Michael COVID lockdown lost 1.7 million jobs.  And Democrats and Republicans need to look at each other about our current state of debt. The last three bills sent to law and meant to spend money, did that...but there was also no one attempting to keep fraud at bay....$100 billion in COVID funding alone. Things have gone well...some might say just OK...but they haven't actually been because of the Democrats in Congress or even Biden...I can think of several examples but inflation probably is one of the bigger ones, followed by a lack of wage growth and a lack of interest in doing anything on a national level with the trillions supposedly floating around attempting to heal old infrastructure, modulate health care or even keep the major meta-companies out of our private life. (where are those dollars btw?)  To quote Kim Amadeo: 'Presidents influence growth through fiscal policy. They boost the economy by lowering taxes and increasing government spending. They can prevent a bubble by increasing taxes or cutting spending. They must work within existing laws or convince Congress to change those laws to do either one.'Some say that monetary policy versus fiscal policy (i.e. the FED) has more influence than any administration. I tend to think that is true...as for the best GDP...that would be Roosevelt; the worst was Hoover. And economic historians say it was the Great Depression and the FED that actually helped/hindered these administrations, not anyone's party.

Michael COVID lockdown lost 1.7 million jobs.  And Democrats and Republicans need to look at each other about our current state of debt. The last three bills sent to law and meant to spend money, did that...but there was also no one attempting to keep fraud at bay....$100 billion in COVID funding alone. Things have gone well...some might say just OK...but they haven't actually been because of the Democrats in Congress or even Biden...I can think of several examples but inflation probably is one of the bigger ones, followed by a lack of wage growth and a lack of interest in doing anything on a national level with the trillions supposedly floating around attempting to heal old infrastructure, modulate health care or even keep the major meta-companies out of our private life. (where are those dollars btw?)  To quote Kim Amadeo: 'Presidents influence growth through fiscal policy. They boost the economy by lowering taxes and increasing government spending. They can prevent a bubble by increasing taxes or cutting spending. They must work within existing laws or convince Congress to change those laws to do either one.'Some say that monetary policy versus fiscal policy (i.e. the FED) has more influence than any administration. I tend to think that is true...as for the best GDP...that would be Roosevelt; the worst was Hoover. And economic historians say it was the Great Depression and the FED that actually helped/hindered these administrations, not anyone's party.

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