Better yet, check out Crazy Town!

 

Trump is now -13 in the RealCleaar Politics average of polls and down -8 in the Trump friendly Rasmussen poll.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html

 

To all the stupid twats out there: (You know who you are.) I didn't write this article. If you want to know who wrote it, click the fucking link you stupid cunts.

Left turns blind eye to Trump’s successes

9/12/18

This past week I asked a friend at the White House about how the president was holding up against the onslaught of media attacks. “They didn’t even deliver a glancing blow,” was the response. It wasn’t for a lack of trying.

Has any president in modern times been the target of such a blitzkrieg of orchestrated assaults — from John McCain’s funeral turned anti-Trump scrum to Bob Woodward’s discredited new book trashing the president to the media infatuation with the anonymous New York Times op-ed by a disgruntled federal employee who hates President Trump.

Here we go again. Trump is (for the umpteenth time) characterized as dangerous, deranged, delusional, infantile, racist and amoral. The only people who pay attention to the anti-Trump screeds are already frothing at the mouth with Trump hatred. What is the point? After all this time, the “resistance” movement is still utterly clueless about Trump, his followers and the appeal of his “America First” agenda. Just why is he “deranged”? Because he is overturning trade deals, pulling the United States out of anti-America climate change treaties, building a wall to keep out undesirables, cutting taxes, slashing regulation and insisting that Europe pay its fair share of NATO’s costs.

Well, yes. Guilty as charged.

And what is the result of all this “chaos” and “mayhem” in the White House that the media is in such a frenzy about? Well, as we learned last week, we now have the lowest number of American workers on unemployment insurance since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, the biggest manufacturing boom in 14 years, the lowest black unemployment rate ever recorded, and an economy that is growing at 4.4 percent this quarter, on top of 4.2 percent growth last quarter.

The surging Trump economy is arguably the news story of the decade and yet it is covered, if at all, as a ho-hum yawner.

The first rule of journalism is: Never bury the lead. The media does this every day. Perhaps that is because the press corps and their economist sources are having a devil of a time explaining how a “deranged” president has been able to turbocharge the economy so decisively.

The only story line that The New York Times could conjure up — and I’m not making this up — is that Trump is riding an Obama wave. Sure.

It is a virtual guarantee that when the economy does start to slow down (alas, booms don’t last forever), The New York Times will gleefully shout: Aha, Donald Trump’s economic policies are a failure!

Yes, there is a bit of chaos and disorder at the White House. Yes, some of the characters that Trump has hired had no business being anywhere near 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. By contrast, Obama had an orderly and statesmanlike White House, and he hired a cadre of highly respected and well-intended people. Yet all of this still produced the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression.

The other day I was on a panel with media reporters and I suggested in all seriousness that Donald Trump deserves the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics. My fellow panelists almost visibly popped a vein in their heads. They ranted and raved about how stupid and dangerous Trump’s policies are. Just who is deranged in this picture?

 

The Boston Herald gets it...why don't the stupid twats???

 

Um....cuz they're stupid twats?

 

Rebounding economy lifts workers

9/12/18

The economic recovery is really beginning to reach into Trump country.

The president is famous for his extravagant promises, involving, invariably, the biggest and the best. The landscape is littered with examples, although he never promised to create blue-collar jobs at the fastest clip since 1984, something he achieved in the first half of 2018.

A labor market that has been rocky since the financial crisis, and hasn’t truly delivered for many workers for decades, is robust enough to reach all corners of the economy, including Trump areas that have recently been doing better than other parts of the country.

As the Brookings Institution observes, “goods-producing industries have been surging while services industries have seen their seasonally adjusted employment growth slow since 2016.” This is good news for smaller, more rural areas, which are now actually outpacing the growth rate in large urban areas.

According to Jed Kolko of Indeed Hiring Lab, “Job growth accelerated between 2016 and ’17 in counties that Trump won by at least 20 points.”

