(08-06-2018, 07:36 PM)jj82284 Wrote:

(08-06-2018, 12:28 PM)mikesez Wrote: A quick Google check shows that Trump's best month of job growth is still smaller than Obama's best month, and Trump's best quarterly  GDP growth number is also smaller than Obama's.
We'll see what the long term trends are, but, Obama definitely had "this kind of job growth" and "GDP above 3%"

He never had total annual gdp over 3%

Also, this codswallop about "Obama fixed everything" has got to stop.  What Did community organizer Obama organize?  You guessed it, AFFORDABLE HOUSING POLICY.  He and Valerie Jarrett advocated for the actions taken by the government sponsored entities (Fannie Freddie) that lead to the distortions in the mortgage market.  

This is the most frustrating thing about the modern left. They advocate for massive intervention, call u a racist if you point out the inherent ridj, and then when those risks cause economic blue screen they blame the "free market" & call u a RACIST if you don't support their equally flawed "solutions"

Trump hasn't produced annual GDP over 3% either.


There were attempts to help non white people get more mortgages during the Clinton administration, and I don't doubt that Obama's time as an organizer in Chicago touched on that.  I also don't doubt that those mortgages made an outsized impact to our subprime lending crisis. However, white people were even bigger beneficiaries of that subprime lending.  The main government policy that caused the crisis of 2008 was the government looking the other way while subprime lenders packaged up those subprime loans and fraudulently sold them as A-rated assets and derivatives.

Besides, I could be wrong but I don't think Obama ever called anyone racist for opposing any of his particular policies.  He did talk about feeling  Didlike a victim of racism in his younger someyears, but that wasn't connected to policy. Of course the talking heads or legislators who carried water for him invoked racism more often.

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