Obama Policies Fueled Our Economic Boom. Don’t Let Trump And His Rich Man’s Tax Cut Steal The Credit

[Wyatt earp]

when a president does not want to negotiate, it's what's left.

Who said President Obama didn't want to negotiate? Give us some "credible" proof.

everyone who worked with him on the other side of the aisle. remember, elections have consequences. It's all you need to know to know that.

In other words - you have no "credible" proof.

Still can't think of no policy's Obama did to help the economy?

Who started bailing out Detroit?

Bush jr

Tarp?

Bush Jr

Tax cuts ?

Bush Jr

Onama didn't do crap ..

Funny. So, what exactly did President Obama spend money on?

Political kick backs to GM Unfunded union pension programs


And nice trees and signs

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Republicans wouldn't even allow a vote on President Obama's SCOTUS nominee that he was entitled to. Instead, they held up Merrick Garland for a year and then approved Gorsuch with only 51 votes - instead of the usual 60 votes for a SCOTUS nominee.

Yeah, that was awesome!

 

[Wyatt earp]

Who said President Obama didn't want to negotiate? Give us some "credible" proof.

everyone who worked with him on the other side of the aisle. remember, elections have consequences. It's all you need to know to know that.

In other words - you have no "credible" proof.

Still can't think of no policy's Obama did to help the economy?

Who started bailing out Detroit?

Bush jr

Tarp?

Bush Jr

Tax cuts ?

Bush Jr

Onama didn't do crap ..

Funny. So, what exactly did President Obama spend money on?

Political kick backs to GM Unfunded union pension programs


And nice trees and signs

View attachment 168213

The sign lobby did one hell of a job had Obama in their back pocket



.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

when a president does not want to negotiate, it's what's left.

Who said President Obama didn't want to negotiate? Give us some "credible" proof.

everyone who worked with him on the other side of the aisle. remember, elections have consequences. It's all you need to know to know that.

In other words - you have no "credible" proof.

Still can't think of no policy's Obama did to help the economy?

Who started bailing out Detroit?

Bush jr

Tarp?

Bush Jr

Tax cuts ?

Bush Jr

Onama didn't do crap ..

Funny. So, what exactly did President Obama spend money on?

Poor Obama, only 2 term President with zero responsibility for any spending that occurred on his watch.

 

[Meathead]

Donald Trump is good at certain things. (Please take a deep breath and don’t throw your mouse or laptop at the wall.) I have not come to praise Mr. Lost The Popular Vote By 2.9 Million. But the truth is the truth—even if the truth is something Trump wouldn’t recognize if it landed right on the dyed bird’s nest that covers his dome. In any case, we must acknowledge that the man has demonstrated the ability to shape the media narrative for his own nefarious purposes.

For example, when the term “fake news” first gained widespread usage during the 2016 campaign, it most often referred to anti-Hillary, pro-Trump stories planted by non-journalists on social media. Trump, however, has over the past year co-opted the term successfully enough so that, for many, it now primarily refers to mainstream journalists’ supposed anti-Trump bias. Similarly, he has sought to control the narrative about the strong performance of the American economy, and last week’s passage of the rich man’s tax cut is going to be a crucial pivot point in that narrative. The mainstream media and the American people simply cannot allow him to control it the way he has controlled the narrative on fake news.

Throughout his time in the White House, Trump has been obsessed with denigrating the accomplishments of Barack Obama (Think: “Obamacare is imploding”—it isn’t, but who knows what will happen next year as a result of Trump’s repeal of the individual mandate and other steps taken to sabotage the health care law).

Washington Post fact-checker Nicole Lewis offered a detailed comparison of the economy under Trump thus far and Obama. There’s far too much detail to go into here, but here are some highlights. First, the stock market growth in Trump’s first 10 months doesn’t look nearly as impressive when you learn that it is no better than the market’s performance in peer countries like the UK, Germany, and Japan. This isn’t a Trump bull market, it’s a global one. By comparison, under Obama the U.S. stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, not only tripled over eight years, it significantly outperformed the markets in those same peer countries.

