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In reply to the discussion: (Poll) Are you better off now than 4 years ago? pre-Covid [View all]Johnny2X2X
(21,882 posts)As if his "greatest economy in history" talk had any shred of credibility. Before Covid was even known, his jobs record was 167,000 jobs a month added, that's not good, that's no where close to Biden's jobs record. And in late 2019, wage growth finally started creeping a tenth of a point or two higher than inflation and he bragged about it endlessly. But by and large people did not get ahead at all in his 3 years before Covid. It was great for the rich, bad for the working class. Now we've seen almost a year where wage growth has been a full 1% or more above inflation, and people rarely even talk about it.
And that's not even getting into things like people having health care, which went way down under Trump as he tried to destroy Obamacare but is now back up thanks to Biden.
Trump inherited a growing economy from Obama with record low unemplyment, he largely kept it in neutral for 3 years and then his mismanagement of Covid left a giant smoldering hole in the ground for Joe Biden to deal with. The GPD growth we're seeing now dwarfs Trump's best outputs, and it's not built on the investor class, but on the working class. Dems are just better on the economy, have been for generations. And Biden is light years better for working people than Trump.