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After a year and a half of a Trump Presidency.

Currently the number of Americans that are collecting unemployment is the lowest it's been in 44 years. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...ng-unemployment-benefits-falls-to-44-year-low

The Black and Hispanic unemployment is at the lowest level in US history https://thepalmierireport.com/under...loyment-rate-hits-lowest-in-american-history/ https://www.newsmax.com/politics/pr...pree-black-unemployment/2018/02/24/id/845253/

The Black and White Labor Participation Rate Gap has all but disappeared for the first time in 40 years. https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-...rticipation-gap-has-all-but-closed-1520780610

Is keeping America ignorant how the Left plans to win elections?
 
After a year and a half of a Trump Presidency.

Currently the number of Americans that are collecting unemployment is the lowest it's been in 44 years. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...ng-unemployment-benefits-falls-to-44-year-low

The Black and Hispanic unemployment is at the lowest level in US history https://thepalmierireport.com/under...loyment-rate-hits-lowest-in-american-history/ https://www.newsmax.com/politics/pr...pree-black-unemployment/2018/02/24/id/845253/

The Black and White Labor Participation Rate Gap has all but disappeared for the first time in 40 years. https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-...rticipation-gap-has-all-but-closed-1520780610

Is keeping America ignorant how the Left plans to win elections?

Yes they did..but unlike Fox News they reported how far the Obama administration had taken all of those numbers before the handoff to trump.
 
Yes they did..but unlike Fox News they reported how far the Obama administration had taken all of those numbers before the handoff to trump.

Really? Did they give an example of any Obama policy that actually improved the economy? Did they explain why the improvements were 2 to 3 times faster under President Trump? Did they explain why almost every Leftist including Obama himself not only never predicted this level of improvement but said it could never happen?
 
Maybe other things would get better coverage if tRump didn't keep opening his ignorant mouth about items Stormy and illegal voters.

He and his own STUPIDITY are his own worst enemies.
 
Yes they did..but unlike Fox News they reported how far the Obama administration had taken all of those numbers before the handoff to trump.

Thank you for pointing out what another tRump "slobber-jockey" failed to mention in his inaccurate post.
 
Really? Did they give an example of any Obama policy that actually improved the economy? Did they explain why the improvements were 2 to 3 times faster under President Trump? Did they explain why almost every Leftist including Obama himself not only never predicted this level of improvement but said it could never happen?

You are going to have to turn loose of tRump at some point my friend. He is turning blue...LMAOn
 
Maybe other things would get better coverage if tRump didn't keep opening his ignorant mouth about items Stormy and illegal voters.

He and his own STUPIDITY are his own worst enemies.

Okay. That post I can agree with.
 
Really? Did they give an example of any Obama policy that actually improved the economy? Did they explain why the improvements were 2 to 3 times faster under President Trump? Did they explain why almost every Leftist including Obama himself not only never predicted this level of improvement but said it could never happen?

Obama needed only to keep the country from the disaster that republican easy financial policies had set up for us and turnaround the demise of two major US car manufactures and continue to support trade agreements and green initiatives that at least were leading us in the right direction economically as opposed to trying to turn back the clock to a period that will NEVER return for any extended period of time.

As for what trump did, he poured gasoline on a growing economy, only yielding about 0.5% at best in GDP growth rates. But what we are seeing today is the impact form pouring gasoline on a growing economy. Remember that when the other end of pouring gasoline on a growing economy comes back to haunt us.

Good example:
Pruett and the recent roll back of auto emission standards. Auto companies get new autos on the drawing board 7 years in advance of their model year release with actual components planning 5 years in advance. In other words, the auto emissions components of new cars as far out as 2022-2024 are already in the pipe. That money is already spent. Those changes won't put a single new worker back to work.

That has been my issue with Trump deregulation since it started. I always thought some number of regulations eliminated was entirely the wrong approach while believing that we needed deregulation. Some # to eliminate was and is entirely the wrong approach. We will pay for willy nilly deregulation which is what we have. This is similar to the corporate tax breaks. Corporate Tax breaks were surely in order. But we should not have cut the nominal rate to 21%. We are getting nothing for the dif between a nominal rate of 26% and a nominal rate of 21%. We would have had $600B for infrastructure had we only cut the Corporate rates to 26% for one thing.
 
Maybe other things would get better coverage if tRump didn't keep opening his ignorant mouth about items Stormy and illegal voters.

He and his own STUPIDITY are his own worst enemies.

