Dem Economic Success vs Repub Economic Failure, Part Infinity
[B]The jobs boom that just wont quit[/B]
[URL]https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/06/labor-market-jobs-boom-00030566[/URL]
[QUOTE]The U.S. labor market has been hot, with rising wages, low unemployment and a record number of job openings. There are almost two jobs available for everyone seeking work, and the average monthly gains of more than 400,000 during the last year exceed anything seen since 1939.
On Friday, we got a glimpse at whether that extraordinary run is holding up even as clouds loom over other parts of the economy and the Federal Reserve is planning aggressive interest rate hikes to curb inflation. The answer is yes.[/QUOTE]Ditto for May's Jobs Report announced this month.
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[B]Trump will have the worst jobs record in modern U.S. history. Its not just the pandemic.[/B]
[URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/08/trump-jobs-record/[/URL]
[QUOTE]President Trump took office at the crest of the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. He leaves presiding over the worst labor market in modern U.S. history, as an already-sputtering economic recovery has turned negative.[/QUOTE][B]Trump's job losses are the worst of any American president on record[/B]
[URL]https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/04/economy/august-jobs-report-trump-jobs-record/index.html[/URL]
[QUOTE] President Donald Trump is heading into the general election with the worst jobs numbers of any president, based on records that go back to World War II.[/QUOTE]Essentially Ditto for practically every Repub Administration since and including Hoover.
A reminder, this is from the same typically pro Repub Mainstream Media who knew Trump's abysmal economic results record yet campaigned for their darling Repub candidate all through 2020 by repeatedly lamenting to the voters who did not have the data at hand, "Why is Trump talking about how the election was rigged if he doesn't win instead of touting his Great Economy"?
Lolol.
I'll add this to the Nothing To Refute Trump Being To Blame list
[QUOTE=JustTK;2705403]I agree that Biden inherited a bad situation from Trump. For breivity, lets consider 2 issues. COVID and Russia.
COVID. Accepted that Trump ripped up the virus response department prior to covid's arrival. That was a terrible decision. However, there is no evidence to show that the outcome would have been any different. Trump tried to keep the USA economy open and running. Nearly all countries suffured economic recessions from COVID. The USA can do nothing about how China continues with its zero tolerance COVID policy and the affect that has on global economics.
Biden continues with the policy COVID entry regulations, preventing millions of people traveeling to or through the USA, blocking normalisation.
Russia. The issues that NATO and USA have caused againat Russia go back decades, not just to Trump. Several Rep and Dem presidents could have changed the course of this part of history, yet continued to provoke the bear. Now Biden has blockaded Russia from international markets and politics. That is no one else's decision but his own. I think this is the greatest effect of current inflation and Biden is directly responsible. He could have released the blockade on Venezuela to offset the effect of oil shortages, yet does nothnng. Again, totally down to his team.
So although there are plenty of negatives that Biden inherited, there is also plenty of negative stuff that he could have done different and that he is directly responsible for. And this isthe clear message that the public is sending him.[/QUOTE]If Obama, Hillary or Biden had defunded the CDC and pulled all the Pandemic Prevention and Response teams from China in direct opposition to all expert warnings not to do something so stupid and dangerous, something no Dem would ever have done but there is probably a queue of Repubs a mile long anxiously awaiting their opportunity to do something that stupid and dangerous again, Fux News would still be presenting 5 hour nightly coverage of each and every American death from the Pandemic and blaming that Dem for each and every one of them. And CNN and MSNBC would not be far behind in maybe only devoting 3 hours each night to it.
Trump wasn't lying about what he knew about the virus until he couldn't get away with lying about it anymore "for the greater good. " he lied about it in order to delay a stock market crash until his cronies were secretly informed about it so they could sell out of the market.
That stock market crash he failed to avert didn't even stop him from lying about everything until the election, including his repeated assertion that no one need bother to invent or take a vaccine for it.
1 in 10,000 Americans have the slightest clue why gas prices are so high and your tortured reasoning barely touches on it. Meanwhile, everything in global Supply-Chains shot up due to the whipsaw 2 year Low Demand Crash vs 17 month Recovery High Demand / Low Supply issue, not just gas.
Now China's Trumpian style crap response to Trump's Pandemic is adding more Supply-Chain hurdles to Biden's historically positive and rapid recovery from the Great Trump / Repub Crash, Recession and Massive Jobs Destruction.
