Wait You Guys, The US Economy Is Actually Good
[Above, Joe Biden at the 2022 Detroit Auto Show -- eds.]
by Rob Schofield, NC Newsline
November 21, 2023
It’s not surprising that the political right continues to gripe about the U.S economy and, in particular, inflation. In a nation that’s overcome a devastating pandemic, charted a course to a dramatic and sustained economic recovery, rebuilt its international reputation as an opponent of tyranny, and returned competence and honesty to the federal government, critics of President Joe Biden don’t have a lot of cards to play.
And given that we live in an era in which snake oil marketers flood various media with preposterous, sky-is-falling ads about the supposed “imminent collapse of the U.S. banking system” and demonstrably false claims about the “soaring” price of gasoline, it’s little surprise that feckless politicians bereft of original ideas would try to stoke and play on people’s fears — however wildly unfounded they might be.
Now add the fact that if Biden personally came up with a cure for cancer and solved the crisis in the Middle East on the same day that he ran a sub-four-hour marathon, Fox News would still call him a doddering old man unfit for office, and things become even clearer.