[Pain] HUGE, self-inflicted Recession incoming due to Trump/Musk

I haven't heard one person on the right bring up the cost of eggs since Trump took office.

Regarding vacations?

If Obama or Biden had done anything remotely like this, the right would have raised bloody murder. Obama got called to the mat for going to someone else's golf course.

Obama ‘Takes More Vacations Than Any Human Being I’ve Ever Seen’
Donald Trump, August 17, 2011

Not Only does Trump take a crap load of vacations but it's to his personal businesses. He basically puts the trip on the company AmEx, at a rate I'm sure he has negotiated, which goes directly into his own coffers ...on our dime. But worse than that, it's not just HIS room we are paying for, it's for the whole entourage. It's a giant boondoggle. I'm sure he's not comping the trip or even giving a discount.

It's absolutely unethical and a clear example of political corruption.

But of all the unethical stuff he does, just toss it in the pile. It's just too much for the human brain to comprehend so he gets away with it.

 

Trump has wasted more than 100m of tax payers money on his golf excursions.

DD

 

this buffoon is clinically r****ded

he’s just saying sh*t just to say it atp

 

Because it decrease our purchasing power. This isn't a 3rd world country where we are exploiting cheap labor.

Neither party won the deal. They both lost. EU corporations lost. American consumers lost.

 

Who says that like it was a good thing? Nobody should be going to emergency rooms for care that is non-emergency.

 

Yeah, exactly. It's not even close to the same thing as providing preventative care, checkups, screenings, testing, followups, dialysis, chemo, prescription drugs, prenatal and antenatal care, and so on, like most modern world countries provide, or at least supplement to make healthcare affordable for all. In fact, all most every country in the world provides baby leave on top of it.

Just more straw grasping for reasons to act like Trump and the GOP really gives a damn about quality of life and healthcare, babies, and mothers.

The party that pretends to care so much about family, and goes on and on about wanting Americans to have more babies, doesn't care if that family can even afford the healthcare to live a healthier life.

Remember how Trump campaigned on calling himself the 'Father of IVF' ? Just one of the many lies he campaigned on to get elected. It's not surprising that he would flat out lie to get more women votes though, but at least most women voters didn't trust or believe that lying creep and bullshit artist.

 

Economy that grew at an annual rate of 1.2 percent over the first half of the year, a notable downshift from its 2.4 percent pace at the end of 2024. The S&P 500 index, which has been on a tear since mid-April, reacted by shedding 2.5 percent of its value this week.​

 

'US economy On the precipice of recession' that
not even the Fed may be able to rescue the US from a downturn

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"With inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue," Zandi, Chief Economist at Moody's said.

But Zandi thinks a recession is coming regardless, and rate cuts won't be able to offset two forces he thinks are pressuring the economy:
tariffs and immigration policy.

"The tariffs are cutting increasingly deeply into the profits of American companies and the purchasing power of American households,"
he said. "Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy."

While Zandi acknowledged that the unemployment rate has remained low, he added that the growth of the US labor force has
"gone sideways" as participation falls and the foreign-born workforce continues to shrink.

Recent data show that the US labor market is struggling more many observers thought. Figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
showed that US employers added 73,000 jobs in July, much less than economists were expecting. Many job seekers have also reported
bleak prospects as companies scale back hiring, attributable to uncertainties surrounding Trump's ill-conceived tariffs, aka, Trump TACO