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(268,856 posts)NOW
Yes indeedy!
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)and for which Trump takes full credit.
calimary
(81,189 posts)This WAS the mess left by the last CON-jobbers (bush/cheney), that President Obama CLEANED UP. Took him eight years to get the deficit AND the unemployment rate AND the number of uninsured DOWN, and the GDP, the stock market, consumer confidence, even corporate profits UP.
trump did NOTHING but try to take credit for all that hard work and heavy lifting over the eight years before him. Hes like the guy at the end of the conveyor belt who puts the last screw in place and then claims that he built the whole thing from the ground up. So trump puts a cherry on top of the sundae and then claims he built the whole ice cream parlor.
Results like you see in this graph might make you wince ONLY when you think how much greater and wider and more broad-based theyd be if the republi-CONS hadnt done their damnedest to hobble and hamstring and obstruct him every damn step of the damn way.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The GOP is not interested in governing, except for passing tax cuts for their rich masters.
dchill
(38,464 posts)And yet is underemphasized.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Even if the mass media shows little interest.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)nt
Gothmog
(145,063 posts)PatSeg
(47,361 posts)186,000 vs 13,650! Nothing like a chart to give you some perspective.
sandensea
(21,620 posts)Hate radio has them very well organized.
Chemisse
(30,807 posts)Better late than never.
ffr
(22,668 posts)Conservatives coast and ruin. We rebuild and right the ship.
SWBTATTReg
(22,100 posts)They (so called conservatives) claimed loudly that their sacred principals were being violated during President Obama's reign and then they passed the 2018 tax cut and jobs act. The most hypocritical thing that they could have done to prove to everyone that they are not conservative, but mama's boys to the likes of the kochie brothers.
Hypocrites.
nolabear
(41,959 posts)Most people dont know. Asshole can say anything and be believed because people believe authorities and dont know.
gademocrat7
(10,651 posts)DDySiegs
(253 posts)Your was a valuable contribution to my knowledge of the real (NOT fake) facts!
JohnnyRingo
(18,623 posts)He inherited a real shithole, didn't he? hahaha
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)I remember a real estate agent associate of mine, a Republican, having just bought a boat to moor at his million dollar lake home, lamenting the "piss poor, slow economy" in around 2014.
Now that he has his guy in office, he's not as concerned - not at all, in fact - that things have actually stalled under Trump.
Facts don't matter to these folks. We can't change them based on reality. We can only reach out to independents and hope to wrest them from the GOP stranglehold.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)progressoid
(49,964 posts)won't win you much favor among most Americans. Half own no stock, while 80% of all stock is owned by the top 10 percent.
And wages are stagnant as corporations flourish.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)AZ8theist
(5,449 posts)who STILL THINKS that the economy is great until the Dems get in, and then it goes to shit.
Cognitive Dissidence and a Fox Noise view of the world, as wells as a lack of understanding of FACTS propel our electorate to make BAD DECISIONS.
EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.
I am so fucking sick of the uneducated rubes in America.
I seriously think dissolving the union may be the only way out of this nightmare.
ffr
(22,668 posts)They are sheep who will literally cut their noses off if told to do so. Stand tall on your positions, but don't try to argue with those who are lost.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)of people will suffer from what he has done or has ignored. And we are just talking economy.
I miss Obama and feeling we were headed in right direction, even if seemingly slowly.
Demovictory9
(32,445 posts)True Dough
(17,296 posts)without cowing to the banks. He made them more accountable.
He also did it without complete disregard for environmental regulations.
Donny is using unscrupulous means to accelerate the economy so he can boast about it and further enrich his 1 per center buddies. But the rest of us will suffer the consequences long term.