Not It was decades of right wing deregulation, trickle down economics, and a policy of barrow and spend and war. It all came to a climax in 2007-8 when the debt bubble collapse. The day Obama entered the oval office there was a deficit I a trillion 300 billion on the desk ,750 jobs per month going in the toilet and the wall investment banks going belly up and more than 250 depository banks would ultimately go belly up and taken over by the taxpayers through FDIC the only aspect of the 1933 Glass Stegall Act designed to prevent such bank panics and depressions. A bill that was repealed in 1999 and allowed the rise of the too big to jail banks

JFlorio... If you're on a plane and the pilot decides to fly straight toward the side of a mountain would you get behind the plan just because the pilot has decided? What if some of the passengers are convinced the mountain will duck and going straight will wind up being the quickest route? Would it be fair of them to suggest you're being a poor sport for suggesting the possibility of death and destruction? Would it be unreasonable for them to suggest that you are just HOPING the plane crashes?

If you're thinking this is hardly a fair comparison because we all know mountains don't duck, well guess again because tax cuts don't automatically pay for themselves either nor do they automatically guarantee jobs... but one fact is already mathematically proven... the tax cuts will add $1.5 trillion to the national debt unless some magic happens. So the plan is to saddle us with $1.5 trillion dollars in debt and tell us to hope for the best. Yeah, that's not a good plan for us JFlorio, maybe it's a good plan for the tycoons, but for the average American family with very little margin for games, it really isn't a good idea.

Then there is also the ulterior motives that are really quite obvious to most Americans... So if I'm hoping for failure, it would be the failure of oligarchic s**m to fleece the American family, that I hope for.

I would not be worried about the Phoenix... No one liked it much except the mfg..

U.S. combat experience[edit]

An AIM-54 hitting a QF-4B target drone, 1983.
On January 5, 1999, a pair of US F-14s fired two Phoenixes at Iraqi MiG-25s southeast of Baghdad. Both AIM-54s' rocket motors failed and neither missile hit its target.[5][6]
On September 9, 1999, another US F-14 launched an AIM-54 at an Iraqi MiG-23 that was heading south into the no-fly zone from Al Taqaddum air base west of Baghdad. The missile missed, eventually going into the ground after the Iraqi fighter reversed course and fled north.[7]

An AIM-54 Phoenix being attached to an F-14 wing pylon before the forward fins were installed (2003).
The AIM-54 Phoenix was retired from USN service on September 30, 2004. F-14 Tomcats were retired on September 22, 2006. They were replaced by shorter-range AIM-120 AMRAAMs, employed on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.

Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of k**ls were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran–Iraq War. The USAF F-15 Eagle had responsibility for overland combat air patrol duties in Operation Desert Storm in 1991, primarily because of the onboard F-15 IFF capabilities. The Tomcat did not have the requisite IFF capability mandated by the JFACC to satisfy the rules of engagement to utilize the Phoenix capability at beyond visual range. The AIM-54 was not adopted by any foreign nation besides Iran, or any other US armed service, and was not used on any aircraft other than the F-14.

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On April 9, 1972, Iraq and the Soviet Union signed an historic agreement. The USSR committed to arming the Arab republic with the latest weaponry. In return for sending Baghdad guns, tanks and jet fighters, Moscow got just one thing — influence … in a region that held most of the world’s accessible oil.

In neighboring Iran, news of Iraq’s alliance with the Soviets exploded like a bomb. Ethnically Persian and predominately Shia, Iran was — and still is — a bitter rival of Iraq’s Sunni Arab establishment, which during the 1970s dominated the country’s politics.

The administration of U.S. president Richard Nixon was all too eager to grant the shah’s wish in exchange for Iran’s help balancing a rising Soviet Union. Nixon and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger visited Tehran in May 1972 — and promptly offered the shah a “blank check.” Any weapons the king wanted and could pay for, he would get — regardless of the Pentagon’s own reservations and the State Department’s stringent export policies.

