I'd just like to know if you listened to the whole thing. Your response is fine, but I need to know if that was your response before or after you had listened to the entire video, or something in between. Can you help me with that? If you can , thanks.
Obama did nothing to aid the recovery that was not appropriate for his position as president. Don't forget, he did nothing to prevent it while he was a Senator from Illinois. But he did increase the national debt from 9TN to 19 TN.
+1 The 2.3% growth is significant, considering that our GDP is 21.5TN. That 2.3% growth is equal to the entire GDP of some nations. We are doing just fine.
Perspective is important. Most economists agree that the increase in national debt after 2008/2009 was required, they may quibble about how much ( perhaps the brakes could have put on sooner ), but there was no economic depression or prolonged recession that some saw as inevitable in 2009. And perhaps some of the positives in late Obama years and early Trump years required that continued boost. They also generally agree that increasing the national debt significantly now is totally unnecessary. For example, Canada, a similar country to compare to, is running small deficits ( to GDP ) despite increasing infrastructure expenses in recent years. None of us are insiders who understand the true scope of these issues. However, I would note that Canada had a similar issue a few decades ago, with almost identical Debt to GDP measures as the US has now, and we raised personal tax rates significantly. Interest rates were a lot higher, which made the problem perhaps worse, but the US also has huge underfunded social systems in play. In some ways, higher medical premiums are a kind of indirect tax they have snuck into the system without calling it a tax.
That's what, 5 trillion an election cycle coming out of a literal economic disaster? Despite the "best economy ever" Trump has added 3 trillion in his first term - right on pace. Why did you think this metric, of all metrics, was the one you'd use?