President Biden on Friday took a shot at former President Trump in remarks to hail the August jobs report, calling out the job growth under his predecessor and top political rival.
“America’s now in one of the strongest job-creating periods in our history, in the history of our country. It wasn’t that long ago that America was losing jobs. In fact, my predecessor was one of only two presidents in history who entered his presidency and left with fewer jobs than when he entered,” Biden said in remarks at the White House.
His remarks follow Friday’s jobs report that found the U.S. added 187,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate rose to 3.8 percent. Economists expected the U.S. to gain 170,000 jobs and maintain the July jobless rate of 3.5 percent, but the jobs report showed the labor market plateaued last month.
“We created more jobs in two years than any president ever created in a four-year, single four-year term,” Biden said, noting the U.S. had a 6.3 percent unemployment rate when he took office at the end of Trump’s term.
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Mmmmm ok. I get this is politicking but still:
- COVID was terrible. True with a better president it wouldn’t have been as bad. Still would have shrunk the job market, just not as much.
- I really don’t like this idea that jobs = the president is good.
- TFG was terrible for so many clearer reasons.
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He could have made millions just off MAGA Masks alone
I have said the exact same thing! How amazingly short-sighted!
Adding 187k low paying jobs isn’t a great thing. Wages are stagnant while CEO and large corporations are raking in huge profits and they are pric gouging us with inflation and he is bragging.
Seriously he has no clue that we are drowning out here. I hate fucking politicians looking at Wallstreet (how rich people are doing)
And we added x number of jobs. Well lets look at where and pay see did you add living wage jobs or still starvation wages.
We all just got another job…
It’s either price gouging or inflation, not both.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Biden administration earlier this week announced a new proposed rule to extend overtime pay for most salaried workers earning about $55,000 per year and to automatically update the salary threshold every three years.
In 2019, the Trump administration raised the salary threshold to expand overtime pay eligibility but abandoned the Obama-era rule to adjust salary limits automatically, urging the Labor Department instead to update the limits “more regularly.”
We worked to bring it back and it will make a big difference for a lot of American families,” Biden said Friday.
“I came to office determined to build the economy in a different way … to move away from trickle-down economics and instead focus on the middle class,” Biden said.
Trump and Biden are favorites for their parties’ presidential nominations in 2024, setting up a possible rematch of the 2020 election.
Trump is polling double-digits ahead of other GOP rivals despite multiple legal battles across the country.
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Neoliberals before something happens:
A president can’t do anything!
Neoliberals when a moderate president doesn’t do anything:
A president can’t do anything!
Neoliberals as soon as something good happens:
The moderate president did this on his own, he’s the next FDR!
You really fancy yourself too slick to get made as a fucking tool?
Hey look it’s a whiny pawn
Strawmanin’ till you can’t
