This is a FAKE NEWS STORY FROM: MicroSloppyNBC
THE COMMUNIST SOCIALIST Colin Powell (Powell EVEN WEARS the BLUE Tie, the COLOR of the DEMOCRAT Party), who I had GREAT RESPECT FOR PRIOR to his supporting Obummer, Speaking with FAKE NEWS CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, the retired four-star general explained that he considers himself a Republican RINO but has seen "things happening that are hard to understand" in the current Republican administration, Yes thing ARE Happening:
1. The Economy -
3. Jobs, Employment and Wages
1. The Economy -
The US stock market is a barometer of economic activity and since President Trump was elected President it has skyrocketed.
2. GDP and Debt
Rex Sinquefield at Forbes in October of 2016, shortly before the 2016 election, wrote the following –
The Obama recovery of the last seven years remains the worst in postwar American history. Average gross domestic product (GDP) growth since the bottom of the recession in 2009 was barely above 2.1% per year. The average since 1949 is well above 4% per year during the previous 10 expansions.
President Trump however reached a GDP of 4.2% in the 2nd quarter of 2018 and 3.5% in the 3rd quarter. With a GDP in the 4th quarter of around 3%, the GDP for the year will be greater than 3%. Something the prior President Obama never did and said no longer could be done.
In regards to debt, President Obama increased the amount of US debt astronomically. By the time Obama left office he had doubled the US debt to $20 trillion and incurred as much debt as all previous Presidents combined. President Trump is slowing that trend.
Because of the increase in GDP, the Debt to GDP ratio under President Trump is declining. President Obama increased the US debt to GDP ratio by 40% from around 60% in 2009 to over 100% in 2016.
With his increasing GDP and slowing of debt increases, President Trump has managed to decrease the debt to GDP ratio in the 2 years since the 2016 election. This is a very good result that is rarely mentioned by the MSM.
President Trump has done this in spite of headwinds from the Fed. Under President Obama the Fed lowered the Fed Funds rate to 0% and kept it at this rate for seven of Obama’s eight year’s in office. After President Trump was elected President the Fed increased the Fed rate seven times for nearly a 2% increase in rates. Still, the Debt to GDP is decreasing.
3. Jobs, Employment and Wages
President Trump is the ‘Jobs President’. Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 250,000 new jobs were created in October. In President Trump’s first two years since elected President, the US has gained over 4.3 million jobs. (In President Obama’s first two years the US lost over (4.2) million jobs.) More people are working in the US than ever before and unemployment is at 50 year lows landing at 3.7% last month.
The President’s tax plan passed in late December 2017 is greatly benefiting Americans and American companies. Employees will see increases in their income tax refunds next year due to the lower Federal taxes. Millions of Americans received bonuses due to the tax cuts and major companies announced plans to move capital and operations to the US due to these cuts. On top of income tax refund increases, Americans also are benefiting from the highest wage increases in a decade.
4. Foreign Policy
President Trump vowed to destroy ISIS. Despite President Obama saying that ISIS will be around for a generation, these murderers and terrorists in the Middle East were decimated over the President’s first year in office. Both Syria and Iraq declared victory over ISIS and due to President Trump’s resolve, less than 1,000 ISIS fighters remain.
President Trump met with the Pope, leaders of 50 Muslim countries and Israeli and European leaders in his first trip abroad. He demanded that the Muslim leaders remove radicals from their countries.
The President refused sending Pakistan security assistance in the millions due to the Pakistani’s harboring terrorists. He stopped an Obama last minute $221 million transfer to Palestine and cut aid to Palestinians in half. He showed that the US is unwilling to work with Muslim entities that support radical Islam.
On President Trump’s successful trip to Asia he bundled an estimated $300 billion in deals for the US. He met with Asian leaders and was the first US President and foreign leader to dine in China’s Forbidden City since the founding of modern China.
The President’s meeting in Singapore with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un shocked the world. At the end of the summit they signed an agreement and North Korea is now dismantling their nuclear test sites and facilities.
5. US Policy
The President named and successfully put in place Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch in 2017. In his second year he again nominated and put in place a second Supreme Court Justice, Brett Kavanaugh. In spite of Democrats’ attempt to prevent Kavanaugh’s nomination by accusing him of being a gang rapist nearly 40 years prior, the President stood with Kavanaugh and he is now a Supreme Court Justice.
