Donald Trump Is Turning America Around

Approaching 4% GDP Growth!

RUSH: Now, let me tell you what Donald Trump’s on the verge of doing. Donald Trump’s on the verge of repealing the Obamacare individual mandate via the passage of tax reform. This is going to be huge, not just in terms of achieving something legislatively in his first year in office, but the substance of the tax cut is going to be huge.

The American economy is roaring. The Federal Reserve in New York City has raised their forecast for fourth quarter GDP growth to near 4%. Barack Obama never exceeded 1.5% economic growth.

But this is a massive tax. The stock market was up 168 in futures today before it even opened, and this is largely anticipating the tax cut being passed and signed into law. It’s roaring, the last I checked before the program began, the Dow Jones was up 175 and is continuing to rise, and the expectations are that it will, all on the expectations of tax reform passing.

Remember during the last couple years of Obama, just like Jerry Brown told the people of California (imitating Brown), “Hey, forest fires like this, they’re the new norm. You better get used to it. This is climate change. You better get used to it.”
What an uplifting message that is. That there’s nothing the state of California to do to protect your property because of climate change. They’re throwing their hands up, Governor Moonbeam.

And they were doing the same thing with Obama and his economy. “Hey, you know what? We have to manage the decline. America’s best days are behind us.” They didn’t use those exact words. What they said was that America’s great, roiling, rollicking economic past was artificial. It wasn’t real. It was built on a bunch of phoniness. It was built on stealing and theft of resources of other nations. It was not legitimate. The U.S. is not legitimate from the days of our founding. And this new economy of 1% growth with America’s health care system being managed by the government, that was the new norm, you were to adjust to it.

Donald Trump was elected president because he refused to buy such nonsense, and now we’re on the verge of 4% economic growth. When Trump and his budget projected 6% economic growth, media economists and media analysts and deep state analysts wanted to impeach Trump over that. He was terribly misleading the people. Such things were not possible anymore. To promise or suggest 6% GDP was the height of irresponsibility and it would lead to false expectations. It ended up just letting people down. Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Except we’ve had 6% economic growth as a routine matter on many occasions in this country.

The Obama administration never even approached 3% economic growth in eight years. Now we’re on the verge of 4% in less than one year, and that one year matters. This is a stark difference in two administrations and it’s so obvious the Obama team’s running around trying to claim credit for this. They’re running around trying to claim credit for this economy, when they themselves told everybody this should not be expected anymore. Those days are behind us.

We’re on the verge of creating wealthy for a vast majority of Americans the likes of which they haven’t seen in many years. Ditto security. And if it happens here, if what we’re on the verge of seeing… Now, you may think I’m going insane here. “What do you mean, Rush, on the verge of…?” Yeah, folks, this is really happening out there. I should tell you that consumer confidence is at an all-time high, or near it, because the economy is real! People are living it! And that’s why it is expanding and growing! And that’s why there’s this positive attitude about it.

People are not being told it’s happening and told that it’s good. They’re living it. Much to the chagrin and much to the anger of the American left. But you’re not hearing any of this reported.

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