Job growth under Trump lags behind job growth under Obama (in a comparable time period, i.e., February through November) in each of the previous four years, and five out of the last seven years of the Obama presidency. And while we’re on the topic of media narrative, Trump now touts the big drop of about one-half of 1 percent in the unemployment rate since he took office, but while Obama was president he denigratedthe unemployment rate as “nonsense.” That’s not surprising given that it fell almost five points during the final five years of the Obama presidency.

Overall, the economy under Trump thus far looks no better by most measures than the economy in the last years under Obama. Furthermore, whereas Trump inherited the strong Obama economy, Obama inherited the Great Recession from George W. Bush—the worst economic crash since the Great Depression. That crash followed years of Republican control of Congress and a round of tax cuts whose benefits flowed mostly to the wealthy (sound familiar?). Until the passage of the Trump tax scheme, there were no significant changes to the economic policies put in place during the Obama presidency—policies that brought our economy out of the Great Recession and which have given us the longest lasting period of job growth in our history.

Trump’s comments above about his tax scheme and “rocket fuel” make clear that he will go even further than he has so far in claiming credit for anything good happening in the economy. He and his right-wing minions have in fact begun doing so. Here’s a headline from the Conservative Review: “The Trump tax cuts are ALREADY raising wages” (all-caps makes it much more convincing, doesn’t it?). Don’t buy it. As Conor Sen at Bloomberg explained, the rich man’s tax cut is merely the “excuse to raise wages. The tight labor market is the real reason.” And of course the tight labor market reflects years of a strong economy bequeathed to us by none other than President Barack Obama. Don’t let Donald Trump steal the credit.

More: Obama Policies Fueled Our Economic Boom. Don’t Let Trump And His Rich Man’s Tax Cut Steal The Credit

Trump continues riding President Obama's coattails and trying to steal his thunder. President Obama gave us a stable and sustainable economy; whereas, Trump is trying to give us a rocket ship economy that may propel us into another Great Depression. The current economy does not need deregulation and tax cuts for stimulation.

Sounds very much like a rear-guard action to salvage the incredible-shrinking Obama legacy. It is in many ways what Reagan did to Carter; the contrast between success and failure brought to the light of day.

 

[jc456]

Who said President Obama didn't want to negotiate? Give us some "credible" proof.

everyone who worked with him on the other side of the aisle. remember, elections have consequences. It's all you need to know to know that.

In other words - you have no "credible" proof.

Still can't think of no policy's Obama did to help the economy?

Who started bailing out Detroit?

Bush jr

Tarp?

Bush Jr

Tax cuts ?

Bush Jr

Onama didn't do crap ..

Funny. So, what exactly did President Obama spend money on?

Poor Obama, only 2 term President with zero responsibility for any spending that occurred on his watch.

and reaping the credit of the incoming president's boom.

 

[Weatherman2020]

 

[Weatherman2020]

I don't fucking believe you for a second

Of course you don't, because you are a sub human birdbrain parrot left wing liar who has no truth, and hates truth... as well as America.


I, LaDexter, am by far the biggest 911 TRUTHER here....

I have way more topics about 911 moved to "Conspiracy" topic than any other poster.....


By chance was this a "757" or a cruise missile....

Funniest looking cruise missile parts. And I'm sure you have all the answers worked out in your crazy head.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Donald Trump is good at certain things. (Please take a deep breath and don’t throw your mouse or laptop at the wall.) I have not come to praise Mr. Lost The Popular Vote By 2.9 Million. But the truth is the truth—even if the truth is something Trump wouldn’t recognize if it landed right on the dyed bird’s nest that covers his dome. In any case, we must acknowledge that the man has demonstrated the ability to shape the media narrative for his own nefarious purposes.

For example, when the term “fake news” first gained widespread usage during the 2016 campaign, it most often referred to anti-Hillary, pro-Trump stories planted by non-journalists on social media. Trump, however, has over the past year co-opted the term successfully enough so that, for many, it now primarily refers to mainstream journalists’ supposed anti-Trump bias. Similarly, he has sought to control the narrative about the strong performance of the American economy, and last week’s passage of the rich man’s tax cut is going to be a crucial pivot point in that narrative. The mainstream media and the American people simply cannot allow him to control it the way he has controlled the narrative on fake news.

