State funded social spending is not directly included in GDP (services are so you could include Medicare and Medicaid, which are definitely 'welfare'). The goods or services purchased with welfare are included.
GDP is just one indicator and has its flaws but probably not the flaws you're thinking of. GDP numbers for Q2 have actually been revised upward, which is great but we're only halfway through May.
GDP slowing is definitely not the sign of a healthy economy, especially when you combine that with inflation (those numbers just came out and were flat, we'll wait on what revisions say).
I’m getting my forum lore muddled but you have an economics degree or something? I’m not disputing the finer points of economic theory, I’m saying economic theory is an asinine and pointless metric of societal wellbeing.
I don’t care if we had a roaring economy on some nerds spreadsheets if we are majority black and nobody goes to church and women aren’t free or safe. What was once an option, a dual income household, is now a necessity, it doesn’t matter what the numbers say, that’s not progress because of Jewish daycare for women’s non jobs to double the tax base and stop white children being bred.
You can’t see the wood for the trees.