by Bob Campbell
Ohio’s ongoing economic renaissance is facing a serious threat — if the Democrats manage to win the 2020 presidential election, their radical policy agenda will devastate millions of workers throughout the Buckeye State who have prospered in the strong and growing Trump economy.
I think this is the greatest country on Earth, but America was poorly served by its elected officials for years. I saw the factories close and the jobs moved overseas and across the border due to bad trade policies. Because of our weak borders, I watched as millions of illegal aliens crossed, resulting in stagnant wages and increased pressure on our social services.
Ohio workers have come a long way in the past two and a half years, and that progress has everything to do with President Trump’s economic policies. Median household income is at the highest level ever, and there are more people working today in the United States than at any other time in our history.
When candidate Donald Trump visited Ohio in 2016, he promised to pursue an economic vision that would directly help the hard-working men and women of our state, vowing that “We will become a rich nation once again.” Union households responded enthusiastically to that message, delivering Donald Trump the strongest union support for any GOP candidate since the Reagan era.
Luckily for Ohio, this wasn’t just empty rhetoric designed to win over the local electorate. Sweeping economic reform was the top priority on President Trump’s legislative agenda. Despite a relentless obstruction campaign conducted by the Democrats, he managed to pass historic middle-class tax cuts and eliminate hundreds of the job-killing regulations that were first imposed during the Obama administration.
Those policies created a once-in-a-generation economic boom that has pushed the national unemployment rate to a 50-year low. Ohio prospered right along with the rest of the country — the state economy has created more than 125,000 new jobs under President Trump’s watch, while the unemployment rate has dropped by a whopping 1.1 percentage points since January 2017.
More importantly, this era of rapid job creation continues to this day. In August alone, five major businesses announced their plans to invest in Ohio’s economy or expand their existing operations.
Consolidated Precision Products, for instance, is planning to hire 128 new workers to support its $55 million expansion project near Cleveland. The United Candle Company, meanwhile, is slated to invest nearly $2 million for a new location in Muskingum County that will support about 100 new jobs.
But don’t be complacent about thinking that our economy will keep growing forever. Every prominent Democrat running for president in 2020 has already pledged to repeal President Trump’s economic policies and replace them with radical, big-government economic interventions that would bring job creation to a screeching halt. Democrat policies will dramatically increase taxes and the cost of living for working families, and bury taxpayers under mountains of unpayable debt.
In addition to banning fossil fuels, the Democrat candidates have proposed to spend tens of trillions of dollars on environmental policies modeled after the unaffordable Green New Deal and tens of trillions more on a federal takeover of America’s healthcare system.
This is precisely why the Trump Campaign is launching its new “Workers for Trump Coalition” — our workers need to know the dark truth about the Democrats’ intentions.
If they win control of the White House in 2020, nothing will stop the Democrats from dismantling every policy that has helped the workers of the Buckeye State thrive in recent years.
President Trump has earned the support of Ohio workers in 2020 by delivering the economic recovery he promised them in 2016. The Democrats are promising to take away our newfound prosperity, and we can’t afford to give them an opportunity to fulfill that promise.
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Bob Campbell, Steelworker, US Steelworkers Local 1042
