Porteroso said:
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KaiBear said:
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Gas prices way down
Restaurants full
Airports loaded with travelers
Stock market strong
One ounce Gold Eagles soaring
Key West rocking
I like this economy !
Tell us you don't connect to the average American without telling us.
Not just average Americans, the overwhelming majority of small business owners I know are hurting something fierce.
The economy is definitely not good.
Gotta keep in mind the impact of artificially high interest rates.
Interest rates that Trump has repeatedly criticized.
However Trump replaces the Fed Chairman in just a few weeks.
Relief should follow quickly thereafter.
Interest rates are the very least of the current issues. It doesn't matter how low interest rates get if you don't have any money to buy stuff.
There's no possible way you deal with small to medium businesses on a daily basis and don't see how bad it is right now.
We have 3400 franchisees there are fewer than 10% with YOY sales improvements including prices increases that naturally increase sales volume.
It's head buried firmly in the sand to think things are going well. It makes 0 difference how well your 401k and investment accounts are doing if you can't afford your mortgage.
Hell we never take cash to the bank, haven't in 7 years, in the last 90 days I've bled through at least $50,000 in cash money which is the reserve funding.
I accept your input.
Have seen these cycles many times.
Remain optimistic 2026 will be dramatically better.
Takes a long time to turn the ship of state around. But his policies are working.
Nice. If this works, he deserves full marks. If this is accurate, it will help tremendously for 2026.
Almost certainly fake news, but what a dream. I would be willing to overlook many things if Trump could reduce the deficit by 600bn a year. Not starting wars, but other things, like the horrific tariff rollout, a lot of the rhetoric.
Tge real number will certainly be lower.
And let's not forget this will essentially be possible because of the new tariff tax on Americans. He snuck a flat consumerism tax in that hits poor people the hardesr, while cutting taxes on the middle and wealthy classes. Taxing the poor to pay for our deficit won't work well long term.
Doge found $160b.
elimination of 271k federal jobs at $137k per year = $37b
$9b in recissions passed by Congress.
2025 tariff revenue up $130b over 2024
That's $336, plus savings on clawbacks, contract cancellations, interest rates have been falling, so interest expense should be down modestly, etc....
Should be at or above $350b, easily approaching $400b.
So yeah, $600b would need an explanation. But $400b isn't hard to explain at all and it's not exactly orders of magnitude lower than the claim.