In that regard, excerpts from his monologue last night were recapped @FoxNews.com, beginning with his undoubtedly valid premise that “cities like Chicago, Detroit and Baltimore have been ruined by decades of big government, Democrat rule. So now we're supposed to listen to these same liberals and let them influence the rest of the country? I don't think so.”
Farther along, he correctly categorized leftist elitists as isolated idealists completely out of touch with the reality of how the nation really works, and who’s responsible for the massive despair that abounds which they continually ignore.
Hannity said: “It's time for the elite left to get out of their little bubbles, off of their private jets and open their eyes for once to the electoral map’s sea of red in between California and New York. You have millions of people who live in the middle of the country, where all that red is. And for eight years, we've had 13 million more Americans on food stamps, 8 million more in poverty. We have the lowest labor participation rate since the 1970s and lowest home ownership rate in 51 years.
“The American people rejected the Obama-Clinton agenda because it doesn't work. It is time for celebrities to stop whining and fear mongering and give President-elect Donald Trump a chance to fix the mess that President Obama has left us.”
Coming from a different direction, Stephen Dinan @washingtontimes.com, confirmed Obama’s dismal results by presenting evidence that Obama “oversaw the deepest legislative malaise in modern political history, according to the Washington Times Legislative Index.”
Struggling to find ways to work with a Congress that ranged from lukewarm to openly hostile toward him, over the course of his eight years, Obama signed just 1,227 bills into law, less than one-term Presidents Carter and George H.W. Bush.
Some analysts blame the poor showing on four years of a divided Congress, while others say “the president failed to find ways to work with the legislature that voters gave him — particularly after the 2010 elections.”
Most interestingly, in his farewell speech Obama ticked off a list of what he felt are his “accomplishments,” and in doing so inadvertently crystallized why he and his party have lost so much ground, they may never fully recover it.
From Obama's perspective he performed well by: “working on the economy, bolstering the auto industry, opening diplomatic relations with Cuba, striking a nuclear deal with Iran, ordering the assault that killed Osama bin Laden, arguing for same-sex marriage in the courts and enacting Obamacare.”
As a practical reality, while credit for bin Laden’s end may or may not rest with Obama, the remaining subjects have all been deemed disastrous failures by mainstream Americans, who showed their displeasure at the polls in November. Bringing us right back to Hannity’s statement above that: “It's time for the elite left to get out of their little bubbles, off of their private jets and open their eyes for once to the electoral map’s sea of red in between California and New York. You have millions of people who live in the middle of the country, where all that red is.”
And then, as if to confirm Hannity’s discerning observation Warner Todd Huston expanded at breitbart.com on a premise made here often in the past few weeks, as follows:
“By the middle of December, several companies had announced new jobs and expansion plans for the U.S., including Carrier Air Conditioner Manufacturing (1,000 Jobs), SoftBank Telecommunications (50,000 Jobs), U.S. Steel (10,000 Jobs), and IBM (25,000 Jobs). In addition, representatives of America’s small businesses noted that Trump’s election filled them with hope for a resurgence in startups and a new expansion phase for their constituents.
“But since December, the number of companies announcing expansion plans for the U.S. have only grown. Other companies announcing large expansion projects include the following:
Ford: 700 Jobs to Start
The German business-software maker SAP SE is adding nearly 400 jobs to its Pittsburgh and suburban Philadelphia facilities, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“Amazon is eyeing a huge expansion starting this year and recently announced it intended to add up to 100,000 workers to its retail staff in new facilities across the nation.
“Many of these jobs will be in brand new fulfillment centers the online giant plans to begin building this year.
While Lockheed Martin told Trump that it intends to hire over 1,800 new workers in the coming months, "CEO Marilyn Hewson said “when you think about the supply chain across 45 states in the U.S., it’s going to be thousands and thousands of jobs.”
General Motors also said this month that it is looking to re-invest in factories in the U.S.A. and will add some 1,500 or more jobs while plans will include a one-billion-dollar plan to build new manufacturing lines in the U.S.
Then there’s the commitment by German-based Bayer AG pharmaceutical company to invest an additional $8 billion in the U.S.A. in research and development in cooperation with Monsanto AG.
Walmart too has an expansion plan to build new stores eventually amounting to some 10,000 new jobs across the country. That will also mean up to 24,000 jobs for construction workers needed to build the new stores. The company “intends to build at least 59 new stores in fiscal year 2017, according to a statement by the company.”
And lastly on the subject for now, publicly traded automotive company LKQ Corp is establishing a new headquarters in the Nashville, Tennessee, area. In “a sign that the company feels that the automotive industry in the U.S. is on track to grow in the age of Trump,” 150 new hires will also be added.
Leading to the rhetorical question of why those on the left never mention this subject at all.
And then, a Facebook friend appropriately posted this one:
That's it for today folks.
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