"What matters is the economy" is such a "I have money so screw you" take. Not the social system. justice system, education but the fucking economy. Disgusting.
By 'economy' they always mean how well the rich are doing. WE are struggling, and the constant gaslighting that everything is ok tells us our cries for help are going unheard.
This is bad messaging even though he probably has prevented some level of collapse. The trump tax cuts for the rich have lead to a lot of assets being hoovered up by all the surplus cash and the absolute ballooning of asset management companies. Until those things are fixed the economy will stay fucked
I don't give a shit about the economy. I've been broke through boom and bust. I care about the safety, freedom, and happiness of those I love. The centrists of the democratic party like this bag o bones are doing nothing about that.
The fuck metric are they using for the economy???? The billionaires wealth increase? The stock market? Because I can't afford my rent or to feed my fucking family. Fuck off with your bullshit.
I don't blame Biden for it, I blame the orange man. But the economy isn't an exclamation point that should be used for the average person. The economy fucking sucks. EVERYONE HAS JOBS!!! .... Yeah.... they have 3 of them... start looking at the purchasing power of that money, not just the dollar amount.
"Listen, dipshit. I don't care if you can't afford groceries, I don't care if you our landlord priced you out of your own home, and I certainly don't give a fuck you can't find a new job that pays enough to live. The economy is doing great, all the graphs the capitalists chose says so. Your lived experience is a lie. Shut up, don't ask questions, and vote for me."
What does "the economy" mean again? Is that just referencing the stock market which most Americans don't care about because they don't own stocks or have 401ks?
I mean, has anyone seen the prices of shit lately? It's pretty fuckin insane. I can't even imagine how most people make it work with kids and whatnot. Then again, all my working class friends that don't have 401ks don't actually vote anyway so maybe they just know their audience
In the United States, the minimum wage is set by U.S. labor law and a range of state and local laws.[4] The first federal minimum wage was instituted in the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but later found to be unconstitutional.[5] In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act established it at 25¢ an hour ($5.41 in 2023).[6] Its purchasing power peaked in 1968, at $1.60 ($14.00 in 2023)[6][7][8] In 2009, it was increased to $7.25 per hour, and has not been increased since.[9]
if people are unable to afford things the economy is not good and neither Trump nor Biden in their four years did anything to help the citizens notably minimum wage
Note the complete absence of any mention of housing prices in this article (and every other pro-Biden article about how great the economy is and why we should be grateful).
Here's the thing that kills me. This is what the presidency is kinda supposed to be like. He's gotten a good amount of good (and bad) things done. We've gotten so used to lazy, ineffectual, malicious, and downright bad governance that a kind of normal presidency seems like "WOAH HOLY FUCK WOW" to some folks. Biden's a solid statesman when it comes to the actual work of politics, but I wouldn't say that he's totally unique or a once-in-a-lifetime statesman. He's not irreplaceable, we just haven't been looking for someone to replace him because they did a good job hiding the fact that he needed replacing.
Real wages (wages as expressed in 1982-1984 dollars, so controlled for inflation) are higher now than before the start of the pandemic. They aren't quite as high as they briefly got in early 2021 when the government was propping up the economy with large amounts of money both to employers and directly to people, when people were initially holding on to money rather than spending causing prices to drop (things were closed, people couldn't or didn't want to travel and go out) and before the supply chain crisis among other things started causing inflation across the globe. The wage growth since the pandemic has been highest for low income and hourly workers, so higher income salary workers may not have seen as much. Some industries may not have done as well as others, for instance the high interest rates to help control inflation hit tech jobs particularly hard. And as always, these are averages across the largest economy in the world with over 300 million people, I'm not trying to assert conclusions about any one person's financial situation.
Also for more full context keep in mind that real wages dropped some for decades before finally starting to recover in the 2000s. We're only just starting to get back to real wages as they were in the 1970s.
Looking at the polls, it is too bad American voters are judging him based on vibes and not substance. But I'm sure if you just try talking to those vibes-based voters they will change their mind when presented with facts. /S
The article cherry-picks data to reach it's conclusions. Unemployment is not the best it's every been. It has been rising rapidly, it's up half a percent in the last year, and this print was the first pause we've had since March. Unemployment is rising due to Fed fighting inflation with higher interest rates. The higher interest rates are the reason inflation is coming down and Biden has done nothing to address that. The only thing he did was dump our oil reserves on the market when gas prices were rising early in the inflation cycle. That was 2 years ago.
He has done nothing to directly impact the economy. We are in a money-printing generated gilded age where life is tolerable for most and better than ever for a few. As soon as something breaks, everyone below the top 10% will be thrown on the street into abject poverty and we are all just waiting around for that to happen.