Posted on 05/16/2021 9:06:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Presidents aren't supreme beings imbued with the power to dictate economic conditions, pandemics or international events. We give them far too much credit and blame for the vagaries of the world.
That said, there are some things that presidents do have the power to influence. The location of MLB's All-Star Game, for instance, is not Joe Biden's bailiwick. The economic recovery is. The COVID-19 downturn wasn't an organic event precipitated by unforeseeable underlying economic factors. It was an event created by state lockdowns, coupled with widespread consumer fear. So, with lockdowns easing and vaccines entering arms, a vibrant bounce-back should be a slam dunk for the president.
Instead, Biden couldn't resist the opportunity to stuff expensive, technocratic, completely unrelated agenda items into his "rescue" packages. And disincentivizing work and investments, threatening to raise taxes and energy prices and pumping trillions into the economy tend to dampen growth.
Economists expected the country to add about 1 million jobs in April, but we came up 800,000 jobs short. March's gains were also revised down another 140,000. Leftist pundits and wonks, as is their wont when Democrats hold power, were "perplexed" by the bad numbers. And Biden is simply in denial. "There's been a lot of discussion since Friday's report that people are being paid to stay home rather than go to work," the president explained. "We don't see much evidence of that."
There are 7.5 million jobs available in the United States, but only 270,000 were filled. And Americans are getting $300-a-week bonus checks to stay home. As Bank of America economist Joseph Song noted, even those making $32,000 a year would get a raise by going on unemployment. That seems like evidence.
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Unless they are actually trying to tear things down like the left elsewhere is doing with their temper tantrum riots.
His time is short. He needs to accomplish his goals as fast as he can.
This isn’t a disastrous start. This is the start they planned for and it’s succeeding wildly beyond their expectations.
Who “THEY” are, other than the puppets...CornPop, Harris, all the cabinet secretaries and directors of various agencies....remains to be seen. We can all speculate and we might be right, but we’ll never know for sure.
The Bai-Dung Window. The Russians, Chinese and Iranians know it is their window too.
Water is wet.
Buffoonery for a jackass comes easy as that is all the retromingent SOB knows.
The Joe Stolen/Chameleon Harris regime can only hope that they are facing a mere disaster. What is coming down the pike is more like chaos and total dystopia.
Decivilization is a very real alternative for our futures, the way this is going. Widespread disruption of service, similar to what happened to Colonial Pipeline, only with a more concerted and coordinated attack on several vital distribution services, such as telecommunications, electricity, natural gas and petroleum pipelines, rail transportation, and even municipal traffic management, all happening at a near-simultaneous strike, would be so much worse than a nuclear strike. leaving this nation laid bare for any army that wants to mount an invasion being given the green light.
Maybe I should not be giving anybody any ideas.
The thought wasn't complete:
...designed to derail Trump's reelection.
There...complete.
“Biden Is Off to a Disastrous Start”
He’s had 47 years in politics to practice that.
How does this idiot not realize that Biden isn’t trying to save the economy or American people—and that he is doing the bidding of those who want just the opposite?
Oh, this is how: he’s controlled opposition as a writer for the National Review.
https://www.nationalreview.com/author/david-harsanyi/
“Decivilization is a very real alternative for our futures, the way this is going.”
DARWIN RULES..... prepare, get tough, plan and stock up on cash, emergency dried foods and ammo, if you can find it.
Overwhelming the system to the point of collapse is the goal. There will always be a past or present Republican to blame. And our miseducated voters will be stupid enough to believe it.
Chinese spy-craft is in full swing against President Xho Bai Din. They have attached themselves to Xho’s inner circle....wife, son, brother....but Xho “The Big Guy” or “My Chairman” might have some veil of plausible deniability while the Yen flows all around him. Whatever happened to Tucker’s interview with Hunter’s business partner?....crickets....
The purpose of The Democrat Party is to elect thieves to public office so that they have access to the public treasuries in order to loot them.
You don’t say!
Jimmah Catah is 😃
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