Throughout his time in the White House, Trump has been obsessed with denigrating the accomplishments of Barack Obama (Think: “Obamacare is imploding”—it isn’t, but who knows what will happen next year as a result of Trump’s repeal of the individual mandate and other steps taken to sabotage the health care law).

Washington Post fact-checker Nicole Lewis offered a detailed comparison of the economy under Trump thus far and Obama. There’s far too much detail to go into here, but here are some highlights. First, the stock market growth in Trump’s first 10 months doesn’t look nearly as impressive when you learn that it is no better than the market’s performance in peer countries like the UK, Germany, and Japan. This isn’t a Trump bull market, it’s a global one. By comparison, under Obama the U.S. stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, not only tripled over eight years, it significantly outperformed the markets in those same peer countries.

Job growth under Trump lags behind job growth under Obama (in a comparable time period, i.e., February through November) in each of the previous four years, and five out of the last seven years of the Obama presidency. And while we’re on the topic of media narrative, Trump now touts the big drop of about one-half of 1 percent in the unemployment rate since he took office, but while Obama was president he denigratedthe unemployment rate as “nonsense.” That’s not surprising given that it fell almost five points during the final five years of the Obama presidency.

Overall, the economy under Trump thus far looks no better by most measures than the economy in the last years under Obama. Furthermore, whereas Trump inherited the strong Obama economy, Obama inherited the Great Recession from George W. Bush—the worst economic crash since the Great Depression. That crash followed years of Republican control of Congress and a round of tax cuts whose benefits flowed mostly to the wealthy (sound familiar?). Until the passage of the Trump tax scheme, there were no significant changes to the economic policies put in place during the Obama presidency—policies that brought our economy out of the Great Recession and which have given us the longest lasting period of job growth in our history.

Trump’s comments above about his tax scheme and “rocket fuel” make clear that he will go even further than he has so far in claiming credit for anything good happening in the economy. He and his right-wing minions have in fact begun doing so. Here’s a headline from the Conservative Review: “The Trump tax cuts are ALREADY raising wages” (all-caps makes it much more convincing, doesn’t it?). Don’t buy it. As Conor Sen at Bloomberg explained, the rich man’s tax cut is merely the “excuse to raise wages. The tight labor market is the real reason.” And of course the tight labor market reflects years of a strong economy bequeathed to us by none other than President Barack Obama. Don’t let Donald Trump steal the credit.

More: Obama Policies Fueled Our Economic Boom. Don’t Let Trump And His Rich Man’s Tax Cut Steal The Credit

Trump continues riding President Obama's coattails and trying to steal his thunder. President Obama gave us a stable and sustainable economy; whereas, Trump is trying to give us a rocket ship economy that may propel us into another Great Depression. The current economy does not need deregulation and tax cuts for stimulation.

Sounds very much like a rear-guard action to salvage the incredible-shrinking Obama legacy. It is in many ways what Reagan did to Carter; the contrast between success and failure brought to the light of day.

Great analogy

 

[Lakhota]

Presidential historians will not let Trump steal credit for President Obama's good economy. In fact, Trump's legacy may be the Great Trump Depression/Recession.

 

[The Breeze]

Presidential historians will not let Trump steal credit for President Obama's good economy. In fact, Trump's legacy may be the Great Trump Depression/Recession.

Comedic gold.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Presidential historians will not let Trump steal credit for President Obama's good economy. In fact, Trump's legacy may be the Great Trump Depression/Recession.

Once again Obama didn't do anything positive on his own he just copied off of Bush Jr,

It will go down in history he did everything he could to be negative on growth he hated fracking that kept gas prices from climbing and kept unemployment low in the Dakota's and elsewhere in the red States ..


The feds we're pumping in 85 billion a month with quantitive easing


The red State govenors kept bringing in jobs to their states while the blue states suffered

Obama care killed the recovery made full time jobs part time , temporary jobs was on the rise

People sat at home collecting 99 weeks of unemployment and killing their resumes


No one wanted to hire a person who went on unemployment that long..

So did Obama's EPA

All the stimulus did was for political favors and government jobs ..


Obama was a failure, and Trump is wiping out what little legacy he had left..

