[TheRealThing]

Sorry...it's not. The administration just left the minimum wage raises out. It's a convenient equivocation.

I don't deny the growth of the last three years although I also acknowledge the economy was already trending upwards.

Let's not even pretend that this president nor the last one nor the one before or the next will be fiscally responsible and try to trim the deficit or payoff the national debt. The only difference is what they spend the newly printed money on.

The argument of there only being so much to give only comes out when people talk about healthcare or funding education. It is never thrown out when it's about defense, a bailout, or a tax cut.

That's not what I said. Are you really that slow on the uptake, or is it you are that desperate to try and look informed? Having an extra 10 trillion dollars infused into the economy IS a big deal. Your top 1% only argument is past absurd because most Americans are invested in the stock market.

The last sadly laughable paragraph. Lyndon Baines Johnson was wrong when he launched the US off into a bottomless sea of red ink with his Great Society Initiative. Once we started giving people stuff just because they were poor, there was to be no way to draw any kind of line in the sand. In doing so Johnson created the "poor class" of today, over which the left are constantly fawning. But once that gravy train chugged out of DC, everybody wanted their fair share. Every special interest, every cause, every hope lined up at every stop. Keynesian Dems have been particularly naïve in this cause as they have always believed money sort of magically reproduces itself. That naivite alone is the basis for their belief that the US can incorporate everything and provide welfare for everyone down to and including the Yucatan Peninsula.

It's always hilarious to see people like you come on here and argue out one side of your mouth for ever more goodies for the poor, while out the other you blame fiscally conservative Republicans, corporations and free enterprise for the deficits. All the while denying military threats which without question, have today risen to the existential level. It was Dem idiocy which allowed our avowed enemies to catch up to and match our level of military hardware in the first place. And I guess you must have missed this but Obama did tweet today bragging that it was his bailout that not only started the underwhelming recovery over which he presided but is responsible for the economic boom times under MR Trump. :biglmao: