Trump’s Jobs Record Is Weaker Than Everyone Thought
Based on the new numbers, it looks like he inherited a steadily growing economy and didn’t do much at all .... In the end, the economy has added fewer jobs in every year of his presidency than it did during Obama’s final one. There never was much of a Trump bump.
Here’s how this changes the story of the past few years. Based on the old numbers, it looked like Trump had inherited a steady economy but gave hiring a boost in 2018 through some deficit-fueled stimulus. Based on the new numbers, it looks like he inherited a steadily growing economy and didn’t do much at all
.... In the end, the economy has added fewer jobs in every year of his presidency than it did during Obama’s final one. There never was much of a Trump bump.
Trump brags about how he has created so many more jobs than the "previous administration".
There is no mathematical or logical reason for him to say this, other than that he is lying.
We all know he is a habitual liar, but why do his followers expect everyone to believe him? The cultists, of course, believe him, but the rest of us have a responsibility to keep truth alive.
Obama took no actions to improve the economy. He did nothing to improve the economy that Trump would inherit.
In fact, Obama was for more and more taxes and regulations which have always stifled growth.
Yet with billions more in government spending and a trillion in tax cuts Trump's number are STILL worse.
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Higher deficits, (where is the "Tea Party"?), more coal plant closures including the largest in the nation, Ohio job losses from factory shutdowns like Lordstown, many of the plants Trump and Pence touted in Indiana still closed or outsourced jobs, the only jobs being created are wages between minimum wage and salaries below 50k. The job rates are still at a lower level than under Obama.
You know the trump economy has the Democrats freaked out when they resort to this.
It’s the fourth year of his presidency. He owns the Economy. If trump and the republicans had done the exact same things and we were in recession, Democrats wouldn’t be attributing it to Obama,
bill Clinton took over an economy that was on rocket fuel, growing at 5%. In the almost thirty years that have passed, have you ever heard a democrat claim George Bush deserved credit for the Clinton economy? Of course not, they credit Clinton and Clinton exclusively.
To some people, the entire rationale for electing Trump is that without him the economy would collapse and there would be mass unemployment and suffering. It's ridiculous.
We can leave the scumbag behind, and the next president, Democrat or Republican will preside over a successful economy.
Trump is not fit to hold office. There are many other people who could shepherd this economy.
90% of the current economy recovered under President Obama yet Republicans demanded another shot at running the country even though they were the ones who ran it into the ground under the GW Bush administration. Now they've kept about the same growth and reduced unemployment by an additional 1% (after it was cut by 5% under Obama) and dishonest scum bag Republicans are trying to take all the credit for the recovery and growth rates acting as if the years between 2009 and 2017 didn't exist and dirty Donald was somehow responsible for the last decade of growth, all time high stock market numbers and the overall US financial recovery from the -2.5% GDP Bush and Co. left us with.
Well, it really is important to dive in deeper than just cite number of jobs created. There needs to be a comparison between full time and part time employment; full time employment typically has access to benefits like health insurance and retirement plans. And there needs to be some analysis of job growth by sector. Participation in the labor force is also an important measure.
The affect of job growth on the public assistance rolls is also an important measure of how well the job market is performing.
What the seeded article highlights is how news organizations utilize facts to express opinion rather than truth. The journalist has presented a political message to score political points but has not really informed the public. The presented facts do not represent truth; they represent a political opinion.