Change

There is an old adage that says if you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you always got. Blue collar workers, the so called Reagan Democrats, voted for Trump because they wanted something different. For years different presidential candidates promised something different but it didn't materialize and in desperation these people decided to give Trump a chance. While the press concentrates on the various foibles of Trumps personality these people are looking at the economy and things are slowly improving. US. workers saw their annual wages and benefits rise in the second quarter at the fastest pace in nearly a decade, a sign that the low unemployment rate is forcing employers to raise pay to attract and keep workers. This same phenomenon is happening in other countries from Australia to England where the working folks are moving the politics to the right in the hopes of seeing the kind of economic growth going on in the US.