The economy continues to chug along, even as President Trump continues to get hammered in the media for his latest comments or behavior.

While the media has mostly ignored the economic boom of 2017-2018, former President Obama hasn’t. He’s inserted himself into the narrative in an effort to take credit for the un-stagnating of the economy. The only problem with this bit of self-adulation is that he’s completely wrong to credit himself.

In fact, it was President Obama and the Democrat policies of the last decade that left our economy so stagnant and seemingly at a loss to develop any momentum. While the former president believes that it was his policies that created our current economic fortunes, the truth is that the good times would have started MUCH SOONER if Obama’s policies would have been repealed and thrown away years ago.

But don’t take my word for it, listen to the cadre of economists that were recently polled by Wall Street Journal.

The Hill explains:

The Wall Street Journal asked 68 business, financial and academic economists who was responsible for the strengthening of the economy, and most “suggested Mr. Trump’s election deserves at least some credit” for the upturn.

A majority said the president had been “somewhat” or “strongly” positive for job creation, gross domestic product growth and the rising stock market.

The pros cite the White House’s push for lighter regulation and the recent tax bill as critical to a pro-growth environment; more than 90 percent of the group thought the tax bill would boost GDP expansion over the next two years.

The Daily Wire has some of the most important findings from the report:

• Most of the economists said Trump was “‘somewhat’ or ‘strongly’ positive for job creation, gross domestic product growth, and the rising stock market.”
• The experts said Trump’s decision to cut regulations and cut taxes were a major factor.
• The group gave Obama “neutral-to-negative for GDP growth and negative for long-term growth,” while scoring Trump as “neutral to positive for long-term gains.”
• The group of economists said Trump scores higher than Obama because business confidence is higher and business investments are increasing under Trump.

Once again the evidence clearly shows that optimistic, conservative fiscal policies promote growth and prosperity – while regressive liberal economic policies create hopelessness and despair. Leftists say work hard and give us your money because we know how to use it better than you do. Conservatives say work hard and enjoy the fruits of your labor, and in so doing you will help promote a healthy economy twice over. First, with your labor but then with your spending. Letting people keep more of their own money always promotes growth, prosperity, and a brighter future.

The Democrats, on the other hand, are getting worried.  The propaganda passed through their mouths as well as through the mouths of their partners in the mainstream media is that the benefit of the tax cut bill would be reserved for the wealthy and the corporations.  Before the bill was passed Nancy Pelosi compared it to the end of the world calling it Armageddon and the Senator who has no idea how to wear his glasses, Chuck Schumer called it a “kick in the gut to the middle class.”

Their predictions are turning out to be lies. According to Americans for Tax Reform who has been tracking this activity, as of January 16th, 218 companies employing well over 2 million Americans have already received pay raises, bonuses, expansions, contributions to 401(k)s –all arising from tax reform bill tax cuts.

Not only are new companies added to that ATR “bonus/raise” list daily, but beginning with February paychecks, approximately 90% of Americans will get an increase in take-home pay.

But the very wealthy Pelosi is showing her arrogance. She claimed the $1K and $2K bonuses given out by corporations were mere crumbs. To her, one to two thousand dollars may be crumbs, but to most Americans that’s real money.

The economy is taking off thanks to President Trump, and it’s getting stronger thanks to the tax bill promised by the President.  As the economy continues to heat up the Democrat’s claim that it was Obama who turned around the economy and the tax bill will increase middle-class taxes rather than making their wallets thicker will be seen as liberal lies by the American taxpayers. The important question is will it be realized in time for the 2018 midterms.

The video below is a mix of the liberal media claiming the corporate tax cuts will never be shared with their employees and announcements of bonuses, wage increases, etc, by those same cor

Video https://lidblog.com/credit-trump-economy/

by Daveda Gruber:

Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told lawmakers on Tuesday that federal prosecutors have been asked by the Department of Homeland Security to examine the possibility of bringing criminal charges against leaders of so-called sanctuary cities.

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Nielsen told the Senate Judiciary Committee, “The Department of Justice is reviewing what avenues may be available.”

