President receives warm welcome at Daytona 500

[Kentonio]

You sure they weren't rooting for a crash?

It wouldn’t be NASCAR without one.

 

[AvilaSurfer]

It does?



Growth slower than inflation, or shrinking as a percentage of GDP, is a cut. Pg 112:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/budget_fy21.pdf

No it isn’t. A cut is a cut. A cut is less than before. See how that works?

 

[expos4ever]

The presidents approval rating among blacks is over 28%

Hard to believe; can you support this claim?

 

[iluvatar5150]

No it isn’t. A cut is a cut. A cut is less than before. See how that works?

Let’s talk about how inflation works. This year, $1 buys a coffee. If I get govt benefits intended to buy me one coffee, then this year, I’d get $1. Next year, inflation makes a coffee cost $1.10, but if my benefits only go up to $1.05, then the government is now providing less than one coffee. That’s a cut.

Every year, the country’s population grows, the number of people who need benefits grows, inflation grows both tax revenues and the costs borne by the people who need these benefits. If the government is providing less value one year to the next, then it’s cutting benefits even if the actual dollar value is still climbing.

 

[Hank77]

yeah, it is what I personally appreciate about him, unlike Hillary, he doesn’t take anyone for granted.

When evaluating the actions of a narcessist it's hard to tell when they are doing something for good reasons or just to draw attention to themselves.

 

[hislegacy]

Hard to believe; can you support this claim?

New polls show black support for Trump surging

 

[AvilaSurfer]

Let’s talk about how inflation works. This year, $1 buys a coffee. If I get govt benefits intended to buy me one coffee, then this year, I’d get $1. Next year, inflation makes a coffee cost $1.10, but if my benefits only go up to $1.05, then the government is now providing less than one coffee. That’s a cut.

Every year, the country’s population grows, the number of people who need benefits grows, inflation grows both tax revenues and the costs borne by the people who need these benefits. If the government is providing less value one year to the next, then it’s cutting benefits even if the actual dollar value is still climbing.

Zzzzzzzz. He’s not cutting anything.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Zzzzzzzz. He’s not cutting anything.

Ah, the old “nuh uh” rebuttal. Not exactly original, but I suppose it’s a classic for a reason.

 

[KCfromNC]

New polls show black support for Trump surging

From the last few threads on these polls, I think people writing about them need to understand that results like them with error ranges of nearly +/- 10% should be taken with a grain of salt.

 

[AvilaSurfer]

From the last few threads on these polls, I think people writing about them need to understand that results like them with error ranges of nearly +/- 10% should be taken with a grain of salt.

I saw a black guy yesterday on HLN predict Trump will get 20% of the Black vote this time.

 

[KCfromNC]

I saw a black guy yesterday on HLN predict Trump will get 20% of the Black vote this time.

Was it Donald's "African American over here"?

Oh, probably not, that guy stopped supporting Donald - Man Trump Called “My African American” Ditches Him Over Whole Racism Thing

Speaking to PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor, Cheadle, a 62-year-old real estate broker, said that he’s ditching Trump, as well as the entire Republican Party, after coming to the realization that the GOP is all about a “pro-white agenda” that uses black people like himself as “political pawns.” According to Alcindor, the straw that broke the camel’s back for Cheadle was watching Republicans line up to defend Trump’s racist attacks on four freshman congresswoman of color who he told to “go back” to “the crime-infested places from which they came,” as well has his attacks on Representative Elijah Cummings, whose Baltimore district Trump described in a series of rants as “disgusting, rat and rodent infested” where “no human being would want to live.”
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Again, I think it would be a bad idea to generalize from the opinions of one person to anything about a larger group. But for those who are inclined to cherry-pick single examples to back up their preconceptions stories like this should be a cautionary tale.

 

[AvilaSurfer]

LOLOL......until he pulls 20%

 

[Fantine]

New polls show black support for Trump surging

We will obviously have to bombard them with facts.

 

[hislegacy]

We will obviously have to bombard them with facts.

like rising wages, lowest unemployment ever, 7,000,000 off food stamps and Opportunity Zones pouring money into minority communities?

 

[Fantine]

Too often I have seen opportunity zone money usurped by suburbs wanting bigger malls. Mist of the people off food stamps came from tightening standards, not lower need. As for the jobs and wages, you would have to show me from an objective news site. Trump often tries to take credit for the years of economic growth created by his predecessor.

 

[Fantine]

The news from Fact Check:
Black unemployment has gone down, along with all unemployment. A seven year trend which began in the Obama administration, and for which the Obama administration deserves most of the credit (jobs are still growing under Trump, but more slowly than under Obama.)
Trump Takes Undue Credit on Black Unemployment

Meanwhile, however, the gap between white and black unemployment remains largely unchanged under Trump. While black unemployment fell to 6.8 percent in December, the white unemployment rate that month was 3.7 percent. So the white rate is 46 percent lower than the black rate, about the same as the gap in December 2016.

In terms of wage growth, there are lots of factors to consider. There has been inflation in the past few years. Wage contracts tied to the rate of inflation will increase, but that doesn't mean that workers are doing better.

To read about it, look here:

Are Wages Rising or Flat?

Generally, "real" wages plummeted from the 1970's through about 1996 and have been rising since then. This can be interpreted in many different ways. Trump, as usual, is trying to take all the credit for trends he inherited, and "real" wages after inflation are about the same as they were in the 1970's.

 

[KCfromNC]

LOLOL......until he pulls 20%

I mean, anything could happen, but looking at the stats from the last few elections that would be an impressive reversal of the trend.

 

[TLK Valentine]

First Presidential pace car.

looks like it was fun.

video shows the warm reception from Indy fans and the motorcades as the pace car.

Once again we've reached the point where POTUS not getting booed by a crowd is newsworthy.

 

[hislegacy]

Once again we've reached the point where POTUS not getting booed by a crowd is newsworthy.

That made me laugh!

Thanks for the chuckle

 

[TLK Valentine]

That made me laugh!

Thanks for the chuckle

Anytime... I figured after the World Series and UFC, and Melania getting booed at the B'More Youth Summit, he could use a chuckle more...