Look around you.
We live in the wealthiest country in the history of the world.
We’ve got enough food for every plate.
Enough doctors for every patient.
And enough jobs for every family.
So why do working class Americans have to scrape to get by paycheck to paycheck?
Everything the working class has ever won, we’ve had to fight for.
And every time we win an inch, the billionaires want to take back a mile.
Whether at the workplace, or at the ballot box.
We’re done falling behind. We’re ready to stand up.
And we need a President who’s ready to stand with us.
In 2024, we’ve got a choice.
We can put a billionaire back in office
and let him and his buddies get even richer.
Or we can elect somebody who’s ready to stand with us.
Somebody who’s walked a picket line.
Somebody who’s on our side.
We know which side we’re on.
We’re voting for Kamala Harris in 2024
Because she’s walked the walk.
Because she supports working class people when we fight for more.
And because we don’t need another billionaire in the White House.
Donald Trump is no friend of the working class.
Donald Trump is a scab.
I’m a UAW member, and I’m voting for Kamala Harris for President.
That's the message United Auto Workers Union President Shawn Fain shared as he announced the UAW's endorsement of Kamala Harris on August 3.
It's a message that matters more than ever this Labor Day because, two months before the Presidential election, the numerous ways Trump failed workers continue to be "memory-holed." Meanwhile, the fiction that the Biden-Harris administration has "failed" on the economy continues to be pushed aggressively by Trump, the GOP, and Fox News—as well as those who reliably parrot GOP talking points across the mainstream media.
Trump-Pence failed workers and destroyed jobs
It's too simplistic to say that Trump had the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover. Yes, it's true. But it's also a statistic that's easy to dismiss.
Even some economists insist on forgiving Trump for leaving office having cost the US economy three million jobs "because Covid." (The fact that Trump's psychopathic, reckless and incompetent response to Covid was a major cause of 2020's economic disaster has also been "memory-holed.")
What can't be denied: Trump failed on jobs and the economy long before Covid.
Here are 10 facts to illustrate how badly Trump failed working families before 2020 even began:
- Trump failed on jobs during his first three years: He created 1.5 million fewer jobs in his first 36 months than Obama created in the prior 36 months.
- Trump failed on manufacturing: Manufacturing was in a recession for all of 2019.
- Trump failed steelworkers: Thousands of steelworkers got layoff notices just before Christmas 2019. An estimated 75,000 manufacturing jobs were lost because of Trump tariffs on steel and aluminum.
- Trump failed coal miners: 11 coal companies filed for bankruptcy during his first 3 years in office.
- Trump failed farmers: He caused the worst farm crisis since the 1980s. Farm bankruptcies surged 24% in 2019—the farm bailouts failed.
- Trump failed dairy farmers most of all: 818 dairy farms went bankrupt in Wisconsin in 2019—the highest number ever.
- Trump failed the poor: Between 2017 and 2019, poverty grew in one third of all US counties.
- Trump failed rural communities: Trump began 2020 with a plan to cut Food Stamps for 700,000 SNAP recipients—a move that would have devastated already hard-hit rural communities.
- Trump failed on the debt: Trump’s tax cuts for the rich sent the deficit soaring to more than $1 trillion a year, skyrocketing the debt, even as he incentivized US corporations to send more jobs overseas.
- Trump failed on the economy: Because the US economy was slowing rapidly at the end of 2019, Trump began 2020 desperate for a trade deal with China. Even as he ignored the early warnings about the coming pandemic to cozy up to China, his economic mismanagement brought the history-making Obama-Biden recovery to an end with a recession that started in February 2020, before Covid lockdowns even began
Biden-Harris delivered historic results for workers
The flip-side of the narrative that all of Trump's economic failures should be forgiven "because Covid" is that everyone wants to blame Biden for the pandemic's effects on supply chains and prices.
Yes, prices are way up. But when the same thing happened to Reagan (who brought inflation down from 10% in 1981 to 4% in 1984), he was allowed to announce that it was "Morning in America" and went on to win 49 states.
Reagan created five million jobs in his first three years. Biden has created more than 15 million.
And Biden has brought inflation down from a peak of 9% in 2022 to under 3% today.
Beyond the more than 15 million jobs created under Biden-Harris, we've also moved on from jokes about Trump's "infrastructure weeks" to actually breaking ground on an "infrastructure decade."
And Biden-Harris have created a "manufacturing supercycle" that is bringing high-tech manufacturing back to the US, setting the stage for millions more high-paying jobs in the future.
One more thing:
Wages have now outpaced inflation for 17 straight months. So even though it's still natural to moan about grocery store prices and the rent being too damn high, American workers are able to afford much more in 2024 than they could when they were sicker, poorer—not to mention unemployed—under Trump.
The world knows it even if Fox News viewers don't. In 2024, America is back. We've got an economy that's leading the world. We're better off than we ever were under Trump. And we're investing in the future like never before.
Kamala Harris stands with workers. Donald Trump is a scab
Just as things are getting demonstrably better for US workers, they could get a whole lot worse under a Trump-Vance-Musk-Project2025 regime.
Trump's plan as written would add $2 trillion to the debt over 10 years based on more unfunded tax cuts for the rich, offset only partially by massive new tariffs that would hit working families hard when they purchase everyday goods.
The Harris plan would make the wealthy pay their fair share—while offering middle-class and lower-income tax relief. Analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the Harris plan will reduce the debt by $3 trillion—outperforming the Trump plan by $5 trillion.
The Biden-Harris administration has made historic strides in delivering on the promised of "growing our economy from the bottom up and middle out."
The Harris-Walz administration will build on the Biden legacy of "historic investments.... (to) create millions of jobs rebuilding our infrastructure, supply chains, and manufacturing here at home, through the American Rescue Plan (ARP), Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), CHIPS and Science Act, and Inflation Reduction Act."
As President, Trump left a trail of broken promises that stung auto workers in Ohio and duped taxpayers of Wisconsin. The Christo-Fascists and Techno-Fascists who will pull his strings in a second term are committed to limiting the power of unions, reducing wages and overtime in certain sectors, putting more children in dangerous jobs, and making workplaces less safer.
If you're on the side of workers this Labor Day, it's the perfect moment to tell others why you're voting for Kamala Harris in 2024. Because she’s walked the walk. And she supports working class people as they fight for more.
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