DrHarleyboy, Rather than going to specifics of the article this time i'll just, rather than go with the opinion of a very conservative, ultra-keen Trump donor, fast food restaurant guy. go with a highly respected economist.
Am not attacking the messenger. Just saying he, even as a very conservative conservative, is not an economist, and looks a locked in supporter of Donald, so i'd rather go for a less biased opinion from a noted economist.
"So how is it that Obama is trying to take credit for Trump's economy and soaring job records, increased GDP modeling and manufacturing when Obama said "Those jobs aren't coming back, they're gone""? Obama and Biden can’t take credit for the soaring Trump economy"
Economist Paul Krugman Says Puzder Was Very Weak Nominee
Bloomberg Politics Published on Feb 15, 2017
Feb.15 -- Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman comments on Andrew Puzder withdrawing as President Donald Trump’s labor secretary nominee. He speaks during an interview with Bloomberg's Kathleen Hays on "Bloomberg Markets."
With Steve Bannon out of the White House, it’s clearer than ever that Donald Trump’s promise to be a populist fighting for ordinary workers was worth about as much as any other Trump promise — that is, nothing. His agenda, such as it is, amounts to reverse Robin Hood with extra racism — the conventional Republican strategy of taking from struggling families to give to the rich, while distracting lower-income whites by attacking Those People, with the only difference being just how blatantly he plays the race card.
At first sight, however, the Trump version of this strategy doesn’t seem to be going very well. The attempt to repeal Obamacare was almost a caricature of trickle-down policy — take health coverage away from 20-plus million Americans while cutting taxes on a handful of wealthy individuals. But it was massively unpopular, and appears to have failed in Congress.
The next item on the agenda, tax “reform .. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/2017/08/20/congress-cant-do-tax-reform-without-a-functioning-president/#6a73932d8206 ,” may not fare much better. I use scare quotes because a true reform, reducing some tax rates but making up for the lost revenue by closing loopholes, was never going to happen. Straight-out tax cuts, which benefit corporations and the wealthy while blowing up the deficit, might still go through, but even that looks doubtful. Sign up for David Leonhardt's newsletter
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So is the Trump agenda dead? Not necessarily, because trickle-down has never been the whole story of the Republican assault on workers. Or to put it another way: Don’t just watch Congress, keep your eyes on what federal agencies are doing.
President Trump speaking to autoworkers in Ypsilanti, Mich., in March.CreditStephen Crowley/The New York Times
When you step back and take the long view on trickle-down policies, what you realize is that Trump’s legislative failure is more the rule than the exception. The election of Ronald Reagan was supposed to have set America on a path toward lower taxes and smaller government — and it did, for a while. But those changes have largely been reversed.
Looking only at taxing and spending, then, one might conclude that the conservative economic agenda has largely failed. But here’s the thing: While the rich still pay taxes and the safety net has in some ways gotten stronger, the decades since Reagan have nonetheless been marked by vastly increased inequality, with stagnating wages for most, but soaring incomes for a tiny elite. How did that happen?
Yes, globalization probably played some role, as did technology. But other wealthy countries, just as exposed to the winds of global change, haven’t seen anything like America’s headlong rush into a new Gilded Age. To understand what happened to us, and in particular to American workers, you need to look at policy — and especially the kind of policy that often flies under the media’s radar.
Take one example, covered a few months ago in a striking Times essay: the decline in the fortunes of truck drivers, whose pay used to make them members of the middle class. No more: Their real wages have fallen about a third .. https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/trucking-and-blue-collar-woes/ .. since the 1970s, with most of the decline taking place during the Reagan years.
Take another example, at the opposite end of the spectrum: Does anyone doubt that financial deregulation played an important role in surging incomes at the very top of the income distribution?
Which brings us back to Trump and the effect he’ll have on America’s working class. Right now it looks as if he may have much less impact on taxing and spending than most people expected. But other policies, often made administratively by federal agencies rather than via legislation, can matter a lot.
The point is that progressives shouldn’t celebrate too much over Trump’s legislative failures. As long as he’s in office, he retains a lot of power to betray the working people who supported him. And in case you haven’t noticed, betraying those who trust him is a Trump specialty.
Read my blog, The Conscience of a Liberal, and follow me on Twitter, @PaulKrugman.
In future, please include the author, Andrew Puzder ,,
Presidential campaign of Donald Trump
In 2016, Puzder raised money for the Trump campaign for President,[44] and with his wife contributed $332,000 to Trump's campaign, joint fundraising committees, and the Republican National Committee, according to the Federal Election Commission.[45] He was a Trump Presidential Trustee, Victory Finance Chair for California,[46] spokesperson, and Senior Economic Advisor to the campaign.[47] Puzder also served as a Delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention and as the Chairman of the Platform Committee's "Restoring the American Dream" Sub-Committee on the economy, job creation, and the debt.[48] .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Puzder#Presidential_campaign_of_Donald_Trump
You could do lots of reading if you wish ever to come across as anything other than a staunch political partisan, as Purder appears to be.
There were reasons it was referred to as the Great Recession. The fact remains that not sliding into a Depression and handing off declining unemployment and an ascending stock market was one hell of a lot better than what was handed off to Obama.
And the story of the Trump economy is...………….unfinished.
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