The little experiment I would love to perform.
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2952435]Wow! Just wow. From the graph in your link, home prices are up 38% since Biden took office! Not only that but interest rates are much higher. How are people supposed to be able to afford to buy houses?
Median real (inflation adjusted) earnings for wage and salary workers were up 6% during Trump's term in office. During Biden's term they're down 1%.
[URL]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q[/URL]
This is despite the end of Trump's term coinciding with the worst pandemic-induced recession in the history of the USA. And Biden's term coinciding with the recovery from that recession.
Normally I'd say that's coincidence, that the president doesn't have a lot of control over real wages compared to everything else that's in play. But in this case, Biden and Democratic Congressmen are partly responsible. The American Rescue Plan (ARP) set off inflation in the USA months before it hit other countries. Ironically, Biden et al pumped trillions of fiscal stimulus into the economy, adding greatly to the national debt. You'd think that would have increased real wages. But prices of goods and services went up faster than wages, and the working man got farther behind the eight ball.
Inflation in the European Union lagged behind inflation in the USA from March, 2021, when the first ARP checks hit, and didn't cross over and become higher until July, 2022. Well, during that period, real weekly earnings declined by 4%! Biden and Democratic Congressmen own that, again partly.
The unemployment rate went down from 4.7% at the end of Obama's term to 3.6% pre-COVID. We were essentially at full employment, and experiencing the lowest unemployment rates in over 50 years when the pandemic hit. How do you add lots of jobs when everyone's already employed?
You persist in assuming the provisions of the TCJA will be extended past their sunset dates when you say it will add trillions to the deficit. Estimates around 2018 were that it would add around $1.5 trillion over 10 years, and I bet the number will be lower than that, even with Bidenflation. An NBER paper I've linked to here indicates the long term effect of the corporate tax cuts will be to increase government revenues, primarily because of higher social security and medicare contributions that will result from [B]additional jobs[/B] and higher wages. The corporate income tax rate, state + federal, was the highest in the developed world before the TCJA. Now that the USA is around the middle of the pack, our companies are more competitive. And that means more investment and more jobs.
Trump's position on the minimum wage is that he'd consider a nationwide increase to $15/ hour but would prefer to leave it to the states and localities. That was in 2020 by the way. Adjust for inflation during the Biden Administration and that $15/ hour becomes $18/ hour. Trump's right. Farmington, New Mexico probably can't support an $18/ hour minimum wage, while that number might be too low for Rockwall, Texas. Increases in the minimum wage anyway don't have much effect on average wages and have virtually no effect on median wages. There aren't that many people, percentagewise, receiving the minimum.[/QUOTE]By "Biden et al pumped trillions of fiscal stimulus into the economy, adding greatly to the national debt", that "et al" part must mean "Donald J. Trump" since he pumped DOUBLE the fiscal stimulation into the economy as Biden, right?
Please send that tid bit of valuable info to Larry Summers.
Trump did not do shit to bring the unemployment rate down from 4. 7% to 3. 6% except play golf and watch what the trajectory in the unemployment rate was doing for the previous 7 1/2 years under Obama-Biden. With zero positive contribution by congressional Repubs, BTW. His idiotic TCJA hadn't even been passed and put into the system by the time Obama's steadily declining (for 7 1/2 years) unemployment rate fell below 4%. Obama HANDED Trump "full employment. " Damn. When was the last time anyone could say that about a Repub hand off to a Dem. How about probably never.
Purchasing power of the American worker has topped the pre Trump's Pandemic levels for over a year.
And Trump's Pandemic WAS Trump's economic policy result, just as surely as he and his cult are trying to exacerbate the damage to America with his outrageous lies about the Hurricane response.
As a property owner it is fanfuckingtastic if values have increased 38% in just 3 1/2 years of this remarkable recovery. "Inflation in EU lagged behind America" LOL. America is the only Super Power capable of LEADING the world into Recovery from Trump's Supply-Chain Collapse Pandemic. We would all still be looking at empty shelves and with no jobs if Biden and the Dems had played golf, ridden ponies, cleared brush down at the ranch and gone fishing waiting for ANY other country to step up to the plate, drag CEOs out from under their beds and revive global supply-chains to start producing goods for CUSTOMERS with money in their pockets and jobs to fill them up again.
