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J-Rod10 said:If Cohen had anything of worth to offer, Mueller wouldn't have handed him off to NYC to investigate.
Maybe Mueller wants to head off the possibility of a pardon.
J-Rod10 said:If Cohen had anything of worth to offer, Mueller wouldn't have handed him off to NYC to investigate.
irk miller said:Most of that 4.1% (9.3%) came from the export rush as farmers hurried to get their crops out before the tariffs. Most economists don't think the 4.1% is sustainable. Also, 7% came from corporations spending their tax cut which supposedly isn't sustainable either. I'm no economist, but that seems to be the majority of chatter in the news.
J-Rod10 said:Unemployment is low, more jobs than people to fill them will lead to higher wages to poach workers, which leads to more spending.
A good many are at that age now, and more and more each year. That'll open up high wage, high skill jobs. My concern, we lack the skilled workers to fill them back.irk miller said:Been hearing an interesting take on unemployment- mostly because baby boomers are retiring and it will get even better as more retire.
That's a spending problem. Not a tax problem.carnivorous chicken said:Speaking of tax cuts... looks like the deficit is going to balloon at much faster rates than those predicted by those pushing the tax cuts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/business/trump-corporate-tax-cut-deficit.html
Deficit spending is the amount by which spending exceeds revenue over a particular period of time, also called simply deficit, or budget deficit; the opposite of budget surplus. The term may be applied to the budget of a government, private company, or individual.
One time. While his annual never reached the 3% they're predicting now. So, Obama had 4 quarters north of 4%, and not a one at 3% annually. So, in the long game, we are outpacing Obama.Sav0r said:By definition it’s both a spending and a revenue problem.
Quartely growth at times was over 5% with Obama. I’m not sure why everybody is so pumped when we see Trump in the low 4’s. Especially considering that corporate taxes are now the lowest in the industrial world. We should be out pacing Obama if tax rates are so good for business.
Sav0r said:They are predicting we will out pace it, so we will see. It will be interesting how this helps revenue.
J-Rod10 said:That's a spending problem. Not a tax problem.
J-Rod10 said:I read some of these articles pertaining to the economy, and they say "conservative economist," or "liberal economist."
There should be no political affiliation on predicting the economy. Numbers are numbers. It's hard to know what to believe, what not to. More or less just see how it ends up when it's over.
Ah, putting kids in cages. Granted it wasn't an issue when other administrations did it, and a good many pictures circulated were from the Obama Administration. Oddly enough the most prominent picture used, wasn't even separated from her family. Time really struck gold with that one. Here's an idea. If you don't like the enforcement of laws on the books, get with your representatives, and let them know you would like the laws changed.carnivorous chicken said:This doesn't make much sense, as pointed out.
But I guess economic indicators is one way of many to measure this presidency, and if growth can be maintained maybe that will temper a presidential legacy that so far will be remembered for embracing racism and xenophobia, pulling children away from mothers and putting them in cages, alienating America's enemies, embracing dictators, encouraging violence against minorities, sanctioning presidential payoffs to porn stars, etc., etc. There are long term consequences to all of these issues and since a quarter of economic growth is just one measurement it's pretty hard to forget the others...
Try having 5% of your population be imported middle eastern or thereabouts, mainly islamic males. Then try to be positive about migrationJ-Rod10 said:Just out of curiosity, do we need to rail against local governments for Americans who are separated from their children when they get taken to jail too, or do we just complain about it when it has to do with immigration laws?
The it happened, but not as much bit is a wee bit played out.
Both sides have fumbled on immigration. For some reason, we can't get Congress to do anything about it. Then again, why would they? That's a major campaign platform they'd lose.
Yes, we are doing well. So, in your opinion, that means we should allow our trading partners to take advantage of us in trade deals, because we're doing alright?
J-Rod10 said:Just out of curiosity, do we need to rail against local governments for Americans who are separated from their children when they get taken to jail too, or do we just complain about it when it has to do with immigration laws?
The it happened, but not as much bit is a wee bit played out.
Both sides have fumbled on immigration. For some reason, we can't get Congress to do anything about it. Then again, why would they? That's a major campaign platform they'd lose.
Except it isn't. And, we absolutely do. If you get arrested for, say, misdemeanor drug possession, or DUI, and taken to jail, if you have no family to take your kids, the state takes your kids. It happens all the time.Sav0r said:I mean we don't separate children from families for misdemeanor offenses, so your hypothetical is false from the get go.