Is there a source? Perhaps they said 75 weeks.
Otherwise, that number doesn’t make sense. Unless you’re a liberal, I suppose.
75 quarters? So 0bama was in office 18.75 years? LOL Or did it just feel that way?
Libtards can’t do math!
New tagline....
Why bother.
During the eight years that Barack Obama was president the GDP averaged an annual growth rate of less than 2 percent and never once reached 3 percent for any of those years—the first time that this has happened during any previous administration since the statistic has been tracked.
I usually tell them that Obama was a muzloid and a faggot.
The conversation ends at that point with them shouting and shaking.
There's your first mistake.
Obummer had "75 straight quarters of growth.
Leaving aside the Precious Math (75 quarters is 18.75 years), your liberal opponent is right. Obama presided over growth..... growth hovering around 2, 2.5%.
Tepid, at best.
Trump is in over 4% territory, twice Obama's.
You should be able to answer questions like these, not only to swing voters, but also some leftists change their minds over time. The 2016 election could not have been won by Trump without the votes of some who voted for Obama previously.
The recovery from the recession started in June 2009. It was the slowest in modern history. Usually the US economy had a sharp downturn followed by a sharp recovery and then real growth. During Obama’s terms there was steady, but very slow recovery.
To answer the usual follow-up statement that the great economy under Trump is just the result of Obama’s policies, all of the mainstream economists before Trump’s election were predicting lower economic growth rates than what happened. Their predictions, and the reality sharply increased with Trump. What Obama said couldn’t happen unless Trump had a magic wand, actually happened. The mechanism is reducing regulation, taxes, and increasing confidence, which leads to investment.
Too many assholes and not enough answers. Obamas growth was artificial. His numbers were due to government jobs created. Any dick-tator can do that. They are not real jobs. Also, his GDP spikes were always revised down the next month. He at one point in 2013 had over 5 point growth....later revised way down.
When Zero starts with zero it’s not hard to get just above zero for so long.
I like to say that even a monkey can get 8 years of growth when printing $17 trillion dollars and interest rates are at zero percent.
Who CAN’T get an economy moving under those circumstances? The way to look at it is that the Obama / Democrat policies were SO BAD that we managed pitiful growth under Obama GIVEN zero percent interest rates and dumping trillions of dollars into the economy.
You probably have lots of good answers by now, but here is an anecdote. I went back to work full-time in 2010. My wages were barely over minimum wage, but the job was full-time with insurance after 90 days.
I got a 50-cents an hour raise one year ... 20 cents an hour ... for several years ... another 50 cents ... some of our raises were 1 to 3 percent. (This all during the Obama years ...) and since I got one of the highest rates was strictly cautioned to not talk about it. I interviewed multiple places but could not get any better $.
Then I applied for a better job in my department ... got a nice raise ... two years later, Trump’s boom started, my job was reclassified and I got a 25 percent (not cents, PERCENT) raise. And two years of back pay for the difference. I think because of tax cuts to corporations the company could re-invest in people.
To retain people the company cranked up starting wages and people are eligible for benefits from Day 1. I think the credit should go to Trump’s economy. And the Lord, because He puts rulers in place and takes them out.
Tell them that the President has virtually nothing to do with the economy.
Unfortunately, the same can be said of Trump.