And what do you suppose will happen to those +38% housing values if nobody really has the money to buy them? The prices go down. Obviously, if prices have not gone down then people / buyers have the money. Same as any other goods or service.
If you are over 50 years old and can not benefit from those rising property values because as Trump ushered in and exacerbated his Pandemic your name was not on a mortgage in order to enjoy these fantastic equity gains under Biden-Harris, good God, what the hell have you been doing with your life? Have you been a social issue sucker wasting your time and money voting for Repubs, living, working and investing in a Red State?
Or did you allow yourself to get conned out of the purchase of property all during the Obama-Biden years and the early Biden-Harris years because your Repub cult leaders warned you that "the economy will crash, you will lose your job and you will lose big money under those evil Dems"? You know, the combination of events that have only happened under Repubs for the past 100 years?
Then I guess it sucks to be you.
I would love to perform a little experiment. But I know it can never happen:
Let's allow those low information numbskull poll respondents mouthing off about how "Trump and the Repubs are better at handling the economy than Biden and the Dems" have their way.
I say in this little experiment we immediately abolish Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Unemployment Insurance, all the net benefits and gains from the New Deal, The 1993 Omnibus Budget Reconsiliation Act, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, The Affordable Care Act, The American Rescue Plan Act, The Infrastructure Legislation, The Chips and Science Act and every other economic program and legislation that was proposed, fought for and passed when Dems held the White House, House and Senate and ONLY keep the economic programs and legislation proposed, fought for and passed when Repubs held the White House, House and Senate, oh and for sure including Trump's one and only economic legislation, the TCJA.
And just one year from now let's poll those same numbskull respondents and ask, "Which Party do you think does a better job of handling the economy, the Republican Party or the Democratic Party"?
Lolol. I would truly love to be able to do that and see the outcome of those polls then.
This Is An Excellent Time For A Gentle Reminder:
Despite what low-information economic numbskulls tell polsters about Trump's / Repubs' "economy" vs Biden's / Dems' economy, it was NOT Trump's one and only economic stimulus legislation passed on the last business day of 2017 that had anything whatsoever to do with continuing the Obama-Biden steady 7 1/2 year-long downward trajectory in lowering the unemployment rate OR raising wages for rank and file workers.
In fact, the nation's corporate CEOs who benefited the most from Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act promised everyone before that idiotic legislation was passed that they had no intention of expanding their businesses or adding jobs because of it. No, they only intended to use that hot-money windfall to buy back their own declining company stock.
And, sure enough, they continued to keep that promise for at least 6 years after that legislation was passed.
[B]Six years later, more evidence shows the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act benefits U.S. business owners and executives, not average workers.
December 20, 2023[/B]
[URL]https://equitablegrowth.org/six-years-later-more-evidence-shows-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-benefits-u-s-business-owners-and-executives-not-average-workers/[/URL]
[B]US companies tax windfall fuels record share buybacks.
April 4, 2019[/B]
[URL]https://apnews.com/article/438fae12f9204b1fbd8e8b1985ae554f[/URL]
Instead, we have predominantly Dem cities and Dem states raising their minimum wage in 2018 and 2019 to thank for any meaningful decrease in the Unrmployment Rate (American workers finally having a greater incentive to take certain jobs at certain minimum pay) and increase in rank and file workers' wages:
[B]Low-wage workers saw the biggest wage growth in states that increased their minimum wage between 2018 and 2019.
March 4, 2020[/B]
[URL]https://www.epi.org/blog/low-wage-workers-saw-the-biggest-wage-growth-in-states-that-increased-minimum-wage-2018-2019/[/URL]
Which makes perfect sense; for one, why on earth would companies add jobs and increase wages in face of Trump / Repub economic policy that was busy creating at least a Million FEWER jobs in those three pre-Trump's Pandemic years than in the three previous Obama-Biden years?
And second, why would a person whose main if not only measure of national economic "success" was the Stock Market, Donald Trump, want America's Corporate CEOs to do anything ELSE with their hot-money windfall?
Enter the Trump / Repubs' one and only supposed economic "stimulus" legislation, the half laughably named, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
That is, the only one that was not an emergency response to the all-too-typical Great Repub Once in 100 Years Disaster, in this case, Trump's Pandemic. Whereupon Trump HAD TO add Trillions to the deficit, DOUBLE that of Joe Biden, triggering Recovery Inflation earlier than any other country, apparently a very, very sensitive and belatedly painful point among some Trump Cult Folowers.
