Well, I suppose the Trump-ets have reason to blare since the economy is doing well. Of course they seem to believe that such a complex system turns on a dime and real growth only occurred once President Barack Obama left office.
They refuse to give him any credit. They refuse to acknowledge that unemployment dropped from a high of 10 percent in October 2009 to 4.8 percent when he left office. They refuse to acknowledge that the Dow Jones industrial average was 7,949 when he was inaugurated and almost 20,000 when he departed.
I suppose I could give credit to the Trumpers for the past year of economic growth if only they will take credit once unemployment starts increasing, the stock market has a correction or, even worse, a recession occurs. But then those statistics would be useless as that would not comport to their version of reality.
And like a good corporate citizen, President Donald Trump sucks the vortex of good news and is first to point the finger when things go wrong.
MARTY JOYCE
Whitehall