President Trump signed more than 90 executive actions in his first 100 days alone. The White House.gov site lists 81 pages of Executive Actions in the two years since the President was elected into office. The actions include –
- Dismantling Obama’s climate change initiatives.
- Travel bans for individuals from a select number of countries embroiled in terrorist atrocities.
- Enforcing regulatory reform.
- Protecting Law enforcement.
- Mandating for every new regulation to eliminate two.
- Defeating ISIS.
- Rebuilding the military.
- Building a border wall.
- Cutting funding for sanctuary cities.
- Approving Keystone and Dakota pipelines.
- Reducing regulations on manufacturers.
- Placing a hiring freeze on federal employees.
- Exiting the US from the TPP.
The list of POTUS 45’s successes goes on and on. The Washington Examiner listed 289 accomplishments in the President’s first 20 months alone. This list is amazing, especially when compared to prior Presidents. The Heritage Foundation ranked President Trump’s accomplishments in his first year ahead of Reagan.
Undoubtedly there is more to do. The wall is not yet fully built. The FBI and DOJ are still dysfunctional and involved in corrupt and criminal activities. A bogus investigation was created by these scoundrels and the current AG who recused himself from anything Russia appears to be inept and sleeping. But based on President Trump’s performance to date, he will address these issues successfully as soon as the mid-term election is over.
Overall President Trump’s first two years since the 2016 election are outstanding. He was attacked from all sides at times yet stood tall. America is stronger and greater than ever before. The economy is growing and the world is safer. President Trump kept his promises and has truly Made America Great Again!
"Powell stated HE WAS A REPUBLICAN...
Powell was Ronald Reagan’s national security advisory. I was a Republican who worked for George Herbert Walker Bush, and worked for George W. Bush. I’m a moderate Republican who believes that we should have strong foreign policy, strong defense policy, that we have to look out for our people, and we ought to work hard to making sure we’re one country and one team,” he said. “And so, on that basis, I call myself a Republican.”
Powell was Ronald Reagan’s national security advisory. I was a Republican who worked for George Herbert Walker Bush, and worked for George W. Bush. I’m a moderate Republican who believes that we should have strong foreign policy, strong defense policy, that we have to look out for our people, and we ought to work hard to making sure we’re one country and one team,” he said. “And so, on that basis, I call myself a Republican.”
He then laid into Republicans currently serving in office for failing to speak out against the president's controversial actions.
“The Republican Party has got to get a grip on itself. Right now, Republican leaders and members of the Congress, in both the Senate and in the House, are holding back because they’re terrified of what will happen to any one of them if they speak out,” Powell said. “Will they lose a primary? I don’t know why that’s such a disaster, but will they lose a primary?
“And so, they need to get a grip, and when they see things that are not right they need to say something about it, because our foreign policy is in shambles right now in my humble judgment,” he added.
Next, Powell pointed to Trump reportedly using a sharpie to circle the state of Alabama on last month's Hurricane Dorian forecast as an example of something that was "hard to understand."
“And I see things happening that are hard to understand. A couple weeks ago the president put a circle around south east Alabama, saying it’s going to get hit by a hurricane. He put it on top of the meteorological prediction,” he said. “In my time, one of us would have gone to the president and said, ‘Mr President, you screwed up, so we’ve got to fix it, and we’ll put out a correction.’ You know what they did this time? They ordered the Commerce Department to go out and backup whatever the president mis-said. This is not the way the country’s supposed to run, and Congress is one of the institutions that should be doing something about this.”
Powell concluded, “The media has a role to play, we all have a role to play, you’ve got to remember that all these pieces are a part of our government. Executive branch, Congress, Supreme Court, and of the Fourth Estate, and we’ve got to remember that the Constitution started with, ‘We the People,’ not ‘Me the President.'”
Trump is currently facing an impeachment inquiry over allegations that he used his power as president to solicit 2020 election interference from a foreign government by asking the leader of Ukraine to investigate Democratic front-runner former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
On Thursday, the president suggested that China look into the Bidens as well, prompting criticism from many congressional Democrats. Republicans, however, have remained mostly silent or have taken to suggesting Trump was not being serious at the time. So far, just four Republicans have publicly condemned Trump's call, including Sens. Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, and Ben Sasse, as well as Rep. Will Hurd.Source: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3990173568503941969#editor/target=post;postID=3006048592092010023
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