#EngagedNation   #StateoftheUnion  2019

When President #Trump delivers his #StateoftheUnion address on Tuesday (Feb 5), he can quite justifiably say that the state of the #economy is good. Unemployment is low, inflation is muted and growth has continued unabated for nearly 10 years. Mr. Trump controls #economicpolicy, not the economy, and so a fairer report card would also assess his actual policies. What is startling is that the economists are nearly unanimous in concluding that Mr. Trump’s policies are destructive. That is why many economists are uneasy about his presidency, even though the economy earns solid grades.

Mr. Trump’s #protectionist impulses place him squarely at odds with the economic wisdom that tariffs are harmful. Mr. Trump’s #fiscalpolicy is a colossal failure. His signature achievement is a $1.5tn tax cut that provided stimulus when, arguably, it was least needed. Mr. Trump’s luck was to inherit an economy that had been on a steadily improving glide path since around 2010. Charting nearly any economic statistic shows that today’s economic strength represents a continuation of that trend.


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An A- for the #USEconomy, but Failing Grades for Trump’s Policies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/business/us-economy-trump-taxes-trade.html

One of the defining features of the #Trump administration is that the public can't trust what the president says. Chalk this up to Donald Trump being a world-class bullshitter, or his lack of knowledge about nearly everything he talks about, or the idea that we're supposed to take him 'seriously but not literally' - the effect is the same, which is that he constantly says things that are untrue.

We'll be confronted by that legacy of falsehoods once more on Tuesday (Feb 5), when Trump is scheduled to give the annual #StateoftheUnion speech, which was delayed by House Speaker #NancyPelosi during the #governmentshutdown. If it had been canceled completely, few would have missed it. In the past several years it has been condemned by pundits on the right and the left for being stale, overly ceremonial, and pointless. The speeches, which tend to cover a huge array of policies, are rarely ever memorable and made much too long thanks to incessant applause breaks.


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The State of the Union Is Pointless, Dull, and Needs to End
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjmnjx/the-state-of-the-union-is-pointless-dull-and-needs-to-end

President Trump is a one trick pony. Pathetic.

#BorderSecurity #TrumpResign #StateOfTheUnion #StateOfTheUnionAddress #SOTUBoycott

The Week Ahead https://bit.ly/2RFsu0I #WeekAhead #StateOfTheUnion #HousingFinance #HomePrices #MortgageApplications #PrimaryMortgageMarket #RealEstate

It is going to be a long and bad week for Trump as he prepares for the #StateOfTheUnion

Now, Pelosi is allowing It..#wakeupAmerica #Values #CivicDuty #StopWasteFraudAbuse in our #Congress ASAP #Commonsense
All Representatives who avoid #StateOfTheUnion need Fined, if not Fired SOMEHOW. #Commonsense #wakeupAmerica

Trump's #SOTU speech on Tuesday is expected to include abortion, especially in the wake of the passage of the #RHA in New York and the shelved #HB2491 in Virginia. He'll use this speech to push anti-choice lies on abortion as a way to shore up his Christian conservative base, along with his standard blather on immigration and other issues. #SOTU2019 #StateOfTheUnion
http://justinspoliticalcorner.tumblr.com/post/182476829307/expect-anti-choice-lies-to-be-told-at-the-sotu