Posted on 10/19/2018 9:03:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber
W e now know why President Obama had to struggle so hard to spur the economy and allow it to grow more than 2 percent a year. And that was the high-water mark. In the last quarter of his presidency, growth had slipped to 1.5 percent. Today its obvious what Obamas problem was. He had the wrong policies lots of them. How do we know this? Obamas successor, Donald Trump, and the Republican Congress reversed Obamas policies. The result, from the day Trump was elected, has been a more robust economy. Nearly 4 million jobs have been added, and unemployment has dipped to the lowest point in nearly a half-century. Lets compare what Obama did with what Trump is doing.
Obama raised taxes. Trump cut them. Obama was a regulatory zealot. Trump is passionate about deregulation. Obamas Clean Power Plan killed the coal industry. Trump is reviving it. Obama downgraded the role of entrepreneurs and free markets in boosting the economy and lauded the wonderful things government does.
Obamas biggest breakthrough was the Affordable Care Act, a big step toward a single-payer, government-run health care system. Trump got rid of the individual mandate that forced everyone to buy expensive insurance or be fineda big step toward a return to free markets in health care.
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1. Destroy means of production of enegy, target coal and oil
2. Destroy all manufacturing capacity
3. Terrorize civilian population
Obama: make it so
Trump: do the opposite.
He is the energizer bunny President.
AND - NOT in the sense of a female neighbor of Bill’s in Chappaqua !
When even the NeverTrumpet Weekly Standard has to admit it.....
You’re exactly right. The Walk Away movement is a good sign that people are waking up. They want off the Plantation.
Barnes and many of the GOPestablishment missed or ignored Obama’s proclamation that he was going to ‘fundamentally change America’.
The Obama policies were by intent, because he had no interest improving the US economy. Rather, he was intent on destroying [fundamentally changing] the USA as founded.
Barnes and many of the GOPestablishment should have realized Obama had little to no expertise when Obama in 2007 claimed his executive experience was in running his own presidential campaign. Obama couldn’t even run a lemonade stand.
Johnson (1964-68), 5.3%
Kennedy (1961-63), 4.3%
Clinton (1993-2000), 3.9%
Reagan (1981-88), 3.5%
Carter (1977-80), 3.3%
Eisenhower (1953-60), 3.0%
(Post-WWII average: 2.9%)
Nixon (1969-74), 2.8%
Ford (1975-76), 2.6%
G. H. W. Bush (1989-92), 2.3%
G. W. Bush (2001-08), 2.1%
Truman (1946-52), 1.7%
Obama (2009-15), 1.5%
All the beltway Republicans got all over Rush when he said he hoped Obama would fail. From the Bush family on down, they swallowed a false premise, that Obama wanted what was best for the United States.
Rush (and most of us on FreeRepublic), wisely, proclaimed the opposite view: that Obama wanted what would diminish the United States.
When you accept that premise, every policy, regulatory, and rhetorical thing that Obama did made perfect sense.
Every thing.
America has long outgrown having a politician as POTUS. She needs a strong businessman at the helm.
“Trump has pretty much erased Obamas entire presidency.”
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Thank GOD! We pray that eraser wipes out this very dark portion of our USA history. To even elect this clown was insanity at its worse. DID NO ONE LISTEN TO THE WORDS FROM HIS SNEERING LIPS? Perhaps he was groomed for this position to awaken persons (who have no clue) as to the truths they refused to see; which cleared the path for a true victor by the name of TRUMP.
MAGA!
... Volume One.
The Kenyansian Usurpation was only possible with the complete cooperation of BOTH parties.
That’s why I call the GOPe part of the Uniparty with the Democrats
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The beltway Republicans didn't swallow a false premise. They knew what Obama wanted and they were in agreement with him.
They had, and still have, the idea they are our betters and we should be groveling at their feet for scraps of food, clothing, and a cardboard box in which to live, while they lord over us and think of themselves as demigods.
Obama knew exactly what he was doing, and was very successful doing it.
Rush Limbaugh, 2008: “I hope he fails.”
The answer is everthing.
“they” -the Beltway Republicans. NEVER swallowed a false premise.
They knew as well as every other member of the UniParty knows that what is bad for the country is good for DC.
Its really that simple. Jobs and opportunity in DC open up every time regulatory law expands and burocracy grows
In the year 2000 DC was 84rth per capita income in USA. Today its #1. Thats all you need to know.
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