Quote (fender @ 9 Sep 2018 00:31)
so the guy who introduced a stimulus for an economy in shambles, that he inherited from his predecessor, is treated the same way as the guy who does it with a healthy economy, just to boost his numbers - abd despite running for the party of 'fiscal responsibility'?
sorry, but if you're trying to argue on a level above endless' meme hackery, you'll have to put in more effort than that.
https://www.thebalance.com/us-deficit-by-year-3306306specifically, look at the fourth column which shows the deficit per fiscal year as a percentage of GDP.
what we see is, first, that the deficit under obama skyrocketed during his first years in office, largely due to the aftermath of the great recession. fine.
but second, we see that even during his later years in office, more than 5 years after the recession, from 2013 through 2016, he was stilll making a ton of debt.
if you claim that trump simply inherited an already great economy from obama, then why was the deficit in 2016 on the same levels of the fiscally worst years of the bush presidency? if the late obama economy was so great, then why was he still making as much debt as bush did at the height of the iraq war?
even if the exclude the aftermath of the great recession, you and your fellow liberal particiants here on PaRD have to admit one of two things:
Either the late obama economy was indeed sluggish and still in the process of recovery - in that case, Trump and not Obama is the one to take credit for the economy picking up pace since trumps election.
Or the late obama economy was already great, but obama still ran an unusually high deficit on it; even if we discount the aftermatch of the great recession from 2009-2011. In that case, you have to admit that Obama was not a fiscally responsible president even when we look at it in fair way.
That Trump is fiscally irresponsible as well is another story, and I dont dispute that.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Sep 8 2018 05:11pm