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The democratic strategy when talking about the economy is basically to just lie.
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:08 am
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:08 am
I was watching tv this morning and all the democrats were down playing the GDP report. One commentator who is also a communications director at the DNC said that the working people were not seeing any benefits from this economy, but the facts and stats do not support her claims.
The GDP for the 1st quarter of the year, which is historically the worst quarter of the year, is above 3% (which dems said we would never see again), exports are up 3%, disposable income is up 3%, and wages for men and women are 2.7% higher than last year.
So what economy are democrats talking about?
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The U.S. economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the first quarter and posted its best growth to start a year in four years.
First-quarter GDP expanded by 3.2%, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Friday in its initial read of the economy for that period. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected growth of 2.5%. It was the first time since 2015 that first-quarter GDP topped 3%.
“The upside beat was helped by net trade (exports jumped while imports contracted sharply) and inventories which combined contributed almost 170 bps of the rise,” wrote Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group. “Personal spending though, the biggest component was up just 1.2%, two tenths more than expected as an increase in spending on services and nondurable goods offset a decline in spending on durable goods.”
Exports rose 3.7% in the first quarter, while imports decreased by 3.7%. Economic growth also got a lift from strong investments in intellectual property products. Those investments expanded by 8.6%.
Disposable personal income increased by 3%, while prices increased by 1.3% when excluding food and energy. Overall prices climbed by 0.8% in the first quarter.
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Median weekly earnings of the nation's 116.1 million full-time wage and salary workers were $905 in the first quarter of 2019. This was 2.7 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 1.6 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. Women had median weekly earnings of $806 in the first quarter of 2019, or 80.3 percent of the $1,004 median for men.
The GDP for the 1st quarter of the year, which is historically the worst quarter of the year, is above 3% (which dems said we would never see again), exports are up 3%, disposable income is up 3%, and wages for men and women are 2.7% higher than last year.
So what economy are democrats talking about?
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Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:09 am to WeeWee
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The democratic strategy when talking about anything is basically to just lie.
FIFY
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:09 am to WeeWee
Which part of their strategy doesn’t involve lying?
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:13 am to Eli Goldfinger
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Which part of their strategy doesn’t involve lying?
The part where they call Trump the President and when they introduce themselves, but at this point I would not be surprised if they lie about their own names.
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:15 am to WeeWee
Like I have said my entire life about Democrats - they would bitch if you gave them a million dollars because they would want to know why you didn't give them two million dollars since you can afford it. A republican would simply say "thank you".
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:18 am to Homesick Tiger
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Like I have said my entire life about Democrats - they would bitch if you gave them a million dollars because they would want to know why you didn't give them two million dollars since you can afford it. A republican would simply say "thank you".
and a southern republican would say thank you and send you a thank you card.
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:18 am to WeeWee
Well their message is working. All of the Democrat sheep I know keep spewing about how hard things are in this economy.
Its like the live in Bizzaro World.
Its like the live in Bizzaro World.
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:25 am to WeeWee
Truth is not a top 10 Democratic Party value.
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:42 am to RolltidePA
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All of the Democrat sheep I know keep spewing about how hard things are in this economy.
I have an old high school friend on Facebook that posts some crap about Trump ruining the economy at least 3 times a week. As an accountant I just laugh and wonder what the hell she's looking at to come to this conclusion.
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:52 am to RolltidePA
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Well their message is working. All of the Democrat sheep I know keep spewing about how hard things are in this economy.
Its like the live in Bizzaro World.
Craft beer and premium coffee have gotten more expensive.
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:55 am to WeeWee
Yes, but the rich are getting richer and they didn’t pay their fair share.
We can’t have that, we want a 3+ GDP with the rich getting poorer and paying more taxes.
That’s the Democrats’ message.
We can’t have that, we want a 3+ GDP with the rich getting poorer and paying more taxes.
That’s the Democrats’ message.
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:57 am to Styxion
She was probably looking at 90 proofs predictions !! LOLOLOL
Posted on 4/26/19 at 10:06 am to doubleb
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Yes, but the rich are getting richer and they didn’t pay their fair share.
We can’t have that, we want a 3+ GDP with the rich getting poorer and paying more taxes.
That’s the Democrats’ message.
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The left would rather that the poor were poorer, provided that the rich were less rich. So long as the gap is smaller, they would rather have the poor poorer.
Ms Thatcher was 100% correct.
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