{"id":23456,"date":"2017-07-31T23:32:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T23:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23456"},"modified":"2017-07-31T23:32:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T23:32:32","slug":"economy-is-doing-so-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23456","title":{"rendered":"‘Economy is doing so well’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald John Trump is rightfully happy with the state of the national economy.<\/p>\n

The stock market is setting records. Joblessness is low. More jobs are being added to non-farm payrolls. Consumer and business confidence is high.<\/p>\n

That’s all great, Mr. President.<\/p>\n

The president talked about all of that today as White House chief of staff John Kelly reported for work on his first day in the West Wing.<\/p>\n

Here’s the deal, though. The trend the president cited is a continuation of the “mess” he supposedly inherited when he took over this past January from Barack H. Obama.<\/p>\n

Didn’t the one-time Republican candidate for president trash the daylights out of President Obama’s stewardship of the nation’s economy? Didn’t he cite sluggish GDP growth as part of that so-called “mess”?<\/p>\n

I’ll give the president credit, though, for a recent Commerce Department report that ticked up GDP growth a bit past its original estimate. For that, the president can take some measure of credit.<\/p>\n

I just find it curiously ironic that one president’s economic “mess” becomes another president’s economic “miracle.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Donald John Trump is rightfully happy with the state of the national economy. The stock market is setting records. Joblessness is low. More jobs are being added to non-farm payrolls. Consumer and business confidence is high. That’s all great, Mr. President. The president talked about all of that today as White House chief of staff … Continue reading ‘Economy is doing so well’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[540,1080,1424,1872,2503,5246],"class_list":["post-23456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-commerce-department","tag-donald-trump","tag-gdp","tag-joblessness","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23457,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23456\/revisions\/23457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}