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Originally Posted by TampaToker
Actually it was 4.7% when Obama took over. In all fairness Obama got handed a mess. He tried i will give you that but failed on several fronts. First he blew up the deficit. Second he totally screwed up on foreign policy. Third he started getting government involved healthcare which was a major fuck up. Right now you have around 40 million on food stamps with only 6 million jobs available. So to act like things were peachy when Trump took office is wrong.
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On a relative scale, they were peachy. Unemployment was low. The housing market and stock market were near all time highs. Commodities and interest rates were low. I think his bigger worry was how to make it better and not just let the cycle top and we start to get worse just as a natural thing.