It’s Hard To Believe How Biden and Progressives So Damaged the Economy They Inherited

It’s not his fault, he says. Virtually the rest of the country says otherwise.

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President Biden at the White House July 8, 2022. AP/Evan Vucci, file

It’s hard to believe that President Biden and his radical progressives have taken a strong economy with 6.5 percent growth and less than 2 percent inflation and so damaged it — in a mere 18 months — that here in the first half of 2022, we’re looking, at minimum, the front end of a recession. With quite possibly two straight negative GDP quarters, along with a near 10 percent inflation. Hard to believe.

Equally hard, is that Mr. Biden and his big-government socialists are blaming President Trump and Republicans. Mr. Biden loves the blame game. That’s quite different from what he told us, about a year ago, when he said: “I am president of the United States of America, and the buck stops with me.”

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