Hi Adav8s28 and Vitaman,
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Biden accomplishments:
The 3 Trillion Infastructure Bill passed. (A Bipartisan Bill)
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Biden's Infrastructure Bill will "only" cost $1 trillion, not $3 trillion. Thank God! Most infrastructure expenditures should be made by localities and states, not the federal government. When the power of the purse and decision making are closest to the people, the money is spent most efficiently. The Biden/McConnell infrastructure bill is loaded with pork and handouts.
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Rolled out the Vaccine to fight SARS_CoV2 virus
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The roll out probably would have been delayed by months and hundreds of thousands more would have died if not for the Trump Administration's Operation Warp Speed, and for Trump pushing approvals through the FDA.
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Got the price of prescriptions drugs lowered.
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This is the one thing I can can think of that Biden did that I think was positive, and that probably wouldn't have happened under a Republican president. But it's not a big deal. So far the only tangible result is a $35 per month price cap on insulin. And a promise that Medicare will lower drug prices through negotiations. Healthcare in the USA costs 17% of GDP, far more than other countries. And our health care outcomes are on par with places like Cuba. This move by Biden is like taking a flat-chested, fat ugly woman and whacking a mole off her neck. Without massive liposuction, exercise, a change in diet, breast implants, and a nose job she's still going to be pretty damn ugly.
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Renewables are the number two source of electricity.
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Renewables became number two during the Trump administration:
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
When the market looks for a way to increase use of renewables in a way that won't hurt the taxpayer, Biden probably will squash it, like he is now by placing 100% tariffs on $10,000 Chinese electric cars. Never pass up an opportunity to squander taxpayer money, if it interferes with our omniscient federal government's industrial policy. Or more importantly if it deprives you of an opportunity to pass out pork (in this case to EV manufacturers and smug upper class Democrats who enjoy their Tesla tax credits.)
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Unemployment is still low.
Recovery from the CoVid outbreak has been speedy because of the extra stimulus.
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Yeah, trillions in stimulus spending will do that. Along with running up the debt. And playing a large part in the 20% cumulative inflation we've seen since Biden took office.
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Three Stock indexes have set all time highs.
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Just as indices have set highs under every president since Eisenhower except for Carter and Ford.
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Unified NATO countries against Russia for invading Ukraine.
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OK, yeah, but I'd argue Biden and NATO should be looking to end this war instead of fighting it to the last Ukrainian. One silver lining when Biden was elected was that I figured he wasn't a neoconservative. I figured wrong.
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For education:
“Our Committees’ investigation found vulnerabilities in cranes at U.S. ports that could allow the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] to not only undercut trade competitors through espionage, but disrupt supply chains and the movement of cargo, devastating our nation’s economy,” Rep. Mark Green, the Republican chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, said.
“Without a swift sea-change, we will continue to gift the CCP with an easy means of infiltrating our critical infrastructure on their quest for global dominance.”
In the Coast Guard’s inspections of Chinese-made cranes, “we have found … openings, vulnerabilities that are there by design,” Rear Admiral John Vann, head of the Coast Guard Cyber Command, told lawmakers.
Owners and operators of over 200 Chinese-made container cranes at U.S. ports will be subject to new cyber-risk management requirements aimed at reducing China’s ability to spy on America’s domestic supply chains.
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I suspect this is just a continuation of Chinese paranoia that began under Trump and continued with Biden. And in any event if that's the biggest accomplishment you guys can come up with, then Biden must not have done much. Finally, like the record stock market indices, how much did Biden have to do with this? Would it have happened anyway regardless of who was president? From what I'm reading, the military, the Coast Guard and Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee had as much or more to do with this than the Biden administration.