Trump is doing to Obama what Regan did to Carter made him look like a fool

Too funny

 

[The Breeze]

Presidential historians will not let Trump steal credit for President Obama's good economy. In fact, Trump's legacy may be the Great Trump Depression/Recession.

i know this is off topic but, do you know if I can go back and rate this thread funny again? One funny emoji just doesn't seem to be enough.

 

[Oldstyle]

Donald Trump is good at certain things. (Please take a deep breath and don’t throw your mouse or laptop at the wall.) I have not come to praise Mr. Lost The Popular Vote By 2.9 Million. But the truth is the truth—even if the truth is something Trump wouldn’t recognize if it landed right on the dyed bird’s nest that covers his dome. In any case, we must acknowledge that the man has demonstrated the ability to shape the media narrative for his own nefarious purposes.

For example, when the term “fake news” first gained widespread usage during the 2016 campaign, it most often referred to anti-Hillary, pro-Trump stories planted by non-journalists on social media. Trump, however, has over the past year co-opted the term successfully enough so that, for many, it now primarily refers to mainstream journalists’ supposed anti-Trump bias. Similarly, he has sought to control the narrative about the strong performance of the American economy, and last week’s passage of the rich man’s tax cut is going to be a crucial pivot point in that narrative. The mainstream media and the American people simply cannot allow him to control it the way he has controlled the narrative on fake news.

Throughout his time in the White House, Trump has been obsessed with denigrating the accomplishments of Barack Obama (Think: “Obamacare is imploding”—it isn’t, but who knows what will happen next year as a result of Trump’s repeal of the individual mandate and other steps taken to sabotage the health care law).

Washington Post fact-checker Nicole Lewis offered a detailed comparison of the economy under Trump thus far and Obama. There’s far too much detail to go into here, but here are some highlights. First, the stock market growth in Trump’s first 10 months doesn’t look nearly as impressive when you learn that it is no better than the market’s performance in peer countries like the UK, Germany, and Japan. This isn’t a Trump bull market, it’s a global one. By comparison, under Obama the U.S. stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, not only tripled over eight years, it significantly outperformed the markets in those same peer countries.

Job growth under Trump lags behind job growth under Obama (in a comparable time period, i.e., February through November) in each of the previous four years, and five out of the last seven years of the Obama presidency. And while we’re on the topic of media narrative, Trump now touts the big drop of about one-half of 1 percent in the unemployment rate since he took office, but while Obama was president he denigratedthe unemployment rate as “nonsense.” That’s not surprising given that it fell almost five points during the final five years of the Obama presidency.

Overall, the economy under Trump thus far looks no better by most measures than the economy in the last years under Obama. Furthermore, whereas Trump inherited the strong Obama economy, Obama inherited the Great Recession from George W. Bush—the worst economic crash since the Great Depression. That crash followed years of Republican control of Congress and a round of tax cuts whose benefits flowed mostly to the wealthy (sound familiar?). Until the passage of the Trump tax scheme, there were no significant changes to the economic policies put in place during the Obama presidency—policies that brought our economy out of the Great Recession and which have given us the longest lasting period of job growth in our history.

Trump’s comments above about his tax scheme and “rocket fuel” make clear that he will go even further than he has so far in claiming credit for anything good happening in the economy. He and his right-wing minions have in fact begun doing so. Here’s a headline from the Conservative Review: “The Trump tax cuts are ALREADY raising wages” (all-caps makes it much more convincing, doesn’t it?). Don’t buy it. As Conor Sen at Bloomberg explained, the rich man’s tax cut is merely the “excuse to raise wages. The tight labor market is the real reason.” And of course the tight labor market reflects years of a strong economy bequeathed to us by none other than President Barack Obama. Don’t let Donald Trump steal the credit.

More: Obama Policies Fueled Our Economic Boom. Don’t Let Trump And His Rich Man’s Tax Cut Steal The Credit

Trump continues riding President Obama's coattails and trying to steal his thunder. President Obama gave us a stable and sustainable economy; whereas, Trump is trying to give us a rocket ship economy that may propel us into another Great Depression. The current economy does not need deregulation and tax cuts for stimulation.