You sound too emotionally invested?
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2952518]MDS, in 2000, when people were talking about balancing the budget and cutting government jobs, the DEA was looked to be cut. They have NEVER been proven to be any good. So they did what the executive branch always does: found an enemy and made up victims. The plot began in 2000, and it was talked about in 2005: [URL]https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/treating-doctors-drug-dealers-deas-war-prescription-painkillers[/URL].
And it was put into effect in 2010. The DEA showed that there were 3 X as many opioid prescriptions in 2010 and 3 X as many deaths in 2000 than in 2010. The death number went from 3000 to 10,000. That is when the war happened in earnest..[/QUOTE]When I blame the Dirty Doctors you turn around and try to absolve them of their culpability because others also are.
2 main entities created the overdose epidemic we see today along with all its fatal overdoses, the Dirty Doctors and the FDA, you can't say the Dirty Doctors are innocent.
Because the FDA is Dirty also, that's childish rationalizing, like going to court and saying you are not guilty of speeding because their were other cars also speeding.
How about the Hippocratic oath? Don't you think Physicians should have much much higher ethical standards than corrupt govt bureaucrats?
The "righteous" Obama, tell Trump, 'It Was My Economy' and correct he was...
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2952619]Despite what low-information economic numbskulls tell polsters about Trump's / Repubs' "economy" vs Biden's / Dems' economy, it was NOT Trump's one and only economic stimulus legislation passed on the last business day of 2017 [b]that had anything whatsoever to do with continuing the Obama-Biden steady 7 1/2 year-long downward trajectory in lowering the unemployment rate OR raising wages for rank and file workers.[/b]
Enter the Trump / Repubs' one and only supposed economic "stimulus" legislation, the half laughably named, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
That is, the only one that was not an emergency response to the all-too-typical Great Repub Once in 100 Years Disaster, in this case, Trump's Pandemic. Whereupon Trump HAD TO add Trillions to the deficit, DOUBLE that of Joe Biden, triggering Recovery Inflation earlier than any other country, apparently a very, very sensitive and belatedly painful point among some Trump Cult Folowers.[/QUOTE]You would be correct!
It's funny how just 3-days ago, President Obama [I](the "sanctimonious prick" in some Libertarian circles)[/I], at a Harris-Walz 2024 campaign event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, schooled his audience and watchers around the country about former President Trump's economic record. He had to remind Trump and Repubs, that, [I][b]"Trump's Economy 'Was Pretty Good Because It Was My Economy'..." [/b][/I] [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPYKrAl_Btk [/URL].
Obama would also be correct!
[B]Data show Trump didn't 'build' a great economy. He inherited it.! [/B], Aug 23,2020.
[URL]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/data-show-trump-didn-t-build-great-economy-he-inherited-n1237793[/URL]
Trump only had a growth rate of 0. 1% through 2019, which sounds like [b]a joke[/b] at first, but when you consider the [i][b]"...Trump's one and only economic stimulus legislation passed...[/b][/i], that you've nicely highlighted, it all makes perfect sense.
What would I do? I have severe chronic pain 24/7
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2952691]For a doctor to break the law, Federal Law, the controlled substance act specifies that the use of controlled substances has to be for a legitimate medical purpose. It was meant to criminalize doctors prescribing medications to get patients high.
If a patient takes his whole bottle of pain medications to kill himself, it is as crazy to blame the doctor for that death as it is to blame Ford if someone commits suicide driving a car off a cliff, and yet doctors were jailed for patients committing suicide.
As for overdoses, if you look at the CDC's fine print, you will see the actually terminology with controlled substances and death is the phrase "related to".
The term overdoses was first used to describe barbiturates. Those are what are used to kill animals in pain or with lethal injection of inmates. A fatal overdose is knowing exactly how much of the drug will kill and administering it and getting death.
The Europeans who make barbiturates decided not to sell them to our state governments who used them to execute people. The states said no problem we will use opioids and then all these liberal scientists come out and admit the truth. There are no controlled studies on what a fatal dose of opioids is. They used the term side effects and not overdoses when it came time to killing prisoners.