I don't think the President ever mentioned Stormy, that is a total media invention. Illegal voters are the only way Dems can win, especially now.
 
You are going to have to turn loose of tRump at some point my friend. He is turning blue...LMAOn

Reagan created the greatest period of prosperity in modern US history and Trump is doing even better, I will hang for a while.
 
Yes they did..but unlike Fox News they reported how far the Obama administration had taken all of those numbers before the handoff to trump.

Only the craziest of partisans give credit for today's economy to yesterday's bumbler. Interest rates were at zero for most of his term. Since lowering interest rates is the first line of defense in combating a recession, Obama also left America naked to defend itself against recessions.

When Obama took office he faced two choices: Work on the economy, or work to change the demographic of the country. He chose the latter.

Go vote for Obama next election.
 
Only the craziest of partisans give credit for today's economy to yesterday's bumbler. Interest rates were at zero for most of his term. Since lowering interest rates is the first line of defense in combating a recession, Obama also left America naked to defend itself against recessions.

When Obama took office he faced two choices: Work on the economy, or work to change the demographic of the country. He chose the latter.

Go vote for Obama next election.

That is an interesting but totally self serving argument. You are forgetting the mess he was left. If Obama had made one misstep coming into office, we would have had the second great depression on our hands.
 
Yes they did..but unlike Fox News they reported how far the Obama administration had taken all of those numbers before the handoff to trump.

Is that something that really means much? We were in a recession so it was basically guaranteed it would be up by the end of 8 years, no matter what.
 
That is an interesting but totally self serving argument. You are forgetting the mess he was left. If Obama had made one misstep coming into office, we would have had the second great depression on our hands.

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Only the craziest of partisans give credit for today's economy to yesterday's bumbler. Interest rates were at zero for most of his term. Since lowering interest rates is the first line of defense in combating a recession, Obama also left America naked to defend itself against recessions.

When Obama took office he faced two choices: Work on the economy, or work to change the demographic of the country. He chose the latter.

Go vote for Obama next election.

Obama inherited a mess, yes. But his heart was in social activism rather than economics. Demographic change was of more importance to democrats than saving middle class jobs.
 
That is an interesting but totally self serving argument. You are forgetting the mess he was left. If Obama had made one misstep coming into office, we would have had the second great depression on our hands.

Which is why he spent a whole very important year on his healthcare fetish/bungling, that really needed to be spent on national and global economic reform....a project that never even got started, not really.


I encourage you to put in more thought so that you can avoid looking as silly as you do here.
 
That is an interesting but totally self serving argument. You are forgetting the mess he was left. If Obama had made one misstep coming into office, we would have had the second great depression on our hands.

Actually he did exactly that. Obama policies are pretty much why the recession lasted 8 years or at best was the slowest recover in US history.

Although there were many bad actors in the private banking community, every single Govt policy that caused the housing market crash came from Leftist Democrats.

The worst was over when Obama took office. He inherited a recovery not a recession. But he did more of what caused it in the first place.

America would have been better off if Obama had come into office and done nothing.
 
Actually he did exactly that. Obama policies are pretty much why the recession lasted 8 years or at best was the slowest recover in US history.

Although there were many bad actors in the private banking community, every single Govt policy that caused the housing market crash came from Leftist Democrats.

The worst was over when Obama took office. He inherited a recovery not a recession. But he did more of what caused it in the first place.

America would have been better off if Obama had come into office and done nothing.

Had he done nothing other than administer the government correctly, attempted to provide quality through government, we would have been massively ahead.

But he so very clearly had no interest.

Because he sucks.
 
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Which is why he spent a whole very important year on his healthcare fetish/bungling, that really needed to be spent on national and global economic reform....a project that never even got started, not really.


I encourage you to put in more thought so that you can avoid looking as silly as you do here.

Obama did give up vast amounts of political capital in pushing hard on the ACA. He did not give up much else though. We needed a steady approach after pulling out of near disaster, not some balls to walls lets try to push this economy to the limit approach and he very likely knew the past results of mid-term elections in the first term of a Presidency. In other words, he had two years to do something big that he felt was important and he did it, having steadied the ship from going up on the rocks of disaster coming into office.

As for who is most responsible for that mess, its Alan Greenspan and both parties have a piece of him since he switched parties in I think 2007. The CFTC chairwomen was the only regulator that had a legitimate piece of the derivatives mess that was actually at the heart of that disaster that saw it coming and was willing to go after it. Greenspan warned her that if she did not cease and desist, he would have her fired and would make sure her career was ruined, that she would never work again. He was as you might guess a Republican at the time.

