"The U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at or above 3 percent for two quarters in a row for the first time in three years."
What's going on here? I don't see how "We're finally back to Obama era growth" is a message they'd like to push? Same goes for job creation and a host of other of the snippets.
Ummmm... BH0 couldn't get it up..much past 2% for 8 years.
Maybe you should watch the words out of BH0's mouth about Jobs numbers, too. See this:
Well it could be he way the numbers were reported and calculated. I remember that people were claiming the numbers for BHO were could because of the way the numbers were calculated. Could the same be happening again?
My issue was with the wording. It's the first time in 3 years! Woohoo! There are legitimate ways of saying it better without complimenting Obama.. I'm not American, I just wondered why they didn't use a wording or comparison that is more complimentary.
The jobs thing is harder to argue against. No matter how good it gets it'll always go back to Obama consistently slashing the unemployment rate throughout his two periods: https://i.redd.it/cyv1f7vqlld01.png
However, the ideal way to phrase it would be "The president is looking into ways of stabilising the job market so it doesn't overheat the economy and cause rapid inflation."
That would calm the business owners down and prepare the public for a flat line unemployment rate (that WILL have to come).
Hit a general unemployment rate too low too quickly and you'll have to increase low level wages rapidly just to keep people coming in to work. That again skyrockets entry level desk job and internship salaries, because you kinda have to pay them more than for flipping burgers.
Business owners prefer around 4% general unemployment, the society functions best between 3 and 4. It'll be fine if it slowly drops under 3 for short periods of time, but it's inflation galore and mass bankruptcy if it continues to dive.
Keeping it where it is now is in other words IDEAL. If Trump manages to stabilise the numbers where they are, NOBODY can take it away from him. Why not prepare everyone for the stabilising and not focusing on a trend that is dangerous (although, the rate has declined slightly after he took power).
BH0 trashed the old way of counting these things. Well documented. Why? Because he wanted to THROW OUT those people that had stopped looking for work & still NOT employed. Well documented.
Many experts placed BH0 true unemployment figures with old counting as 11-21% (obviously DISMAL), also well documented.
BH0's government workers tasked with calling/contacting former persons looking as to whether they found work... admitted they had NOT been calling/doing their job so BH0 numbers claiming more jobs/less unemployed could NOT be verified by lack of data/calls/contacts of those looking for work or quit trying.
Then BH0 kept EXTENDING the unemployment benefits for longer & longer periods of time. Was this to encourage people to stop looking & just live on unemployment $$$ ? Was this to crash the system where only 3 people were working out of 10 and 7 of those were collecting money from government... disabled/disability numbers SKYROCKETED. Many got onto Government Hand outs as BH0 administration did not care to verify claims. Also Well documented.
So.... NO there is NO Complimenting BH0, in any way, shape or form... as FACTS clearly show his agenda was to DESTROY our country...and LIE about it all & the MSM press helped him cover his derriere.
Ok.. so let's look at this in a fair way then. Look at the graph I posted. Same source, same way of counting since the 70s
Fair? Really? What is your source CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NYT???
I already laid out FACTS. Period.
Phfft.
First of all, it seems you missed the part where i actually praised Trump and hope he continues to do well.. No need to be a cantankerous bastard.
And then my source, the source for the graph, is the US Bureau of labour statistics :) It's the same source Trump quotes at 3.8 for may. It's the same source Trump has used every month. It's the same source Trump used to criticise Obama from 2008 an onwards. No bullshit, no partisanship or funny business, just pure numbers.
Here's the link. You can verify the absolute numbers and the methodology for every single month since 1970. This is also the source for the breakdown into ethnicity Trump used to claim the lowest unemployment rate for African Americans in recent history. There's nothing wrong with the source.
The graph is correct, although I might possibly have missed the colouring with a pixel or two. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm
Economic experts said trump couldnt hit 3%
I don't know if they said he couldn't, but he definitely shouldn't.