If the term overdose was correct, when people were put to death, the timing and dosing should have been uniform. With barbiturates, death typically occurred rapidly in inmates, and the same cocktail of drugs was used.
In the two instances opioids were used for lethal injection, in Pennsylvania, one person died after 30 minutes and 50 MG of IV Diluadid. In Arizona, it took a whopping 2 hours and 750 MG of Dilaudid before death. So that blows away any kind of evidence that opioids cause "overdose". No one knows what dosage of opioid is needed to cause death.
And how about "dirty doctors" prescribing ibuprofen like NSAIDs for pain? [URL]https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2001/0215/p637.html[/URL] An estimated 16,500 NSAID-related deaths occur annually among patients with osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis. Medical costs of complications associated with NSAID use exceed $4 billion annually. ".
The numbers the DEA was outraged about in 2010 were actually lower than the NSAID deaths ten years earlier.
So what is your solution to people in pain MDS? NSAIDS? Opioids? Well, the DEA's solution was to tell people to man up and quit taking opioids because they felt like people were not really in pain and did not need opioids and now we are living with the results.
You are doing exactly what the DEA wants. You are pointing a finger, and I am pointing one back at you. What would you do to solve the chronic pain problem?
I think what you are trying to say is that prescribing opioids violates the Hippocratic Oath and the concept of doing no harm. If that is the case, then you better have numerous cases of properly administered opioids in a controlled setting that necessitate the use of the drug Narcan because I have millions of instances where properly administered NSAIDs caused serious morbidity and mortality.
If I were God and made up the rules, I would have stated that the issue of addiction with opioids has been understated and come up with a safe harbor regimen for doctors such that they could not get in trouble as long as the rules were followed. And I would have left the people on opioids the fuck alone.
Establishing a safe harbor gets in the way of creating enemies and victims which is what the DEA really wanted. No safe harbor existed then or now. The rules right now are so fucking grey that any time the DEA needs money they just fine the shit out of Walgreen's or CVS.[/QUOTE]So what is your solution to people in pain MDS? NSAIDS? Opioids? Well, the DEA's solution was to tell people to man up and quit taking opioids because they felt like people were not really in pain and did not need opioids and now we are living with the results.
I've had several surgeries, I don't take opioid pain meds and never have that shit is poison!! There are many options I take naltrexone, celebrex, Diclofenac, Lyrica, and I have a spinal cord stimulator.
Those dirty motherfuckers aren't killing me, I also get physical therapy and see a pain psychologist, do I have severe pain, hell yes 24/7 I don't give a FUCK, that's life.
I don't let it affect my quality of life very much if at all (It mostly affects my sleep), I plan on living to at least 120 no thanks to the Dirty Doctors out there that would love to take me out!!
You sound like the "people" that used to write on the painreliefnetwork, I can't find it, it must be defunct now that the Sacklers money train is being dismantled.
The Path of the Joyful Warrior...
[QUOTE=SubCmdr;2952202]You give him way more credit. He often talks a good game. But when you step to him with facts he STFU.
This is how I understand that capitalism is supposed to work. Except if you are a bank. If you are a bank and you fuck up, the taxpayers bail them out.
Still giving him too much credit.
Keeping it 100 right there my ISG brother.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, perhaps your right and I do give him [i]"too much credit"[/i] and sure, Elvis 2008, is known to suck the joy outta the room...
But let's just say, that for now, in the spirit of the joyous Harris/Waltz campaign and their effort to unite Americans, instead of dividing Americans, I took the [i][b]path of the "joyful warrior".[/b][/i]
Safe harbor sounds like a "libertarian dream" exemption to the Hippocratic oath
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2952691]For a doctor to break the law, Federal Law, the controlled substance act specifies that the use of controlled substances has to be for a legitimate medical purpose. It was meant to criminalize doctors prescribing medications to get patients high.
If a patient takes his whole bottle of pain medications to kill himself, it is as crazy to blame the doctor for that death as it is to blame Ford if someone commits suicide driving a car off a cliff, and yet doctors were jailed for patients committing suicide.
As for overdoses, if you look at the CDC's fine print, you will see the actually terminology with controlled substances and death is the phrase "related to".
The term overdoses was first used to describe barbiturates. Those are what are used to kill animals in pain or with lethal injection of inmates. A fatal overdose is knowing exactly how much of the drug will kill and administering it and getting death.
