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The problem for the polls highlighting the district is that it sees through a national looking glass, which has biases of its own – that is the true understated total error. Considering Tom Garrett won by a very hefty margin in the previous election cycle and Trump still has the good graces of many in VA-5, do not be surprised if Republican Denver Riggleman wins by a pretty sufficient margin.
Although the news is good on the job creation front, the bigger story is with wage growth, which has languished in the years since the Great Recession of 2008. Average hourly earnings increased by five cents an hour for the month and 83 cents year over year, representing a 3.1 percent gain.
The former Navy SEAL and Iraq combat veteran said his primary goals upon getting to Washington in January 2016 were to expand the military, help veterans through post-active duty care and other areas, and to help improve the Virginia Beach and Eastern Shore economy. Responding quite categorically to his mission, he said, “We’ve done just that.”
President Trump is pointing to the obstructionism of Democrats in Congress and has been as hard hitting as Truman ever was, causing the snowflakes in the media great distress.
Although Republican-based economic policies may not get a credit they deserve in the news cycles, the markets are responding much differently.
Larger companies, those with 500 employees or more, have more resources available to provide the competitive wages and strong benefits prospective employees desire. To combat increased employment costs, employers in the small business sector have been looking to non-salary measures like insurance and benefits packages to retain workers, but may have to start increasing wages to attract and retain talent going forward.
“The right to mold the political, moral, and religious opinions of…children is a right exclusively and jealously reserved by our laws to every parent; and for the government to attempt, directly or indirectly, as to these matters, to stand in the parent’s place, is an undertaking of very questionable policy. Such an attempt cannot fail to excite a feeling of jealousy, with respect to our public schools, the results of which could not but be disastrous.”
HINT: It’s not Trump… which is why Democrat Jennifer Wexton is putting all the distance she can between her and Pelosi.
A part from voting for a congressional representative or a U.S. senator next Tuesday, November 6, there are also two constitutional amendments to consider.
While a political meltdown should not be had now over the federal debt and deficit, if something is not done soon to curb the increasing numbers of debt and deficit, the melting will begin in just a few short decades.