Perhaps you should do your homework better.

As for the general topic of Obama, he was not IMO a great president nor even a good one. He was if anything a decent republican president or tried to be as most of the policies he brought forward were policies from Right wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation. The basics of ACA came from the Right as did Cap and Trade. The GOP would not help pass or even consider policies that were actually born in their own think tanks. That said, Obama tried too hard to compromise and then failing that turned to Executive Order. I consider his presidency a failed presidency on the whole for four major reasons:
1) the aforementioned overemphasis on compromise
2) overuse of Executive Orders
3) not a spirited enough effort with regard to judgeships
4) the utter lunacy of running for a 2nd term without the fortitude to carry his party at least into the House with him. Six years without the House is an unfathomable failure IMO

i don't consider his economic policies a failure. Look at what we are getting for throwing gasoline on the economy. Do you really think this stuff will yield something lasting? Do you not see the risks inherent to throwing gasoline on the economy with little actual return for it. This economy has structural problems and none of what trump is doing addresses those. That is why we are getting such little GDP improvement out of all this gasoline.

He might have recovered the whole thing if he had convinced John Boehner back to the negotiating table to get a budget done in his second term. It cost Boehner his position as GOP leader in the House. But Boehner did not come back and actually lost his position in House leadership as punishment from the GOP for even considering working with Obama to get a budget
 
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Obama did give up vast amounts of political capital in pushing hard on the ACA. He did not give up much else though. We needed a steady approach after pulling out of near disaster, not some balls to walls lets try to push this economy to the limit approach and he very likely knew the past results of mid-term elections in the first term of a Presidency. In other words, he had two years to do something big that he felt was important and he did it, having steadied the ship from going up on the rocks of disaster coming into office.

As for who is most responsible for that mess, its Alan Greenspan and both parties have a piece of him since he switched parties in I think 2007. The CFTC chairwomen was the only regulator that had a legitimate piece of the derivatives mess that was actually at the heart of that disaster that saw it coming and was willing to go after it. Greenspan warned her that if she did not cease and desist, he would have her fired and would make sure her career was ruined, that she would never work again. He was as you might guess a Republican at the time.

Perhaps you should do your homework better.

As for the general topic of Obama, he was not IMO a great president nor even a good one. He was if anything a decent republican president or tried to be as most of the policies he brought forward were policies from Right wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation. The basics of ACA came from the Right as did Cap and Trade. The GOP would not help pass or even consider policies that were actually born in their own think tanks. That said, Obama tried too hard to compromise and then failing that turned to Executive Order. I consider his presidency a failed presidency on the whole for four major reasons:
1) the aforementioned overemphasis on compromise
2) overuse of Executive Orders
3) not a spirited enough effort with regard to judgeships
4) the utter lunacy of running for a 2nd term without the fortitude to carry his party at least into the House with him. Six years without the House is an unfathomable failure IMO

i don't consider his economic policies a failure. Look at what we are getting for throwing gasoline on the economy. Do you really think this stuff will yield something lasting? Do you not see the risks inherent to throwing gasoline on the economy with little actual return for it. This economy has structural problems and none of what trump is doing addresses those. That is why we are getting such little GDP improvement out of all this gasoline.

He might have recovered the whole thing if he had convinced John Boehner back to the negotiating table to get a budget done in his second term. It cost Boehner his position as GOP leader in the House. But Boehner did not come back and actually lost his position in House leadership as punishment from the GOP for even considering working with Obama to get a budget

Putting some of the crooks who caused the Great Recession in prison would have helped, but sadly Obama could not be bothered.
 
Putting some of the crooks who caused the Great Recession in prison would have helped, but sadly Obama could not be bothered.

Guess Bush 43 couldn't be bothered either. Especially since his policies created it to start with.
 
Only the craziest of partisans give credit for today's economy to yesterday's bumbler. Interest rates were at zero for most of his term. Since lowering interest rates is the first line of defense in combating a recession, Obama also left America naked to defend itself against recessions.

When Obama took office he faced two choices: Work on the economy, or work to change the demographic of the country. He chose the latter.

Go vote for Obama next election.

Only the DUMBEST of partisans fail to see that tRump inherited quite a decent economy and believe that tRump did it all by his little ole self. I do believe that tRump supporters get more ignorant with each passing week.
 
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