Posted on 11/16/2021 4:50:29 AM PST by Kaslin
During the 1980 presidential campaign, there was but one debate between the incumbent president, Democrat Jimmy Carter, and his Republican opponent, Ronald Reagan. Carter insisted on excluding third-party independent John B. Anderson from participating.
Finally, just 13 days before the election, Carter got his way. It was disastrous for him but a blessing for our country. In the closing moments of this single debate on Oct. 28, Reagan looked into the camera and asked the American people a question: "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?"
Voters of all stripes, stunned by Carter's weak-kneed foreign policy and his disastrous handling of our economy, responded with a resounding "NO!" By asking the question, Reagan transformed a close race into a landslide victory.
Now, in November 2021, with another feckless, weak-kneed president's disastrous foreign policy and domestic socialist initiatives wreaking havoc on our economy, we pose a similar question for all Americans: Are you better off today than you were 10 months ago?
According to polls showing resident Joe Biden's approval rating falling every day - 57% of Americans disapprove of the job he is doing -- Americans are answering our question the same way they answered Reagan's, with a resounding "NO!"
Biden came into office having made dozens of bold promises. He vowed to eliminate the COVID-19 pandemic, a pledge he has failed to keep even with government "mandates" requiring employers to fire employees who refuse to be "vaccinated" with a government medicine.
Ironically, Biden promised to improve our economy despite the fact it was already functioning at record levels when he came to office. Instead, his socialist programs, "Green New Deal" attacks on traditional energy and paying Americans to stay home rather than work have created shortages of workers, essential goods, a supply chain debacle and massive inflation driving many small businesses to close.
Biden swore to "fix immigration problems" on our southern border -- an issue largely solved by policies of the previous administration and a wall. Instead, Biden has all but eliminated our southern border and created an unmitigated humanitarian and domestic fiscal disaster. The Biden "team" is now prepared to pay illegal "border crossers" hundreds of thousands in U.S. taxpayers' dollars as "restitution" for entering our country illegally.
Biden claimed he would "restore America's credibility" by ending our longest war in Afghanistan. Instead, his catastrophic decisions abandoned American citizens and U.S. allies to become hostages to radical Islamists, humiliated the men and women of our armed forces and damaged our ability to deter war.
Allowing radical, left-wing, "Progressive Democrats" to pull his strings, Biden has joined Marxist ideologues in seeking "absolution" for Americans' supposed racial wrongs by pandering to radical opportunists seeking victim status for wrongs they never suffered. Sensing they now have a president who can be manipulated, the far-left wing of the Democratic Party has forged ahead with a catastrophic "defund the police" movement.
The latest theme of the Biden presidency is "Build Back Better." But those of us who are paying already inflated prices for gasoline, bread, milk, eggs, butter, heat for our homes and other essentials know things are not as they should be. Americans who go to grocery stores only to find bare shelves while hundreds of fully laden cargo ships sit unloaded in ports know things aren't better.
Americans who live from paycheck to paycheck know we aren't better off when we hear Biden talk. Are you better off than you were 10 months ago? Let us know.
Gonna be a long winter.
The only people that are better off are the power elites. We are a socialist country. The only people that do well under socialist regimes are the power elites. The ranks of poor explode and opportunities for the decimated middle class will no longer exist. THANKS DEMONRATS and THE WIMPY TRAITOROUS REPUBLICANS.
I suppose that I am the only one who remembers Biden speaking to rows of corn stalks. If he made any bold promises, it is only in the fevered minds of his supporters in the “press”.
Of course, the authors are correct in their premise. But I tire easily of this mainstream media attempt, even on the Right, to pretend that Biden was elected in a normal presidential election, or that even now, he is running things.
The country will be toast in three more years...China is the new world power....GOP will get nothing done if they get the House...bill just passed with the GOP help they got nothing...
No.
NO
GOP will get nothing done if they get the House...bill just passed with the GOP help they got nothing...
Boehner and McConnell greased Obama’s agenda. Most infamously on the Iran “deal” to the benefit of their Chamber of Commerce donors. McCarthy and China Mitch 2.0 would be no better. They represent Wall Street and not their voters.
Am I better off now than 10 months ago?
Absolutely.
But I’m retired now and am no longer in the US. So maybe that has something to do with it 😂
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Worse and getting worser.
We are better off in the sense that we can now plan for our Marxist future with certainty. The mask is off the GOP after disenfranchising their own voters. Clearly, they prefer Marxism to MAGA. I guess it pays better.
Yeah. My life works out. It just does.
Yes indeed, the GOP are worthless. In 60 years they have done nothing more than weak resistance. They are owned by their masters and that ain’t us.
One big problem is we have one party, the activist progressive Democrats. The other so called party, the GOP, has been ineffective for a generation or more.
No.
Yeah, I would say things are better for you personally.
Does Thailand require a vaccine to go there?
🎯🎯🎯
Hmmm.......
Actually that depends. But yes
Net worth has escalated dramatically as a result of market increases and very important of the dramatic increase in real estate prices
Overall, sales for my small business are considerably lower
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