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Seems like Biden has been pretty respectable

Considering what he walked into. A global pandemic and all - it's hard to say for sure - but George W Bush left the country in tatters and a major recession over a fake war in Iraq that cost the US economy trillions with no gains. Obama fixed most of it. Biden comes into a disaster and is trying to fix it all as well - but it took more than a year for Obama and it will take more than a year for Biden. Still - there have been some positive results already.


1) The U.S. economy has grown faster during Biden's first year in office than in any president's first year since former President Jimmy Carter, who took office in January 1977. Stock markets have also performed well, with the S&P 500 hitting new records.

2) The markets benefited from a strong economy in 2021 that kept corporate profit growth, a major driver of stock price activity, moving in a positive direction. For the year, the S&P 500, a benchmark of large U.S. stock performance, gained 28.7% (While this is not entirely due to Biden - Trump always took credit for it so why not Biden?)But Biden is smart enough to not take credit because the credit isn't the president's take.

3) There has also been 4.29 percent growth in non-farm payrolls—a figure only surpassed by Carter's first year—while a recent report from the Conference Board, a business membership and research group organization, found that Americans are set to receive the largest rise in wages and salaries since 2008.

4)Unemployment Rate: The unemployment rate dropped from 6.2% when Biden took office to 3.9%, the biggest single-year drop in American history.

5) Expanded Access to Health Care: Nearly 5 million Americans have newly gained health insurance coverage.

6) Reduced Hunger: The number of households reporting that they sometimes or often did not have enough food to eat dropped by 32%.

7) Judges Confirmed: More judges confirmed to lower federal courts than any president since President Kennedy.

8) First majority non-white Cabinet in history, with most women in the Cabinet, including first woman Treasury Secretary, first LGBTQ+ and Native American Cabinet officials, and first woman Director of National Intelligence. (Granted this won't be liked by the white power trumpettes like Carl)

9) Most diverse Administration in history - most women, people of color, disability, LGBTQ+, first generation American, and first-generation college graduates.

10) Clean Water: Largest investment and national, bipartisan plan to get safe and clean drinking water to all Americans.

I would add

11) Civility - a leader should not be on Twitter and TV making fun of the disabled, war vets (calling them losers for getting caught while paying off a doctor to pretend you have bobe spurs), making fun of young girls (or making lude comments), should not be stealing money from Children's charities, should not own clothing companies in China while saying to everyone else that owning companies in China is bad. Should not be banning Muslims from countries that did nothing to the USA, but secretly dealing with Muslims who actually were responsible for 9/11. And somehow managing for these and other horrible things to actually make people like Carl and TWB PROUD of this guy and want him to lead them. They must like that he steals from Meals on Wheels and Children's charities like the good religious folks they claim to be.


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