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Soon to be inaugurated Trump most often faces negative feedback from a left-leaning mainstream media regarding his constant directly communicating with the public via Twitter. 

Several items in the news today, though, illustrate why he likely feels the need to do so. Because, what the MSM reports is most often quite far from the truth. 

To begin, while a short item from tmz.com this morning isn’t really a direct contradiction regarding the construction of “walls,” it’s still amusing to read. 

The reportage covers the Obama's newly rented home In D.C. where constructions already begun on a wall surrounding the property. The place will be used until daughter Sasha graduates, so  the Secret Service wants more fortification. 

So, while the rest of the nation faces the risks and costs of open borders they demand, the Obama’s themselves will continue to live under the full protection of not only walls, but full-time armed guards as well. Which is considerably beyond mere hypocrisy.  

Next comes another, even stronger confirmation of not only the use, but the vulnerability of Bill Clinton’s wife’s (HRC) reliance on personal equipment for messaging.  

Cody Derespina reports @foxnews.com about a new batch of messages released by the State Department Tuesday showing that Bill’s wife “and her team routinely shared her upcoming schedules, talking points and sensitive items – such as her iPad password – via the homebrewed system.” 

Other newly revealed emails, show her top advisers griping about her during her time as Secretary of State, such as “an Asian ruler who later implemented Sharia law saying he considered former President Bill Clinton part of his “family”; and Clinton talking about Justin Cooper, one of the key figures who administered to her private server.” 

In August 2012 Huma Abedin, told HRC she had an iPad password reset which had caused prior problems. The message included an entire new password, which was redacted on the State Department release. HRC “responded later with even more information, noting that “I finally realized I had to add the [redacted] to the password!!!!” 

In  a July speech when FBI Director James Comey termed Clinton’s server practices “extremely careless” but not criminal, “he also said “hostile actors” could have hacked her communications. In at least one instance, Clinton aide Cooper logged hacking attempts on the server.”  

Nonetheless, HRC and her advisers continued sending information “that could be dangerous in the wrong hands, including detailed, advanced copies of her schedules and talking points for upcoming calls and meetings with foreign leaders and top U.S. officials.”

Several detailed examples of vulnerability followed, each confirming the risks involved in unsecured data transmission. Yet with the exception of providers like Fox, the mainstream media continues to give HRC a pass on her choosing personal convenience above national security. 


In a similar case, where mainstream media sources selectively present information representing their preferred politicians in the best light possible, Chuck Schumer was the subject. 

Yesterday, Schumer was covered at a news conference on Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services.  

Schumer stated that Trump should “spend less time with his beloved social media app and more time actually telling Americans what he intends to do ― especially his plans for replacing the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans are prioritizing repealing.”
 
“I’d say to president-elect that this is serious, serious stuff. People’s health is at stake, people’s lives are at stake,” Schumer said, also trolling Trump with the reality that it will be extremely difficult to craft a genuine replacement plan for Obamacare. 

“Now, we understand that President-elect Trump is in a difficult spot, that Republicans are in a difficult spot,” Schumer said. “They want to repeal the ACA, and they have no idea how to replace it.” 

While the article itself went no farther, it’s very highly probable, if not an absolute certainty, that the reporters in attendance and Schumer himself, are all well aware of how Trump and leading Republicans wish to fix the health care tax. 

First and foremost, is an attempt to reduce coverage costs by permitting insurers to sell across state lines. 

Next is allowing the full deduction of health insurance premiums from taxes, so that even those not getting tax credit can still combat costs with a sizeable tax deduction. 

Then there’s the expanding of the availability of health savings accounts (HSAs,) which allow paying for qualified medical expenses with pre-tax income, an offset of healthcare spending via tax savings. According to Trump, "HSAs should be tax-free and should be allowed to accumulate" and he wants to allow them to be passed on and inherited between family members.”

Trump also wants to combat high drug prices by allowing "entry into free markets for drug providers that offer safe, reliable and cheaper products." That will essentially promote importing of medicine from overseas, creating competition among foreign and domestic pharmaceutical companies. 

Overall, Republican plans are likely to shift costs to individuals and states as well as reduce consumer protections, possibly increasing the number of uninsured. However, reducing government regulation and federal spending, give consumers more choices in the marketplace and give states greater flexibility to tailor health programs to their own preferences and needs. 