Industries emphasized by Trump have performed particularly well, in contrast to how they fared under President Obama. Kolko points out that mining and logging employment has increased 9 percent the first 18 months of Trump, after declining nearly 14 percent over the last 18 months of the Obama administration. Manufacturing employment is up 2 percent in the first 18 months of Trump, whereas it was flat the last 18 months under Obama.

Several things are going on. As the labor market has tightened — in June, there were 6.7 million job openings and 6.6 million unemployed Americans — it has benefited workers down the income scale. “Among those without a college degree,” Kolko writes, “both non-Hispanic Whites, who lean red, and Hispanics and non-Whites, who lean blue, have seen strong gains under Trump.”

Relatively high oil prices give a boost to the extraction industry (and the manufacturers that make its equipment), while manufacturing in general benefits from a strong global economy.

The administration, for its part, has leaned into a pro-growth tax and deregulatory program meant to spur more investment and remove burdens on business. The goal has been to defeat fatalist predictions of a “secular stagnation” that supposedly meant that we could never realistically expect anything more than middling economic growth.

At the moment, the warnings are less of stagnation than of an alleged labor shortage that, according to CNBC, is nearing “epidemic proportions.” This is exactly what we need. As Josh Barro of Business Insider points out, a tight labor market puts welcome upward pressure on wages and creates an incentive for workers to get more training and employers to provide it.

This dynamic still needs time to take hold. Wage growth, at least by traditional measures, has been surprisingly sluggish given the low unemployment rate (the White House argues that wages are being mismeasured and underestimated). But in August, encouragingly, average hourly wages increased 2.9 percent from a year ago, the biggest increase since June 2009.

As for training, a report from the National Association of Manufacturers says that two-thirds of manufacturers plan to increase worker training in the next year. This is so important because it’s only possible to achieve sustainable wage gains by increasing the productivity of workers. And so far, despite the boom, productivity increases have still been lagging.

The encouraging news for blue-collar workers is welcome. But we should set our sights higher. Regaining what was lost in the aftermath of the financial crisis isn’t enough. The national priority should be, as Oren Cass of the Manhattan Institute argues in his forthcoming book “The Once and Future Worker,” returning to a lost golden age of work, when labor force participation rates and wage growth were both reliably high.

The implicit Trump pledge in the 2016 campaign was of jobs good and stable enough to make a decent living and raise a family. That should never be overpromising in America.

 

Such angry namecalling. I’m sure shooter despairs for the civility he longs for.

 

Yes indeed. But, if Democrats don't take the house at least, he's resigned to 6 more years of name calling and attacks. It might come to pass that the rabid Trump haters finally run out of steam, but he doubts it.

 

Once again...

 

Liberals are in NO POSITION to even say the word "civility".

 

Let's just grant for a second that the economy is doing good under Trump. Even though I can post research that proves in many ways the economy did better under President Obama. And Trumps economy comes at the cost of a trillion dollar budget deficit.

But if we grant the economy is good then why is Trump dropping like a rock in the polls?

And the answer is quite simple. The majority of Americans are far more concerned about having a mentally ill president that has to be babysat and manipulated like a child than they are about the economy.

 

Well, lets take a closer then, shall we?
Job openings are up. Way up. Almost 7 Million job openings in America. This is more job openings than we've had since 2000. Meanwhile, 3.6 Million Americans quit their jobs, most of them because they either took one of those 7 Million open jobs (cause it paid better, had better benefits, or in some other way was a better job) or because they were confident they would get a better job in short order.
Overall hiring in July hit 5.7 Million, another new record. This very healthy job market (if one is looking for a job) is perhaps the strongest indicator of just how hot the economy is right now, and other indicators (like purchasing manager surveys showing increased optimism for long term purchasing and capital investments) show that there is no sign of a slowdown.

