Get a Job

Here, people talk about electing a president who will stop immigrants in the country illegally from flooding in and taking jobs, who'll be tough on America's rivals abroad, who knows enough about business to keep the country from going further into debt.

“Trump is like choosing the least-bad STD, you know what I mean?” Jones says.

“He's going to do the least bad, the least governing, and he knows how to delegate,” he adds. “I don't expect him to know how to fight the wars or rebuild the economy. But he's a CEO. He'll hire the right people to do that.”

From Oregon's earliest days, the seemingly unending supply of timber from the coastal rainforest made the local lumber barons rich men. For more than a century, demand for the boards produced by Cave Junction's mills led to massive tree cutting and soaring profits.--LA Times

The good people of Cave Junction, Oregon ought to be careful about what they wish for.  The central character in this profile of a down-and-out mill town in Josephine County, near the Cali border, is collecting unemployment.

Would unemployment benefits even exist under the austerity programs Republicans advocate?  It amazes me that people will so frequently vote against their best interests. Unemployment insurance was a progressive gambit, a last option to fend off the disasters lurking in personal economies, and like the safety net in general is under constant siege from the right.  And The Donald is definitely from the right.


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