In order to “Make America Great Again,” Trump and his cronies apparently have to lie about where we are in the first place. Fran Tarkenton says that the United States has had the “most anemic recovery in modern history.” The truth? The United States has had 6 years of private sector job growth under President Obama. All the more important to make sure that Hillary Clinton is in the White House to build on that progress.
LIE: Tarkenton said the United States has had the “most anemic recovery in modern history.”
THE TRUTH
FactCheck.org: “The U.S. economy was growing at a yearly rate of 1.1 percent in the first three months of 2016, after growing at a rate of 1.4 percent in the final three months of 2015.”
Florida Gov. Rick Scott claimed the U.S. has ‘world-record high debt,’ when, in fact, it doesn’t, at least by the measure economists prefer. And he said the U.S. economy is ‘not growing,’ when it is. […] The most recent figures from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show the U.S. economy was growing at a yearly rate of 1.1 percent in the first three months of 2016, after growing at a rate of 1.4 percent in the final three months of 2015. These are ‘real’ growth figures, adjusted for inflation. Furthermore, the U.S. economy has shown positive growth each year since the end of the 2007-2009 recession. GDP rose by 2.5 percent in 2010, 1.6 percent in 2011, 2.2 percent in 2012, 1.5 percent in 2013, 2.4 percent in 2014 and 2.4 percent for all of 2015.
Daily Beast: The economy “is growing. We rated his claim false.”
For this fact-check, we looked at whether he’s right that the U.S. economy isn’t growing. One way to measure this is looking at gross domestic product, which, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, has grown by between 1.5 and 2.5 percent every year since 2012. In addition to the growing GDP, experts also disputed Scott’s claim, pointing to other positive economic signs such as growing private sector jobs and a declining unemployment rate. The economy might not be growing as fast as Scott would like, but it is growing. We rated his claim False.