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The US was shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs a month when Obama was elected.
Unemployment during the Great Recession peaked at 9.9 %. It was 4.7% when Obama left office, a 5.2 difference.
In contrast, unemployment CONTINUED to decline under Trump to 3.5%, an incremental 1.2 difference BEFORE the 2020 pandemic.
Since Biden took office, unemployment declined from 6.7% to 5.1%, 1.6 difference, more than Trump achieved over 4 years.
Most economists consider 4-5% unemployment rate to be a full employment rate.
In terms of jobs added, Trump was not close to the numbers added by some other presidents.
All POTUS’ promote “ jobs created” and ignore the net, jobs lost vs created.
the issue with your premise is that Barak Obama himself didnt believe Trump could do the things he said he would do with the economy. In fact Obama said that thinking was "magic" (his word not mine).
So IF the economy was strong, Obama himself didnt think so at the time. Thats crap. we all know it. stop saying things that are just not reflective of the facts on the ground at the time.
story in the WaPo today one of the most liberal newspapers in the country.
"Biden’s polling numbers are even worse than they appear"
Points made.....
Democrats are rightly worried about President Biden’s poor job approval ratings. A closer look at his ratings among independents shows Democrats should be even more worried than they are.
Biden’s overall job approval ratings are bad enough. Only 45.1 percent of Americans approve of his performance per Monday’s RealClearPolitics average; 47.9 percent disapprove. That alone makes Biden less popular at this stage of his presidency than any president in the past 40 years except for Donald Trump.
The fact that Biden is about as unpopular among independents as Trump was then shows how truly politically damaged Biden is right now and should set off fire alarms in every Democratic campaign office.
Biden won independents by 13 points in 2020. To go from plus-13 to minus-13 in less than a year is an epic disaster. Republicans are standing by, ready to pick up the pieces from a crumbling presidency.
Price of rent up, price of cars up, price of gas up, price of food up, price of hotels up, homicides up to record levels, labor shortages up, cost to heat our homes up, country embarrassed on the national stage, country divided as ever, etc, etc.
Serious question — what has he fixed or began to fix?
He needs justification for his 'build back better' slogan. Making excuses like a junky on crack.
He also is/was working on his legacy/history book entries from day 1 ie all the executive orders. Heard was consulting a historian. He should be working out his validation and self esteem issues in a therapist office and not with public policy.
Global reaction to the Covid pandemic substantially reduced global demand for crude oil. Global masses tended to stay put. 80% of global air traffic was shut down. Cruise ships went to wet dock.
Price barrel crude oil sharply declined in March- April, 2020 as global demand substantially declined while the Saudis increased production as a strategy of the price war with Russia.
Refineries reacted by shutting down all over the world.
Consumers enjoyed low prices at the pump for a blip in time.
It is as unreasonable to blame Trump for the global pandemic as it is to attribute the price at the pump in 2020 to Trump.
The price war ended and OPEC realigned production with demand.
Ongoing or suspension of construction of the Keystone pipeline has nothing to do with the price at the pump.
To me, life is the same no matter who is president and we have the same issues we've always had. The difference today is we are drowning in information warfare and don't know what's true. In some ways this is our society's greatest threat.
“Information warfare manipulates information trusted by targets without their awareness, so that the targets will make decisions against their interest but in the interest of the one conducting information warfare.”
It is more important now than ever, to step outside yourself, and recognize that you are the weapon, manipulated by others from near and afar, through information warfare.
The most important thing we can do today is not overreact to information in the news, social media, or politics, nor contribute to it.
It may sound cheesy, but each of us need to:
Break free from social media and control urges to participate in information warfare.
Recognize the objectives of news media. Take in news and information with a grain of salt. CNN and Fox both have the same goals, to sell you something. Remember, it’s television and it remains the world’s most effective advertising platform. There may be some truth to new events, but their intent is to attract viewers. There is no truly trusted source for accurate information. You can Google anything and find support for your guided or misguided opinion. Unless you were in the room when and where the event happened, you don’t know exactly what occurred.
Ill give credit where credit is due. Biden is an idiot, but at least he isn't crying on twitter every time he disagrees with someone or if someone disagrees with him. Of Trump's many faults, that was one of his most immature actions.
The name calling was another. I don't care if Hillary called names too, I care that the POTUS is doing it.I detest Biden but at least he isn't Trump.
This is the extent of your political sophistication when judging a president? The tone of someone's tweets?
The country was energy independent before Biden came along. Now it's not. Coincidence? I don't think so.
Looking beyond that, everything Biden has touched has been a disaster. The border, Afghanistan, the economy, inflation, etc. etc.
His reckless irresponsible spending is another matter. If it was only for infrastructure, it would be okay, but this "human" infrastructure nonsense is just bleeding heart liberal crap, and a way for the Democrats to waste another $3.5 trillion just to appease the radical left.
Biden's use of the DOJ and FBI to go after parents at school board meetings is just plain government over-reach and not any business of Biden's Gestapo.
And speaking of over-reach, Biden has no business looking at everyone's banking transactions. It's another one Biden's tactics to screw everyone to pay for his asinine agenda.
When you add it all up, he has disemboweled the Constitution. There is no such thing as freedom of speech or the right to privacy, among other things, under the worst most incompetent fool that ever sat in the Oval Office. There's a reason his approval is down to 38% and sinking fast. By the time he's done it might be equal to his shoe size.
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