Actually what they got is booming jobs numbers. Announced today: 304,000 jobs added to the economy in January, DESPITE the government shutdown. "Smashing estimates."Woodbutcher wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 3:08 pmActually, I believe most people voted for Trump because, according to them, he's not like a politician. At least that is what a voter told me. They did not think anything would change if they voted for anybody else. They got a "reality" show instead. It's far moved from reality, though, I noticed with the very first reality show that it was just politics, not survival. Just a form of viewer conditioning that would make people more malleable to future government tactics.Forty Two wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 1:47 pmBecause one lady referred to hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting?
Most people who voted for Trump wanted to help people, by expanding the economy, supporting American business, securing the border, reducing unemployment, and helping preserve American industry.
If you want to talk about ideologies that advocate "hurting" the right kind of people, one doesn't have to stray out of the Left. Stick it too 'em, right?
Continuing his efforts to continue boosting American manufacturing, he signed an executive order today which focuses on American infrastructure projects - just like one of the things he promised. https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/ ... y-america/ (I just scanned the channels -- barely a mention - and when CNN and MSNBC covered the jobs numbers, it was with blank stares and toned down reports - quick mentions then off to discussing abortion.
US manufacturing continuing to improve --- https://www.zacks.com/stock/news/346141 ... 19-5-picks
Trump's China policy is working, and bringing Beijing to heel -- https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/28/tr ... trump-gdp/
The president’s assertions of Chinese malfeasance in trade matters are undeniably true. Even CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, no fan of the president, has said, “Donald Trump is right: China is a trade cheat,” going on to praise the U.S. trade representative’s exhaustive report on China’s World Trade Organization noncompliance as a rare example of a quality document from this administration.
Despite dire warnings from establishment economists and media pundits that getting tough on China would damage the U.S. economy, we have seen nothing of the kind. The United States is not simply surviving the trade war but has thrived through two years of global stagnation. In the meantime, as best as can be told from highly unreliable and often-faked data, Chinese economic growth has stalled. The hard-line U.S. policy has been effective and should be maintained until China demonstrates real, substantial behavioral change such as no longer requiring forced joint partnerships and ceasing its vast state-run cyberespionage
The initial results are now in. The current trade policy has demonstrated its effectiveness, and it is undermining the Communist Party’s only source of legitimacy: ill-gotten economic growth. And on the U.S. side, it’s going to be easier to maintain than most people think.
The U.S. market remains the most valuable economic prize on Earth, something this week’s annual Black Friday consumption-fest underscores. It is, by far, the world’s largest economy, with a 2017 GDP of $19.4 trillion. That’s at least 60 percent larger than China’s $12.2 trillion and probably a lot more, as China’s dubious GDP figures bend to fit official targets.
The United States is also the healthiest major economy, with robustly increasing GDP growth and the lowest unemployment rate in nearly 50 years. China is not likely to catch up in our lifetimes. Additionally, the United States has a much smaller population dividing those spoils—and being less burdened by taxes than their global counterparts, U.S. consumers can spend far more than the citizens of any large nation.
Most importantly, China is paying the lion’s share of America’s tariffs. While advocates of free trade have worked hard to scare consumers with threats of huge price increases, these have not emerged. This is because any additional cost incurred in the distribution of a product may be allocated to either the consumer, through higher prices, or to the producer, through lower margins. The market determines this split as consumers demonstrate their tolerance for absorbing higher prices. The elasticity of demand for products determines the price, and a recent European study by EconPol concludes“A 25 percentage point increase in tariffs raises US consumer prices on all affected Chinese products by only 4.5% on average, while the producer price of Chinese firms declines by 20.5%.” And don’t forget that the entire 25 percent goes into the U.S. Treasury, feeding America’s economy, not China’s. If Chinese prices eventually do increase, the same system will force distributors and retailers to absorb the cost before consumers. Their suppliers are already moving to non-China sources.
But nope, the feds did something completely unheard of!
