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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 3652340" data-attributes="member: 22662">Root against him?  Nah.  I’m just not letting him claim victory after the first quarter.  There are opposing economic and political forces that will naturally derail this economy.First, if the economy continues as it is and wages and inflation are kept in check, the Fed will leave well enough alone.  But if the economy continues and wages do not go up, we are stuck in the same cycle that we’ve been in for 40 years.Considering that the president won on the votes of middle class Americans, how does he sell the fact that the rich are still getting richer, the poor are still getting poorer, and the middle is still getting their buying power diminished?</blockquote>