Promises, Promises…

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Remember this?

“Team Obama: Sorry, America, the ‘new normal’ may be here to stay
The good times may be over for good. In a speech to the Economic Club of New York yesterday, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the US GDP growth rate, adjusted for inflation, is now projected to run a little above 2% a year.”
Team Obama: Sorry, America, the 'new normal' may be here to stay - AEI





Those of us who voted for Trump…not just the folks who voted against the career criminal, but who voted for the policies that the Trump candidacy promised, have felt gratified as a result. The NYSun does a great job of summarizing the effects the Trump presidency has had on the economy.


1.“Four large secrets that most of the American press is afraid to utter are that the American economy is growing in a way that is directly helpful to the most vulnerable segments of society;
that the administration’s trade policy is clearly working;
that the flow of illegal immigrants is sharply diminishing;
and that for the first time in 65 years, the United States has practically ceased to be a net oil importer.




2. These were all promises of the Trump candidacy, and the first three were areas where previous administrations had promised action but failed to deliver.

3. … the Democratic presidential candidates still prattle compulsively about “tax cuts for the rich” before embarking on the ride of the Valkyries to stratospheric taxes, open borders, socialized medicine, the Green Terror, and the dreaded “national conversation” on trillion-dollar block-vote buying through racial reparations.



4. …workers’ earnings increasing at 3.4% annually, a rate not seen since the best of the Reagan years, and the poverty rate has declined to 11.8%, the best figure that has been recorded since the end of the Clinton administration and still resolutely proceeding in the right direction.

5. Unemployment is at its lowest percentage since the Lyndon Johnson administration more than 50 years ago (and the numbers then were helped by having 545,000 conscripts in Vietnam).

6. Minority groups are the principal beneficiaries of the Trump economy; this isn’t trickle-down, it’s surge-up. Average income for female-led single-parent households jumped 7.6% last year, well ahead of gains in higher income groups.” Trump's Four Biggest Secrets Are the Economy





7. Remember this?

“Economist Paul Krugman predicts a 'global recession with no end in sight' if Trump wins
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman predicts a "global recession with no end in sight" if Donald Trump is elected president”
Economist Paul Krugman predicts a 'global recession with no end in sight' if Trump wins


and….


“Steven Rattner: If ‘Trump Wins You Will See a Market Crash of Historic Proportions’
Steven Rattner: If ‘Trump Wins You Will See a Market Crash of Historic Proportions’



Promises vs Promises.
 
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Remember this?

“Team Obama: Sorry, America, the ‘new normal’ may be here to stay
The good times may be over for good. In a speech to the Economic Club of New York yesterday, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the US GDP growth rate, adjusted for inflation, is now projected to run a little above 2% a year.”
Team Obama: Sorry, America, the 'new normal' may be here to stay - AEI




Those of us who voted for Trump…not just the folks who voted against the career criminal, but who voted for the policies that the Trump candidacy promised, have felt gratified as a result. The NYSun does a great job of summarizing the effects the Trump presidency has had on the economy.


1.“Four large secrets that most of the American press is afraid to utter are that the American economy is growing in a way that is directly helpful to the most vulnerable segments of society;
that the administration’s trade policy is clearly working;
that the flow of illegal immigrants is sharply diminishing;
and that for the first time in 65 years, the United States has practically ceased to be a net oil importer.




2. These were all promises of the Trump candidacy, and the first three were areas where previous administrations had promised action but failed to deliver.

3. … the Democratic presidential candidates still prattle compulsively about “tax cuts for the rich” before embarking on the ride of the Valkyries to stratospheric taxes, open borders, socialized medicine, the Green Terror, and the dreaded “national conversation” on trillion-dollar block-vote buying through racial reparations.



4. …workers’ earnings increasing at 3.4% annually, a rate not seen since the best of the Reagan years, and the poverty rate has declined to 11.8%, the best figure that has been recorded since the end of the Clinton administration and still resolutely proceeding in the right direction.

5. Unemployment is at its lowest percentage since the Lyndon Johnson administration more than 50 years ago (and the numbers then were helped by having 545,000 conscripts in Vietnam).

6. Minority groups are the principal beneficiaries of the Trump economy; this isn’t trickle-down, it’s surge-up. Average income for female-led single-parent households jumped 7.6% last year, well ahead of gains in higher income groups.” Trump's Four Biggest Secrets Are the Economy





7. Remember this?

“Economist Paul Krugman predicts a 'global recession with no end in sight' if Trump wins
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman predicts a "global recession with no end in sight" if Donald Trump is elected president”
Economist Paul Krugman predicts a 'global recession with no end in sight' if Trump wins


and….