The Europeans who make barbiturates decided not to sell them to our state governments who used them to execute people. The states said no problem we will use opioids and then all these liberal scientists come out and admit the truth. There are no controlled studies on what a fatal dose of opioids is. They used the term side effects and not overdoses when it came time to killing prisoners.
If the term overdose was correct, when people were put to death, the timing and dosing should have been uniform. With barbiturates, death typically occurred rapidly in inmates, and the same cocktail of drugs was used.
In the two instances opioids were used for lethal injection, in Pennsylvania, one person died after 30 minutes and 50 MG of IV Diluadid. In Arizona, it took a whopping 2 hours and 750 MG of Dilaudid before death. So that blows away any kind of evidence that opioids cause "overdose". No one knows what dosage of opioid is needed to cause death.
And how about "dirty doctors" prescribing ibuprofen like NSAIDs for pain? [URL]https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2001/0215/p637.html[/URL] An estimated 16,500 NSAID-related deaths occur annually among patients with osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis. Medical costs of complications associated with NSAID use exceed $4 billion annually. ".
The numbers the DEA was outraged about in 2010 were actually lower than the NSAID deaths ten years earlier.
So what is your solution to people in pain MDS? NSAIDS? Opioids? Well, the DEA's solution was to tell people to man up and quit taking opioids because they felt like people were not really in pain and did not need opioids and now we are living with the results.
You are doing exactly what the DEA wants. You are pointing a finger, and I am pointing one back at you. What would you do to solve the chronic pain problem?
I think what you are trying to say is that prescribing opioids violates the Hippocratic Oath and the concept of doing no harm. If that is the case, then you better have numerous cases of properly administered opioids in a controlled setting that necessitate the use of the drug Narcan because I have millions of instances where properly administered NSAIDs caused serious morbidity and mortality.
If I were God and made up the rules, I would have stated that the issue of addiction with opioids has been understated and come up with a safe harbor regimen for doctors such that they could not get in trouble as long as the rules were followed. And I would have left the people on opioids the fuck alone.
Establishing a safe harbor gets in the way of creating enemies and victims which is what the DEA really wanted. No safe harbor existed then or now. The rules right now are so fucking grey that any time the DEA needs money they just fine the shit out of Walgreen's or CVS.[/QUOTE]Both legally and ethically.
Tiny12 wrote Chase Oliver is gay how ironic and apropos on so many fucking levels.
Red Lobster: A case of Poor Mgmt and "All-You-Can-Eat-Shrimp" ...
[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2952326]Yeah, and a fight for survival only happens when there are limited resources. You got that part right. With the restaurant industry, thanks to Biden, the resource is cash, and because of inflation and higher interest rates, restaurants and their customers have less buying power than ever before. As for crappy food, if their food was so bad, why did all these restaurants have so many locations? You do not get why they went under. [/QUOTE]
Then explain, why hasn't it been a problem, for many of the "42 Fastest-Growing Restaurant Chains Right Now", in the article I provided, for them to get loans or expand their businesses to new locations? Or why their customers seem to have no problems buying, from their restaurants, that have fueled the record growth and healthy increases in profits.
[b]The 42 Fastest-Growing Restaurant Chains Right Now[/b]
[url]https://www.eatthis.com/fastest-growing-restaurant-chains-2024/[/url]
[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2952326]They went under because they were fast growing and in demand and got into debt. When interest rates went up and consumers had less real income, they could not pay on their debt. You and Loony Tooms and your crappy food idea. OMG. Can you be more dense?[/QUOTE] Your delusions aside, Forbes magazine quotes the problems for bankruptcy, mainly as a revolving-door of ownership, 5 CEOs in the last few years, the poor management, poor sales, financial issues (which is again poor management) and a massive million dollar lost/fiasco on an [i][b]"all you can eat shrimp" bet[/b][/i] that when south (again poor management).
[i][LIST]"Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy due to struggling with ownership turnover, plateauing sales, financial issues exacerbated by debt, the pandemic, and an all-you-can-eat shrimp deal that resulted in significant operating losses." [url]https://www.forbes.com/sites/caileygleeson/2024/05/20/why-red-lobster-went-bankrupt-covid-rising-costs-and-millions-lost-on-endless-shrimp/[/url]
[b]After All-You-Can-Eat-Shrimp Deal FIASCO[/b]
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2rOPAoP-94[/URL][/LIST][/i]
[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2952326]Yes, Democrats think screwing one's creditors is a great thing.
