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Trump Administration Accomplishments – Unprecedented Economic Boom

Trump Administration

As of January 2021

Trump Administration Accomplishments

Unprecedented Economic Boom

Before the China Virus invaded our shores, we built the world’s most prosperous economy.

    • America gained 7 million new jobs – more than three times government experts’ projections.
    • Middle-Class family income increased nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration.
    • The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century.

  • Achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job-hirings.
  • More Americans reported being employed than ever before – nearly 160 million.
  • Jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low.
  • The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record.
  • Incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades.

Delivered a future of greater promise and opportunity for citizens of all backgrounds.

  • Unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those without a high school diploma all reached record lows.
  • Unemployment for women hit its lowest rate in nearly 70 years.
  • Lifted nearly 7 million people off of food stamps.
  • Poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans reached record lows.
  • Income inequality fell for two straight years, and by the largest amount in over a decade.
  • The bottom 50 percent of American households saw a 40 percent increase in net worth.
  • Wages rose fastest for low-income and blue collar workers – a 16 percent pay increase.
  • African American homeownership increased from 41.7 percent to 46.4 percent.

Brought jobs, factories, and industries back to the USA.

  • Created more than 1.2 million manufacturing and construction jobs.
  • Put in place policies to bring back supply chains from overseas.
  • Small business optimism broke a 35-year old record in 2018.

Hit record stock market numbers and record 401ks.

  • The DOW closed above 20,000 for the first time in 2017 and topped 30,000 in 2020.
  • The S&P 500 and NASDAQ have repeatedly notched record highs

Rebuilding and investing in rural America.

  • Signed an Executive Order on Modernizing the Regulatory Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology Products, which is bringing innovative new technologies to market in American farming and agriculture.
  • Strengthened America’s rural economy by investing over $1.3 billion through the Agriculture Department’s ReConnect Program to bring high-speed broadband infrastructure to rural America.

Achieved a record-setting economic comeback by rejecting blanket lockdowns.

  • An October 2020 Gallup survey found 56 percent of Americans said they were better off during a pandemic than four years prior.
  • During the third quarter of 2020, the economy grew at a rate of 33.1 percent – the most rapid GDP growth ever recorded.
  • Since coronavirus lockdowns ended, the economy has added back over 12 million jobs, more than half the jobs lost.
  • Jobs have been recovered 23 times faster than the previous administration’s recovery.
  • Unemployment fell to 6.7 percent in December, from a pandemic peak of 14.7 percent in April – beating expectations of well over 10 percent unemployment through the end of 2020.
  • Under the previous administration, it took 49 months for the unemployment rate to fall from 10 percent to under 7 percent compared to just 3 months for the Trump Administration.
  • Since April, the Hispanic unemployment rate has fallen by 9.6 percent, Asian-American unemployment by 8.6 percent, and Black American unemployment by 6.8 percent.
  • 80 percent of small businesses are now open, up from just 53 percent in April.
    Small business confidence hit a new high.
  • Homebuilder confidence reached an all-time high, and home sales hit their highest reading since December 2006.
  • Manufacturing optimism nearly doubled.
  • Household net worth rose $7.4 trillion in Q2 2020 to $112 trillion, an all-time high.
  • Home prices hit an all-time record high.
  • The United States rejected crippling lockdowns that crush the economy and inflict countless public health harms and instead safely reopened its economy.
  • Business confidence is higher in America than in any other G7 or European Union country.
    Stabilized America’s financial markets with the establishment of a number of Treasury Department supported facilities at the Federal Reserve.

Wake Up America

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Here’s a Reminder of What’s at Stake:


This has been on my mind and I felt a need to post this because not many are aware of the whole picture as to why the Democratic Party is pushing their socialistic ideas and the reasons behind their drive to make the USA a socialist country! The list of 45 goals of Communism found their way down the halls of our great Capitol back in 1963. As you read this, 57 years later, you’ll be shocked by the events that have played themselves out already!

Democrats are Communists


Much of this is written by Capt Joseph R. John, which you can look up on line. The goal of the Communist Party USA is to remove President Donald J. Trump from office in the November election, so the elected Socialists, Marxists, and Communists in the Biden administration can change the government of the US Constitution Republic into the Socialist Republic of America. Marxist Tom Perez, who leads the new Socialist Democrat Party, and the 45 elected Socialists, Marxists, Progressives, and Communists in Pelosi’s Democrat Congressional Caucus have many of the same goals as the Communist Party USA, their collective goal is to fundamentally change the US Constitutional Republic.

The Socialist Democrat Party has many of the same below listed goals that the Communist Party USA has in order to destroy the United States:

  1. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of step with modern needs

  2. Discredit the American Founding Fathers, present them as selfish aristocrat

  3. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion and discredit the Bible

  4. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state”

  5. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American History on the ground that it was only a minor part of “the big picture”

  6. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies——on going now in Seattle, NYC, Minneapolis, Baltimore, etc.

