A Somewhat Different “Feel Good Story”
As promised, here’s a different kind of “feel good story” for our readers. The money quote, with emphasis added:
The United States returned to the top spot as the most competitive country in the world for the first time since 2008 after it made the second highest overall gain from the previous year’s ranking from the World Economic Forum.
The year being considered was 2017.
Gee. I wonder what might have caused that?
You don’t think having reasonable adults vice naive, petulant children running things in DC could have had anything to do with it – do ya?
(smile)
Category: Economy, Reality Check
Well, usually Mick comes in with a BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM *SHACK*,
I’ll go another route….
Cha-CHIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGG$$$$$$$$$$
From “In Living Color” – Iceman and the Wiz tellin’ it like it iz!
Now when do we get faster horses, younger women, and older whiskey…?
When you name becomes “Tom T. Hall”. (smile)
We kick ass again. Taxes lowered. Unemployment way down. Jobs galore, with increasing salaries due to a scarcity of bodies. Consumer confidence in the nose-bleed section. Pension plans and 401Ks getting fat. No war. Media suppression of the good times rolling. Democratic Socialists trying to figure out a way for us to want to be miserable again. Vote.
Just another fact the left will try and take credit for….
Well, after 8 years of Obama’s policies, they finally started to reap the benefits in 2017. 😉
I’ve actually seen people make that argument, blaming the last 8 years of economic troubles on Bush. (In fairness, Bush legitimately should get part of the blame – just not for all 8 years worth of recession.)
I was so disgusted when I ran across that idiocy that I failed to ask them the obvious follow-up questions: “If the recession was Bush’s fault and it took the SCoaMF predecessor to Trump’s policies more than 8 years to “fix” things, why did Reagan’s recovery only take around 2 years to fix Carter’s economic idiocy? And why is the US civilian labor participation rate still at near-Carter-era levels?”
Any form of the word competitive is anathema to Democratic Socialists. Competition producers winners and losers and, in their fantasy world, there should not be either. We should all be in the same state of misery, as individuals and as a nation. When people are miserable, they need someone to blame for their misery and failures. That’s where the Democratic Socialists do their best recruiting work. “It’s not your fault. You’re a victim. It’s the system.” Bullshit. No more participation trophies will be issued.
Sprinkles are for winners.
And COFFEE is for CLOSERS!
I have been trying to understand what this means for 5 minutes.
Give me back my 5 minutes!!!11
“That’s where the Democratic Socialists do their best recruiting work. “It’s not your fault. You’re a victim. It’s the system.”… didn’t some guy (a National Socialist as i recall) use just that argument, very successfully, in umm i think 1936????
No, none of that is true! HOW DARE YOU!!!!
It was all bodaprez’s genius at building intergalactic trade relations with the Malfussians and the Ordovamps!! You can’t give ANY credit to Trump!
You are a horrible person for taking all the credit away from bodaprez!!!!
(Anyone who takes what I said seriously can buy the bridge I own in San Francisco. Bargain price, too.)
I gots one in Brooklyn I can sells ya for less than Ex is asking. Just sayin’…
The one thing Democrat James Carville got famously right was his comment about it’s the economy stupid…
Please delete this duplicate…
Nah. I’m keeping it. I’ll send you a pizza for it.
The one thing Democrat James Carville got famously right was his comment about it’s the economy stupid…
Americans care about their paychecks first, when they are confident those are sustainable or improvable then Americans start to widen the circle of things that matter to them. We all need to eat and have housing, no confidence in an ability to do that will get any party a quick trip to the exits.
As Elizabeth Warren might say, “You betchum, kemosabe.” In that regard, 28 years ago this month, Ronald “The Great Communicator” Reagan debated then-President James “The Sweater” Carter. In his closing remarks, Reagan looked into the camera and asked, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” At the time, Carter and Reagan were running neck and neck, just two weeks or so before the election. And that was that.
Yep. And roughly 2 years later, the USA was in the middle of one of the greatest sustained economic recoveries in its history.
One thing people always forget is that the US economy had been in decline for 8 years when Reagan took office – not 4. The economic slide started early in Nixon’s 2nd term, was aggravated by both the OPEC oil embargo and the legislative paralysis induced by Watergate, and was further exacerbated by the idiotic Congress elected in 1974 due to anti-Nixon backlash.
The fact that Carter was able to come in and eff things up even worse over the next 4 years with a compliant Congress is a testament to the “great wisdom and effectiveness” of the Carter Administration’s economic policies.
I think personally that President Trump is doing a good job in his policies and putting America first which is what I think the President should do. I only wish that he would not lower himself to name-calling and baiting people on the twitterverse. If I could change only one thing about him it would be that. I also understand that he is a reality TV star and he believes that that is part of his charm.
I agree.
#MAGA!
A Somewhat Different “Feel Good Story”
Bait and switch. I was expecting something way different.
Not tired of winning yet, Mr. President.
Do keep trying. We will let you know when we get tired of winning.
I figure I’ll need at least 6+ more years of winning before I even think about being tired…
Using a little hindsight, when you consider that the only interest shrillary had was in being the Queen WASP and destroying her “enemies”, if she had won the election, I believe that the economy and the markets would have begun a slide to the bottom. Not a crash as much as a valid concern that everything would collapse at some point and we’d have a genuine 2nd Great Depression.
There was a recession after World War I, which is not usually brought into most discussions. It wasn’t remarkable, any more than the Financial Panics of the 19th century when US Treasury deposits were mismanaged, so it doesn’t get a lot of notice, but it was followed by the runup in the stock market, and then the crash, which could have been prevented.
I am more and more convinced that we escaped a financial disaster by the skin of our teeth when that rancorous coiffured old sow was not elected, but only time will really sort that out.