Rigged for Hillary wrote:
Another 200,000 jobs created and wages for people already with jobs rose again. ....
Are you better off after just a year and a half under the Trump Presidency than under eight years of Obama? Why would you listen to Obama who failed to help improve your life?
1) Real wages have barely budged for most americans (under Trump, and for the last 50 years)
2) At start of Trump's first fiscal year budget as president, unemployment was 4.1%. It's now 3.9. That's a whopping 0.2% improvement
3) Great Stock market? 50% of Americans don't own stock. Top 10% own 85% of all stocks. So 1/2 of americans are not helped by this either. But yes, the rich are getting richer (as they almost always do. Thrown in the huge tax cut Trump gave them, yes, they are doing fantastic!)
4) So avg american is NOT doing better under Trump than under Obama (especially when you factor in Trump enacting or pushing for many policies that hurt the middle class, see below).
5) And what has Trump done exactly to spur, or even just maintain, this strong economy, and make life so much better for the avg american ? Corporate Tax cuts? That has mainly gone for stock buybacks, not to worker pay. Tax cuts for the rich? Yes, most of the cuts were for the rich. Trade War? It may have bumped GDP up unintentionally last quarter, but the piper will be paid. Don't count on it helping the US. And he has enacted or pushed for many policies that hurt middle class or working poor (worker protections, kill obama care, cuts in medicaid and SNAP. (did you see his reversal of Obama's Clean power plan ? In the fine print: a few 1000 people a year will die prematurely due to pollution. Great, huh?). Here is a list:
https://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/economy/reports/2018/01/26/168366/president-trumps-policies-hurting-american-workers/6) AND WHAT ABOUT TRILLION $ DEFICITS AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE???
Didn't you used to act like this was the biggest horror under Obama? Didn't you relentlessly hammer him on this?? And yes, deficits were being **reduced** in Obama's final years in office (and were only truly huge in his early years because of the Near Great Depression 2.0) . But now, with economy doing great, Trump and the Repubs have hypocritically jacked them through the roof, with no end in sight, and this will be permanent unless changes are made.
Think about this: We had Trillion $ deficits ***because**** of the Great Recession, and you idiots on the right STILL attacked the hell out of Obama for it. Now, under Trump, we are back (after they had receded) to TRILLION $ DEFICITS, and the economy is doing great!
(i.e., there is no excuse/reason for it). AND>>>YOU>>>DON'T>>>>CARE.
The utter height of hypocrisy and inconsistency. And Trump said (among his 100000 other lies) he would be balancing the budget and wiping out deficits. What an f'n joke.