“Steven Rattner: If ‘Trump Wins You Will See a Market Crash of Historic Proportions’
Steven Rattner: If ‘Trump Wins You Will See a Market Crash of Historic Proportions’



Promises vs Promises.
I remember the song Promises, Promises. It was about civil rights in the sixties. They worked out too.
 
8. “The poverty rate among female-led households fell 2.7% for African Americans, and 4% for Hispanics. Industries largely populated by women (and, historically, exploited women), especially hospitality and, to a lesser extent, health care, showed strong earnings gains, even as unemployment rates for African-American and Hispanic women fell to under 4.5%.




9. Another partisan Democratic falsehood that is exposed by the census is the myth that the middle class is shrinking. The percentage of total families at the lowest economic levels has fallen by over one whole percent and the brackets from $50,000 to $150,000 and above $200,000 have both increased by almost one whole percent (several million people in each case). There were sharp increases in the incomes of younger families …

There is no sign that the Democrats are assimilating the lessons of this. They endlessly repeat their false mantra that the rich (i.e. the knee-jerk limousine liberals of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street, almost all of them effulgent Democrats) are the only winners from the Trump economy.” Trump's Four Biggest Secrets Are the Economy





10. When you consider the economy, collusion, Russian involvement in the election, obstruction of justice, emoluments, the Ukraine, racism, the Charlottesville Nazis, ….is there anything the Democrats/Progressives haven’t lied about????
 
Socialist have a history of FAILURE.....................Proven time and time again in History...........

The Far left are too far gone to look at History and see what a bunch of miserable failures they are today........

They refuse to look at why people are Hauling ass out of Far left states like California and New York.........

They REFUSE REALITY.....................and the Reality is that their policies are failures................
 
Socialist have a history of FAILURE.....................Proven time and time again in History...........

The Far left are too far gone to look at History and see what a bunch of miserable failures they are today........

They refuse to look at why people are Hauling ass out of Far left states like California and New York.........

They REFUSE REALITY.....................and the Reality is that their policies are failures................



Reality, history, experience.....none seem to hold a candle to the embrace of the mob, for Leftist drones.

Hard to imagine being that needy.
 
Socialist have a history of FAILURE.....................Proven time and time again in History...........

The Far left are too far gone to look at History and see what a bunch of miserable failures they are today........

They refuse to look at why people are Hauling ass out of Far left states like California and New York.........

They REFUSE REALITY.....................and the Reality is that their policies are failures................



Reality, history, experience.....none seem to hold a candle to the embrace of the mob, for Leftist drones.

Hard to imagine being that needy.
Sounds Roman to me.......................Appease the Mob and the people will love you for it...............

Cheering Christians being fed to the Lions as the rest of Rome burns...............or party on dude with Gladiator games as their Territories are taken all across the region............

I hope that most ............a majority ...............are not fooled by the stupidity of the left...........and their MOB..................I don't think that many in this country have been Castrated yet................
 
Socialist have a history of FAILURE.....................Proven time and time again in History...........

The Far left are too far gone to look at History and see what a bunch of miserable failures they are today........

They refuse to look at why people are Hauling ass out of Far left states like California and New York.........

They REFUSE REALITY.....................and the Reality is that their policies are failures................



Reality, history, experience.....none seem to hold a candle to the embrace of the mob, for Leftist drones.

Hard to imagine being that needy.
Sounds Roman to me.......................Appease the Mob and the people will love you for it...............

Cheering Christians being fed to the Lions as the rest of Rome burns...............or party on dude with Gladiator games as their Territories are taken all across the region............

I hope that most ............a majority ...............are not fooled by the stupidity of the left...........and their MOB..................I don't think that many in this country have been Castrated yet................


Passionate adoration, as of one's parent, or one's god, are the primitive emotions of a mob, sentiments generally associated with women, children, and savages, according to Le Bon.

Often, Liberalism is described as a mental illness...and here it is given the title of 'mass psychosis.'
In the face of clear evidence, they continue to screech 'is not, is nooootttttttttttt!!!"


Gustave Le Bon, in his groundbreaking 1896 book, “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind,” was the first to identify the phenomenon of mass psychology. Both Hitler and Mussolini used his book to understand how to incite a mob.


Le Bon was the second to bring up mass psychology, the first "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" was published in 1841 and was written by the Scottish journalist (back when they actually did real journalism) Charles Mackay, which exposed mass psychosis for the first time..... accounts of classic scams, grand-scale madness, and deceptions.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay



How can it be that Liberals ascribe to "Our side believes in goodness and virtue, and the equally of all men, yet embraces the most evil and pathological of political doctrines."

