g20-trade-protectionism-trump-germany/index.html


The world's biggest economies have dropped a long-standing public endorsement of free trade at their first meeting with the Trump administration.
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the G-20 group of leading economies, including the U.S., China, Mexico, Germany and India, held two days of tough talking in the German town of Baden-Baden.
The formal statement issued after the meeting contained only a bland reference to "working to strengthen the contribution of trade to our economies."
Conspicuous by its absence was the phrase "we will resist all forms of protectionism" that was contained in the communique from the last meeting of the group in China, July 2016.
Reports suggested China and Australia, among others, pushed hard for the commitment to be retained. German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, speaking to reporters after the meeting, said the talks were long and frank. Rather than omit trade from the statement altogether, he said he wanted to find a formulation all could agree.
Dropping the commitment to fight protectionism reflects serious disagreements over one of the key principles that has underpinned the global economy for years. World leaders redoubled their commitment to free trade in the wake of the global financial crisis in 2008 as they sought to prevent recession turning into a global depression.

GREAT, finally something good for the American workers, that the Democrats claim they have been looking out for, by allowing anyone and their brother to enter the USA illegally, and stay to take American jobs. All this while the USA is in a recession, where for 8 years the American people's averaged income has gone down for the middleclass, their wealth has disappeared, and the middleclass numbers have been decimated.

Under Obama and the Democrats, the 'US Workforce' has declined to it's lowest level in percentage, than any time over the last 40 years, and that percentage 40 years ago was on a much smaller US population. Today's US population is almost twice what it was 40 years ago, meaning many more American citizens are out of work today than ever before in US history, while the Obama administration had to keep dropping American workers from the 'US Workforce' in order to get the 'Unemployment Rate' to falsely and unrealistically decline, and that is called rigging the numbers.

All our major trade partners run billions of dollars in surplus trade against us, so you expect us to worry about a trade war, when if that comes it will benefit the American worker, because then it will make it profitable again to produce all the things that we used to produce here, but the Democrats policies, regulations, and taxes have driven those producers from our country, if they wanted to stay solvent and keep producing products to sell all around the world. Then they were being made by foreign workers in foreign countries, and what President Trump is doing is creating incentive for those companies, once driven out by Democrats, to one again return to the USA, and hire American workers to produce here, what they have beeen having foreign workers produce overseas.

Today the Unions are starting to love Donald Trump and the Republicans, which has you liberals, progressives, and Democrats, synonymous with socialists, communists, and fascists, scared to death. Many black people are also seeing the light, and spreading the word, which also gives you a death threat scare for the Democratic Party. This is why the Democrats are using the only thing they now how to do against someone that is becoming more popular by the day, especially with Unions and black people, and that is 'OBSTRUCTIONISM', which the American people are well aware of because it is so easily obvious, as also many American people who didn't vote for President Trump, and most people dislike and abhor it, for not giving the man the American people elected as their Prrsident, to have a chance to do the job that he promised them to get elected.

I am confused, was under the impression that conservatives and the right wing were big fans of free trade.

Now trump does this. Or actually the g20 does this on behalf of trump..

so are you who voted trump happy with this???

http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/18/news/economy/g20-trade-protectionism-trump-germany/index.html


The world's biggest economies have dropped a long-standing public endorsement of free trade at their first meeting with the Trump administration.
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the G-20 group of leading economies, including the U.S., China, Mexico, Germany and India, held two days of tough talking in the German town of Baden-Baden.
The formal statement issued after the meeting contained only a bland reference to "working to strengthen the contribution of trade to our economies."
Conspicuous by its absence was the phrase "we will resist all forms of protectionism" that was contained in the communique from the last meeting of the group in China, July 2016.
Reports suggested China and Australia, among others, pushed hard for the commitment to be retained. German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, speaking to reporters after the meeting, said the talks were long and frank. Rather than omit trade from the statement altogether, he said he wanted to find a formulation all could agree.
Dropping the commitment to fight protectionism reflects serious disagreements over one of the key principles that has underpinned the global economy for years. World leaders redoubled their commitment to free trade in the wake of the global financial crisis in 2008 as they sought to prevent recession turning into a global depression.

I am confused, was under the impression that conservatives and the right wing were big fans of free trade.

Now trump does this. Or actually the g20 does this on behalf of trump..

so are you who voted trump happy with this???

http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/18/news/economy/g20-trade-protectionism-trump-germany/index.html


The world's biggest economies have dropped a long-standing public endorsement of free trade at their first meeting with the Trump administration.
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the G-20 group of leading economies, including the U.S., China, Mexico, Germany and India, held two days of tough talking in the German town of Baden-Baden.
The formal statement issued after the meeting contained only a bland reference to "working to strengthen the contribution of trade to our economies."
Conspicuous by its absence was the phrase "we will resist all forms of protectionism" that was contained in the communique from the last meeting of the group in China, July 2016.
Reports suggested China and Australia, among others, pushed hard for the commitment to be retained. German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, speaking to reporters after the meeting, said the talks were long and frank. Rather than omit trade from the statement altogether, he said he wanted to find a formulation all could agree.
Dropping the commitment to fight protectionism reflects serious disagreements over one of the key principles that has underpinned the global economy for years. World leaders redoubled their commitment to free trade in the wake of the global financial crisis in 2008 as they sought to prevent recession turning into a global depression.