Posted on 02/28/2024 10:57:17 AM PST by JV3MRC
The Washington Post continues to outdo itself in generating downright idiotic takes to defend President Joe Biden’s trashy economic record, even if it means whitewashing the worsening border crisis.
“The economy is roaring. Immigration is a key reason,” celebrated The Post in a nutty Feb. 27 headline. The leftist rag doubled down by claiming that “[i]mmigration has propelled the U.S. job market further than just about anyone expected, helping cement the country’s economic rebound from the pandemic as the most robust in the world.” Of course, the paper glossed over the fact that “all” the job gains in the fourth quarter of 2023 alone (compared to Q4 2019) were among immigrants, according to Center for Immigration Studies Research Director Steven Camarota in a Feb. 13 op-ed. “The number of immigrants working over this period is up by 2.9 million, while 183,000 fewer US-born Americans are working,” Camarota continued. Earth to The Post! [Emphasis added.]
Camarota surmised that it was “very possible that half the net increase in jobs went to illegal immigrants.” The Heritage Foundation also revealed that the surge in illegal immigration was costing U.S. taxpayers “billions” per year. For border states like California and Texas, for example, the crisis was costing both states $21.76 billion and $8.88 billion respectively per year “in education, health care, law enforcement and criminal justice system costs, welfare expenditures, and more.” But The Post still wielded its distorted talking points to make Biden look like he’s somehow playing economic 4-D chess by capitalizing on a horrendous national security crisis to buoy the economy. The newspaper even ended up committing a humiliating error in trying to sell its ludicrous angle.
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Some people think that government is the economy.
Biden’s ‘conomy is “roaring” because the azhos in the U.S. Gumbmint are giving freeloading foreigners money stolen from our families so the freeloaders can go to Walmart and go shopping all day before a hard night of partying. Bass Turds.
If the immigrants were White they would be screaming bloody murder and “Close the border!”
or if they started chanting “trump trump trump”
Well then they would demand machine gun fire
Sales of home security systems must be going through the roof. Perhaps it drives the Biden boom. Or moving vans, never so much in demand. Bus companies are also doing brisk business with rentals.
The govt is the largest: consumer, lender, borrower, landlord, tenant and employer besides having small armies of regulators, libraries of regulations and govt union pension funds owning tons of stock.
Some people think that free market is the economy.
-insert Orwell here again?
As they say.. "Don't PI$$ in My Ear and Tell Me It's RAINING!"
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