Biden is doing a good job! Do you agree or disagree?

Expanding capacity of U.S. ports to address supply chain bottlenecks
Lowering gas prices by tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Lowering prices on groceries by cracking down on anti-competitive behavior
Reducing health care costs
Spurring the private sector to invest in job creation and cut prices
The strength of the U.S. economy in numbers


Since January 2021, the economy has added more than 10.7 million jobs—not just recovering all jobs lost from the COVID-19 recession but continuing to add even more. Today, the unemployment rate is at a 53-year low, with layoffs reaching historic lows. The jobs recovery has been more far-reaching than before, with Black, Latino, and disabled unemployment at or near historic lows. Workers have benefitted from this jobs boom in the form of strong wage growth, with median weekly earnings up 7.4 percent in 2022—outpacing inflation. Most notably, low-wage earners have seen some of the strongest wage growth resulting in declines in wage inequality.

The Top 5 Actions the Biden Administration Has Taken to Strengthen the U.S. Economy
Thanks to concrete actions taken by the Biden administration, the U.S. economy remains strong despite headwinds.
www.americanprogress.org

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The USA never entered a post covid recession as other countries in the world have done.
The job market has always been strong and continues to this day.
Gas prices are down.
Inflation is down.

 

Let us know when $2 gas happens.

 

I rate a President on number of wars started,
unlike the general public to me fewer wars is better.

GWB started a war in Afghanistan and then the one
he started in Iraq got his popularity rating high enough
to get a second term.

At the end of 2013 Biden approved the violent overthrow
of the democratically elected Yanukovych government in
Ukraine, point person for that was Victoria Nuland aided
by the CIA.

It went on ice until Biden got in as president and then
big shipments of weapons meant lots of killing.

That one has been kept ambiguous; to avoid blame
if it goes wrong it is claimed Biden didn't start it, but
if it goes right Biden will get the credit.

 

No, President Biden is not doing a good job. Not on domestic policy; not on foriegn policy. I believe he has dementia, and needs to retire. I plan to vote for Dr Cornel West in 2024.

 

Next pandemic where the president f's up the response to it.
Sends the economy into a recession.

This president hasn't sent the economy into a recession.

If that's your only complaint, I guess he has been doing a great job.

 

No recession from the covid induced inflation.
Job market stronger than pre covid.
That's bad domestic policy?

What would you hope for?
I wish he'd retire also.

 

Care to defend Biden’s open border policy and what’s doing to the budgets of major cities, like New York, @dairyair?

 

As non-American, I think Biden is a good POTUS. Not the best, but pretty good.

On the other hand, almost everyone would have won the election because it was about getting rid of idiot Trump.

 

I don't know what open border policy you refer to.
Can you be more specific and list the policy(s) you refer to?

 

Really?

That’s the worst non answer of the day. It’s up to 5 million and counting.

But if you don’t follow the news, it’s easy to be a Biden supporter.

 

What policy is causing this?
You mentioned open border policy. I can't comment on that policy if you won't share that policy.

 

The Border Patrol recorded nearly 1.7 million migrant apprehensions at the Southern border over the past year — the highest number ever, eclipsing the record set more than two decades ago.

But that doesn't mean it's the biggest number of individual migrants who've illegally crossed from Mexico into the U.S. in a single year.

In fact, it's probably not even close.

That's because the flow of migrants has changed dramatically since 20 years ago, when millions of people successfully crossed illegally into the U.S. without getting caught. It's also because of a public health order adopted in response to the pandemic, which has led thousands of migrants to cross repeatedly, driving up the most recent year's numbers.
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/23/1048...-record-high-but-thats-only-part-of-the-story

 

The real answer is the Democrats want the illegals here to vote Democrat. Depending on how loose the election are in a given state or district, the illegals will be voting sooner or later.

To show how poorly some states are in clearing up their voting rolls, my in-laws got a letter from the Georgia Democrats thanking them for voting for Biden in 2020. They moved out of Georgia in 2003.

 

So you were not looking to know about a policy, that you can't even name, you just wanted a place to rant.
And promote RW conspiracy theories.
This is not that thread.

I don't believe your Ga story.
How would any one know who they even voted for?
If they don't live at that Ga address and haven't for 20 yrs, how did they get the letter? Mail doesn't get forwarded 20 yrs later.

