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06 November 2016

Correcting ouir Changing Economy 


Correcting our Changing Economy
 
The NYT’s editorial on 5 November 2016 criticized Donald Trump for ignoring the official statistics that substantiate the federal administration’s and the Hillary Clinton Campaign’s claims that the nation’s economy is doing as well or better than it has since before the Great Recession in 2007-8.  Sadly, in order to agree one has equally to ignore that the recovery has come simultaneously with the apparently more complete transformation of our domestic  economy into  one in which physically creative human activity, like manufacturing and mineral extraction, are less valued than the sum of intellectual and interpersonal services. 

Mr. Trump has tapped into the vocal stratus of American society that has not managed successfully or self-gratifyingly to change their livelihoods from physical production to conceptual or ministrative pursuits.  The dissatisfaction of those U.S. citizens who believe the traditional measures of economic progress do not apply to them should be resolved by government jobs- and education-programs undertaken by whoever wins the 2016 presidential election.

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