  7. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition

  8. Discredit the family as an institution

  9. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents

  10. Free Trade with all nation—no tariffs

  11. Foreign trade to all countries.

  12. Promote the UN as the only hope for mankind

  13. Do away with Loyalty Oath in Congress

  14. Capture one of the US Political Parties

  15. Use US Courts to weaken American Institutions

  16. Foment racial conflict

  17. Indoctrinate Students in Socialism and current Communist propaganda. Put the party line in textbooks

  18. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations that are under Communist attack

  19. Infiltrate the press to oppose enemies of the left

  20. Eliminate all historic sculptures from parks and buildings

  21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures

  22. Discredit American culture

  23. Violate of freedom of speech and freedom of press

  24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship”

  25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV

  26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural and healthy”

  27. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

You can find the complete list of the ‘45 goals of the Communist Party’ in researcher Cleon Skousen’s book: “The Naked Communist.” The list can also be found on line.

I hope this helps to explain what is and has been happening in our country. I hope and pray you all keep safe during this Christmas time of year.

Fact Checking POLITIFACT

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In a campaign stop in Manitowoc, WI on Sept. 21, 2020, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden struck back at an assertion Republican President Donald Trump had made earlier in the month about coronavirus deaths: That so-called “blue states” were driving the country’s high death rates.

“If you just count all the deaths in the red states, we are number two in the world in deaths, just behind Brazil,” Biden said.

POLITIFACT, the web site that allegedly fact checks statements like this gave Biden a Mostly True Reading. OH REALLY!

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/01/joe-biden/yes-coronavirus-deaths-red-states-add-second-highe/

They asserted that Biden is mostly on track in claiming that if red states somehow were split off, they would still account for the second-highest death counts in the world, depending on how you define red and blue states.

POLITIFACT looked at RED STATES, those that went for Trump in 2016 and recorded 97,329 deaths in total as of Sept. 28, 2020.

Let compare RED STATES and BLUE STATES.

I used statistics for today, 10/4/2020 from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ a web site that records daily COVID-19 statistics. Here is what I found:

StateTotal CasesTotal DeathsPopulation

 

Red States4,573,507100,750186,790,098

POLITIFACT stated that 30 Red States went for Trump in 2016. You can see that over 100,00 deaths from COVID-19 occurred in those 30 states.

I was curious about BLUE STATES which Biden didn’t bother to mention in Manitowoc. Here is what I found for 10/4/2020:

StateTotal CasesTotal DeathsPopulation

 

Blue States2,817,829108,536141,449,425

There were 20 BLUE STATES and the Washington DC that went for Clinton in 2016.

You can see that COVID-19 deaths were higher in these BLUE STATES.

I then noticed that the total population of the RED STATES was 45,340,673 higher than the BLUE STATES.

What that means is that COVID-19 deaths as a percentage of the total population is 2.20% in the RED STATES but 3.85% in BLUE STATES. I consider that to be a considerable difference, but we can debate that.

This also proves President Trump’s assertion that BLUE STATES were driving the country’s COVID-19 death rates.

I rate Joe Biden’s claim as FALSE on two points: the higher total COVID-19 deaths (108,536) in the BLUE STATES and the percentage of deaths to the total population (3.85%) in the BLUE STATES.

Finally, POLITIFACT is notorious for twisting facts to suit the conclusions they want to draw. In this case that President Trump was wrong and Joe Bide was correct. However, digging deeper into the details shows just how POLITIFACT can distort facts.

Statistics: https://www.conservativevalues.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/RedStateVBlueStates10-4-20.pdf

Leaving God Out of Politics is ‘Illogical, Immoral, and Un-American’

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'The important part about politics is that God is important in our political life,' said Fr. Michael Orsi.Fr. Michael Orsi

August 6, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A Florida Catholic priest told a recent GOP political gathering that leaving God out of politics is “illogical, immoral and un-American.”

Politics is something that pastors usually stay away from, Father Michael Orsi said.

“However if your pastor is staying away from politics, tell him he's an illegitimate pastor,” he said. “The reason I say that is because politics affect our lives. And when we talk about our lives, we necessarily have to remind ourselves that we are called to be moral creatures.”

“And the important part about politics is that God is important in our political life,” Orsi said.

A lot of people think it's not chic to talk about God, he told the Collier County, FL, Republican Executive Committee in a July meeting that was published on YouTube August 2.

“Let me tell you, Republicans, if you want to win, I think it's time that you talk openly about God,” the priest said, “openly, because that's what people's hearts are and people know what's right when they hear the truth.”

He continued saying that people urge sugarcoated language that excludes mentioning the Creator, adding that if Republicans do that, and do not mention God, then they're going to lose the battle - which is what the enemy wants.

“I'm convinced from what I have seen when I have seen the devil has his hand in this,’ said Orsi. “The devil has his hand in this. This is illogical. It is immoral it is un-American.”

Orsi, a priest of the Diocese of Camden, New Jersey, who currently serves as parochial vicar for St. Agnes Parish in Naples, Florida, is also a writer and host of the weekly cable television series on pro-life issues, “Action for Life TV.” He is the former chaplain of Ave Maria School of Law in Naples.

