Snotbubbles
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1. The economic growth under Obama had begun to drop off in 2015 and then plateau'd in 2016 hovering around 1.9-2% in the last year of his Presidency. Trump came in and got the growth rate back up going from a 2% plateau to 2.5% then over 3% until plateauing around 2-2.1% in 2019. So yes, Obama deserves credit for righting the ship and Trump deserves credit for putting a supercharged engine in it. Covid deserves credit for dropping the anchor, lol.First of all, thanks for actually responding with some legitimate things Trump has done. I’ve not seen this level of detail from the vast majority of Trump supporters I’ve encountered with. I’d still it very hard to support someone of Trump’s character and overall incompetence to lead the country (or Biden’s rapid mental decline), but to each their own.
1. This would make more sense to me pre-COVID, but now all of Trump’s economic gains have been wiped out from the pandemic. Another point is that the majority of Trump supporters seem to not be fans of Obama who saw the unemployment rate go down for the last 6 years he was in office and put Trump in a good position to succeed from an economic standpoint. Of course, Trump deserves credit for continuing the trend pre-COVID but I never see Trump supporters acknowledge that the economy was improving for years before Trump got into office. I also think given how many are struggling now and can’t even live for a month without working shows that there’s some major flaws in what appeared to be an amazing economy. And again, given how the economy is now, while it’s not his fault, seems like a weird thing to support Trump for.
2. Sure, it’s good he got rid of the mandate but overall has he really done anything to fix our health care system? There seems to be major flaws still so not sure this makes much sense as a reason to support Trump.
3. It looks like this happened all the way back in 2017 but drug prices are still rising so hard to say that Trump has really fixed anything in regards to that as of right now considering 3 years later we’re not seeing any reductions and are in fact, still seeing the opposite result.
4. Not super educated on this topic, but from what I’ve read it does appear to be having a positive impact on the economy and gas industry so I’ll give Trump that.
5. Good point that Trump definitely deserves credit for.
2. Trump hasn't replaced Obamacare, but he's been trying to chip away at the bad portions of it. He's been facing legal and political challenges in doing so. Any changes still have to pass through a Democratic controlled House so it will be impossible with the way the legislature is set up to replace Obamacare outright. I certainly don't blame Trump for not totally replacing Obamacare, but listening to the Democratic debates, not one candidate said Obamacare was a good plan and they all said changes were necessary.
3. If you read the parenthetical portions, the reason drug prices haven't dropped (they've stabilized) is that there was a large group of generic drug makers who are currently in various stages of criminal and civil prosecutions with the DOJ for price fixing and bid rigging. They got caught because the FDA emptied the backlog of drug applications and instead of prices going down, they went up. Confidentiality issues prevent me from providing any additional information.