Worst U.S. President of Last 50 Years

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States

Worst President since World War II:

1. Donald "Bonespurs" Trump (26%)
2. Barack Obama (25%)
3. Richard Nixon (13%)
4. George W. Bush (7%)
5. Bill Clinton (6%)
6. Jimmy Carter (5%)
7. George H. W. Bush (3%)
8. Lyndon B. Johnson (2%)
9. Ronald Reagan (tie) (1%)
10. Gerald R. Ford (tie) (1%)
11. Dwight D. Eisenhower (tie) (1%)
12. Harry S. Truman (tie) (1%)
13. John F. Kennedy (<1%)

 

The reports don't give that orange '**** credit, my friend who doesn't understand economics.

Do you want to see what economists say about the worst president ever?

 

OK, let's ask the question with a different focus.... What did OBAMA do to increase employment? NOTHING! For better or worse, it was all (ALL) a result of the machinations of the Federal Reserve central bank!

Gentlemen, because of numerous "quantitative easings", bond-buying extravaganzas of near-worthless corporate 'paper', an "Operation Twist", and numerous, diverse 'rescues' of all these corporate Wall Street creeps, the economy was 'stimulated' into a strange, "fraud-balloon" recovery starting in August 2007.

But, this ongoing 'recovery' MUST have ultra-cheap interest rates (even as the demand for CASH grows every day), and, this 'recovery' also must have more and more 'stimulus' even though the Federal Reserve central bank combine doesn't call it that now.... Hint: after finally starting to raise interest rates to a point necessary for the beginnings of a healthy economy, what did the Fed do? It has LOWERED THEM AGAIN, three times this year!

We're sinking back down into economic 'fantasy land'... where the Fed has turned into a 'one-trick pony', unable to do much of anything crush interest rates.

. "Nonsense! I can also eat paper and sh*t hundreds of billions of new DOLLARS!"

 

This isn't a bbbbutwhatabout_______ issue.

Presidents don't control the economy. They can give it a slight nudge here and there, but that's it.

 

They can make major decisions that can shift the economy all together. Such as a war, sanctions, trades (or removals)...

To say all they can do is a "little nudge" is incorrect.

 

Please inform yourself.

Presidents can't do what you believe they can.

Would you like for me to cite to and quote economists, or do you just want to play make believe?

 

Trump would have probably won #1 here, but he isn't out of office yet and any ranking of his presidency will be premature until he is. As such, I chose Nixon.

 

Obama had a greater success record of job creation his last two years in office than Trump had in his first two. Your post is based on personal bias--not facts.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/11/presidents-do-not-control-economies-or-gdp/

 

What did Obama do to accomplish this goal?

 

Obama was an anti business president who tried to prevent jobs in South Carolina so you have that .

 

The Great Recession hit the U.S. during the campaign for the 2008 election, & was having a disastrous impact on the country BEFORE Obama took office. Obama had to respond to that economic challenge starting on day one, & it became the central focus for everything he did or tried doing from his first day in office. It took months just to get the slide downhill reversed, & then the trend toward improvement was always slow, but relatively steady. Dealing with an economic fiasco was never in Obama's campaign plans, but he deserves credit for doing a good job stopping, reversing & healing from that fiasco. Job creation was only one aspect out of many, he had to deal with, all simultaneously, to accomplish what he did. He deserves a lot more credit for his accomplishments here than he's getting.

 

So list what he did?

Auto bailout he copied off Bush jr

Tarp Obama once again copied off Bush jr

Obama made bush jr tax cuts permanent

All Obama did was copy off of bush jr.and a white lady saved his butt

 

Bush Jr. was the President who got us into the Great Recession in the first place. And you want to credit him for Obama's success in preventing it from degrading into a full fledged depression? No thanks.

 

Give us a break, it was barney Frank

 

So a President cannot go to war in Iraq, that has a MASSIVE amount of influence on the economy?

Ok. Good to know

 

Actually it was millions of ignorant Americans “who got us into the Great Recession in the first place” It was the millions who took equity loans on their homes and spent the money on boats, SUV’s and vacations. It was the millions that lumped their brand new furniture, new pool, new cars and all their credit card debt into their new home loans. It was the millions that believed the “Don’t worry about the payment you can refinance in another year.” It was the millions that believed the price of their home would keep increasing without bound. It was the millions that believed they could be a contractor and build their own home and it was the millions that changed the American dream of home ownership into the American business of home rentals. I personally knew many people that had no business owning the home that they were in.

 

Universally Accepted...

Case Closed...

 

Those were the millions of VICTIMS of the GOP Fiscal malfeasance that ENABLED the Wall Street Casino's UNREGULATED Banks to push PREDATORY mortgage loans in order to STEAL BILLIONS of dollars from hardworking Americans that was the ROOT CAUSE of the Great Recession.

 

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to place the blame. I suppose it’s McDonalds’ fault that people are fat. I suppose it’s Jack Daniels’ and Chevrolet’s fault that we have thousands of drunk driving deaths per year. I suppose it’s Smith and Wesson’s fault that we have 30,000 murder/suicides per year. I suppose it’s been the 15 different congress’ fault that America has dropped considerably in education over the last 30 years. And finally I suppose it’s Trump’s fault that 65,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses last year. If Americans would put just as much effort into fixing their problems as they do trying to find blame then people just might be happy.

 

DEREGULATION has CONSEQUENCES because those regulations were put in place originally for a good reason.

If your GOP deregulated federal food safety inspections and millions started dying or Salmonella poisoning as a result are you going to blame the victims because they were eating contaminated food that was once safe prior to that GOP DEREGULATION?

 

You think that a President's ability to make war means that they control the economy? *LOL*

 

I don’t see how abolishing the USDA has anything to do with my post, but every year I do draw for Elk in Northern Arizona and the GOP has nothing to do with my consumption of that animal.

 

Who said "control"? I said (and you quoted me) INFLUENCE.

Did the war in Iraq INFLUENCE the economy or no?

You dug yourself a deep hole here, lil fella!

 

No, my friend. You've used heavy equipment to dig a pit, and have leaped into it.

Presidents don't start wars to influence the economy.

The debate was whether idiot Bonespurs should get credit for the domestic economy, not whether being an idiot can impact the economy.

Show me where any economists believes that a president can do anything which has more than a marginal impact on the economy.

Please do some reading--from those craaaazy liberals at the National Review:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/11/presidents-do-not-control-economies-or-gdp/