Yes he was.
Who said they were better? I certainly did not. Low pay is low pay. I will say the economy is much better under Trump than it was under Obama.
You all admire T Rump for speaking the truth. How many people really cared about the unemployment numbers, so long as THEY had a job? I can't think of many. They had theirs. And T Rump touts"His" stock market as a great indicator. What did the stock market do under Obama? Did your 401k earn nothing for 8 years? Or did it start 2017 in pretty decent shape. BTW, back in 2016 even T Rump said the stock market was the ONLY thing that did good under Obama (it wasn't) but even then, it was in a "big fat ugly bubble". Then it goes up even higher. So which is it....a big fat ugly bubble, or the best economy in history?
And the right was quick to point out that the jobs created under Obama were all low paying. What was their fix? Abolish the minimum wage. When a $15 minimum wage was proposed what did they say? Places just won't hire, and the costs to YOU will go up. So...we put a tariff on Chinese goods and the price to YOU goes up, since manufacturers and importers are not the ones who pay the tariff...YOU are. He "reopens steel plants", yet we are not back to the glory days of steel jobs in the US....we have a handful created. And he "brought the industry back". At lower pay. But a job is a job (except under Obama). Oh yeah...
those Carrier jobs still moved to Mexico But you have to take that article with a grain of salt...it's from the highly liberal "Popular Mechanics". BUT....and this is important....the dear leader seems to have struck a deal with Mexico, so you won't have to pay more for a Mexican built Carrier.
Then he passes a tax cut and a lot of people got a one time bribe of $1,000 while companies bought back stock, which made the execs (who got an even bigger tax cut) richer. How much of that has trickled down to you? Companies aren't reinvesting the tax cuts here...they are paying the shareholders and execs. The are "creating" low paying jobs, but the've been creating low paying jobs since 2010...so the trend continued into the T Rump years. What was your raise like this year? We were promised that with all these tax cuts, companies would either create jobs or pass the cuts along to the current employees, which is the money "trickling down" into the economy. So...what kind of a raise did you get that wasn't already part of a union negotiated pay deal? Personally I don't know of anyone who got a hefty pay raise because of the tax cuts. They are quick to say the "average family" will pay $4,000 less in taxes. That's not a pay raise, and it's only temporary. Rates will "snap back" in 4 more years. One has to wonder if the things they took away, such as the personal exemption will also "snap back" or will they just keep that one from you?
But what if T Rump was right in 2016? What if the stock market really IS in a "big fat ugly (uglier and bigger now) bubble"? I know the stock market isn't the only indicator of the health of an economy, but if history is any guide, when the stock market takes a hit, companies scramble to "cut costs". And their first cuts are to labor, so the jobless numbers will increase. But have no fear...PT Trump will blame it on Obama or the FBI or ANYONE other than himself - even though he was quick to take personal credit for it's rise.
Sorry...but I am one who tends to believe that the economy goes in cycles, and Trump got in on the upswing....he'll have to deal with the dips. And each passing day is one day further removed from the Obama era, which will make it difficult to blame him for the dip. So who will he blame? He doesn't seem to be able to shoulder any blame. Just look at his casino businesses...He owned two big casinos in a relatively small town, then built the worlds largest casino in the same town. All he did was draw business from his existing casinos until none of them could pay their bills. Did he take the blame for biting off more than he could chew? Naw..he blamed a dead guy.
