You agree with the specifics of most of what I said while claiming you disagree with the conclusion.
Two things:
1. If you or anyone else ever comes up with something Biden “should have done” to end the global inflation, I’ll certainly listen. But without doing that, blaming the global inflation on him is just mindless carping.
2. The Biden era stimulus checks were chump change compared to the trillions Trump dumped into the economy on an immediate basis, and those checks went to those who need it, as opposed to the usual Trump/GOP largesse to the fatcats. There is no evidence that global inflation would have been headed off if only Biden and the Dems held back the modest relief to those who needed it most.
#2 first - don't pull the old "but..... but..... but..... Trump did something worse" crap. The stimulus wasn't needed and common sense says that dumping $1.4Trillion into an already overheating economy would stoke inflation. Trumps actions have ZERO to do with Biden's stimulus package.
Now #1 - I've pointed out many times what Biden should have done.
a) No stimulus package - it wasn't needed and caused more inflation.
b) No student loan forgiveness program - again a very stupid idea at the absolute wrong time. Yes that didn't go through till this year but people spend money that the anticipate getting. More inflation.
c) Lying about inflation being transitory last year. Biden had access to far more data than the rest of us and SHOULD have seen the inflation heading down the pike. He and his surrogates preached that we didn't need to worry about it because it was going to magically disappear soon (reminds me of Trump' comments on COVID).
d) Re-nominating Jerome Powell. Even you admit that Powell was bullied into keeping low rates by Trump. Why would Biden re-nominate someone like that. Answer - because he wanted to bully him into doing exactly the same thing. This is exactly what happened until inflation really took off and couldn't be ignored.
e) Ineffective handling of the various supply chain issues. Biden did far too little to ease the supply chain issues. In fact he seemed satisfied to let them work themselves out for the most part. And when the baby formula shortages hit the headlines Biden made a fool of himself when pressed by reporters about waiting until spring to respond, despite the fact that formula manufacturers knew right away that there would be problems, Biden responded, “They did, but I didn’t.“ Why not Joe? You had set up a team to look into the problem - so why didn't you know about it?
f) The Saudis and the Russians. It should come as no surprise to anyone that both the Russians and Saudis are not our friends. They hate America which is why they support republicans. That being the case why didn't Joe Biden expect them to do everything they could to make energy prices rise in the US to make him and the Democrats look like ineffective leaders? Increasing domestic energy production and keeping more of the energy produced here in the US would have helped counter the Saudis and the Russians.
In general you can say that it wasn't actually Joe Biden that dropped the ball. It was the people delegated to. That's fair. But Joe Biden hasn't held any of them accountable. And that's on him. He's the one who chose these people. If they failed to do the job they should be replaced. Biden doesn't do that. He leaves them in place to screw up some more.
Biden has been a reactive President not a proactive one. All of these problems are worse than they needed to be because Biden did not act decisively until far too late.