A record low unemployment rate, robust job growth, and oh, by the way, a 2.9% jump in hourly pay (the best jump in a decade) all point to labor growth and economic growth that should please everyone. Really; jobs, good jobs, are out there just waiting to be filled.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/job-openings-reach-unprecedented-levels-143532557.html

More and higher wages mean higher tax revenue and more disposable income, which in turn means higher tax revenue, and a healthier middle class. By the way, the middle class is no longer shrinking. Income inequality is growing still, but that isn't a bad thing; it just means people moving out of the middle are moving up, not down, and people in the bottom are moving up, into the middle. And many of those moving from the bottom into the middle are Americans who were shoved out of the labor market in the 2008 melt down and who, for a couple of reasons, never returned. They joined the ranks of long term unemployed, and they've been subsisting on Social Security disability, welfare, and food stamps. The demand for workers has made these unemployables suddenly employable, and they are rejoining the job market, to once again become tax payers and not tax users. Lower social spending to boot! Marvelous!

Now, President Obama is said to be taking credit for laying the foundation and leaving Trump an economy that was bound to boom. Of course, Obama's predictions for 2% GDP being "normal" in the "new economy", backed up by Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen's declaration in June of 2016 that sluggish growth that caps out at 2 percent is with us for as far as the eye can see, or at least through the next two years were taken as gospel, and when candidate Trump promised 4% GDP, unsupporters pointed to his promise as yet one more sign that the man was delusional.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/19/americas-sluggish-economic-growth-the-new-normal/

Even the world bank in 2016 was predicting that Trump's economy would be worse than Obama's, and that Trump would be lucky to see 2.0% GDP growth in 2018 and 2019. They described the economy as "fragile" and "mediocre"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrap...rowth-will-be-worse-than-obamas/#68fc18f92776

Well, someone forgot to tell American business.

Now. Everyone knows that the debt will increase by at least $1 Trillion in 2018. Trump promised he could pay off the debt in 8 years, mainly with better trade deals, a tax cut and a strangle hold on spending. So far, it ain't happening. But, IF the economy continues to boom, IF Trump can get better trade deals with China et. al, and IF Congress manages to control itself with the budget, the old boy should at least make a decent dent in the debt before he faces reelection in 2020. Or gets impeached. Or has a stroke. Or whatever.

Now, the question of Trump's mental health keeps popping up. Drool on his chin, claims of staffers protecting Trump from himself, and an implant in Trump's brain that communicates with the Kremlin aside, has the world ever seen such an economy provided by a mad man? Probably not.

The point is, the economy is booming, everyone benefits, the debt should be shrinking and we should all be happy about that. Really, politics aside, who can complain about such a fine economy, no matter who gets the credit?

 

CNN’s Gloria Borger explains how Trump’s Mueller attacks have totally backfired

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/gloria-borges-tells-cnn-trumps-mueller-attacks-totally-backfired/

 

Try Multi-Trillion dollar deficit. They are now up to two trillion and going for three by the end of the year.

Fiscal conservatives my ass.

 

Oh? And you have a source?
$3 trillion?
Do tell.....

 

Shooter normally doesn't put much stock in pundit opinions about politics, but this one does a good job of answering the question; who deserves credit for the current economic health?

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/trump-obama-deserves-more-credit-093000266.html

For those too busy or just not interested, shooter will give the conclusion;
Both.
Obama managed to calm the panic and give things a chance to improve.
Trump ran a hot poker up the economies ass.

 

President Obama and the Democrats ran up trillion dollar deficit to stop the economic free fall and start digging out of the Great Recession.

And the "conservatives" screamed bloody murder about the deficit for all 8 years Obama was in office.

But as soon as the "conservatives" control both Houses of Congress and the presidency the they explode the deficit back to a trillion dollars in a time of prosperity.

The proof of the lie of conservatism as it is preached and practiced in this nation.

 

And we all know what obamas $9 trillion deficit bought....damn little.
That is what obama critics bitched about.

 

Now I am sure a CNN poll and story will be attacked. Fine. But the fallacy of that is just about all the polls are saying the same things.

CNN Poll: More approve of Mueller than of Trump

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/12/politics/cnn-poll-mueller-trump-approval-gap/index.html