Ok 1 by 1. Yes, he’s President through March. Not how he mishandled, if Biden was President we’d have more dead he was against the China travel ban calling it xenopobic, which would have led to more deaths, and Biden’s proposals are not any different from what Trump has already done. Although resurrecting another lockdown and forcing people to wear masks a little different. Though the CDC study recently shows of their people who got Coronavirus, people who always 70.6, or often wear masks 14.4 in other words 85% of people who did do that still got it. Possible lockdown which WHO says leads to more problems. Meanwhile in Europe, COVID cases are spiking, are you criticizing Europe for their spikes. Oh yea, Sweden is going way down they didn’t lock down. . But that argument aside, you want to focus on the economy/unemployment rate. Ok, this is a Federal governement, not a dictator, he can’t tell states what to do as far as lockdowns or not lockdowns, nor what State do based on state/local taxes. . The unemployment rates are higher in blue states not only because of higher state income taxes, but lockdowns closing down businesses. . Trump can’t stop that, why do you think he can.
https://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm
Attached here are the states, who has the highest unemployment rates?
| Pennsylvania |
10.3 |
42 |
| New Jersey |
10.9 |
43 |
| Illinois |
11.0 |
44 |
| Massachusetts |
11.3 |
45 |
| New Mexico |
11.3 |
45 |
| California |
11.4 |
47 |
| Hawaii |
12.5 |
48 |
| New York |
12.5 |
48 |
| Rhode Island |
12.8 |
50 |
| Nevada |
13.2 |
51 |
If I’m not mistaken, those are states run by Democratic, I don’t know all governors but I think so.
Who has the lowest unemployment rate?
Unemployment Rates for States, Seasonally Adjusted State August 2020(P)
rate Rank
Nebraska 4.0 1
Utah 4.1 2
Idaho 4.2 3
South Dakota 4.8 4
Vermont 4.8 4
North Dakota 5.0 6
Alabama 5.6 7
Georgia 5.6 7
Montana 5.6 7
Oklahoma 5.7 10
Arizona 5.9 11
I checked on who the Vermont governor is, he is a Republican. So it looks like those run by Republican governors have a much lower unemployment rate, sure all states economies effected by the virus but much less than Democratic states.
Besides the top death rates, not just by total but the rate, by the virus at the very top, New York, New Jersey, are those who’ve done the lockdowns.
Now to your idea that the economy of Obama was going gangbusters and Trump just took advantage of the Obama economy. First, the GDP rate of 2019 was 1.6 rate, very slow rate, so it was not going gangbusters. Democrats and their spokesman in the media thought it would lead to recession.
• “Under Trump, I would expect a protracted recession to begin within 18 months. The damage would be felt far beyond the United States.” — Former Clinton and Obama chief economist Larry Summers, June 2016
• “Citigroup: A Trump Victory in November Could Cause a Global Recession” — Bloomberg Financial News headline, August 2016.
“I have never seen an election in which the markets have so strong of a view as to what was good and bad about the outcome. And what you saw was the markets rallying yesterday because of the FBI thing on Sunday. And the reason I mention this particularly is if the likely event happens and Trump wins you will see a market crash of historic proportions, I think … The markets are terrified of him.” — Steve Rattner, MSNBC economic guru, October 2016.
So absolutely no Democrats thought that Obama’s 1.6 GDP grown economy would lead to good things for Trump. He changed policies. He reduced economic regulations that strangled the economy. He got the tax cut through for both businesses that made the US more competitive internationally, which created jobs, and tax reductions for people as a whole. Income growth not just for rich people but income growth for those at the bottom. Unemployment rate for all went way low, historically low, some groups historically lower, that Obama never achieved.
Now, about the virus, this has effected all countries, Europeans however they managed it, has led to a spike in their unemployment rate as well.
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2020-10-01/unemployment-marches-higher-in-europe-amid-pandemic
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Unemployment rose for a fifth straight month in Europe in August and is expected to grow further amid concern that extensive government support programs won’t be able keep many businesses hit by coronavirus restrictions afloat forever.
Their unemployment rate is going up, the European countries rate is about 8.1, ours is 8.4 now, but their rate is going up, ours is going down. Theirs is more artificially kept.
What about crashing the economy overall how do we stack up to the European management?
http://www.oecd.org/sdd/na/gdp-growth-second-quarter-2020-oecd.htm
Among the Major Seven economies, GDP fell most dramatically, by (minus) 20.4%, in the United Kingdom. In France, where lockdown measures were among the most stringent, GDP declined by (minus) 13.8%, after a drop of (minus) 5.9%** in the previous quarter.
GDP also fell sharply in Italy, Canada and Germany in the second quarter (by (minus) 12.4%, (minus) 12.0% and (minus) 9.7% respectively (compared with (minus) 5.4%, (minus) 2.1% and (minus) 2.0% in the previous quarter).
In the United States, where many states introduced ‘stay-at-home’ measures late March,GDP contracted slightly less ((minus) 9.5%, compared with (minus) 1.3% in the previous quarter).
In Japan, where containment measures were less stringent, GDP contracted by (minus) 7.8% in the second quarter of 2020, compared with (minus) 0.6% in the previous quarter.
In the euro area and the European Union, GDP dropped by (minus) 12.1% and (minus) 11.7% respectively, compared with declines of (minus) 3.6% and (minus) 3.2% in the previous quarter.
So notice lockdowns have led to more of a crash in the economy in all these countries. The only one less, according to that article, is Japan, which is at 7.8 reduction in GDP, lower than us, but because they did not do a lockdown.
Now, racial tensions, do you forget Ferguson, Baltimore that bred Black Lives Matter based on the lie of Obama condemning the Hands up don’t shoot lie, which his own justice department proved was a lie. That was plenty of rioting looting back then. Baltimore happened under Obama, where the Democratic mayor said “Let them loot, it’s only property.”. That happened under Obama. BLM did their ‘what do we want dead cops, when do we want them, now’. ’ Pigs in a blanket fry em like bacon’. That happened under Obama. The killing of 4 police officers in Dallas he said was at the instigation of BLM, who Democrats continue to support. That happened under Obama. That is the start of what is going on now. The racial tension, the mayors and the police departments are controlled by Democratic mayors. The looting, rioting, killing happen in Democratic run cities, Trump can’t do anything about it, and they do not ask for help. Democrats were ranting & raving about Portland when he provided some help, and they were run out. Meanwhile it is still going on in cities under Democratic control.
