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[Clifff150 10+ year member]

Please stop with that unemployment bs. The country shut down over covid and Trump didn’t want it to. Talking about unemployment in that sense is f’ing stupid. I will agree to disagree with you on the country is doing better.

 

[SlugButter]

I go by the metrics that are used to judge “where we are” as a country and have been used for at least a century: GDP AND unemployment rate.

The US GDP has reversed the decline during Trump admin and is recovering. Now growing at a rate of over 6%.

Unemployment is on the decline since it spiked under Trump. At 2016 levels and dropping.

Improvement in those two metrics alone means we are better off now than before. As has happened under Democrat admins since 1947.
It has nothing to do with whether you like or follow a party. It is not “opinion”. It’s just factual data.
Trump himself admitted the economy does better under Democrats. Video available on request.

There are also many other things that have improved. I posted a list before, but someone called them “just talking points”, probably because they didn’t understand them.

I don’t like the metrics by which our economy is gauged in the first place. GDP is the amount of total business dollars as a whole and the unemployment rate only counts people who have looked for work in the past ? months. I forget the length of time honestly. Maybe 18 months. The stock market only tells us which large corporations are doing well, which isn’t a bad thing, but again, it’s a gauge for how the richest of us are doing. As a minimum wage worker making minimum to good amount above minimum wage, it’s unmanageable. The poverty line is over 45,000$ per year. it hasn’t gotten better for those people under that line, and they do the hardest work, and as a percentage of their paychecks they’ve paid out more of a percentage of their wages for essentials, escalating under every president in recent history. Rent can cost half a months paycheck for some people. That’s consistently gone up year after year over the long term. Healthcare, same story. Price for a new car is a dramatic difference. A car can cost 3 years of an entire salary for a construction laborer now. I think we need to start adding some gauges when it comes to how good the economy is doing.

 

[YourNameHere 10+ year member]

CLINTON CAMPAIGN LAWYER MICHAEL SUSSMANN INDICTED FOR ALLEGEDLY LYING TO FBI DURING RUSSIA INVESTIGATION

Keep on winning guys

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Well, Biden hasn't made COVID go away. Everything cost more money now. China and Russia think we are women's gashes. So does the rest of the world for that matter. It seems that in this administration it's every politician for themselves. Can't get Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino anywhere because of the Pepsi strike. Wood cost skyrocketed. Gas cost is WAY up per gallon.

I am not sure what is "better" under Biden.

If you understood the economy, you would understand why prices are moving in the direction they are.

Bit if 5th grade math is too advanced for you, supply and demand, commodities exchanges, etc., are a long way off.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Please stop with that unemployment bs. The country shut down over covid and Trump didn’t want it to. Talking about unemployment in that sense is f’ing stupid. I will agree to disagree with you on the country is doing better.

You are basically stating that you know more than economists over the past century about how a country judges “where they are”.

What are your qualifications to make such claim?
Thxone thinks he knows definitions better than the editors of the Oxford dictionary, but can’t tell us how this could be.
Im sure your excuse will include multiple PhDs, published peer-reviewed papers, and so forth?

 

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

Well, Biden hasn't made COVID go away. Everything cost more money now. China and Russia think we are women's gashes. So does the rest of the world for that matter. It seems that in this administration it's every politician for themselves. Can't get Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino anywhere because of the Pepsi strike. Wood cost skyrocketed. Gas cost is WAY up per gallon.

I am not sure what is "better" under Biden.

You weren't sure what was better under trump either but yet you kept saying everything was.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

If you understood the economy, you would understand why prices are moving in the direction they are.

Bit if 5th grade math is too advanced for you, supply and demand, commodities exchanges, etc., are a long way off.

Well if Biden is so good why doesn't he just fix the economy?

 

[Clifff150 10+ year member]

Just stop. You’re the moron pushing the vaccine when you’re ignoring peer reviewed studies and facts on what the real issue with covid is. Because your master says to take a vaccine, you follow blindly.

 

[SlugButter]

One thing a lot of people forget is that wages are also supply and demand. The effect lessens as you go up the income chain, but the lowest paid workers are affected the most by a job market with too many workers.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

You weren't sure what was better under trump either but yet you kept saying everything was.

Yes, I paid less for day to day items and less for gas under Trump. Facts.

 

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

Or hit no button at all and had no idea the strike was going to happen (as YOU know).

Some people are confused between blame and responsibility.
Biden has to take responsibility but not blame. Part of the job.
A part that Trump really fought against, never wanting to take responsibility when things went wrong.
Let’s see how long it takes for Biden to blame someone else by tweet for this happening.

This article is opinion, but presents very factual data on things that Trump really did. Not conjecture; facts.
And it was only 2017 when it was being noticed that he was doing it:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vo...tics/2017/10/18/16495288/trump-responsibility

It's obviously all his fault bro. He did the recon, ye flew the drone, everything.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

CLINTON CAMPAIGN LAWYER MICHAEL SUSSMANN INDICTED FOR ALLEGEDLY LYING TO FBI DURING RUSSIA INVESTIGATION

Keep on winning guys

“charge based on an oral statement allegedly made five years ago to a single witness that is unrecorded and unobserved by anyone else”
A charge based on total hearsay? Should be an interesting suit.

 

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

Well if Biden is so good why doesn't he just fix the economy?

What's wrong with the economy?

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

What's wrong with the economy?

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

What's wrong with the economy?

A 12oz steak shouldn't cost $20 at Walmart.