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How can one man take a country as great as the United States of America down so far in under a year?
The decline, relative or not, has been some 30 years in the making. Even during those years, so-called republicans have had majorities in Congress and the presidency all at once, with no meaningful difference in direction.
For a clearer picture, pay no attention to the buffoons in political theater and just take a look at the changes in the major components of the S&P 500 over the past 30 years, nowadays dominated by big tech and big pharma, with big oil and big finance lagging, and industrial companies that actually make things - with the exception of big-tech related - toward the bottom half.
I don't like Biden, but covid cases are high because people like freedom. I wouldn't criticize him too much over covid cases because if you really want super low cases, you won't like the type of society we would have to live in. We're talking no large scale gatherings, restaurants closed, sporting events with no crowds, vaccine mandates, etc... Like Spring 2020 basically.
Excellent point!
Biden sucks.
That is beyond dispute.
But I'm not holding him too responsible for the continued covid surge.
For the president, there were further signs that voters don't give him credit for the policies of his own administration.
When it came to those direct payments [i.e. the child-tax credit], respondents gave Democrats in Congress a plurality of the credit for getting them to people (40%), while 17%, credited Republicans — even though zero congressional Republicans voted for the March relief bill.
The same percentage — just 17% — felt Biden was most responsible for sending the cash.
Is this what you're referring to? Heck, I'm one of the 17% who gives Biden credit for that. Except, I don't think this makes me better off. I'm assuming that these tax credits are further ballooning the deficit, and I also assume that I'll be stuck paying them back, one way or another. That's why I'm hoarding the payments instead of spending them. So yeah, I'm receiving the money; and yeah, I'll give Biden "credit" for it. But I think this policy, like all his other ones, are making us all worse off.
The decline, relative or not, has been some 30 years in the making. Even during those years, so-called republicans have had majorities in Congress and the presidency all at once, with no meaningful difference in direction.
For a clearer picture, pay no attention to the buffoons in political theater and just take a look at the changes in the major components of the S&P 500 over the past 30 years, nowadays dominated by big tech and big pharma, with big oil and big finance lagging, and industrial companies that actually make things - with the exception of big-tech related - toward the bottom half.
You are correct! It actually started under Reagan, trickle down economics, the firing of the Air Traffic Controller's, attacking the Unions. And the end of defined pensions.
You are correct! It actually started under Reagan, trickle down economics, the firing of the Air Traffic Controller's, attacking the Unions. And the end of defined pensions.
I was thinking more that it started with the beginnings of the information and telecommunications technology revolution, so yes in the late 1980s, banking deregulation, busting of the telecommunications monopoly and, yes, the decline of unions and the opening up to the global labor pool.
Mr Reagan was an actor in political theater, I don't think he personally knew squat about the information and telecommunications technology revolution.
It's nothing but death, despair and division on Biden's watch.
Let's Go Brandon!
It's been nothing but death and despair since March 2020, when Trump was still in office.
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Disaster
