(02-13-2020 01:40 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote: I shared this on Facebook. I really hope my militant liberal younger sister reads it.
I would send it to my brother and sister.....
since it didnt come from CNN, ABC, NBC, or CBS, both would not believe it. We were in Ft Lauderdale driving up 1A1 when Trump announced he was running. Drove up to his gate and they took pictures. My sister in law who's married to a man who will not let a gay person treat him in the hospital and denounced his sister for dating a black man. She (and husband) loved it that Trump was running. I told my wife Trump would never win the republican nomination and never be president.
Skip forward a few months and things changes I let them tag along to S. Fla with my wife and I for a WKU fb game. Now that same sister in law hates Trump...both of her sons family are getting something from the system/government. She's afraid they will lose it if Trump wins.
First couple months my wife and listened to everything the MSM was saying about Trump. But then both of us started to notice what Trump said and what the media told everyone he said...didnt match up.
Then we sit down one night and went to Trumps contract (what ever it was called) and read his plan for America. My wife and I both come from a long line of democrats. I'm more of a centrist and vote across party lines than anyone in my family.
Long story short what we read from Trumps contract sounded more like a democrat when it came to jobs and lifting families up through higher wages than any democrat in our lifetime. Trump was running on a lot of the same things we agreed with on Clinton's first term. Dont agree with everything the man says but overall he was and still is the only choice running in 2016 and 2020.
Most of my family still believes everything the media tells them. As for my racist sister in law and her husband they are back on the Trump train...one son got a job at the corvette plant in BG Ky making $22 an hour when they opened up a second line in late 2017. The other got a job with my youngest son, started out, $26 an hour when Alcoa, opened another line early 2018.
For the record everyone in my family and my wife's family that's working (some are 62 took SS) are making at the very least $3 more an hour than in the start of 2017. I would say at least 4 or 5 out of 40 or so are off food stamps for the first time in 8 years. Most are working class so $3 extra an hour ($6 for wife/husband) is a lot of money to some.