MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 8:54 pm
To be fair Brooklyn, Trump didn't cause Covid, right?
He made a bunch of really stupid statements and moves, but Covid is what cost jobs in the short run.
Trump goosed the economy with tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, promising reduced deficits...which made no sense, but did goose the economy...until Covid hit...
And likewise, really can't give Biden all the credit in recovery of employment. Some for sure, as he didn't f-it-up, and the general policies of making sure the economy was running full steam did lead to best growth of any developed economy in the world, coupled with major infrastructure spending that's going to be an engine that fuels growth for another decade...unless f'd-up.
Re tRump and Covid, we've gone over this a hundred times already. He handcuffed the CDC thereby opening the door to the massive fatalities and shutting down of the economy. Everyone knows that it was tRump's failure to order quarantine that caused the massive outbreak (this while Cuomo was blamed for spreading the disease in NY as airline passengers brought in the disease from Europe), no need to repeat what we've settled so long ago.
Contrary to your warped views, Biden must be accorded full credit for improving the economy screwed up by tRump. While the GOPiss blames him for inflation he has kept the USA at the seventh lowest inflation rate in the world. He could do a little better by directing all those billions he is sending to Israel and overseas into domestic infrastructure campaigns. Of course, Congress can help by ending all overseas tax shelters as we've discussed before.
We'll see what happens next.