Recently former President Obama gave a speech that broke with tradition and criticized President Trump while glorifying his own administration. Here's a few thoughts I have about what he said:
Obama: "How hard is it to say Nazis are bad?"
At least as hard as it is to say "Killing cops is bad." During your presidency, My Obama, two cops were shot and killed from ambush in New Orleans. At the same time BLM protests were calling for "More dead cops". Did you call for the protestors to moderate their rhetoric? No. Did you meet with the families of the slain police or send a representative to their funeral to signify that you were against killing police? No. But you did meet with BLM leaders just days after the shooting.
Obama: " When you hear about this economic miracle that's been going on… when the job numbers come out … suddenly Republicans are saying, 'It's a miracle,'" he said. "I have to kind of remind them, actually those job numbers are the same as they were in 2015 and 2016."
Not really. Here's the official numbers. During 2015 unemployment started at 5.7 and dropped to 5.0. During 2016 unemployment had a high of 5.0 and a low of 4.7. It was 4.8 in January, the month that you left office. It dropped to 4.7 in February, 2017, Trump's first full month in office, 4.6 the month after that and has not been above 4.4 since August of 2017. The unemployment rate has been below 4.0 four of the last five months. It is currently near the lowest in 18 years. Unemployment among minorities is the lowest ever.
Granted the economy bottomed out from the crash of 2008 and recovered under Obama and the current trend is a continuation of the Obama recovery. But it is untrue to claim that years when unemployment fluctuate between 4.8 and 5.7 are the same as years in which it is 3.8-4.7.
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