(06-01-2019, 06:33 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(06-01-2019, 03:36 PM)mikesez Wrote: people smarter than both of us have analyzed where the money that corporations saved from the tax cut went.
Almost none of it went to payrolls.
Unemployment was already very low.

All I'm saying is that the President's control of the economy today is very small - like a 5 or 10% effect at best.  15% to of 20%  the economy is in the government's hands, however, realistically the President can't touch or change most of that. 80 to 90% of the control of how well the economy does rests with the big banks, the big corporations, and people like you and me who might have new ideas.

Here's the thing: if you want to give the president more credit than just that, you should be consistent about it.
You can say that Reagan or Trump did a good job for this reason,
But then you have to say that Bush 41 did a bad job,
And that Bill Clinton did a good job,
And that Bush 43 also did a bad job,
And that Obama cleaned up his mess.

You have to give the Democratic party a perfect, 100% score for presidents after 1980, and mark down the Republicans with a 50% score at best, if you choose to score presidents based on how the economy does while they are in office.
So I hope you can see that my approach to this question is more sensible.

41 shouldn't have raised taxes
Clinton was pushed to economic success by Gingrich and the CWA
43 tried to fix the housing crisis but was rebuffed by the Congress, then we went to war
Obama held back the economy for nearly 7 years with his [BLEEP] policies
Trump had to push his own damn party to move

I give you minus -1000 for your foolishness.

The economy was faltering before Bush 41 agreed to raise taxes.
The only policy change Gingrich extracted from Bill Clinton was welfare reform.  It was good but I don't think you're going to explain all the success of the Clinton years as being a product of welfare reform.
You say Obama's regulations held the economy back.  I assume that's fixed now with Trump.  Which regulation was it?

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