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Per a poll 2/3 of Voters say the motormouth HAS NOT MADE THEM BETTER OFF. Guess they're not obscenely wealthy cronies. Didja know?

Posted - November 4, 2019

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  • 46117
    Well, I guess My 2, is in that wealthy one third then.  Lucky Girl.  
      November 4, 2019 2:47 PM MST
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  • 7280
      November 4, 2019 3:19 PM MST
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  • 113301
    She must be. I know we're not. Thank you for your reply Sharon :)
      November 5, 2019 12:47 AM MST
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  • 32527
    I know you and Jim got raises under Trump. And did not get raises every year under Obama.
    So your unearned income did do better under Trump.
      November 5, 2019 10:36 AM MST
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  • 113301
    You are talking social security m2c? Since when does the president control that percentage? I'm gonna ask. Thank you for your reply.
      November 6, 2019 3:54 AM MST
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  • 32527
    Yes...he controls it by making tje economy better.
      November 6, 2019 4:08 AM MST
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  • 16197
    Projected economic growth has been revised downwards under Trump. Again.

    https://www.ft.com/content/225bf402-03b1-11e9-9d01-cd4d49afbbe3

    The protracted trade war with China is also denting confidence in business spending bigly.

    https://www.kiplinger.com/article/business/T019-C000-S010-gdp-growth-rate-and-forecast.html This post was edited by Slartibartfast at November 6, 2019 4:15 AM MST
      November 6, 2019 4:12 AM MST
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  • 32527
    The U.S. economic outlook is healthy according to the key economic indicators. The most critical indicator is the gross domestic product, which measures the nation's production output. The GDP growth rate is expected to remain between the 2% and 3% ideal range. Unemployment is forecast to continue at the natural rate. There isn't too much inflation or deflation. That's a Goldilocks economy.

    U.S. GDP growth
     will slow to 2.2% in 2019 from 3% in 2018. It will be 2% in 2020 and 1.9% in 2021. That's according to the most recent forecast released at the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on September 18, 2019.

    According to economic models we are doing great. Goldilocks economy. And growth is were we want it.  And as you can see we are doing and projected to do better than other developed markets.... 

    Remember the coming "recession"....hah. Still have not got even one quarter of negitive growth. 

    Trump economy is booming. Stocks just broke another record high yesterday (Nov 5) and looks to open still higher this morning. 

    The economy it Trumpin' it. 
      November 6, 2019 4:42 AM MST
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  • 16197
    GDP is currently being driven by consumer spending. That's not sustainable, as it leads to higher levels of household debt. Business spending is stagnant - those aren't buying.
      November 6, 2019 9:18 PM MST
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  • 32527
    Our ecomony has been driven by consumer spending for decades....they tried to tell it was good for us we no longer need to make our products...we were going into the "information age" so our manufacturing jobs leaving did not matter and we should go back to school. 
    BS. And that is why Trump won and will win.

    Manufacturing jobs are returning.  (Think we may have agreed...almost. Lol)
      November 7, 2019 5:36 AM MST
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  • 13251
    And which poll is that? Have a link?
      November 4, 2019 3:22 PM MST
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  • 113301
    FT-Peterson Poll. All ya gotta do is GOOGLE" Which poll says voters are not better off". You're welcome.
      November 5, 2019 12:50 AM MST
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  • 13251
    I looked it up. Did you read the entire piece or just take verbatim the part of the second graf, "almost two-thirds of Americans said their finances haven't gotten better since Trump has taken office" because it suits your "anti-Trump-hyperbole-all-day-every-day-and-twice-on-Sunday" agenda?

    If you take a few minutes to read the whole thing, you see in the third graf that "31% of respondents...said their finances have gotten worse since Trump won the White House, while 33% say their finances haven't gotten better or worse in the same time frame. (Another) 35% say they have seen a positive change in their finances since Trump took office."

    Thus, what this poll with a very small sample size of about 1,000 people actually shows is that about a third of them feel that they are better off, another third feel they are worse off, and the other third are neutral. You could just as accurately say that two-thirds say that Trump has not made them worse off.

    So your phrasing in the question is extremely misleading and a transparent attempt to paint Trump as a villain, which is par for your course, and that alone makes it advisable to take it with several grains of salt.

    The other aspect of this, which you either didn't think about or don't consider important enough to get in the way of a good anti-Trump rant, is that "finances" is a very broad, general term that covers myriad things such as employment, wages, home ownership, investments, savings, taxes, etc. There's a real question of how much responsibility and ability the president (any president) and government have to wave a magic wand and somehow make all of these things better for every individual, as opposed to each of us being responsible for working (if able, of course) to earn, save, and try to build better lives for ourselves and our children. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I doubt you bothered to think all this through before posting your accusatory, inflammatory question. Thanks for reading all of this!




    This post was edited by Stu Spelling Bee at November 6, 2019 9:24 PM MST
      November 5, 2019 3:42 AM MST
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  • Polls are a dime a dozen these days. Finding accurate polling data is like trying to find accurate news reporting. Don't know which poll you're citing and you offer no numbers in support but it matters not. Nobody asked, but you can put me in the 1/3 that understands that anytime a Democrat bites the dust, we're all better off. 
      November 4, 2019 6:23 PM MST
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  • 113301
    GOOGLE "which poll says 2/3 of people say they are not better off". FT-Peterson poll.You are welcome. You do Google don'tcha?
      November 5, 2019 12:51 AM MST
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