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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: Trump Rebuked by UN
Date: 05/03/23 12:35 AM
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LurkerMom: We're going through a pandemic that lost 22 million jobs at the height, we've already added back 11.6 million jobs.

Umm, 22-11.6 = 10.4

That is a loss of 10.4 million jobs at the point when Pence made his brilliant observation.

So Trump had to deal with a pandemic, a pandemic he ignored, then lied about, and then completely mismanaged. Obama inherited the worst recession since the Great Depression and still managed to add 8.9 million jobs.

Trump lost 3 million jobs.

Trump. Lost. 3 million. Jobs.

And from your link: ...it was a false misinterpretation of economic conditions to tie that job growth to Trump policies ' or that he "cut taxes, rolled back regulation and unleashed American energy, fought for free and fair trade," like Pence alleged, and that those moves directly added jobs.


LurkerMom: Federal spending shot up under both Presidents Trump and Biden, as trillions were spent on economic stimulus...

Obama added $8.7 trillion to the nation's debt in eight years. Trump added $7.8 trillion in four years.


LurkerMom: Workers are returning to work now that their stay at home freebies are disappearing...

The third round of stimulus checks were distributed in March 2021, more than two years ago. Most states ended pandemic unemployment benefits in June 2021. What exactly are you talking about, please?
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