Which, again, has nothing whatsoever to do with anything Biden either did or didn't do. In stark contrast to why Trump's disastrous economic stewardship is much to blame for the economic disaster of Trump's Pandemic.
Forget the data, just go by how we feel?
[QUOTE=DramaFree11;2705320]You are just wrong, you can use all your crazy data, but what matter is what the real America thinks and I guarantee, they are not happy and they are being destroyed by inflation, drugs and out of control violence.
Unlike you guys I hope I am wrong, but the economy is tanking, hopefully it will not get out of control.
Trump is not to blame. That being said he needs to go away and let all of us move on with our lives.[/QUOTE]Well, if we're no longer going by the data and just on how Americans feel, then Biden is the most popular and appreciated elected official in a leadership position or entity in the Federal Government, where he polls better by anywhere from 12 to 20 percentage points than the Dem Majority and Repub Minority Leaders in the House and Senate as well as the House and Senate in general:
[URL]https://www.realclearpolitics.com/[/URL]
Americans hate and blame everyone in a leadership position for the high gas prices and inflation caused by Trump's disastrous economic decisions and stewardship going back to at least 2018 and certainly all through critical Trump's Pandemic year 2020.
But they hate and blame Joe Biden the least.
Now you guys can throw away your irrelevant "Biden broken promises" lists. We're going strictly on feelings now. And on that count, Americans feel Biden is doing a better job than anyone else in a position to do just about anything at all.
Go Joe!
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The Sovietization of American Life. Victor Davis Hansen
Behind all our disasters there looms an ideology, a creed that ignores cause and effect in the real world—without a shred of concern for the damage done to those outside the political elite of the nomenclature.
Examine California and ask a series of simple questions. Why does the state that formerly served as a model to the nation regarding transportation now suffer inferior freeways while its multi billion-dollar high-speed rail project remains an utter boondoggle and failure? Why was its safe and critically needed last-remaining nuclear power plant scheduled for shutdown (and only recently reversed) as the state faced summer brownouts? Why did its forests go up in smoke predictably each summer, as its timber industry and the century-old science of forest management all but disappeared from the state? Why do the state's criminals so often evade indictment, and if convicted are often not incarcerated—or are quickly paroled? Why are its schools' test scores dismal, its gasoline the nation's highest-priced, and the streets of its major cities fetid and dangerous—in a fashion not true 50 years ago or elsewhere today?
In a word, the one-party state (of California) is Sovietized. Public policy is no longer empirical but subservient to green, diversity, equity, and inclusion dogmas—and detached from the reality of daily middle-class existence. Decline is ensured once ideology governs problem-solving rather than time-tested and successful policy making.
In a similar fashion, the common denominator in Joe Biden's two years of colossal failures is Soviet-like edicts of equity, climate change, and Neo-socialist redistribution that have ensured (for the non-elite, in any event) soaring inflation, unaffordable energy, rampant crime, and catastrophic illegal immigration. Playing the role of Pravda, Biden and his team simply denied things were bad, relabeled failure as success, and attacked his predecessor and critics as various sorts of counterrevolutionaries.
Biden rejected commonsense, bipartisan policies that in the past kept inflation low, energy affordable, crime controlled, and the border manageable. Instead, he superimposed leftist dogma on every decision, whose ideological purity, not real-life consequences for millions, was considered the measure of success.
The ultimate trajectory of a woke military was the fatal disgrace in Afghanistan. Ideologues in uniform kept claiming that the humiliating skedaddle was a logistical success and that misguided bombs that killed innocents were called a "righteous strike. " Afghanistan all summer of 2021 was to be Joe Biden's successful model of a graduated withdrawal in time for a 20th-anniversary commemoration of 9/11—until it suddenly wasn't. How predictable it was that the United States fled Kabul, abandoning not just billions of dollars worth of sophisticated weapons to terrorists, but also with Pride flags flying, George Floyd murals on public walls, and gender studies initiatives being carried out in the military ranks. Ask yourself: if a general during the Afghanistan debacle had brilliantly organized a sustainable and defensible corridor around Bagram Airfield but was known to be skeptical of Pentagon efforts to address climate change and diversity would he be praised or reviled?
Full article. Google Victor Davis Hanson Sovietization.