Yes, it is a standard partisan hack fare to cite bad numbers and attack the methodology behind good numbers (it's a conspiiiiiracy!!).
Second - "strong corporate profits"
Corporations are holding on to many of what they would normally expend in expansion, and hiring due to uncertainty, and outright attack of business by this thug in the WH.
True to some extent, but WTF does that have to do with their profits? Hint: nothing. Corporations are always going to maintain the smallest possible payroll necessary to maximize profits.
Third - "strong markets"
pfft! Yeah, markets propped up by fiat, digitized money that is far from real. Ask anyone in the know, and they will tell you that our stock market should be at about 8K right now if the truth were being told.
A purely idiotic statement, demonstrating your ignorance of the markets and the economy. The Dow wasn't much below 8,000 even at the nadir of the recession when there was a very real possibility that the banking system would collapse and we could wind up in a full-blown depression. Since that time financial markets have stabilized, corporate profits have taken off, the economy has grown, and the recession has ended. You do realize that markets are primarily driven by corporate profits, right? :roll:
Fourth - "falling unemployment"
Yeah, do more to people dropping off the roles of those actively looking...You can't claim things are getting better when the workforce is shrinking due to the horrid conditions in finding a job.
Another bogus wingnut talking point. The U-6 unemployment number, which includes discouraged workers, has actually improved somewhat more than the official U-3 unemployment number.
Fifth - "rising consumer confidence"
What? Who are we kidding here? People are not buying anything they don't absolutely have to buy...This is a joke.
Yes, who do you think you are trying to kid? Consumer confidence is an economic benchmark and it has been rising significantly.
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Consumer confidence climbed last week to the highest level in four years and unemployment claims fell, pointing to a brighter job market that may invigorate the U.S. economy.
The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index (COMFCOMF) rose to minus 31.4 in the period ended April 1, the best reading since March 2008, from minus 34.7 the prior week. Filings for jobless benefits dropped by 6,000 to 357,000 in the week ended March 31, the fewest since April 2008, the Labor Department said."
Consumer Confidence Climbs as U.S. Job Market Improves: Economy - Bloomberg
Sixth - "expanding manufacturing...."
Where? in solor panels that the government props up with our half Billion dollars right before they fail?
Seriously, can you be this ignorant about the economy? Manufacturing has been the strongest part of the recovery for at least three years.
And lastly - "So I'd that things are clearly improving..."
Only in a liberal bubble can one claim that anything is improving!!! Gas priced at $4, Home energy bills through the roof, Grocery prices up 30%, America divided thanks to Barry, and his rhetoric, and all the while no real jobs. What a success story....NOT!
Only someone who is completely out of touch with reality and/or a complete partisan hack would deny that the economy is improving -- full stop.
