10-25-2021, 09:19 PM
(10-25-2021, 08:03 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Are we giving a free pass to the last administration for tearing up a bunch of trade agreements and being the best negotiator ever?
I've been listening to my lets go brandon rap song, recording fox news, newsmax, and oann. Running around with MTG, Gaetz, and Gym blaming Biden for people not working and a pandemic still impacting the world.
But I got to thinking. Did the last administration have anything to do with this mess?
I remember a time last year were oil reached total bottom. It no longer became who can we sell the oil to. It became who can we pay to hold our oil. However brief it was, something tells me oil companies were paying attention.
So am I right to blame Biden? How many of these trade deals has he negotiated? How many functional pipelines has he closed? Which way has unemployment gone under his lead?
Well, that's one way of looking at it.
Of course most experts blame the last administration's lax response to the Covid-19 pandemic making things way worse than they should have been, causing Trump's administration to be the first with mores jobs lost than created since (I think) Truman.
Fwiw, the GDP has grown ~6.5% since Biden became president and - while the unemployment rate is still stupid high - the nation has made more jobs under his watch than his predecessor. Admittedly, I imagine a lot of those jobs are just people finally getting back to work in general as opposed to brand new jobs, but when you're recovering from a 15% unemployment rate you take what you can get.
