We recently received a Biden-Harris campaign fundraising email, and if this is the best pitch they can make, then Joe Biden deserves to lose, bigly. It’s full of lies. It’s completely disconnected from reality. Biden takes no responsibility for the nation’s current troubles, and offers absolutely no solutions.
The email begins “I know this message is long.” Except it’s not – it’s less than 430 words, which isn’t much for an email that promises to remind readers “of all the things we have been able to accomplish because of our victory in 2020.”
The next sentence is a flat-out lie. “When Kamala and I were sworn in over two years ago, the economy was on its back.”
The truth is that when Joe and Kamala were sworn in, the economy was roaring back. Gross domestic product had regained the ground it lost in COVID-19 recession – a recession that lasted only two months, making it the shortest in recorded U.S. history. Half of the people who lost jobs were back at work. The stock market had climbed above its pre-COVID peak.
Biden goes on to lament the fact that, when he took office, “schools and businesses were closed,” without mentioning that Democrats were largely to blame for both. (Remember that Republican governors who refused to keep their economies locked down and their schools closed were accused of being murderers.)
Then comes the kicker. “Kamala and I agreed that we couldn’t just rebuild the economy as it was before: we needed to build an economy from the bottom up and the middle out, not the top down. So we got right to work and passed the American Rescue Plan.”
That $2 trillion spending spree failed to deliver on any of those promises.
It didn’t “rescue” the economy or “rebuild” it. And far from growing the economy from the “bottom up and middle out” it’s been a masterclass in what actual “trickle down” economics looks like. The rich have done quite well under Biden, while the middle class fell behind and the ranks of the poor swelled.
Biden then trots out the claim that “we’ve created more jobs in two years than any president in a four-year term,” which should be the Webster’s Dictionary definition of lying with statistics.
While Biden claims to have “created” 15 million jobs in his first three years in office, only 5.5 million were net gains, the rest were just backfilling jobs lost during the COVID lockdowns – which had thrown 22 million out of work.
In President Donald Trump’s first three years, by way of comparison, the economy had a net gain of 6.6 million jobs.
“We took on Big Pharma and won, capping the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors.” That’s thin gruel to the millions of Americans coping with the rising cost of health care. More than half of those on Obamacare say they struggle with out-of-pocket costs and insurance premiums.
“We passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which is bringing down costs for working people.”
That would be news to working people, who’ve seen food prices shoot up 20%, energy prices jump 30%, airfares climb 34%, and auto insurance premiums soar 43% under Biden. Overall, prices are up 18% since he took office, and cost-of-living issues are the top five concerns of voters, according to our polling partner TIPP.
People are putting off retirement, getting second jobs, maxing out their credit cards, raiding their 401(k)s to make ends meet. Just this week, CNN – of all places – ran a story headlined “Retirement crisis looms as Americans struggle to save.”
Does that sound like an economy built from the “bottom up and middle out”?
Biden does make one true statement, at the end of his fundraising email, when he says: “When I look back at all the things we’ve accomplished together … I’m reminded that there’s so much more work for us to get done.”
There is indeed “so much more work for us to get done.” And it starts with undoing the damage Biden and his confederacy of leftist dunces have inflicted on the nation.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
Thank you for this editorial. The last quarter of calendar 2020, when Trump was still in office, the GDP was growing at a blazing 6.4% and inflation was at 1.4%. Then Biden came in, threw gasoline in the form of dollar bills on the blazing fire and started an inferno of inflation that we are still suffering with. To tamp the inflation down, the Fed had to boost interest rates killing, e.g., the car and housing markets. It was complete economic malpractice. And our garbage news media doesn’t report on the cause of our economic malaise so no one in our dumbed down population has a clue. This editorial should mandatory reading.
When Trump was President, I had a job. Under Biden, I now have three!
*excellent*
Wouldn’t it be amusing and depressing to make a list of all of Biden’s embarrassingly brazen lies like all the above since he started in public office?
Has anyone ever interviewed his high school classmates at Archmere Academy in Delaware, to see if he lied to all of them, his friends, too?
The man is common as a sidewalk. Why would anyone vote for such a deceitful person?
Biden lied? No way!
This pattern of destructive idiocy and demagoguery has been going on without end since FDR.
1. Democrats identify a way by which they intend to buy votes or solidify control over the populace.
2. This inevitably takes the oppressor/oppressed format, pitting groups against one another and requiring vigorous government intervention and spending.
3. Democrats enact stupid, short-sighted, and destructive policies, completely ignoring the potential for downstream consequences.
4. When the fan is inevitably hit, they demand more money to fix the problem created by the original solution, blaming Republicans for being “mean” for being uncooperative.
Repeat from 1, 2, or 3 as needed.
This was a wonderful editorial. However, the Biden Administration (I think Biden is just too demented and senile to have created alone the mess that is now Americana. He always was, in my opinion, stupid and a con-man-now he can add [assuming, he can even spell it] “senile” to his resume. One wonders how and why Dr. Jill sticks with him. Probably, because of the power-fragrance that he emanates) has more to explain then just the economy.
How about our withdrawal from Afghanistan (I’ve read that many of the arms Hamas used are from the $80 billion of armaments we left there. Thanks, Joe). How about the crisis on the border (I’ve read in the Federalist and Front Page that we’ve let in more illegal immigrants than were taken in as lawful immigrants in the 60 years Ellis Island took the legal immigrants in.
The list of Biden’s foibles (that Americans, and their children, will be paying down for years, assuming America continues to exist) just lasts and lasts, for instance like COVID mandates, lockdowns and mask mandates.
If Biden had wanted to intentionally destroy America, he probably would have enacted the exact same domestic policies.
His foreign policy legerdemain, is just that-because I don’t think anyone can understand the “magic” of his foreign policies. For example, With Iran, with China, and with Russia and Ukraine. And, of course, his present day Middle East and Israel policies.
It would be hilarious-if it weren’t so tragic-that Biden is running on his record, and that many millions are still considering him for a second term.
Thanks, I&I, for this editorial (even though-after reading it-my blood pressure is now suffering from acrophobia)!
Since when has it become ok to lie about your accomplishments?
Biden claims he is a Catholic, he also claims to be President…I’m afraid many take issue with that!
Also we are fed-up with the DNC sponsored Biden consortium a collective that has destroyed our national integrity.