Posted on 12/17/2022 4:02:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump pledged to fix U.S. infrastructure as president. He vowed to take on China and bulk up American manufacturing. He said he would reduce the budget deficit and make the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes.
Yet after two years as president, it’s Joe Biden who is acting on those promises. He jokes that he’s created an “infrastructure decade” after Trump merely managed a near parody of “infrastructure weeks.” His legislative victories are not winning him votes from Trump loyalists or boosting his overall approval ratings. But they reflect a major pivot in how the government interacts with the economy at a time when many Americans fear a recession and broader national decline.
Gone are blanket tax cuts. No more unfettered faith in free trade with non-democracies. The Biden White House has committed more than $1.7 trillion to the belief that a mix of government aid, focused policies and bureaucratic expertise can deliver long-term growth that lifts up the middle class. This reverses the past administration’s view that cutting regulations and taxes boosted investments by businesses that flowed downward to workers.
With new laws in place, Biden is taking the gamble that the federal bureaucracy can successfully implement and deliver on his promises, including after he leaves office.
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Mitch McConnell made sure that didn’t happen. What sloppy journalism.
Is AP on drugs?
NOBODY BELIEVES THAT CRAP!
Just more Always Propaganda garbage.
I’ll believe it when I see it
Yet Trump did do these things…. Zzzzzzzz
Nice propaganda article after declining 401k, and increased loan rates, and inflation
Bureaucratic expertise?
“bureaucratic expertise” isn’t that an oxymoron?
This needed a mega Barf Alert. My breakfast just landed on my keyboard.
Bureaucratic expertise. The quality of being expert in being a bureaucrat. Highly skilled at managing a desk and protecting your job.
They are all middle-management quislings lacking both imagination (that "Vision Thing" to quote Bush the Elder) and testicular fortitude.
Bureaucratic sclerotization is what kills businesses and Empires.
Yeah, and so far it has bitten in the arse, along with every citizen.
...to the belief that a mix of government aid, focused policies and bureaucratic expertise can deliver long-term growth that lifts up the middle class.
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“Bureaucratic expertise”. Words to die by.
“bureaucratic expertise” isn’t that an oxymoron?”
Yes, a perfect example right up there with the best of all time.
I remember the previous 8 year effort of shovel ready jobs
Only the BS is shovel ready
Did the White Hut write this?
Saw this in our local lib rag today. Spoiled my breakfast. Just BS.
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