Which Obama policy was it that improved the economy? Obamacare? Nope! The largely ineffective Obama stimulus? That was so bad they had to use "jobs created or saved" to hide how few jobs they actually created! Can you even name an Obama economic initiative from his last six years that grew the economy? I can't! He basically didn't even try after the first two years he was in office!

 

[Lakhota]

Donald Trump is good at certain things. (Please take a deep breath and don’t throw your mouse or laptop at the wall.) I have not come to praise Mr. Lost The Popular Vote By 2.9 Million. But the truth is the truth—even if the truth is something Trump wouldn’t recognize if it landed right on the dyed bird’s nest that covers his dome. In any case, we must acknowledge that the man has demonstrated the ability to shape the media narrative for his own nefarious purposes.

For example, when the term “fake news” first gained widespread usage during the 2016 campaign, it most often referred to anti-Hillary, pro-Trump stories planted by non-journalists on social media. Trump, however, has over the past year co-opted the term successfully enough so that, for many, it now primarily refers to mainstream journalists’ supposed anti-Trump bias. Similarly, he has sought to control the narrative about the strong performance of the American economy, and last week’s passage of the rich man’s tax cut is going to be a crucial pivot point in that narrative. The mainstream media and the American people simply cannot allow him to control it the way he has controlled the narrative on fake news.

Throughout his time in the White House, Trump has been obsessed with denigrating the accomplishments of Barack Obama (Think: “Obamacare is imploding”—it isn’t, but who knows what will happen next year as a result of Trump’s repeal of the individual mandate and other steps taken to sabotage the health care law).

Washington Post fact-checker Nicole Lewis offered a detailed comparison of the economy under Trump thus far and Obama. There’s far too much detail to go into here, but here are some highlights. First, the stock market growth in Trump’s first 10 months doesn’t look nearly as impressive when you learn that it is no better than the market’s performance in peer countries like the UK, Germany, and Japan. This isn’t a Trump bull market, it’s a global one. By comparison, under Obama the U.S. stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, not only tripled over eight years, it significantly outperformed the markets in those same peer countries.

Job growth under Trump lags behind job growth under Obama (in a comparable time period, i.e., February through November) in each of the previous four years, and five out of the last seven years of the Obama presidency. And while we’re on the topic of media narrative, Trump now touts the big drop of about one-half of 1 percent in the unemployment rate since he took office, but while Obama was president he denigratedthe unemployment rate as “nonsense.” That’s not surprising given that it fell almost five points during the final five years of the Obama presidency.

Overall, the economy under Trump thus far looks no better by most measures than the economy in the last years under Obama. Furthermore, whereas Trump inherited the strong Obama economy, Obama inherited the Great Recession from George W. Bush—the worst economic crash since the Great Depression. That crash followed years of Republican control of Congress and a round of tax cuts whose benefits flowed mostly to the wealthy (sound familiar?). Until the passage of the Trump tax scheme, there were no significant changes to the economic policies put in place during the Obama presidency—policies that brought our economy out of the Great Recession and which have given us the longest lasting period of job growth in our history.

Trump’s comments above about his tax scheme and “rocket fuel” make clear that he will go even further than he has so far in claiming credit for anything good happening in the economy. He and his right-wing minions have in fact begun doing so. Here’s a headline from the Conservative Review: “The Trump tax cuts are ALREADY raising wages” (all-caps makes it much more convincing, doesn’t it?). Don’t buy it. As Conor Sen at Bloomberg explained, the rich man’s tax cut is merely the “excuse to raise wages. The tight labor market is the real reason.” And of course the tight labor market reflects years of a strong economy bequeathed to us by none other than President Barack Obama. Don’t let Donald Trump steal the credit.

More: Obama Policies Fueled Our Economic Boom. Don’t Let Trump And His Rich Man’s Tax Cut Steal The Credit

Trump continues riding President Obama's coattails and trying to steal his thunder. President Obama gave us a stable and sustainable economy; whereas, Trump is trying to give us a rocket ship economy that may propel us into another Great Depression. The current economy does not need deregulation and tax cuts for stimulation.

Which Obama policy was it that improved the economy? Obamacare? Nope! The largely ineffective Obama stimulus? That was so bad they had to use "jobs created or saved" to hide how few jobs they actually created! Can you even name an Obama economic initiative from his last six years that grew the economy? I can't! He basically didn't even try after the first two years he was in office!