That’s how, starting in the mid-1970s, Iran became the only country besides the United States to operate arguably the most powerful interceptor jet ever built — the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, a swing-wing carrier fighter packing a sophisticated radar and long-range AIM-54 Phoenix air-to-air missiles

In 1974, the shah ordered 80 of the fighters plus spare parts and 284 Phoenix missiles at a cost of $2 billion. Seventy-nine of the Tomcats arrived before the Islamic Revolution forced the shah into exile in Egypt and compelled the United States to impose an arms embargo. The U.S. Navy eventually scooped up the 80th plane for one of its test squadrons.

In negotiating to free American hostages that an Iran-backed militant group was holding in Lebanon, the administration of Pres. Ronald Reagan agreed to t***sfer to Tehran badly-needed military equipment, reportedly including Phoenix missiles and bomb racks. Iranian engineers added the bomb racks to four of the F-14s as early as 1985, t***sforming the Tomcats into heavy ground-attack planes. Years later, the U.S. Navy would modify its own F-14s in the same way.

By the war’s end in 1988, 34 of the 68 surviving F-14s were airworthy. But just two of the Persian Tomcats had working radars. And Iran had expended all of its original consignment of Phoenixes. More Phoenixes reportedly arrived as part of the hostages-for-arms deal with the United States, and in the post-war years Iranian Aircraft Industries experimented with “new” weaponry for the F-14 — including modified Hawk surface-to-air missiles that the shah had bought from the United States as well as Soviet-supplied R-73 missiles

From Hoover to Obama the biggest economic growth happened during FDR's presidency, with the real GDP per capita increased by 5.25% each year.
Kennedy/Johson...3.93
Clinton................2.91
Reagan................2.65
Carter..................2.19
Nixon/Ford...........1.81
Eisenhower...........1.19
G W. Bush............1.1
G.H. Bush..............0.95
Truman................-0.35
Obama.................-0.42
Hoover..................-6.88
http://www.statista.com/statistics/238600/gdp-per-capita-growth-by-us-president-from-hoover-to-obama/

Trump... he's a wall street player, he's rubbing shoulders and making his deals, from his words "he's a deal maker", correct, only time will tell if he's working for himself and his cronies, and with this new tax deal where he will make billions, or for the American people, who may either be brought to their knees or are left standing. This is why he has done well in the market, I believe it may be called, you know...payback. The good old boy you rub mine and I'll rub yours.

As far as job growth that may be only to the midterms, who's to say, another wait and see.

As for regulations, he himself has recently stated that for every regulation, he has deregulated 20, now I haven't checked into that yet it might be more hot air. But when a president does a move the emulates a dictator as inputting a gag order on all research from the EPA, I would say that is a good example of completely dismantling a government program that has been put in place for the safety and welfare of its people, that is a clear sign of a leader Not for its people.

As far as the military spending, let's talk about who really put him in office along with Wall Street. Aphganistan was 2.1 million alone. The military and government spending are lead weights in a sinking boat. Nothing but expense.

Most of all as far as Trump speaking to the people, I heard him say over and over..." believe me"... tell me, why should we...he's a proven liar. he's lost all trust and credibility.

Today…you’ve observed that the United States is no longer regarded as a positive entity around the world, and that Trump’s disrespect towards the other nations of the world is not something that we’re prepared to tolerate. To threaten other countries on the basis of their approval of Trump comes dangerously close to trying to promote an international cult of personality: it’s a case of “Either be nice to me and follow my lead, or face the consequences.” That’s not acceptable behaviour from a man sitting in that office. But it is absolutely clear that the concept of “Leader of the Free World” certainly no longer belongs to the President of the United States, and most clearly not while Donald Trump occupies that particular office.

Why has the UN treated Trump with disrespect? Because he damn well deserves it. His actions have been disrespectful to the world, and highly disrespectful to his office. And we have no problem saying so.