Richdude wrote on Jul 21
st, 2018 at 9:15am:
SadKangaroo wrote on Jul 21
st, 2018 at 7:37am:
Everyone's fault but Trump.
The excuses for his poor performance and failed policy are coming this and fast now.
Wasn't Trump recently saying after he begrudgingly agreed Putin was accountable for the Russian hacking not because he ordered it, but like Trump him being the leader made him responsible for what happens?
So stop making excuses and hold Trump to his word and to account.
You'd offer no excuses for Obama. Time to enter the big boy world Mech.
What the hell are you talking about - do you even know?
Trumps performance is staggeringly good. As Mechanic has explained, despite the Fed trying to damp down the economy its still expected to beat 4% growth rate.
Abolish the Fed! The promise of the fed when it was chartered in 1913 was to control inflation. Since then the USD has lost more than 98% of its value.
The Fed is not Federal as in Government and has no reserves. The Fed has always been a lie to enrich its handful of shareholders at the expense of the people.
Firstly, I'm fully aware of the history of the FED, the significance of what Jefferson warned about, the actions of Wilson, JFK and Johnson and the significance of the date 21/12/1913.
What is important is this is not a new issue, this isn't something only Trump has had to deal with. It's just another of the "who knew" moments from Trump and his supporters.
Every President has had to deal with this, some taking more action than others, and some arguably paying a much higher price than others.
To come out and use this as an excuse for Trump when it was never accepted as an excuse for Obama and it was, in fact, argued the opposite, that he was personally accountable for everything, even the GFC and everything was blamed on him, I won't stand here quietly while you turn on a dime and pretend that now that same office isn't to blame for anything, holds no responsibility and is only there to take credit for the good.
I've had enough of your hypocrisy.
And as for the claims of how good things are, I'm glad that's the case. But prior to the 2016 election and Trump's inauguration there was a clear trajectory of economic improvement should Trump have done nothing but continue the policies of Obama.
If you look at the trends, if you look at the policies and if you look at the raw numbers, including that of employment rates, you'll see that all the trends have slowed under Trump.
Every single indicator is less than projected. Overall the US is in a better position than before Trump took office, but that was going to happen regardless of who won.
While things are good and better than they were before Trump took office, how much of that is because of him, and how much in spite of him?
A question that routinely gets ignored is, what policies, what actions has Trump taken that can be credited for the health and growth of the economy?
The best answer I've ever gotten here is that him simply being President is enough, policy is not important.
smacking what?!
What people need to do is first take out the politics of the debate, which for the likes of Mech it means blocking his access to TheGateWayPundit because they are nothing but a fake news site that pushes blatantly bias information or flat out lies.
Everyone, even Obama, was preparing for the FED to raise the rates as the economy recovered from the Bush mistakes. Trump has seen to any of that policy or the direction of reform to account for this has been abolished and more of what helped push the country in the direction of the last GFC is back but under a different banner.
The people and their leadership should be learning from their mistakes, not using them as a playbook and then making excuse to cover their mistakes.
The truth is a powerful thing, stop running from it. You've literally got nothing to gain by perpetuating the lies that Trump wants people to think about him and his performance. Keeping this up will only cost you (or if you're outside of the US, the American people, even or especially the Trumptards).