Many to choose from! Take your pick below...

• Washington Monthly | Obama's Top 50 Accomplishments
  https://washingtonmonthly.com / magazine / marchapril-2012 / obamas-top-50-accomplishments / - 303k - similar pages
  Obama's Top 50 Accomplishments ... (Also check out the main article, The Incomplete Greatness of Barack Obama, and the issue's Editor's Note.) 1. ... Passed the Stimulus: Signed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid greatest recession since the Great Depression.
  • Washington Monthly | Obama's Top 50 Accomplishments, Revisited
    https://washingtonmonthly.com / magazine / januaryfebruary-2017 / obamas-top-50-accomplish / - 248k - similar pages
    In March 2012, we compiled a list of what were, at the time, President Barack Obama's greatest achievements, to accompany our cover story, ?The Incomplete Greatness of Barack Obama.? Today, at the end of his second term, Obama's legacy is far more complete. Indeed, items from the original list?such as increasing ...
• 28 Of Barack Obama's Greatest Achievements As President Of The ...
  28 Reasons Obama May Go Down As One Of The Greatest Presidents Of All Time - 219k - similar pages
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• President Obama's Economic Policies and Accomplishments
  What Has Obama Done? 13 Significant Accomplishments - 196k - similar pages
  Oct 19, 2017 ... He 13 significant accomplishments during his two terms. ... President Barack Obama waves to the photographers as he returns to the South Lawn of the White House on May 28, 2015 in Washington, DC. Obama .... No Personal Scandal - One achievement has gone unnoticed but is nevertheless admirable.
• 111 Accomplishments of President Barack Obama - Facebook
  https://www.facebook.com / notes / accomplishments-of-presi / 111-accomplishments-of-p / 377659576289 / - 347k - similar pages
  Below is a list of 111 Accomplishments of President Barack Obama as posted via Status Updates on the ?Accomplishments of President Barack Obama? Facebook Page. To be alerted of further accomplishments, please become a fan (Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page: It works .facebook.com/obamaaccomplishments). Please also copy, paste and email!
• President Barack Obama Accomplishments | BlackDoctor
  https://blackdoctor.org / 477384 / job-well-done-44-things- / - 144k - 17 hours ago - similar pages
  Here are the top 44 things that the 44th President of the United States BarackObama has accomplished. ... Passed the Stimulus: Signed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid greatest recession since the Great Depression. Weeks after stimulus went into effect, ...
• Barack Obama: What He Achieved in the White House | Time
  http://time.com / 4616866 / barack-obama-administrat / - 333k - similar pages
  Dec 22, 2016... A candidate known for his stirring speeches struggled, as president, to sell the public on what he was doing and why he was doing it. Journalist Michael Grunwald has documented the scope of one of Obama's ambitious achievements : the stimulus package known as the American Recovery and ...
• 10 of Obama's greatest accomplishments - AOL News - AOL.com
  https://www.aol.com / article / 2016 / 08 / 04 / 10-of-obamas-greatest-ac / 21444467 / - 190k - similar pages
  Aug 4, 2016 ... When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, his campaign slogan was " Change we can believe in." He ran on the platform that called for the country to come together and create the positive change needed to bring the U.S. out of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. In his first term of ...
• Obama's Policy Legacy: The Nation He Built - POLITICO Magazine
  https://www.politico.com / magazine / story / 2016 / 01 / obama-biggest-achievemen... - 104k - similar pages
  A POLITICO review of Barack Obama's domestic policy legacy?and the changes he made while nobody was paying attention. ... As a candidate, Obama was often dismissed as a talker, a silver-tongued political savant with no real record of achievement. But ever since he took office during a raging economic crisis, he's ...

 

[Lakhota]

Obama Is ‘Most Admired Man’ For 10th Year In A Row, Gallup Poll Says

Go Obama!!!!!

For the 22nd time, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman.

Go Hillary!!!!!

