Except for "our true patriot boys in uniform", and the military-industrial-complex they're a part of, but please, continue.
Governmenty artifically creates jobs by simply spending more money. When the government does a huge jump in military spending, the number of new contracts awarded to Boeing, McDonnel Douglas and their type jumps and they go on an independent contractor hiring spree and people get hired for 3 and 4 year contracts (maybe 1000 people hired at once). New funding for infrastructure means new construction contracts and workers hired. Presidents and governments dont really create jobs which they take credit for when there is a jobs report (bullshit). But when Congress sends pork to their home states, they can cause creation of jobs by buying them outright.
do you really give that much credit to Obama and not Congress and most importantly FED flooding the market with the trillions in the cash they created out to thin air and buying down interest rates? Tax cuts, free money and low interest rates are likely to work big until the word says hey... we have no faith in your dollar its going to take 10 times more of those things.
So like I said earlier presidents dictate legislation. (Unless you’re Trump, then Nancy Pelosi dictates legislation) Now, You may recall government shut downs when Obama was the president and what was the outcome, the president got the key budget items he needed to rebuild the country. It’s why Boehner and McConnell hated him (really they hated Dennis McDonough and Ron Klain). Obama ran roughshod over the Republican Congress. And now you want to give Republicans credit. Trump is a different story. Nancy Pelosi demasculated him time after time. As to tax cuts etc. There is a case to make that conventional economic theory does not apply well in an economy with automation and artificial intelligence. I’ve argued for a long time AI and automation have an anti inflationary aspect to them. Now the Fed is a joke but that money is all pumped into the market mostly and deflated asset buying. It’s mostly insular. My beef with the Fed is that the bailouts and asset purchases should trickle to the consumer. Ergo if a bank gets bailed out then mortgages get reduced - things like that, no free money. But low interest rates are here to stay. At least from a historical perspective.
You are split from realty. During the first two years... Democrats did not need republican votes and they did very little. They did not get single payer. Remember that. Then Boehner and McConnell teamed up with democrats (when they did not have to) to stop Senators like Cruz from rising in power and statuture. That as all Kabuki about funding for Obamacare. Obama did not do anything when the Republicans were in control. Establishment Republicans proved they had no desire to do what they run on. Remember the SOBs ran on a repeal Obamacare platform... and then McConnell set it up so McCain could play Caesar.
There were (I believe) two shut downs in obamas presidency, both times he won. Obama absolutely got the majority of what wanted out of the budgets when republicans controlled congress because Presidents hold that power. You are now arguing against your own argument by saying the Republican Congress was ineffective when Obama was president. I already told you that. Obamacare is important legislation but it’s not a budget - the budget is the main power of the executive branch. You’re going to believe what you want to believe though.
You are just twisting reality. I did not say the republicans are ineffective at helping the economy more than democrats... The establishment Republicans serve the establishment. That does not mean they are ineffective at seeing to a gdp rise. I despise their lies. I despise their spending at times. But they do get tax cuts through. They do weaken the dollar because they used serve our export manufacturers. When the democrat tended to see to a strong dollar because the bankers are were such a big part of them. Republicans do spend on things that are good for economic expansion. By the way my argument is still that FED policy and free money is far more important that anything Obama did and probably Trump too although the market did take off for his tax cuts.
Like most things I don’t follow what you are saying. This is gobbledygook. Markets are not the economy. The markets took off under Trump, so what? GDP underperformed and workers didn’t make any headway. Our economy is 70% consumer driven. The market does little for consumption. Low interest rates DO help though and so does targeted tax credits. Tax cuts are good as long as they are targeted toward consumers who will actually spend the money, not nestle it away. Anyway, lay off the right wing garbage. Start trying to figure out what actually works and what doesn’t. Then get back to me.
Lets remember how this started, I fact checked you about jobs and gdp... you were dead ass wrong about conservative policies. If you wish to talk opinions about Obama vs Trump vs the Federal Reserve... Well I pick loose money... trillions of dollars being printed, monetization of the debt... buying up the market and holding down interest rates... as far more influential than anything Obama did... (although I do praise his temporary payroll tax cut.) you can have the last word... because arguing with you about democrats is like arguing with people who claimed we could not build immunities to Covid. Science and data do not matter to their opinion.