Posted on 04/19/2017 10:25:44 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The business community is brimming with optimism across America — the highest level in 10 years. I know it, because I hear it from my colleagues every day. We're hopeful, and for good reason: President Donald Trump is moving his job creation agenda forward resolutely.
First, it was Carrier jobs, then ExxonMobil, and now it's Ford Motor Company and more are on the way. Importantly, these big enterprises will also create thousands more jobs with their extended families of suppliers, all small and medium-sized businesses.
America's chief executives aren't happy with Washington's flat tire on the road to health care reform, but we're confused by the pessimism coming from Capitol Hill and the media elite. While the president's critics wring their hands, we see remarkable success getting the short shrift.
Maybe because so few politicians have ever signed the front of a paycheck, they don't see what CEOs see.
We look past the remarkable 12 percent growth in the stock market, a rising tide lifting pensioners and middle-class Americans alike, and see the Consumer Confidence Index, which just hit its highest mark since December of 2000. "Consumers' assessment of current business and labor market conditions improved considerably," Lynn Franco, director of economic indicators at The Conference Board, said April 11.
That's all 100 percent Donald Trump. But there's far more, if you get past the screaming negative headlines and listen.
Listen carefully, and you'll hear the locomotive of American business gaining steam, stoked by the president every week since his inauguration. He's clear-cutting the path to robust economic growth, and even Congress is doing its part.
For the eight years of Barack Obama's aggressive regulatory regime, the 103 million words in the Code of Federal Regulations came down hardest on small business. That's changing fast.
Now, if Trump's administration creates one regulation, it must kill two. Congress is fast tracking bills to the president to reverse regulations, using rarely deployed legislative tactics. Trump has already signed seven of these bills — half of all the laws he's signed so far — and he's promised many more.
Experts say returning to the regulatory climate of the late 1990s can bring 6,000 more new businesses and 100,000 more new jobs every single year. Our first CEO-president has promised to "remove every job-killing regulation we can find." Add that pace to the 298,000 jobs created his first month and it's not hard to see how President Trump could sustain 200,000-plus monthly job creation and, soon, economic growth beating three percent month-after-month — the first time since George W. Bush.
But the president has accomplished even more: He nominated Justice Neil Gorsuch, a bedrock conservative replacement for legendary Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. He's frozen bureaucratic growth, rejected the unfair Trans-Pacific Partnership, made real moves to end Dodd-Frank's job-killing spree, turned on the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines, and just signed an executive order ending the war on coal and putting thousands of Americans back to work.
By this time in his first term, Barack Obama had passed his first emergency stimulus, but, little else emerged until a year later in 2010. George W. Bush didn't achieve his first tax cuts until six months into his presidency, and even his popular No Child Left Behind program took a year.
Bill Clinton didn't fare well in his early months, either: His first economic reforms didn't come until August 1993; his Brady Bill didn't succeed until November. And Clinton's own health care reform campaign died a slow, miserable death 18 months into his presidency.
Of course, there's some disappointment in the recent health care effort. Business leaders are eager for an end to the stifling mandates of Obamacare. America knows it will implode without reform, everyone is bracing for more cost spikes in 2018, and millions of part-time workers know Obamacare kills their full-time opportunities. This can't continue.
Economic growth must be our nation's top priority, and we cannot get there with the broken health care system we have today. Clearly, both parties must listen to the American people, put partisan politics aside and work together to give all of us the health care we deserve.
But as this train steams toward the milestone of its first 100 days, American consumers and businesses, large and small, are encouraged by the direction we're going, pleased by the results we're seeing, and we have real hope for the future.
Economic growth must be our nation’s top priority, and we cannot get there with the broken health care system we have today. Clearly, both parties must listen to the American people, put partisan politics aside and work together to give all of us the health care we deserve.
But as this train steams toward the milestone of its first 100 days, American consumers and businesses, large and small, are encouraged by the direction we’re going, pleased by the results we’re seeing, and we have real hope for the future.
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AMEN!!! And we American people that have our own businesses and work for a living are seeing this...
Thanks Vet for posting a positive article!!!
GO.PRESIDENT TRUMP.GO!!! MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
I can affirm at least 5 major projects that were slated to go offshore that are cancelled and saying here or are on hold pending review of US viability - all due to Donald Trump.
I’m retired now, but I can tell you first hand that 0bamacare and all of his other ham-stringing ‘whims’ REALLY effected our mid-sized, family-owned company in terms of hiring, employee benefits and our bottom line.
I’m glad I got to live through it, though, and we, as a company, survived.
It sure made me nostalgic for the Carter years. *SPIT*
>Economic growth must be our nation’s top priority<
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Bears repeating over and over and over again.
Still too many unemployed engineers looking for work.
He HAS to get tax reform. Has to.
To do that right, he has to deal with 0care.
I fear 2018 if neither of those get done.
I’m glad I got to live through it, though, and we, as a company, survived.
It sure made me nostalgic for the Carter years. *SPIT*
In the world of the small defense industry sub contractors that are the worker bees of the defense industry, the combination of ObamaCare and having anywhere from75-100% of your contracts and operating revenue cancelled overnight due to the ill advised sequestration deal put up to 80% of the subs out of business and into Chapter 11 or liquidation within 6 months of getting hit by sequestration.
The hardest hit subcontractors were hi talent, high tech small to medium sized specialist companies that made significant capitol investments and took on debt loads to expand to meet the needs of the military for the war on terror and were pretty much 100% dependent upon military contracts.
Lots of carefully nurtured military industrial manufacturing and technology base to replaced the Clinton era devastation of US defense subcontractor industrial base network was wiped out almost overnight by the double whammy of ObamaCare and Sequestration with their only memory being the final auctioneers liquidation brochure.
Not so sure..
he is caving on the global warming bit..
They have co-opted him so he is now doing what I was afraid Hillary would do in the middle east.
Something changed a week or so ago - am I the only one here that noticed?
Did they make him an offer he couldn’t refuse?
I think the change took place after the cruise missile affair in Syria. It was the FIRST major event of his administration.
It may have affected him more than it did ISIS and DJT may still be hurting, internally.
“I fear 2018 if neither of those get done.”
That’s because of the “Repubican” Congress inaction. We need to get on the phones to the RINOs and let them know they will be gone next year unless they get their $hit together and start legislating what Trump wants. If Trump fails, it won’t be because of either him or the RATS, it will ALL be on the RINOs. And sadly, I think that there are enough RINOs that they may just thwart Trump’s efforts. I know for sure things are in the dumper if Ryan gets to stay on.
The gas attack was staged. My hunch is they have Trump in their control now.
The cruse missile bit was when the control got handed off.
They are putting us at risk by fermenting war in the middle east - where there are no good-guys.
>The gas attack was staged<
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You seem to have more information on that affair than most people have.
Sadly, you win...though it wasn’t a competition. :(
So Much Winning with President Trump! :)
There needs to be a Thread with a weekly list of RINOs to get out of office. And, let them know there is such a list and we will work to get their asses out. They can order their packing boxes today.
Help rid the US Congress of vermin RATs and RINOs!
Go Trump and Let’s Roll.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mit-expert-claims-latest-chemical-100819428.html
There are other bits with the shadows that show the bits were not filmed when they said they were.
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