Remember when Obama went his entire term just about with positive job numbers and economy? Even till the end he was trashed for the economy by republicans.
Remember when Obama went his entire term just about with positive job numbers and economy?
Obama walked into office the week that the Great Recession rebounded. And he spent his first 100 days focused on bailing out the banks, propping up private industry, and prosecuting our wars in the Middle East. Of course the on-paper first term looked stellar. We had nowhere to go but up.
And yet... his 60 vote majority Senate dithered on immigration, health care, and climate change because he was so overly invested in "bipartisan" legislation. He didn't close Gitmo, like he campaigned on. He didn't exit Iraq, like he campaigned on. He didn't prosecute any of the banksters. He didn't even route the trillions of dollars in treasure bailouts to homeowners, resulting in some of the highest foreclosure rates of the crisis happening on his watch, while banks recapitalized at record speed (and turned a ton of that cash into campaign ads against him in the following election cycle).
Republicans took advantage of his casual even-handed approach to governance by stabbing him as many times in the back as they could. They fought him in the courts. They fought him in the media. They held up every bill possible in the Senate. They gerrymandered every House seat and state legislative race at their disposal.
And when 2010 came around, they brutalized the Democratic Party, as a result. Obama showed up with a handshake to a knife fight, when he could have been packing heat.
As a liberal, I wasn’t the biggest fan of Obama for many of those reasons. But if you look at the criticism he was receiving from republicans, it was all 100% bullshit. It always is, though. They live and die by the straw man.
It’s this guy or a felon people. Make you vote!
Back during the last turn down, everyone's houses became worth almost nothing, but no one could pay the mortgage because there were no jobs!
This time around, there are plenty of jobs, but people still can't pay the mortgage, since house prices are through the roof and the jobs aren't paying enough.
since house prices are through the roof
Yeah turns out when the GOP gives gigantic tax cuts to the wealthy it inflates the real estate market because they buy extra houses they don't even live in.
That, and the fact that the owners of 16 million rental units have entered into a cartel to fix pricing at high rates.
Corporate home ownership needs to end yesterday.
I agree the $2T tax cuts for the rich and corporations was bad, and so was Biden’s choice to only rollback less than half of it despite promising to undo it all on day one. Why corporations aren’t paying at least 50% of their profits in taxes is beyond me. Still, that’s only a part of this particular problem.
Refusal or inability to invest in new home building programs to increase supply, corporations like Blackstone buying up entire neighborhoods to rent seek and price gouge, and thinly veiled money laundering via foreign nationals buying American real estate in cash, are all big contributors as well.
I am glad to see this viewpoint. This is what I got yesterday at home same topic
All good and well but food, vehicle and housing prices have shot up. I'm sure someone will regale us with tales of corporate price gouging but those are the facts.
Feels like we just watched Trump peel out of the bank with a trunk full of cash, and now Biden's spent four years refilling the vault but won't close the door until we give him a second term.
Democracy is when we take a vote on whether we get robbed again. No, we can't lock the fucking bank robber up. That would be against the rules.
Good for Biden.
Ahh yes, but i was just reading on moneywise that the recession is getting worse and we’re all going to die (I might have exaggerated that part on my own). Stock market will crash, housing will bubble. I guess it’ll be horrible for those rich million and billionaires who don’t already have 25 different ways to make money. Maybe there’s a recession in billionaire land? I mean, Elon might not get his 56billion salary and will walk away… yes, thats it, recession for billionaires.
What propaganda outlet is "moneywise"? There is no recession despite the clueless media predicting one every day for the last 4 years. Jobs keep getting blowout numbers month after month after month. Wages rose a 3% annual rate last month. Stock market is all time high despite Biden increasing minimum tax rate on corporations to reduce the national debt. Inflation adjusted wages for low wage workers increased by 12% under Biden. The inflation rate under Biden has been consistently lower than the OECD average.
Oh, I agree. That site is trash and used in total sarcasm jest.
Good still costs way too fucking much though.
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