And if those goals aren’t “ideas on how to replace” aspects at the core of the health care tax's problems, Schumer and the mainstream media need to broaden their accesses to readily available information and sign up for some courses in remedial reading and comprehension.   

Aside from the blatantly political posturing by Schumer, Susan Jones writes @cnsnews.com about real-world results from the anti-business posture of the current administration in general. 

Today’s final jobs report of the Obama presidency, shows that the number of Americans not in the labor force has increased by 14,573,000 (18.09 percent) since January 2009, when he took office. 

According to the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, a record 95,102,000 Americans were not in the labor force in December, “47,000 more than in November; and the labor force participation rate was 62.7 percent, a tenth of a point higher than in November.”

“The participation rate dropped to a 38-year low of 62.4 percent on Obama's watch, in September 2015. It was only 3-tenths of a point higher than that last month.” 

Nonetheless, in an interview with a Chicago reporter yesterday, Obama said he has done "an enormous amount" to create greater economic opportunity for Americans. “I took an economy that was about to go into a Great Depression, and we've now had a little over six years of straight economic job growth, an unemployment rate that's down below 5 percent, and incomes that have gone up and poverty that has gone down."  

While conceding that "there are still folks out there who struggle and communities that are still depressed,” he called it an "ongoing battle." 

However, the reality is that people who stop looking for a job are no longer counted as unemployed. 

Reader Holeciuous Crapola, responded: “Mr President this is your legacy. Being retired I'm dumbfounded at how I can go in a store on a Monday and its full of people. Told my wife, doesn't anyone work anymore and where are they getting the money? 

"If I was in any store during the week I either had the day off or was dropping in at lunch time.”

Informed Voter added: “95M Americans unemployed? Just think on January 20th, Obama will join our ranks.” 

And then, some far more tangible information was found in an article by Terence P. Jeffrey @cnsnews.com, who wrote: “In the 86 years from 1930 through 2015 for which BEA has calculated the annual growth in real GDP, the United States has seen 14 presidents serve in the White House. Of the 13 who served during those years and have completed their service, Hoover is the only who did not see a year in which growth in real GDP was 3.0 percent or better. 

“President Obama—who was inaugurated in January 2009 and will leave office in January 2017—has not yet seen a year in which real GDP grew by as much as 3.0 percent. In the first quarter of this year, according to the BEA, real GDP grew at an annual rate of 0.8 percent. In the second quarter, according to the BEA’s estimate, it grew at an annual rate of 1.2 percent.” 

Some comparative statistics followed. 

Under Hoover, according to BEA, in 1930 real GDP declined by 8.5 percent,  in 1931 by 6.4 percent and in 1932 by 12.9 percent.  

For Franklin Roosevelt annual growth in real GDP peaked at 18.9 percent in 1942, during World War II. 

In Harry Truman’s time in office, annual growth in real GDP peaked at 8.7 percent in 1950.

During Eisenhower’s presidency GDP was 7.1 percent in 1955. 

Under John Kennedy, annual growth in real GDP peaked at 6.1 percent in 1962.

Lyndon Johnson followed with annual growth in real GDP peaking at 6.6 percent in 1966.

Next came Richard Nixon’s whose annual growth in real GDP peaked at 5.6 percent in 1973.

For Gerald Ford the GDP peak was 5.4 percent in 1976. 

Even Jimmy Carter reached 5.6 percent in 1978. 

Ronald Reagan’s annual growth in real GDP hit 7.3 percent in 1984, while George H.W. Bush saw the number drop to 3.6 percent in 1992. 

Bill Clinton’s real GDP peaked at 4.7 percent in 1999, followed by George W. Bush’s whose annual growth high was 3.8 percent in 2004. 

And then came Obama, during whose time in office so far, annual growth in real GDP peaked at 2.6 percent in 2015. Which is  a far, far cry from his reported claim that he has done "an enormous amount to create greater economic opportunity for Americans.” 

Bringing us back to the core of today’s theme and the gross lacking of facts, figures, truth’s and realities found in today’s leftist-leaning mainstream media.  

That's it for today folks. 

Adios