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It's all really complex -- generally more than my poor brain can master. Still, I keep hearing how "great" everything was under Trump, but nary a single graph, number, link -- nada. What I really would like is for anyone to say that President A was better than President B, or the economy was way better under the Republicans or under the Democrats, is to stop just making the claim, and provide some facts to justify your claim. The Trump Trumpeters seem remarkably unwilling to do that.
Trumpsters are cherry pickers. They remember the cheaper gas prices during Trump's time in office and then ignored the reason that they went up. They also want to believe his lies. Trump kept the economy hot using deficit spending. Something that one can do to only a limited extent. Economics is complicated and deficit spending can be a good thing, when done properly. For example almost everyone uses "deficit spending" themselves when they but a house. They realize that the long term returns are worth the initial deficit and the interest paid on it. The US government does that too. It essentially invests in the US work force. But just as one can spend too much for a house and have to refinance, and perhaps even lose the house, the US government sometimes goes through recessions or periods of inflation, both are reactions to overspending. The pandemic caused a lot of overspending. I do not blame either Trump or Biden for that. We are still paying for that with higher inflation rates. Inflation is a hidden tax. One's savings become less, one is moved into higher tax brackets while essentially making the same money, once inflation is accounted for. It decreases debt because the money one pays the debt in is less worth much less than the money that one got earlier. I know of some of the factors of economics, but I do not understand it well at all. That is why we need economists in the government. Leaving it up to amateurs, which is what politicians are, is begging for another recession or worse.
If they vote for him again, it will be because they hope he does the same thing he did last time he was president; improve the economy.
But the point is that they are okay with voting for a known criminal to get what they want politically. But that is what most supporters have been openly doing since the beginning.
But he did not do that. The economy was improving before he got in office. Nothing that he did really improved the economy and actually threatened it.
As you might have seen earlier in this thread, please provide evidence for this "improved economy" over the 4 years of Trump's term. That would be from January 20, 2017, through January 19, 2021. Please be sure to include economic indicators like GDP, interest rates, unemployment rates and job creation rates, deficits, wages/hourly rates of pay, tax rates (compare the rich to the middle class), etc.
Most of what I read says that he inherited an improved and improving economy. I grant that COVID wasn't his fault -- but his handling of it most certainly was. Nice snifter of bleach anyone? A lovely bouquet, and very much a lingering, clean after-taste!
And while you're answering my previous post (#147), please mention how you think that Trump actually managed the ONLY OATH that he was required to take to assume the office of POTUS: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Anytime before the civil rights movement.
Before women could vote? Before slaves were freed? Ah, the Good Old Days!
Woodrow Wilson, tarring and feathering of "reds," lynching of people with different colours, eye-shapes, religious views, fascination with eugenics, the Red Scare and repression of First Amendment rights on civilians and the press. Oh, that was such a comforting time!
Hmm, those are pretty mild definitions in the scheme of things really.Whereas defining Trump a swine and a pig isn't libel? That is free speech?
I give you some news: talking about undetermined people is not defamation.
When Biden got into office we were coming out of the Pandemic when we purposely shut down the economy in an effort to stop Covid. To give him credit for record employment and GDP growth after opening up the economy back up is akin to firing 5 million people, then giving them their jobs back and call it creating 5 million new jobs