The economy Trump dealt with wasn't suffering from Covid and was inherited from the president before him, Obama. The economy Biden inherited was overshadowed by Covid and was inherited from Trump.
And, you can't blame the economy on ANY sitting president. There are factors completely out of his control that involve Congress, our Capitalist, open-market system, the stock market and interest rates. Presidents do not control the Fed, their interest rate setting, Capitalism or private businesses.
We have 2.2 percent inflation, currently, whereas at the same time last year, when we were JUST coming out of Covid-time, we had 6% inflation. Everything went up because there were closed businesses, a worker shortage and wages rose to lure workers.Prices rise during a crisis and we HAD one. If you're comparing prices and wages to 2019, it is unlikely that those prices will ever return. And think about the federal minimum wage. It is STILL 7.25 per hour. That's $15,080 per year.
The federal minimum wage was instituted in the 1930s to pay people a wage that would support them and their families. Tell me what family can live on 15K a year? What home can be bought on 15K? What minimum wage job INCLUDES full healthcare benefits?
Does the president control oil and gas prices? He does not. He does not run OPEC, or domestic production.
The economy is incredibly complicated. A president can influence it by infrastructure bills that could create jobs and there's trickle out to other industries. You need to be a finance, and economics major and read Adam Smith to even have a clue about how all these cogs turn the big wheel.
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What policies did Biden enact to 'wreck' the economy? And give us specific policies he used to 'realy' abuse the legal system?
Simple- by not wrecking the economy. He didn't HELP, certainly, but blaming Biden for the current economic state of the nation is like blaming him for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire.
The massive government spending on "Covid relief" was started by Trump, not Biden, and wasn't the root of the problem, anyway- that would've done damage under any circumstances, but it would've been much less than we're experiencing had the mass production of money not been accompanied by the almost total cessation of the production of wealth. It's the state and local governments that bear the lion's share of the blame for what we're seeing, not the Presidency.
Now, do you know how many states have voted out the... I'll be polite and call them "evil fuckwads" who tore our economy to ribbons out of fear of a disease less dangerous than chicken pox? ONE. Nevada alone voted out a lockdown governor. To be fair, there were some other states where term limits prevented running again, but if they ran, they WON. Hell, Illinois' then-governor had the state supreme court declare him emperor- had he lost his re-election bid, he literally had the authority to overturn the election; he didn't end the state of emergency until THIS YEAR (2024).
Biden's greatest accomplishment is now, as it was during his time in Congress and his previous turn in the White House, the undermining of the Constitution. Give credit where it's due.
Brace yourself.
1. You survive to the DNC Convention.
2. You ask Harris to step aside. Or your handlers do. They make her an offer she can't refuse.
3. You select Barack Obama as your VP. He can tip the election because they know you will "retire" one way or the other. If you don't think Democrats will "escort him out" you are a fool. 4. You die or resign after you are inaugurated and Obama steps into the Presidency.
Then the Gun Safes unlock and the real fun begins.
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There’s no better way to showcase that you have no background in collegiate-level economics than to think the POTUS is responsible for the costs of goods and services.
Don't we live in a capitalist free market economy? Our water, electricity, gasoline, food etc all come from private businesses. Fuck our our own military is all private short of solders with even Starbucks on aircraft carrier.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Flt4cY6CSpMAt what point does any president control or even influence the price on anything anywhere? It is just profit motivation of billionaires and endless greed.
I can't even blame the don who bankrupt a casino. The house always wins is a saying for a reason and he somehow defied common knowledge.
The thing I try and remember is this "think of the most average person you know in terms of intellect now realize at minimum 50% of the population is stupider than that." There are 340m ish people in the US if the average person has 90 iq than 170m are dumber than that... minimum.
Do you really believe that none of the actions the Trump adminstration took in 2020 had anything to do with inflation?
Do you sincerely believe that a record increase in the money supply, increases in federal spending and a massive increase in federal debt had nothing to do with the inflation that followed?
Inflation doesn't happen overnight.
The economy is not wrecked. Far right ragetards like to say it is but that's jut because they know no one is stupid enough to vote for Christian nationalism based on merit.
By cheating, changing voter registration requirements to only needing a social security number and then issuing social security numbers to many of the new illegals.
If you don't understand that inflation follows a pandemic you slept through history AND economics. If you think it's not due to corporate greed you've been asleep since Reagan was in the white House
Oddly enough, there are still people that will vote for him. I would like to know who this 29% is that think his administration has been a success. Maybe they are all on welfare or are cellar dwellers that had student loans..
You convince people that your opponent ruined the country, and us a criminal.
Does not matter if any of that is true... it's all about marketing.
Don't forget the ecconomy inflations are worldwide, not only in America.
You stop telling everyone you're NOT Trump and try to bullshit them into believing you ARE Trump! They believe everything else you tell them! I'm SURE they'll believe that one, too!!
Get a grip and keep watching Fox news. From what I recall everything went perfectly all the time when Trump was president... right?
Except Biden didn't bring a single charge against Trump. It helps to know how the legal system actually works if you want to argue that.
that's a great question. How did trump expect to get re-elected in 2020 or ever, really?
Both have done this. It's life as a political figure in modern times.
Uh, there was something called Covid...
And yet, while not in court, did not campaign…
Put Donald duck the manager!
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