Trump trumps Obama

There is great value in reading through an entire newspaper everyday because a thorough review of all the articles sometimes can separate author bias from fact. In his essay bemoaning the steady advance of conservative parties across the world, “Steve Bannon’s boost to Europe’s far right parties”, (Opinion, Aug 6), author John Lloyd attempted to do what no reasonable economist ever would: Credit former US president Barack Obama as largely responsible for the United States’ now “booming economy”.

But if one simply reads the entire BP, one can see that Mr Lloyd’s comments are utter folly. In the same newspaper, the AFP’s news report, “Complaints rampant against Tesla cars”, painstakingly outlined the disastrous record of Tesla Motorcars in Norway. Consumers are waiting 13 months for repairs, cannot even park in a normal parking lot, and one claims his car only ran correctly for four out of 242 days — an atrocious 1.6% reliability rating.

The reason why Tesla has been a disaster for Norway is the same reason why Obama presided over the weakest economic recovery in modern American history — state control of markets. Noway is intervening in the free market by demanding Norwegians use the government’s car-of-choice due to global warming concerns and, just as in the USSR, there are nothing but delays, breakdowns and very unhappy customers.

The real reason why the American economy is booming is because President Donald Trump has discontinued intervening in free markets, lowered taxes, increased consumer choices, and withdrawn the government from the hands of industry. And I know that this is true because, after all, I read it in the paper. JASON A JELLISON