Posted on 01/07/2018 3:59:37 AM PST by RoosterRedux
“Trump in one year is already better than sixteen years of [George W. Bush and Barack Obama] put together,” said former Wall Street Journal editor Brett M. Decker, pointing to a current 17-year high in consumer confidence.
Decker, an expert on Asia and the bestselling author of Bowing to Beijing: How Barack Obama Is Hastening America’s Decline and Ushering a Century of Chinese Domination, joined Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with Breitbart News’s Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon and Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour.
“The leading indicator, when you dig into the data on why consumer confidence is high, is because people are anticipating higher wages,” said Decker. “The economy and consumer, they work logically. … What you’re seeing [are] the consequences of positive policy.”
President Donald Trump’s economic policies incentivize economic investment in America, said Decker, noting the mobility of capital in the modern era. “Businesses and consumers are [responding] logically” to the Trump administration’s economic policies, he added.
Decker rejected narratives crediting former President Barack Obama’s economic policies with recently developing economic figures during Trump’s presidential tenure, framing such assertions as “absolutely crazy”: “You look at the unemployment numbers, and it’s 4.1 percent. I look at Obama and Bush kind of combined, when I look at their block of sixteen years. Anyone that says this is inheriting some kind of Obama economy, he had eight years, and in 2010, the unemployment rate was 9.6 percent, absolutely crazy. … This idea that it has anything to do with Obama is absolutely crazy.”
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As an aside, it looks like Sloppy Steve is trying to climb out of that hole he recently jumped into.
Indeed.
Imagine what could have been accomplished if we had a real Congress not full of losers in there.
And Trump has exposed and is winning against the widely-rumored but previously unexposed corrupt, self-governing elements in the federal government.
Dumb comparison.
Trump is trying to make MAGA...and is succeeding.
Obama was trying to destroy America...and was succeeding.
Bush was trying to make bank off America, settle old family scores, and keep America as status, cronyism quo...and was succeeding.
There were 3 separate goals.
L8r
If he did nothing else, the exposure and destruction of the Deep State would suffice. But he has accomplished a remarkable amount in the space of one year - perhaps the nonsense about the Russian collusion has unintentionally provided a smokescreen for it. As far as GW Bush is concerned, I really can’t think of anything positive he did, only a lot that proved very negative - the Iraq War, a massive new prescription drug benefit, letting the fat kook in North Korea develop his WMD program, expanding the Deep State surveillance powers on ordinary Americans, keeping his mouth shut when conservatives were pilloried. Nope, I don’t miss the Bush family one bit, Hope they enjoy retirement because we trusted them in senior political positions based on their phony claims for far too long.
There is an anecdote about a former head of a US intelligence agency, not H.W. Bush, that explains, after a fashion, one of the reasons President Trump is so successful.
New to the job, he needed to meet his area/section chiefs who were responsible for the intelligence about the most important nations in the world.
So he asked each one to visit him in his office. On the wall he had a very large world map, and after a brief introduction, asked them to identify “their nation”. And each one pointed out their country of interest.
“You are incorrect,” he said, pointing to the United States.
“This is your nation. No matter what you do, do not forget that.”
President Trump is so successful *precisely* because he has not forgotten this. He was not elected to create a New World Order, or advance the interests of internationalist and multinational corporations and organizations, or some stupid, failed 19th Century pseudo-religious philosophy, or some primitive and barbaric 7th Century world domination cult, or the teeming masses that live in the rest of the world.
He was elected to be the Chief Executive and Commander in Chief of the United States. And for once he is a president that realizes and embraces this idea.
Far too many of his predecessors got it into their heads that they were supervillains, who wanted to remake the United States into something else, invariably something much worse, in pursuit of their ultimate fantasy goals.
But President Trump is a realist and a good businessman. Every person he hires to do a job, he wants to do that job, not connive and fantasize and *not* do his job because he wants to do something more interesting to him.
And if that employee doesn’t do his job, President Trump will fire him.
Bush I and II, Obama, Clinton, etc., couldn’t be bothered to do their jobs, unless they saw those things furthering their private agendas, something they weren’t hired to do. Which is why they were worse presidents than is President Trump.
Or, more accurately, why President Trump is so much better than they were.
“Better Than 16 Years’ of Bush, Obama ‘Put Together’”
Not to minimize his accomplishments, but it oughtn’t to be hard to do better than a negative.
Actually between Bush, Clinton and Obama there isn’t much of a difference.
Your story is actually about Reagan’s Secretary of State, George Shultz, and the test was for all his ambassadors - which he said they all failed.
And that's with Obama's people "adjusting" the percentages and what "unemployment" means. Looks at the number of full-time employed and the total US population. THOSE are the numbers to watch. Under Obama, of course, they diverged.
I was informed by a bunch of Leftists on Twitter that Trump could not possibly be responsible in making the economy better because he was too busy watching the Gorilla Channel.
They were serious!
Oh, and they incorrectly identified me as a Russian working for Putin, since I dared to disagree with their absurdities.
Smart, logical arguments /= working for Putin.
“[Trump] was elected to be the Chief Executive and Commander in Chief of the United States. And for once he is a president that realizes and embraces this idea.”
Amen! Best. Election. Ever. EVER!
And then there's the personal mandate. I think that will evolve further. I think Trump can do that by EO....so small companies are not forced to buy ONLY "Obama Plan" insurance, i.e., they can purchase simple plans. We'll see.
In the meantime, it's time to get the border moving.
I have to give the Trump administration credit....They stay on target....no matter what the media and/or the Dems and/or the UN says.
Yes you can....MAGA!!!!
Not even a contest. I feel dirty still having voted for Bush , McCain and Romney. I need a confession.
He left the borders wide open after 9/11.
That would have been the easy time to secure the borders.
But he didn’t want to, he wanted the cheap labor for employers. I remember he gave a speech in Orange County where he said as much.
True that. I can’t believe I had a McCain sign in my yard.
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