Posted on 08/02/2024 5:50:14 PM PDT by Signalman
One of the main issues for the election is the economy.
It's already been bad under Biden-Harris. It got worse on Friday as the stock market tanked and a bad July jobs report came in, as we reported.
Hiring slowed to 114,000 jobs last month, the government report said, missing expectations. The unemployment rate rose to 4.3 percent—its highest level in nearly three years, when the economy was still clawing its way back from the pandemic. That was also worse than expectations.
Now, that raises big concerns about a slowing economy, which my colleague Ward Clark noted.
Economist John Lonski said on Fox Business that it is starting to look like a recession is coming into view:
"I'm beginning to smell a recession coming into view," Lonski said. "This jump by the unemployment rate, my goodness, 4.3 percent, this is up sharply from not long ago."
Even CNN had to admit the jobs report was "surprisingly weak" and "going in the wrong direction."
CNN reporter Matt Egan said, "This jobs report was weak -- surprisingly weak, and it is amplifying these concerns about the economy that have started to emerge":
So, what excuse did the Harris team have? You won't believe how unhinged their response was to this. Or maybe you will, given how so much of what they say isn't based on any kind of reality. The response to this question alone should be disqualifying because it's such a bunch of horse hockey.
According to Harris' spokesperson, guess who's somehow responsible for their bad jobs report?
"Donald Trump failed Americans as president, costing our economy millions of jobs, and bringing us to the brink of recession," Harris for President spokesperson James Singer said in a statement.
"Now, he’s promising even more damage with a Project 2025 agenda that will decimate the middle class and increase taxes on working families, while ripping away health care, raising prescription drug costs, and cutting Social Security and Medicare — all while making his billionaire donors richer."
Someone want to explain how the Biden-Harris disaster has anything to do with Trump, almost a full term after he was in office? What does that say about their refusal to take accountability for their own failures? And what does Project 2025 (which isn't in effect) have to do with anything--when it has nothing to do with Trump and nothing to do with the Biden-Harris bad economy? Do they really think Americans are going to buy all this bilge?
Singer added: "We’ve made significant progress, but Vice President Harris knows there’s more work to do to lower costs for families."
Singer said Harris "will make building up the middle class the defining goal of her presidency, taking on greedy corporations that are price gouging consumers, banning hidden fees, and capping unfair rent increases and drug costs."
So, she's going to say and do the same things that they've already been doing that helped get us into this mess to begin with, blaming everyone else but themselves for the problems.
Ultimately, it always comes down to the economy and Harris just gave a sure-fire reason why you should not vote for her, when she refuses to take responsibility for the administration's own actions.
“Progressives” are never at fault when bad things happen, because their intentions are as pure as wind-driven snow.
Also, communism always fails because the wrong people were in charge.
Do the dems have some kind of Jedi mind trick going on to make people actually believe this shoit?
The 2025 project has nothing to do with Trump.
However, the UN 2030 agenda stink is ALL OVER the Democrat policies, the goal of which is to enslave the planet.
This point should be the GOP response
The reset to the national debt will be seismic, if not biblical.
Starting to emerge? GoneJoe has been telling us we just didn't see how good it was. How we just weren't giving him the credit he was due.
oh the irony when we do start giving him and Her<- all the credit.
“Also, communism always fails because the wrong people were in charge.”
We usually watch old re-run popular TV shows from 6-7pm during dinner; I had no TIME to watch them in the past between work, kids, farming, etc.
EVERY OTHER ad is a H@rris ad, and boy-howdy are they EVER giving her the 0bama Whitewash Treatment! That woman walks on water! *SPIT*
Two H@rris commercials to ONE pro-Trump commercial.
The National Socialists are very, VERY scared that Wisconsin will once again go for Trump! (Um, we did the last TWO Times, CHEATERS!)
The real insult to us normal Americans is that these creeps really do think we are stupid.
That’s nothing. The Obola administration blamed the Bush II administration for nearly two full terms.
-PJ
Even the Dems knew the time of reckoning would eventually come. They just were trying to postpone it until after the election—just three more months. Since they can no longer hide it, they have to deflect blame for three more months and they are home free with either four more years to tinker with the economy or a ready-made blame game on a Trump administration.
The teenagers (Dems) maxxed out the credit cards while the parents (Republicans) were away or sleeping and the teens were hoping the bill wouldn’t arrive for a little longer. Either way, American moms and dads will have to foot the bill for allowing their “kids” to postpone growing up and being responsible.
The question isnt are you better off noe than you were 4 years ago. The question is, are you happy with where the country is? I think you might get 55-45 on the first question and 75-25 on the second.
every time a Dem mentions P2025, we should hit them back with “Project Freedom”, basically a verbatim regurgitation of the race-based 2021 “Working Party’s People’s Charter”
At least they have stopped blaming George Bush.
“Full employment” is 5%.
these creeps really do think we are stupid.
They are not wrong...about 50% ARE stupid...they are their voter base.
That was quick. I knew they would get to the point of panic where they didn’t know what lie to tell but I am pleasantly surprised they are slipping into that phase of institutional dishonesty already.
Another Camel Hump spokesthing said 114k new jobs was good report - I know that was aimed at the simpletons in their camp but wow!
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