 

[eagle7_31]

Donald Trump is good at certain things. (Please take a deep breath and don’t throw your mouse or laptop at the wall.) I have not come to praise Mr. Lost The Popular Vote By 2.9 Million. But the truth is the truth—even if the truth is something Trump wouldn’t recognize if it landed right on the dyed bird’s nest that covers his dome. In any case, we must acknowledge that the man has demonstrated the ability to shape the media narrative for his own nefarious purposes.

For example, when the term “fake news” first gained widespread usage during the 2016 campaign, it most often referred to anti-Hillary, pro-Trump stories planted by non-journalists on social media. Trump, however, has over the past year co-opted the term successfully enough so that, for many, it now primarily refers to mainstream journalists’ supposed anti-Trump bias. Similarly, he has sought to control the narrative about the strong performance of the American economy, and last week’s passage of the rich man’s tax cut is going to be a crucial pivot point in that narrative. The mainstream media and the American people simply cannot allow him to control it the way he has controlled the narrative on fake news.

Throughout his time in the White House, Trump has been obsessed with denigrating the accomplishments of Barack Obama (Think: “Obamacare is imploding”—it isn’t, but who knows what will happen next year as a result of Trump’s repeal of the individual mandate and other steps taken to sabotage the health care law).

Washington Post fact-checker Nicole Lewis offered a detailed comparison of the economy under Trump thus far and Obama. There’s far too much detail to go into here, but here are some highlights. First, the stock market growth in Trump’s first 10 months doesn’t look nearly as impressive when you learn that it is no better than the market’s performance in peer countries like the UK, Germany, and Japan. This isn’t a Trump bull market, it’s a global one. By comparison, under Obama the U.S. stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, not only tripled over eight years, it significantly outperformed the markets in those same peer countries.

Job growth under Trump lags behind job growth under Obama (in a comparable time period, i.e., February through November) in each of the previous four years, and five out of the last seven years of the Obama presidency. And while we’re on the topic of media narrative, Trump now touts the big drop of about one-half of 1 percent in the unemployment rate since he took office, but while Obama was president he denigratedthe unemployment rate as “nonsense.” That’s not surprising given that it fell almost five points during the final five years of the Obama presidency.

Overall, the economy under Trump thus far looks no better by most measures than the economy in the last years under Obama. Furthermore, whereas Trump inherited the strong Obama economy, Obama inherited the Great Recession from George W. Bush—the worst economic crash since the Great Depression. That crash followed years of Republican control of Congress and a round of tax cuts whose benefits flowed mostly to the wealthy (sound familiar?). Until the passage of the Trump tax scheme, there were no significant changes to the economic policies put in place during the Obama presidency—policies that brought our economy out of the Great Recession and which have given us the longest lasting period of job growth in our history.

Trump’s comments above about his tax scheme and “rocket fuel” make clear that he will go even further than he has so far in claiming credit for anything good happening in the economy. He and his right-wing minions have in fact begun doing so. Here’s a headline from the Conservative Review: “The Trump tax cuts are ALREADY raising wages” (all-caps makes it much more convincing, doesn’t it?). Don’t buy it. As Conor Sen at Bloomberg explained, the rich man’s tax cut is merely the “excuse to raise wages. The tight labor market is the real reason.” And of course the tight labor market reflects years of a strong economy bequeathed to us by none other than President Barack Obama. Don’t let Donald Trump steal the credit.

More: Obama Policies Fueled Our Economic Boom. Don’t Let Trump And His Rich Man’s Tax Cut Steal The Credit

Trump continues riding President Obama's coattails and trying to steal his thunder. President Obama gave us a stable and sustainable economy; whereas, Trump is trying to give us a rocket ship economy that may propel us into another Great Depression. The current economy does not need deregulation and tax cuts for stimulation.

Fiction becomes you.

 

[Mac1958]

One of the silliest "serious" threads I've seen in a while.

 

[BrokeLoser]

Donald Trump is good at certain things. (Please take a deep breath and don’t throw your mouse or laptop at the wall.) I have not come to praise Mr. Lost The Popular Vote By 2.9 Million. But the truth is the truth—even if the truth is something Trump wouldn’t recognize if it landed right on the dyed bird’s nest that covers his dome. In any case, we must acknowledge that the man has demonstrated the ability to shape the media narrative for his own nefarious purposes.