Here's how:
Liberals exhibit an indisposition to analogies, and fail to recognize contradictions. This, another example of mob thinking. Le Bon explains that mobs are perfectly capable of holding completely contradictory ideas at the same time, because “a crowd will come under the influence of one of the various ideas stored up in its understanding, …and is capable of committing the most dissimilar acts. Its complete lack of critical spirit does not allow of its perceiving these as contradictions.”
Le Bon, “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind,” p. 30-31.---------------------------------------------------------



Liberalism 101
 
Socialist have a history of FAILURE.....................Proven time and time again in History...........

The Far left are too far gone to look at History and see what a bunch of miserable failures they are today........

They refuse to look at why people are Hauling ass out of Far left states like California and New York.........

They REFUSE REALITY.....................and the Reality is that their policies are failures................



Reality, history, experience.....none seem to hold a candle to the embrace of the mob, for Leftist drones.

Hard to imagine being that needy.
Sounds Roman to me.......................Appease the Mob and the people will love you for it...............

Cheering Christians being fed to the Lions as the rest of Rome burns...............or party on dude with Gladiator games as their Territories are taken all across the region............

I hope that most ............a majority ...............are not fooled by the stupidity of the left...........and their MOB..................I don't think that many in this country have been Castrated yet................


Passionate adoration, as of one's parent, or one's god, are the primitive emotions of a mob, sentiments generally associated with women, children, and savages, according to Le Bon.

Often, Liberalism is described as a mental illness...and here it is given the title of 'mass psychosis.'
In the face of clear evidence, they continue to screech 'is not, is nooootttttttttttt!!!"



Gustave Le Bon, in his groundbreaking 1896 book, “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind,” was the first to identify the phenomenon of mass psychology. Both Hitler and Mussolini used his book to understand how to incite a mob.


Le Bon was the second to bring up mass psychology, the first "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" was published in 1841 and was written by the Scottish journalist (back when they actually did real journalism) Charles Mackay, which exposed mass psychosis for the first time..... accounts of classic scams, grand-scale madness, and deceptions.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay



How can it be that Liberals ascribe to "Our side believes in goodness and virtue, and the equally of all men, yet embraces the most evil and pathological of political doctrines."

Here's how:
Liberals exhibit an indisposition to analogies, and fail to recognize contradictions. This, another example of mob thinking. Le Bon explains that mobs are perfectly capable of holding completely contradictory ideas at the same time, because “a crowd will come under the influence of one of the various ideas stored up in its understanding, …and is capable of committing the most dissimilar acts. Its complete lack of critical spirit does not allow of its perceiving these as contradictions.”
Le Bon, “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind,” p. 30-31.---------------------------------------------------------



Liberalism 101
Liberalism is a Psychology

Self Gratification...............Feelings of moral superiority..............thinking that they must save you when you didn't ask to be saved.................

It is a psychology............the mob gets wound up and joins in and shouts because it seems cool.............but only for a short period of time until Reality shows them how stupid it was to begin with................
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8. “The poverty rate among female-led households fell 2.7% for African Americans, and 4% for Hispanics. Industries largely populated by women (and, historically, exploited women), especially hospitality and, to a lesser extent, health care, showed strong earnings gains, even as unemployment rates for African-American and Hispanic women fell to under 4.5%.




9. Another partisan Democratic falsehood that is exposed by the census is the myth that the middle class is shrinking. The percentage of total families at the lowest economic levels has fallen by over one whole percent and the brackets from $50,000 to $150,000 and above $200,000 have both increased by almost one whole percent (several million people in each case). There were sharp increases in the incomes of younger families …

There is no sign that the Democrats are assimilating the lessons of this. They endlessly repeat their false mantra that the rich (i.e. the knee-jerk limousine liberals of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street, almost all of them effulgent Democrats) are the only winners from the Trump economy.” Trump's Four Biggest Secrets Are the Economy





10. When you consider the economy, collusion, Russian involvement in the election, obstruction of justice, emoluments, the Ukraine, racism, the Charlottesville Nazis, ….is there anything the Democrats/Progressives haven’t lied about????
NO
 
8. “The poverty rate among female-led households fell 2.7% for African Americans, and 4% for Hispanics. Industries largely populated by women (and, historically, exploited women), especially hospitality and, to a lesser extent, health care, showed strong earnings gains, even as unemployment rates for African-American and Hispanic women fell to under 4.5%.




