Economy Is Thriving, Despite The Doomsday Prophecies
Ken Blackwell |
According to the Labor Department, U.S. jobless claims recently fell to the lowest rate since 1969 after initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped by 13,000.
“In the week ending Jan. 19, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 199,000, a decrease of 13,000 from the previous week’s revised level,” the department announced. “This is the lowest level for initial claims since Nov. 15, 1969, when it was 197,000.”
Many Americans will likely find this number surprising, especially when the Democrats and their comrades in the mainstream media are working overtime to downplay any good report about the U.S. economy.
In fact, almost every news article about our ongoing economic growth and development now includes a sentence or two about how the data “exceeded expectations” of the so-called “experts.”
Earlier this month, for example, Reuters reported that economists predicted 225,000 jobless claims for the week that ended on Jan. 5 — a prediction that was off by almost 10,000 claims.
“The number of Americans filing applications for jobless benefits fell more than expected last week, pointing to sustained labor market strength that could further assuage concerns about the economy’s health,” the publication admitted at the time.
The outlook for the labor market is even rosier now that President Trump has ended the government shutdown and provided relief to hundreds of thousands of federal employees, some of whom had filed for unemployment benefits under a separate federal program.
Of course, underestimating the performance of the labor market is just the tip of the misinformation iceberg. For the last two years, the Democrats have argued that the President’s policies, including middle class tax cuts and deregulation, would shackle the U.S. economy.
When President Trump promised that his economic agenda would boost GDP growth to above 3 percent, the critics said he was “dreaming.” It turns out that he wasn’t.
When President Trump pledged to implement tough trade policies to protect American workers, the skeptics insisted that a “trade war” with China will hurt us more than Beijing. This was yet another miscalculation from the anti-Trump “experts.”
Not surprisingly, the list of fake doomsday prophecies is as long as the list of President Trump’s records and accomplishments — in less than two years, the Democrats and the media have managed to underestimate dozens of positive economic achievements of the Trump administration.
Like an impenetrable tank with thick armor, however, the roaring U.S. economy has been immune to all the negative predictions intended to minimize the success of President Trump’s policies.
Sadly, that won’t stop the Democrats from predicting the end of the world for as long as Donald Trump remains president.
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Ken Blackwell (@kenblackwell) is a former ambassador to the U.N., a former Domestic Policy Advisor to the Trump Presidential Transition Team, and former Ohio State Treasurer and mayor of Cincinnati who currently serves on the boards of numerous conservative policy organizations including the Club for Growth and National Taxpayers Union. He is a contributing author to the ARRA News Service
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