Society & Politics

Has your personal life gotten better or worse since Joe Biden took office?

Try to leave feelings aside and think about your own personal life. Have things gotten better or worse for you?

Overall things have gotten much more difficult in my own life. Ever since Biden took over I’ve had the following happen:

  • Inflation has devastated my real earnings. I have only gotten two tiny 2% raises at my company in the last 3 years. However like everybody my own expenses have skyrocketed. I am not wealthy but I am trying to be upper middle class. The Biden administrations policies have now knocked me down a peg or two where everything is much more of a struggle. I have much less savings
  • I work in the tech sector and there has been a ton of paranoia and stress. The direct company I work for is actually outperforming expectations. However the conglomerate who acquired us is suffering and pushing undeserved suffering on us as a result (no raises, less benefits, etc.). This is the hardest I’ve worked in 7 years with zero appreciation.
  • Although I work 100% remote I was forced to vaccinate two years ago. I was on the fence about this initially however as a condition of employment I was left no choice. This was direct Biden mandate and was authoritarian. The fact I had no choice really pissed me off.
  • Homeless and crime has skyrocketed in my home state (which has gone far left in the last few years). Fortunately I live in a nice and overall safe neighborhood. However the crap is starting to make out to where I live. I see more and more sketchy people at the grocery stores and there has been in increasing reports of crime. Now I know that’s local not federal politics. But still the “woke” attitude has infiltrated my state and the Biden administration propagated this crap.
  • I was recently forced to take a DEI course at my job online. This was mandated company wide. For the most part I don’t care. But they got deep in the “non binary/trans” section. The “lesson” made up a definition that “gender is socially created” which I believe is complete bullshit.
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The covid pandemic wasn’t under the control of any politician (except well maybe the PRC). Lockdowns and restriction policies at the time were at the politicians discretion (blame who you want for that).

Some people want to say the economy is independent of government policies. That’s inaccurate. While the economy is cyclical government policies CAN impact the economy.
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Tax rates, spending (which directly impacts inflation), regulations, etc do impact business growth and spending. The central bank isn’t a direct government organization but they will raise or lower interest rates which impacts borrowing costs and business growth.
Has your personal life gotten better or worse since Joe Biden took office?
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