Now more and more God is trying to be removed from the public square and from the political discourse, he told the GOP gathering in an address last month, continuing that this was, “Very foolish, very stupid, very un-American.”

This is because our country is founded on the principle that there is a God who guarantees our rights, he explained.

The men who composed the early documents of our country were God-fearing men, he added, “And they realized that in order to have a virtuous country you have to believe in God. Why? God guarantees you your rights.”

“Without God guaranteeing you your rights, who gives you your right?” Orsi questioned. “The state? The politicians?”

“God gives you your rights,” he stated. “They are anchored in God.”

“And so God sets the standard for what is right and what is wrong,” continued Orsi. “And in order to have a healthy political system, in order to have America as we know America, God has to play an important role in our civil discourse.”

God is there in the national motto of “One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,” said Orsi, and thus if your pastor is not talking about politics and God - he is failing you.

A lot of people have the idea that as long as you’re a nice person, get along with everybody and be politically correct that they’re going to be saved, he said.

“Well maybe not,” Orsi stated, “because you’re called to speak the truth.”

“Where do we find the truth? Where's our nation rooted?” he asked. “In God, but God in the Bible, in the Judeo Christian tradition. That's where God is found and that's where we learn how to live as good human beings.”

Orsi listed specific current examples where pastors should be invoking God and thus influence the political realm and the nation’s culture, including the just war theory, immigration and gender ideology, and explained the Church’s approach to each.

These examples are right out of the Bible, he said.

“I want to tell you to speak openly about our rights given to us by God,” Orsi told the republican group in conclusion. “Our obligation to live as God-like people, following God's instruction to us in the Bible.”

“Tell your pastors,” he said. “Tell your pastors that you want to hear the truth. Because it's only the truth that will set you free.”

Source: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-priest-leaving-god-out-of-politics-is-illogical-immoral-and-un-american

Preparing For The Next Pandemic

Coronavirus

After we return to normalcy and hopefully soon, we will need to take steps to avoid the next pandemic.  If we don’t come up with contingency plans that will contain future outbreaks, we will be forced to relive the insanity that we are now experiencing because of unpreparedness.

These are my suggestions:

-          The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the rest of our intelligence community, who failed to protect us from this pandemic, need to be watching the rest of the world for future outbreaks like the Wuhan Virus.

-          The Center for Disease Control (CDC), which also failed to be prepared for this pandemic, needs to work closely with the CIA to begin an analysis of any new virus to identify how it is transmitted and how it can be contained.

-          When an outbreak is found, all travel to and from the affected area needs to be banned immediately until we know the extent of the outbreak.

-          Our borders and all points of entry to the United States need to be completely secure.

-          Illegal entry into the United States needs to be treated as a felony.  Individuals entering the United States illegally must be detained, quarantined, and returned to their country of origin.  Repeat offenders should be incarcerated.

-          Legal immigration should include extensive physical examinations for possible diseases that can affect the general population.  Individuals with diseases that could create a pandemic should be isolated until they are no longer a threat to the rest of the population.

-          Should outbreaks occur in the United States, the CDC needs to have protocols in place for immediately testing people in the affected area to identify those who can spread the contagion.  Those at risk of spreading the contagion need to be isolated until it is safe for them to return to the community.

-          Travel in and out of infected areas will be immediately suspended until the danger has passed.

-          All people in infected areas need to begin wearing PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) when in public.

-          People in infected areas need to enter all buildings (i.e. schools, workplaces, stores, restaurants, and entertainment areas) by first using hand sanitizers before removing their PPE. (For those of you who have been on a cruise, the use of hand sanitizers has been a practice in all cruise ship dining areas.)

-          The CDC needs to be proactive in finding vaccines and medications to protect the population for strains of viruses that have been identified.

-          Every state needs to have mobile hospitals that can be immediately deployed where needed.  The number of these hospitals should be based on the population of each state.

-          Supplies of PPE should be available in stores so that they can be purchased.

I welcome any suggestions to make sure we are fully prepared.

Look at the COVID deaths in NYC: Crisis or Panic?

Coronavirus

By Pamela Geller – on April 4, 2020

The actual number of deaths in NY City, as of April 3, 2020 at 9:30 AM are 1,584. According to the New York Department of Health. See:

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-daily-data-summary-deaths.pdf

As the table above shows, of those 1,584 who died, 1,178 had underlying conditions….and they might have died from those conditions, rather than from the virus. Of the remaining 406 people who died, 26 had no underlying conditions and the other 380 may or may not have had underlying conditions. If we assume that all of those 406 were in good health, without any underlying conditions, then the probability of dying from Covid-19 (if you’re healthy) is 406/9,000,000 = one chance out of 22,168. Tiny.

Coronavirus in NYC

Thanks to Dr. B

Source:  https://gellerreport.com/2020/04/look-at-the-covid-deaths-in-nyc-crisis-or-panic.html/