You think people just quit wanting lobster and sea food? OMG.
Is it 10,20, or 30? Admit it. You just made it up. And how are they getting the loans to expand after Biden's attitude with creditors and higher interest rates and banks cutting back on lending?
LOL. Restaurants are going broke right and left, forced to cut prices because the consumer is in a world of hurt, and you think Biden-Harris did a great job? What is next? Are you going to praise how they handled hurricane Helene?
People have to eat. They just are staying in more because they have less money and it is cheaper to eat at home. It is not that hard.[/QUOTE] Appealing to "god" with OMGs is NOT going to help your woefully inept argument.
Dude, if you read the article above "42 Fastest-Growing Restaurant Chains Right Now", you'll see the growth in sales and locations in [i][b]"these restaurants"[/b][/i] that you claim Red Lobster is having problems with, in a so called bad Biden economy with "high inflation", "limited resources" and "cash".
Explain why they are thriving and Red Lobster is not? Why their customers have money?
[b]PS: [i]"All-You-Can-Eat" endless shrimp fiasco"[/i][/b] is just hilarious, as employees recant their tales of hordes of families coming in, looking to get fed on one (1) order of endless shrimp (...kkkk!)
Talk about [b]gross mismanagement[/b], that has nothing to do with a Biden Economy!!!
Show of hands if this applies to you
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2952619]Despite what low-information economic numbskulls tell polsters about Trump's / Repubs' "economy" vs Biden's / Dems' economy, it was NOT Trump's one and only economic stimulus legislation passed on the last business day of 2017 that had anything whatsoever to do with continuing the Obama-Biden steady 7 1/2 year-long downward trajectory in lowering the unemployment rate OR raising wages for rank and file workers.
In fact, the nation's corporate CEOs who benefited the most from Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act promised everyone before that idiotic legislation was passed that they had no intention of expanding their businesses or adding jobs because of it. No, they only intended to use that hot-money windfall to buy back their own declining company stock.
And, sure enough, they continued to keep that promise for at least 6 years after that legislation was passed.
[B]Six years later, more evidence shows the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act benefits U.S. business owners and executives, not average workers.
December 20, 2023[/B]
[URL]https://equitablegrowth.org/six-years-later-more-evidence-shows-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-benefits-u-s-business-owners-and-executives-not-average-workers/[/URL]
[B]US companies tax windfall fuels record share buybacks.
April 4, 2019[/B]
[URL]https://apnews.com/article/438fae12f9204b1fbd8e8b1985ae554f[/URL]
Instead, we have predominantly Dem cities and Dem states raising their minimum wage in 2018 and 2019 to thank for any meaningful decrease in the Unrmployment Rate (American workers finally having a greater incentive to take certain jobs at certain minimum pay) and increase in rank and file workers' wages:
[B]Low-wage workers saw the biggest wage growth in states that increased their minimum wage between 2018 and 2019.
March 4, 2020[/B]
[URL]https://www.epi.org/blog/low-wage-workers-saw-the-biggest-wage-growth-in-states-that-increased-minimum-wage-2018-2019/[/URL]
Which makes perfect sense; for one, why on earth would companies add jobs and increase wages in face of Trump / Repub economic policy that was busy creating at least a Million FEWER jobs in those three pre-Trump's Pandemic years than in the three previous Obama-Biden years?
And second, why would a person whose main if not only measure of national economic "success" was the Stock Market, Donald Trump, want America's Corporate CEOs to do anything ELSE with their hot-money windfall?
Enter the Trump / Repubs' one and only supposed economic "stimulus" legislation, the half laughably named, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
That is, the only one that was not an emergency response to the all-too-typical Great Repub Once in 100 Years Disaster, in this case, Trump's Pandemic. Whereupon Trump HAD TO add Trillions to the deficit, DOUBLE that of Joe Biden, triggering Recovery Inflation earlier than any other country, apparently a very, very sensitive and belatedly painful point among some Trump Cult Folowers.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/10/14/cnns-jennings-harris-struggling-because-dems-focus-on-dudes-who-want-to-become-women/[/URL]