9. Another partisan Democratic falsehood that is exposed by the census is the myth that the middle class is shrinking. The percentage of total families at the lowest economic levels has fallen by over one whole percent and the brackets from $50,000 to $150,000 and above $200,000 have both increased by almost one whole percent (several million people in each case). There were sharp increases in the incomes of younger families …

There is no sign that the Democrats are assimilating the lessons of this. They endlessly repeat their false mantra that the rich (i.e. the knee-jerk limousine liberals of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street, almost all of them effulgent Democrats) are the only winners from the Trump economy.” Trump's Four Biggest Secrets Are the Economy





10. When you consider the economy, collusion, Russian involvement in the election, obstruction of justice, emoluments, the Ukraine, racism, the Charlottesville Nazis, ….is there anything the Democrats/Progressives haven’t lied about????
NO



Are you telling the truth?



Yup.
 
11. Democrats….the ‘keep them dependent party.’

In fact, since President Obama took office, federal welfare spending has increased by 41 percent, more than $193 billion per year. Despite this government largess, more than 46 million Americans continue to live in poverty.

….the dramatically larger increase also suggests that part of the program’s growth is due to conscious policy choices by this administration to ease eligibility rules and expand caseloads….income limits for eligibility have risen twice as fast as inflation since 2007 and are now roughly 10 percent higher than they were when Obama took office. Casey Mulligan, “The Sharp Increase in the Food Stamps Program,” Economix,
The Sharp Increase in the Food Stamps Program
Study: More Than Half a Trillion Dollars Spent on Welfare But Poverty Levels Unaffected







Now…under Trump:

12. “Most growth has been in the lower and middle levels, and the downward effects of reduced benefit and welfare payments, which dampen the income-growth number slightly, are themselves a positive indicator of reduced need for assistance.

The plain message from the census figures and accompanying current statistics from the Labor Department show that the administration that puts economic growth (Trump) ahead of direct tax-and-spend transfers to combat inequality (Obama) achieves more for both economic growth and reduction of inequality.”
Trump's Four Biggest Secrets Are the Economy




Take that, Bolsheviks!!!!!
 
13. “… recall the howls of derision that went up when candidate Trump said he would “build a wall” on the southern border and that Mexico would pay for it. Some will remember the vulgar expletives of the loud-mouthed former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox.

The wall is being built; Mexico will substantially pay for it through the revised terms of the trade deal with Mexico, and the new Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the most leftward leader Mexico has had in many decades, is deploying 27,000 soldiers near the border and has revised the former Mexican practice of passing migrants through Mexico in huge numbers, from Central America to the United States.



14. The nonsense of Democratic politicians such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the border detention centers being like Nazi death camps has ended. Historians of the future will wonder why the United States allowed 20 million into the country illegally in the first place, and the fact that the Democrats wanted the votes and the Republicans wanted the cheap labor is no excuse.

President Trump’s tackling of the problem where his predecessors failed is a formidable achievement. The era of the Mexicans’ attracting American factories to Mexico and shipping back illegal migrants and unemployment, but not the profits of relocated American companies, is ending,…” Trump's Four Biggest Secrets Are the Economy




But…..one can understand the hand-wringing by Democrats…..look at all the voters that Trump is blocking with a wall.
 
15. Obama lied about everything…including oil.

"We can't drill our way out of this problem." Any time he talks about energy, he trots out that phrase. Whatever the problem, increasing domestic oil supply is never the solution. In 2012, when running for re-election, the president declared: "Even if we drilled every square inch of this country right now, we're going to be relying on other countries for oil."
The Daily Bulletin - December 8, 2014 | RealClearEnergy

“Sorry, Mr. President: Turns Out We Can Drill Our Way to Lower Gas Prices Sorry, Mr. President: Turns Out We Can Drill Our Way to Lower Gas Prices - American Energy Alliance



Could his lies about drilling have anything to do with this???

“Obama's OMB ignores document subpoena; Upton/Stearns House panel says Monday morning or else…The subpoena is for thousands of documents requested months ago by the committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations concerning OMB's evaluation of a Department of Energy economic stimulus program loan guarantee worth $535 million for Solyndra, Inc.,…” http://www.sfexaminer.com/blogs/bel...ocument-subpoena-uptonstearns-house-panel-say






16. Under Trump….

“The United States became a net oil importer in the Eisenhower years, and peaked at 15 million barrels a day (over $400 billion annually) with President Clinton. This declined to ten million barrels a day with President George W. Bush, to five million a day under President Obama, and is now almost zero under President Trump. Increased offshore drilling and substitution of natural gas, fracking (horizontal shale drilling), and conservation have all contributed to this benign trend, but it cannot be said that windmills and solar panels had much to do with it.

These are all developments that were promised in the last election, a fact thoroughly disguised by the superficial controversies that regularly enshroud Washington (including the current Ukrainian nonsense).” Trump's Four Biggest Secrets Are the Economy

Just imagine what Trump could have accomplished if he had two American parties backing his policies... how many Americans would have benefited?
 

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