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https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/household-income-trump-economy/ × Investor's Business DailyInvestor's Business DailyFREE - In Google Play VIEW Sign In EDITORIALS Household Income Jumps To All-Time Highs Under Trump — Why Isn't This Big News? 8/29/2018 Economy: Median household income is up more than 4%, the economy is growing fast, optimism is at decades long highs. Not that you'd know it, since the press is too busy trying to drive President Trump from office. X Inflation-adjusted median household incomes in July hit $62,450 according to the latest release from Sentier Research. That's the highest level since Sentier started tracking this more than 18 years ago. And if you combine Sentier's numbers with annual Census data, median household income is at all-time highs. More interesting is the fact that median household income has shot up more than 4% in the 19 months since Trump took office. It had been flat over the previous year and a half. Over the course of President Obama's entire eight years in office, median household income climbed a mere 0.3%, Sentier data show. Overall economic growth is accelerating as well, after years of Obama-induced stagnation. On Wednesday, the Commerce Department boosted its estimate of Second Quarter growth to 4.2%. That means average growth for first half of the year was above 3%. And if it continues strong in the third quarter — as appears to be the case — chances are we will see growth for the entire year at or above 3%. That would be the first time since 2005. This, too, is a sharp turnaround that just happens to coincide with the Trump presidency. In Obama's last year in office, GDP growth was an anemic 1.6%. The growth rate dropped in each of the last two quarters of that year. And economists were everywhere telling the public that 2% was the best we could do. Perhaps that's why polls are showing the public's mood better than it's been in many years. Examples: The IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index surged to a 14-year high in August. (The September reading comes out next week.) The IBD/TIPP poll also found that Americans are more satisfied with the direction of the country than they've been since 2005. The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index just reached an 18-year high at 133.4. The month before Trump won the election in November 2016, it was 98.6. The Conference Board also reports that job satisfaction is the highest it's been since 2005. A survey by Express Employment finds that blue collar workers are more upbeat about the direction of the economy than the general public. Whatever one's view of Trump, this is undeniably good news. After years of "unexpectedly" underperforming growth, the economy is giving every indication that it is returning to its vigorous norm. But instead of heralding this news, the mainstream press either ignores, downplays or tries to explain it away. As we noted in this space recently, The New York Times and others keep trying to claim that the current boom was simply the continuation of growth set in motion during the Obama years. There's a simple reason for this. The press is singularly fixated on bringing down Trump at all costs. Since good economic news will help Trump, it must be overlooked. YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: Socialist 'It' Candidate Ocasio-Cortez Rips 'Unregulated' Uber, Then Spends $4,000 On ... Uber Millennials May Love Socialism, But Socialism Won't Love Them Back 3,453 Days And Counting: The Bull That Wouldn't Die INVESTING RESOURCES TAKE A TRIAL TODAY IBD VIDEOS

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Dont see much of this good stuff on CNN!!! A week after his inauguration, President Trump issued a series of executive orders that returned the nation to one governed by law with regard to illegal migration. Among other things, his EOs called for Homeland Security and immigration officials simply to enforce existing immigration laws. They brought an end to the Obama-era practice of “catch and release” by which illegals were caught and then released within the country. Also law enforcement was instructed to enforce existing laws authorizing immediate deportation of illegals who committed crimes. “From February through May (of this year), the number of undocumented immigrants stopped or caught along the southwest border of the United States fell 60 percent from the same period last year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection — evidence that far fewer migrants are heading north, officials on both sides of the border say.” There are no unconstitutional “czars” in the executive branch. Obama had over 30 such extreme ideologues as Van Jones, Cass Sunstein and John Holdren in his administration. There are none now. Along those same lines, there are 110 fewer employees on the White House staff than there were under Obama. And first lady Melania Trump has but five staffers, while Michelle Obama sported a queenly 24 staffers. Projected savings total more than $22 million. Last month the president signed into law the VA Accountability Act, which holds VA employees accountable and protects whistleblowers within the Veterans Administration. Just since the signing, 548 VA employees have been terminated, another 200 suspended and 33 demoted, according to VA reports. This clearly signals a change in commitment to protect and serve the nation’s veterans. http://www.westernjournalism.com/the-first-six-months-what-has-trump-accomplished/

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starts tomorrow you will be able to hear the sound of leftard heads exploding

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MC has probably lost a few pound from the feverish searching for biased Trump news... Lena Dunham: Trump's 'soul-crushing' win made me lose weight WENN.COM FIRST POSTED: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 06, 2017 11:36 PM EST | UPDATED: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 07, 2017 01:29 AM EST Lena Dunham. (Dennis Van Tine/Future Image/WENN.COM) Lena Dunham backtracks on promise to move to Canada Lena Dunham thanks Glamour magazine for letting her show off her cellulite No thanks, Lena Dunham: Canadians tell American celebrities to stay home Donald Trump’s election win has put Girls creator and star Lena Dunham off her food. U.S. shock jock Howard Stern complimented the 30-year-old’s slimline new look when she appeared on his SiriusXM radio show on Monday, and he was surprised by her answer. “Donald Trump became president and I stopped being able to eat food,” she confessed. “Everyone’s been asking like, ‘What have you been doing?’ And I’m like, ‘Try soul-crushing pain and devastation and hopelessness and you, too, will lose weight.’” Lena has been very vocal about her dislike for the new American President, and also told Stern that Trump doesn’t have anything positive to say about her either. “He said I was a B-list actor with no mojo,” she laughed on the show, which prompted Howard to ask if she felt a president should be spending so much time worrying about what celebrities think of him. “Here’s the funny thing, of course, it’s a mistake, but we’re talking about him like he’s a person who is operating in a sane way, we’re talking about him like a person who doesn’t have a personality disorder,” she answered. Howard also quizzed Lena about her threat to move to Canada if Trump became President, and the actress/writer confessed she never took the idea of the former reality show star winning seriously. “(It) seemed like an impossible joke. I was like, ‘The most qualified candidate we’ve ever had (Hillary Clinton) is running against a steak salesman. We’re going to be fine’.” Meanwhile, Lena has decided not to wage a war of words with the new leader, no matter what he says about her: “All he does is talk about women like they’re objects,” she said during a New York Times event last week (ends03Feb17). “It doesn’t reclaim our power to talk about him like he’s an object. It doesn’t reclaim our power to insult his physicality.” http://www.torontosun.com/2017/02/06/lena-dunham-trumps-soul-crushing--win-made-me-lose-weight