You've got to be kidding: WaPo lavishes credit on Biden for recovering economy

Rewriting history to give Biden the credit for the economic recovery that was well underway because of Trump.

This post would be more appropriate in the Babylon Bee as satire, as journalists and the Biden administration collude to rewrite history to give Biden the credit for the economic recovery that was well underway because of Trump and red states before Biden took office.

Even though the vaccines were developed so fast because of Trump and one million shots were being given each day prior to Biden taking office, the Democrat talking points regurgitated by most of the media say there was not a distribution plan prior to Biden taking office.

It is pretty darned amazing that one million doses were already being given and tens of millions more were in the pipeline when supposedly the Trump administration had no plan.

It is similar to giving Obama/Biden credit for coming out of the 2008 recession when TARP, low interest rates, and lower oil prices were in place before they took office, and the economy came out of the recession in June 2009, before any Obama/Biden policies could have had much of an effect.

One of the stupidest things Biden continues to say is that his policies have reversed the worst economy in a hundred years when the economy started recovering rapidly in the third quarter of 2020, and economists were saying the economy would roar in 2021 without Biden doing a darned thing. It is a shame he is screwing everything up by destroying the fossil fuel industry, gouging the poor and the middle class with high prices, and refusing to abide by his oath to enforce immigration laws.

Whatever improvement the economy has undergone, is not BECAUSE of the “Biden policies”, but in spite of them.

There is a great underlying surge that has been driving the economy, but like FDR and the New Deal in the Depression, there were a sufficient number of restrictions placed on business, both in manufacturing and the business communities, to choke off the economy altogether for almost ten years. The Depression was much worse in 1938 than it was in 1933. That is what happens when things get “fixed”.

One of the stupidest things Biden continues to say is that his policies have reversed the worst economy in a hundred years
Bush gave us the worst economy in a hundred years.
Then Trump did exactly the same thing.

I suppose that only great presidents like FDR, Carter, and Biden give us the economies that we really deserve.

Funny how people like to blame Bush for the worst economy and now they balk when Biden takes credos for the recovering economy. By May of Bush’s first year it was discovered that fuzzy accounting of the Social Security money gave the surplus to Clinton’s economy. When it was rectified, the accounting books showed something else entirely. The LSM hid this hard as the dot com bubble was just about to burst in the summer of 2000. Clinton’s last year in office saw the economy trend downwards faster than a rock could sink in a pool of water.

This is the way politics is played and works, it is standard operating procedure. Bush did not give us the worst economy in one hundred years. (If you are saying this, you are parroting the left’s talking points and LSM’s of the time to stop the re-election of Bush). That title actually rests on his predecessor who also took the credit for the best economy in the 90’s when it was the policies of the Reagan Administration that set it up for economic prosperity that lasted through the 90s.

And on and on it goes.

Only a very few Presidents have taken the credit that they deserved on the economy, Carter for one, but that is actually debatable going into his Presidency but not during.

FDR did not take the US out of the Great Depression, one would argue that the New Deal actually set America back but it wasn’t until America turned its economy into a manufacturing war time economy that pulled America up by the bootstraps.

Face it, America has had a very long history of depressions, recessions and recoveries. And the President that currently holds office during one of those cases will always be blamed or take the credit for the situation. 9 times out of ten it was the current POTUS’ predecessor that caused the situation to happen in the first place.

Biden’s term is too young to be taking the credit for the recovering economy. Just like Bush took the blame for 9-11, in which Clinton’s policies actually empowered, the first 6 to 9 months of a President’s term is just wading into the shallow section of the pool to get their feet wet.

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