{"id":23559,"date":"2017-08-04T13:38:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T13:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23559"},"modified":"2017-08-04T13:38:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T13:38:15","slug":"great-jobs-report-but-what-has-potus-done-exactly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23559","title":{"rendered":"Great jobs report, but what has POTUS done &#8230; exactly?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/donnie-jobs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23560\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/donnie-jobs-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/donnie-jobs-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/donnie-jobs.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Labor Department chimed in this morning with a stellar jobs report for July.<\/p>\n<p>The nation added 209,000 payroll jobs. The unemployment rate fell from 4.4 percent to 4.3 percent. It&#8217;s good news. The economy is on the move, as it has been for some time now.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump, as expected, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news-other-administration\/345292-trump-hails-jobs-report-and-i-have-only\">took credit<\/a> for the great jobs report. Yes, the president should be thrilled and happy with them. I welcome the good news as much as he does.<\/p>\n<p>He said he&#8217;s &#8220;only just begun&#8221; to bring back more American jobs.<\/p>\n<p>My question, though, is this: What, precisely, has the president done to generate the stellar jobs numbers?<\/p>\n<p>Legislative accomplishment? None. We haven&#8217;t overhauled the tax system. Congress hasn&#8217;t acted on the president&#8217;s infrastructure revitalization plan. It hasn&#8217;t tossed out and replaced the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rolled back many of regulations enacted in prior administrations, but have those actions produced &#8212; by themselves &#8212; these big job numbers? Umm. No.<\/p>\n<p>Take credit, Mr. President, if you wish. You are entitled to all the credit you deserve &#8212; which is some, but nearly as much as you seem to suggest.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Labor Department chimed in this morning with a stellar jobs report for July. The nation added 209,000 payroll jobs. The unemployment rate fell from 4.4 percent to 4.3 percent. It&#8217;s good news. The economy is on the move, as it has been for some time now. Donald J. Trump, as expected, took credit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23559\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great jobs report, but what has POTUS done &#8230; exactly?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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],"tags":[131,1424,1607,7212,2710,5006],"class_list":["post-23559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","tag-aca","tag-donald-trump","tag-epa","tag-jobs-report","tag-labor-department","tag-unemployment-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23559","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=23559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23561,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23559\/revisions\/23561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}