Anecdotal evidence = confirmation bias
For me I see dozens of data points a day in my finance/forecasting job and what I see supports a lot of the statistics.
That being said I’ve posted dozens of times here that this recovery is “sub-optimal” thanks to Obama’s virulent anti-business environment. The recovery is occurring in spite of him and thanks to the resilience of the American people.
Yes, there are, in my opinion, plenty of ways the federal government could be making the economy grow....mostly by exercising restraint....and not consuming so much of the taxpayer’s wealth.