 

Your response has not been reported anywhere except for, perhaps, the Democrat National Committee website. It is pure fiction, and obviously was something you had to Google because there was a long delay between my first post and your ultimate answer.

 

My NPR story and link?
That response?

 

Having worked on a political campaign, one of the function is to drive people, who support the party, to the polls. A volunteer is given a list of voters, who concerned to be reliable party line voters, and their home addresses. You pick them up and take them to the polls.

So, yea, the parties have a pretty good idea as to how you voted when you are part of that program. Or perhaps how the substitute voters voted.

 

no new wars except for the new wars...

 

That's an assumption.
Also, how'd they receive a letter 17 yrs after they moved? To the old address. Think about that.
The post office would not forward it to a new address 17 yrs later.

 

I don't think economic issues are enough to qualify as success anymore. Success in my book is healing the deep divide among Americans. Disagreement is fine, but the level of disagreement, sliding into hate in some, is what needs to be fixed. Neither Trump or Biden are capable of doing that.
As others have noted, preventing wars is another major reflection on the quality of a president. Biden has clearly failed in reducing international tensions. In fact, he has done quite the opposite.

 

1) The President does not have direct control over gas prices (has almost no control, really).

2) The only reason that gas fell under $2 a gallon, for any time at all, under Trump, was because the global pandemic, in 2020, had killed demand. Is that the economy, that Republicans want to return to?

3) Going by full year prices, gasoline has not averaged less than $2, since 2004. It dipped below $2 from Nov. '08, through Mar. '09 (Bush to Obama transition); then again, in Dec. 2015 (Obama); and, because of the pandemic, under Trump, in 2020.

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All of these tweets were accurate in that the national average of gas prices for regular fuel was under $2 for a short period of time in 2020.

Why Did Gas Prices Drop in 2020?
The implication is that the Trump administration was responsible for those lower gas prices, but as The Associated Press reported in May 2021, the reason why gas prices dipped so low in early 2020 was due to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., which led to an unprecedented drop in demand for fuel:

Gasoline prices didn’t fall [in 2020] because of the Trump administration, as Trump often claims; they plunged because of the coronavirus forcing people to abandon their offices, schools, business trips and vacations.

Underscoring the connection to the pandemic shutdown, U.S. gas prices were at their lowest in April 2020 when people were staying home most but have mostly risen since then, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration, even when Trump was still in office.
<End Snip>

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gas-prices-under-trump/


Even in 2020, the average price for the year, was $2.17. In 2019, it was $2 64; in 2018-- $2.74; and in 2017-- $2 41. These are all higher than 2016's $2.14 a gallon, during President Obama's last year in office-- so you may want to rethink your using that yardstick, by which to measure a President.

https://www.creditdonkey.com/gas-price-history.html


Of course, the price of gas varies markedly throughout the country, depending on things like delivery costs, and also the tax in one's particular state. There is a 50-cent range in state taxes, but a greater than a $2 difference, currently, between the cheapest and most expensive state gas prices. In fact, today's most expensive gas, $4.97 a gallon, is in Hawaii, which has the second lowest state gas tax (16¢/gallon); the cheapest, is Georgia's $2.74/gallon. State taxes vary from Alaska's 8.95¢, to Pennsylvania's 58.6¢/gallon, with the average being 31.67¢. The federal gas tax has been unchanged for 29 years, at 18.4¢ per gallon.

 

Gas prices are down? Down from what? That is a complete fabrication! I couldn't answer no because he has done far worse than merely not doing a good job. He has sold out America! If it were not for any balance of power, we would be sold to the highest bidder right now!

 

As of this time, there's no one I know of that will sow the deep divide we have today.
It seems it's not just this country but Europe as well.
Right now, there's a fair amount of extremists on both sides that have enough power in congress to push agendas to more extremes.

But, I think Biden did make an attempt early on. He did sign several bills into law with bipartisanship. More than any president this millenium. I think.
Do I think he's fit to run again, no.
But MAGA still is relevant, so defeating anti democracy MAGA is still priority 1.

 

What price are you paying for gas today?
What was the price this past summer you paid?
What was the price last year that you paid?

I don't know where you live so I can't answer why your gas prices are not lower today.


https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_gas_price

 

Not sure you're actually quoting me. Even so...



The policies and positions of the POTUS do matter. I think Trump will be better on the issue as he doesn't seem to have bought into the climate change hoax to the same extent as Biden.