The secretary added that sanctuary policies were “putting my [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] officers at risk.”

According to one Vietnam Vet I happpen to know well, Mr. BNI, who was in combat for 18 months with the U.S. Marine Corps in the late ’60’s, hearing that phrase now can never make up for the fact that returning servicemen and women never heard it back then.

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When Mr. BNI, still in uniform, got off the plane returning him to the states from Vietnam, he was welcomed back by crowds of long-haired, dirty-looking hippies (as they were called at the time) waiting at the airport, chanting things like “baby killer” and “murderer,” while making gestures that included the middle finger and being spat on. Yes, it’s true, this really happened. One returning Marine was even trampled and killed by a mob of anti-war protesters in San Francisco.

There is also the problem of the over-used expression – ‘Thank you for your service’ –  which nobody said back then, but everyone says now. After something has been repeated so many times, by so many people, it starts losing its meaning and becomes something that you say automatically, whether you mean it or not (especially by those on the Left).

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 The Homecoming for Vietnam Veterans  explains this better than I can:

We were bombarded with hate!  People stood on the side of the road holding signs condemning the war and us returning veterans.  They chanted slogans as a group and yelled insults to us as we passed.  Once the bus began pulling away, tomatoes and eggs fell from the sky, splattering against the windows.  All of us on the bus sat quietly, shocked, jaws agape, unable to believe what had just happened.

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We were treated like outcasts, blamed for a war we didn’t start, accused of killing innocent women and children, called dope heads, spit at and ridiculed by citizens, American citizens.

The news media had continued to flame the public opposition to the Vietnam War by broadcasting distorted and biased accounts from the battlefield. Reporting that the use of drugs in Vietnam was escalating, increased incidents of soldiers refusing direct orders to go out on patrols, and the military inflating body counts and misleading the public on the war – so the warriors were blamed for losing the war!

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Clearly, it was unpopular for someone to be a Vietnam Veteran or even a member of the military.  In the 1970’s, Vietnam Veterans were discriminated against for jobs, publishing books of their war experiences and were referred to as the social delinquents in our society – even the VFW refused to allow us membership. It seems like every movie about Vietnam to that point portrayed the veteran as a killing machine with mental problems, bad marriages, hooked on drugs or alcoholics.

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They were considered an unstable and dangerous lot – a group that citizens should be wary of and avoid.  Vets clammed up, refrained from wearing military uniforms in public, grew beards and long hair to fit it with his peers, keeping primarily to themselves.  The truth was that our country just wanted to forget about Vietnam and didn’t want any reminders circulating.

How many of you are aware that in 1998, sociologist Jerry Lembeke published a book:  The Spitting Image:  Myth, Memory and the legacy of Vietnam, which completely discredits the claims that American Soldiers were spit on when they returned home and that it was a common urban myth, constructed to ruin anti war protesters.

Shortly after the book came out, a Chicago columnist, Bob Greene, came up with an idea for a newspaper column that eventually resulted in a published book.  In a column that is syndicated in 200 newspapers nationwide, he asked the following question:  “If you are a reader of this column, and you are a Vietnam Veteran, were you ever spat upon when you returned to the U.S.?” The response was overwhelming and more than 1000 soldiers wrote in.  The many letters confirmed the rumors and make a poignant, genuine statement on their own.

Greene writes, “I did indeed include the invitation for anyone who had spat upon a returning soldier to write in and explain his or her motives, and to reflect on how he or she feels about it now.“

“There were no responses.”

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Today, the American psyche is ingrained with greater respect for the military, in large part, because people recognize that past treatment of Vietnam vets was a mistake.

But to some Vietnam Vets like Mr. BNI, utter disdain for the military is still the sentiment of most people on the Left. The only difference now is, they hide it better, by saying things like “Thank you for your service.” As a tribute to him, and all his fellow Vietnam Veterans, I dedicate this video:

h/t Jim Diehl  “Gathering Of Eagles”

Gathered in Copenhagen “for a conference of terror attack survivors, artists and journalists vowed to continue fighting for free speech, despite a wave of violence targeting critical voices.”