Fox Anchor, Through Gritted Teeth, Admits Biden's Economy "Is a Lot Stronger Than Anybody Understands" | Vanity Fair
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It appeared to pain the Fox gang to do it.
By Bess Levin
December 8, 2023
To hear Donald Trump tell it, the US economy is on life support thanks to Joe Biden, and the only one who can save it is Donald Trump. While this claim, like virtually everything Trump has ever said, has no basis in reality, the notion that Biden has been terrible for the country's finances is a pervasive one, with a recent CNN poll showing 71% of Americans believe the nation's economic conditions are poor and just 33% saying they approve of Biden's handling of the matter.
One reason we know the economy is faring far, far better than Trump would have people believe? The actual numbers—Friday's jobs report revealed employers added 199,00 new jobs last month, unemployment fell to 3.7%, and wages were up 0.4%. Another? Even an anchor on the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Fox Business Network is admitting, on live TV, that the economy is doing well.
Responding to the jobs report Friday morning, Fox's Maria Bartiromo told viewers, in moment that seemed to pain her: "Overall, you've got to look at this report as a big positive. We've got more jobs created than expected." Turning to panelist JosephLavorgna, the former chief economist of the National Economic Council under Trump, she remarked, "Joe Lavorgna, you've been saying this for a long time, saying that the economy is a lot stronger than anybody understands." He responded: "The numbers are good numbers, no question. The fact that the unemployment rate fell is good. It was because household employment was up over 700,000."
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The pandemic's displaced workers have found jobs. That was going to happen no matter what, but their paychecks can't keep up with inflation. You know, the inflation that came out of Trillion-dollar budgets.
Gaslighting nonsense.
How many of those jobs are long term and not seasonal? How many are government jobs simply adding more government bloat? How many were jobs that already existed and were just being renewed?
Keep gaslighting. That shit won’t float with thinking people.
The majority were government jobs.
Yes, exactly. For many months, cities have been begging police, fire, EMTs, nurses, and teachers who they fired because they refused to get Covid vaccines and boosters to return to their former positions. The US military has been doing the same.
The other job "gain" has been the "hospitality" sector, which could easily be comprised of high school students slinging burgers in their first part-time after school job..
Correct. Gaslighting is all it is, and intelligent, educated people don't buy what the radical left is trying to sell.
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What else needs to be said?
Now all you have to do is convince the majority of American voters that Biden is somehow not responsible for the sorry state of affairs we call the economy. Inflation is still a big factor for families trying to make ends meet, and really wages haven't kept pace.
Americans aren’t happier about Biden economy despite major media outlets telling them how good they have it (msn.com)
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Wow. MAGA shows up "full frontal" to bitch and moan about a good thing being 'bad.' Go figure .