by Sandy » Sun May 05, 2019 9:46 am
Those are Trump administration figures. My response to those is the same as his used to be when unemployment was reaching lows not seen in decades during his predecessor's administration, when the economy under Obama produced consecutive months of unprecedented job growth, and when the GDP flipped by 5 percentage points from the negatives under Bush. Trump said, "Those are just their figures. That's not really what's happening." And "The President's policy doesn't have anything to do with the economy, it runs on its own." That's from his book. And he also alluded to the number of people who simply dropped out of the unemployment figures because they ran out of benefits and stopped being counted. Obviously, according to orange hair, these people never came back into the system during Obama's last term, and Trump's unemployment numbers are not anywhere near large enough to have accounted for them over the past two years (unemployment is actually starting to move back up and job growth is slowing down).
When compared to Trump's economic starting point, these are average figures, not anything outstanding. They're built on what was a remarkable eight year recovery from the Bush recession during the Obama administration.
And a roaring economy wouldn't be enough to make up for the corruption and the lack of character.
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