The Democrats Shoot for Peak Disingenuousness With Tweets About Job Growth and the Economy – Opinion

Expect politicians and political parties, especially the Democrats to spin.  This is often a delicate art, crossing the line between truth and complete, absurd fiction.  This spin usually involves taking an indicator out of context or using only a cherry-picked portion of the data to support whatever assertion they’re trying to make. These assertions usually have enough evidence to be believable and far enough away from the truth for others to question them.  While it is possible to conjure up these myths with creative freedom, it can sometimes take an imaginative mind and a keen eye to see the intent behind these statements.

The Democrats have been posting cute infographics over the past few days that are completely and totally absurd in how far they seem to be from any fact.  The first of these tweets is titled “Welcome to the Biden Boom.”  The tweet has a little animated graphic that shows the job growth during the first 10 months of their Presidency.  Right at the top, Biden’s numbers surge to a stunning 5.8 million jobs, with Trump right below in a distant second at 1.7 million jobs.  This data does not include the fact that Biden was the one who allowed people to go back to work following government-mandated COVID shut downs.  Many states and cities had still put in lockdowns that kept many people from going to work when Biden was inaugurated.  Suddenly, after Biden’s inauguration, the restrictions were lifted, allowing for millions to go back to work, if the businesses for which they worked were lucky enough to have survived those lockdowns.  The Biden Administration now has to do what?  They claim those jobs as newly created.  Secondarily, they attempt to compare Biden’s recovery out of a pandemic-caused crash (which as you’ll see later, they attempt to pin on Trump) to Trump’s growth, which had previously been labeled as “impossible” by Democrats in 2016.  Trump transformed a modest economy into an economic powerhouse that is among the most successful in America’s history.  Biden is the victim of circumstances and is still failing to realize it. The Pandemic has left the employment rates at the same level as before Trump’s.  This isn’t the “Biden Boom.”  This is Biden taking credit for Trump’s scraps.  It isn’t job creation.  It’s simply the reinstating of jobs in some states that have been lost to the government.

He is also compared to Republican presidents.  Why?  Well if they were to include Democrat Presidents Obama and Clinton, they’d have to acknowledge that Obama did worst of all the Presidents compared in the chart and that Clinton was nearly as good as Biden’s numbers, also coming off of the heels of a recession.

The Biden Boom is here pic.twitter.com/0i00cwRA7x

— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) December 9, 2021

They claim that 10 percent of the 11 most recent recessions were caused by a Republican President. This tweet also seems disingenuous.  But, it is all nonsense when you look at the facts behind this claim.  Democrats have also been insistent that, despite their claims that the Obama economy couldn’t get any better, Trump’s economy was inherited from Obama.  The same standard isn’t offered several of the recessions, which occurred in the first few months of several Republicans’ Presidencies.  First, Eisenhower’s first recession was mere months into his Presidency, suggesting that the conditions for the recession began during his predecessor’s (Harry Truman) Presidency.  Nixon’s first recession, too, was in the first months of his Presidency, attributing the factors to his predecessor, President Lyndon B. Johnson.  Reagan’s recession?  His predecessor President Jimmy Carter’s actions were again responsible for Reagan’s recession.  Carter’s recession was in 1980 but suddenly a second one pops up under Reagan in 1981?  Take a deep breath.  W’s first recession?  The Clinton policies.  Even W’s second recession was directly attributable to the banking crash from the subprime mortgage crisis, which again, was attributable to Democrat policies.  The Bush Administration attempted to raise the alarm about the 2003 subprime mortgage crisis, but Democrat legislators rejected it.  Lastly, Trump’s “recession” wasn’t Trump’s fault at all. In fact, are Democrats arguing that Trump’s economy was going to do anything other than continue to grow, absent the COVID-19 pandemic?

If these factors are added, it is clear that at least seven of the 11 most recent recessions were directly due to Democrat policies or presidencies.

Democrats know a thing or two about how to maintain a strong economy—let the numbers speak for themselves. pic.twitter.com/InNnFvuVXd

— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) December 10, 2021

Certainly, I don’t expect Democrats to go out and dunk on themselves.  That would be absurd.  But to suggest that Biden’s job growth has anything to do with any policy decisions he has made is a joke.  It is also absurd to claim that the Presidents are responsible for recessions only a few months after they have been elected.  There are no immediate economic results, and many can be delayed for years as in the subprime mortgage crisis.

But I hope they are able to show some reality.  Could some of Trump’s deficit spending be responsible for the inflation we are currently facing?  True, it is.  Can the Bush Administration take executive action against banks in order to avoid the sub-prime crisis of mortgages?  Maybe.  The suggestion that Republicans consistently fail across all elections is disingenuous, at the very least. It’s a gross misrepresentation.

It is certain that Biden is not responsible for current job gains. To suggest otherwise would be total hoopla.