For example, when the term “fake news” first gained widespread usage during the 2016 campaign, it most often referred to anti-Hillary, pro-Trump stories planted by non-journalists on social media. Trump, however, has over the past year co-opted the term successfully enough so that, for many, it now primarily refers to mainstream journalists’ supposed anti-Trump bias. Similarly, he has sought to control the narrative about the strong performance of the American economy, and last week’s passage of the rich man’s tax cut is going to be a crucial pivot point in that narrative. The mainstream media and the American people simply cannot allow him to control it the way he has controlled the narrative on fake news.

Throughout his time in the White House, Trump has been obsessed with denigrating the accomplishments of Barack Obama (Think: “Obamacare is imploding”—it isn’t, but who knows what will happen next year as a result of Trump’s repeal of the individual mandate and other steps taken to sabotage the health care law).

Washington Post fact-checker Nicole Lewis offered a detailed comparison of the economy under Trump thus far and Obama. There’s far too much detail to go into here, but here are some highlights. First, the stock market growth in Trump’s first 10 months doesn’t look nearly as impressive when you learn that it is no better than the market’s performance in peer countries like the UK, Germany, and Japan. This isn’t a Trump bull market, it’s a global one. By comparison, under Obama the U.S. stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, not only tripled over eight years, it significantly outperformed the markets in those same peer countries.

Job growth under Trump lags behind job growth under Obama (in a comparable time period, i.e., February through November) in each of the previous four years, and five out of the last seven years of the Obama presidency. And while we’re on the topic of media narrative, Trump now touts the big drop of about one-half of 1 percent in the unemployment rate since he took office, but while Obama was president he denigratedthe unemployment rate as “nonsense.” That’s not surprising given that it fell almost five points during the final five years of the Obama presidency.

Overall, the economy under Trump thus far looks no better by most measures than the economy in the last years under Obama. Furthermore, whereas Trump inherited the strong Obama economy, Obama inherited the Great Recession from George W. Bush—the worst economic crash since the Great Depression. That crash followed years of Republican control of Congress and a round of tax cuts whose benefits flowed mostly to the wealthy (sound familiar?). Until the passage of the Trump tax scheme, there were no significant changes to the economic policies put in place during the Obama presidency—policies that brought our economy out of the Great Recession and which have given us the longest lasting period of job growth in our history.

Trump’s comments above about his tax scheme and “rocket fuel” make clear that he will go even further than he has so far in claiming credit for anything good happening in the economy. He and his right-wing minions have in fact begun doing so. Here’s a headline from the Conservative Review: “The Trump tax cuts are ALREADY raising wages” (all-caps makes it much more convincing, doesn’t it?). Don’t buy it. As Conor Sen at Bloomberg explained, the rich man’s tax cut is merely the “excuse to raise wages. The tight labor market is the real reason.” And of course the tight labor market reflects years of a strong economy bequeathed to us by none other than President Barack Obama. Don’t let Donald Trump steal the credit.

More: Obama Policies Fueled Our Economic Boom. Don’t Let Trump And His Rich Man’s Tax Cut Steal The Credit

Trump continues riding President Obama's coattails and trying to steal his thunder. President Obama gave us a stable and sustainable economy; whereas, Trump is trying to give us a rocket ship economy that may propel us into another Great Depression. The current economy does not need deregulation and tax cuts for stimulation.[/QUOTE

Obama Policies Fueled Our Economic Boom. Don’t Let Trump And His Rich Man’s Tax Cut Steal The Credit

I think you mean:
"$10 Trillion Dollars From The Pockets Of America Taxpayers Fueled Our Economic Boom"
Don't you?

 

[JQPublic1]

Good gawd, another one who thinks the stock market is the economy. It is not. Not today, not during Obama.

The rate of job growth under Obama was certainly going to be higher, given the dire situation he was handed, which was a fucking mess.

We'll never know what Obama would have done with a more normal economy. As it is, the only thing he did here was stand back and allow the Federal Reserve to pump over FOUR TRILLION DOLLARS into markets.

Just more partisan noise.
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The purse strings of the government was controlled by the GOP controlled House. How did Obama do all that supposedly {discretionary?) spending without their approval?