Among the gifts in Biden’s seven-month late Easter basket: An excellent jobs report that left Republicans mumbling, and the overdue passage of a historic $1 trillion piece of legislation that will provide hundreds of billions to fix our roads, bridges, pipes, green energy and more, and create many jobs. His predecessor of course never got that done.
In addition, Biden’s sweeping $1.75 trillion social-spending and climate bill passed a procedural hurdle in the House and it looks like this, too, shall pass if the lefties in the democratic party stick to their word.
Biden also announced on Friday that the U.S. economy created more than 500,000 jobs in October, far more than expected, and that unemployment dropped to 4.6 percent, it's lowest mark since May 2020 during the early days of the pandemic.
Meanwhile, Pfizer announced on Friday that in clinical trials, its antiviral pill showed nearly 90% effectiveness rate in reducing hospitalizations and deaths from Covid. This should have a profoundly positive impact on the pandemic and global health.
Meanwhile, Biden this past week also brought the U.S. back to the global table on climate change and acknowledged that it is of course real.
There are still problems in this economy. The supply chain issue remains a major headache, as do high gas prices, college tuition costs and jobs for minorities and women. But this past week saw far more good news than bad for the economy and for our country.
And Biden's just beginning. As Yahoo News reported yesterday, Biden and members of Congress are working out the specifics of a multi-billion dollar agreement with Black farmers as part of the Build Back Better (BBB) infrastructure
spending plan.
The farmers, nearly 50,00o strong, were a big reason why Biden did so well last year in southern states that are typically red.
What was perhaps lost in Biden's good day is the fact that the bull-market recovery from the pandemic continues. The Dow Jones soared to above 36,000 points for the first time ever.
When you look a little closer at the increase, a percentage rise of just 2.9 percent, it may not look quite as impressive. But given where this economy and this country was, it is even more reason for optimism.
Lest we all forget, and I think many of us have, Joe Biden was elected in a time of almost unprecedented political chaos. The former presidency's time in office was defined by daily lies.
And the former president's loyal, lawless supporters violently and despicably attempted to throw out the results of an election in which there was simply no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
Biden won a year ago. Bigly. And the results are completely legitimate. But many on the losing side still insist the election was stolen. It wasn’t.
Biden entered the White House at a time in which the American presidency itself had lost all standing worldwide. Biden has only begun to tend to the wounds the previous administration caused to our democracy.
Have some of you really forgotten what Biden inherited? It was a bloody mess. We all had to endure a pandemic as well as a political scandal that dwarfed Watergate.
Globally, the former president alienated virtually every American ally, and kissed up to and praised dictators.
While Biden is certainly not perfect, he is a good man and he is cleaning up the mess. He has re-engaged our allies. And slowly but steadily, Biden is bringing honor and decency back to the White House.
And now, finally, his policies and plans are beginning to positively emerge.
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