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originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
a reply to: underwerks
Trump is definitely not the greatest debater. Good thing that's not his job, and he is crushing it at his actual job. You know, giving Americans the best quality of life in 20 years and highest wage growth in US history.
Fact Check This: Quality Of Life Is Up Sharply Under Trump
In the 17 years IBD has been compiling this index, it's averaged 56.2. Under President Obama, it averaged just 53.7. Even if you only include Obama's second term, it was well below the 17-year average.
Under Trump? The Quality of Life Index has averaged 59.3. That's a 10% increase over the average during the Obama years.
To be sure, there's a partisan element to this. Republicans tend to rate their quality of life higher than Democrats when there's a Republican in the White House, and vice versa. But look at independents: Their quality of life averaged 52 under Obama. It's averaging 58.8 under Trump — a 13% bump.
originally posted by: underwerks
a reply to: OccamsRazor04
If all you have is that one metric, I'm calling BS. If you want to prove what you say, show exactly what policies Trump has instituted, how they affected things like wage growth and quality of life, and why they had that effect.
If you can't do that, all you are doing is taking Donald Trump at his word. And Donald Trump has a habit of saying things he wants to be true, then believing they are true because he thinks he's too smart to be wrong.
In that sense, he's not that different from his supporters.
originally posted by: underwerks
a reply to: OccamsRazor04
If all you have is that one metric, I'm calling BS. If you want to prove what you say, show exactly what policies Trump has instituted, how they affected things like wage growth and quality of life, and why they had that effect.
If you can't do that, all you are doing is taking Donald Trump at his word. And Donald Trump has a habit of saying things he wants to be true, then believing they are true because he thinks he's too smart to be wrong.
In that sense, he's not that different from his supporters.
Hourly pay earned by the typical employee rose sharply in February, pushing the increase in wages over the past year to a 10-year high of 3.4%.
2008 41,334.97
2009 40,711.61
2015 48,098.63
2016 48,642.15
2017 50,321.89
Someone Just Noticed The Middle-Class Revival Going On Under Trump
originally posted by: underwerks
I really hope either Bernie or Tulsi get the nomination. It'd be fun to watch them debate Trump while his brain turns to goo trying to formulate an intelligent response.
originally posted by: Grimpachi
a reply to: OccamsRazor04
It takes Congress and the president which neither for a very long time has even attempted.
This country will collapse sooner or later and I think they all know it and are taking what they can now.
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
a reply to: underwerks
Trump is definitely not the greatest debater. Good thing that's not his job, and he is crushing it at his actual job. You know, giving Americans the best quality of life in 20 years and highest wage growth in US history.
If you say so. The rest of us will continue living in actual, objective reality. The one where an incompetent reality TV star won the presidency because of a generation who gets their news from Facebook.
Lol.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: vonclod
a reply to: RadioRobert
While I am probably wrong, I have no doubt that Google is politically and ideologically manipulating data and search engine algorythms.