Build Back Better was basically fully paid for with taxes and was also never even passed, so calling it 'printing money' and blaming it for inflation is kind of insane. It's kind of like when the Green New Deal somehow caused power blackouts in Texas. Also, where were the 'printing money' complaints when Trump was running up huge deficits? Was I just deaf back then, or was no one saying anything? Weird.
Also the idea that Trump would have done jack shit about this is kind of insane to me. Like how he handled the coronavirus? Or, better parallel, like he tried to bully Iran into not refining uranium by leaving the JCPOA and accomplished exactly nothing? It's amazing to me how quickly people are willing to forget just how incompetent the guy was, as well as completely uninterested in anything that didn't benefit him personally.
I mean I guess there's an argument that he wouldn't have rallied Europe together to impose sanctions on Russia like Biden did, and he probably resists any attempt to aid Ukraine, so maybe things get wrapped up over there quicker.
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Exactly! And people actually buying into this rhetoric is a whole new level of mania that is just inexplicable!
Look, the partisan sparring gets us nowhere and you look like shills for the current administration. You both know full fucking well that nothing is that black and white. Trump "did nothing" no more than Biden "is doing nothing" and vice versa. It's not the actual bill that causes inflation, it's the thinking behind that type of bill that fuels hundreds of decisions at the agency level - and thus doesn't need a "law" to be in place - every day. And I think (I hope, anyway, since it's basic civics) that you know that.
(One difference - of several differences, by the way - between Trump's "printing money" and Biden's "printing money" is not at the government level, which most people don't understand and therefore don't give a rat's ass about, but rather at the personal level; while Trump was allegedly "printing money", the stock market was flush and many of the people asked to look the other way were reaping the benefits. Not so much now.)
And if you're going to give billshot credit to the sitting President for accomplishments that he/she had nothing to do with other than being the sitting President, then rightly or wrongly, Trump gets credit for the rollout of the vaccine during COVID, no small accomplishment. I know it's against code to give Trump credit for ANYTHING - Deplorable! - but fair is fair.
The real point is El Barto's: we love in America to reduce everything to a bumper sticker, a partisan calling card, but that isn't solving the problem and in fact, if the last 20 years is any indication, it's making it worse minute by minute. Our economic problems are NOT "political party" problems. Russia, China, the EU, Africa, don't give a flat crap about whether a policy is a "Democratic" one or a "Republican" one, and the vast majority of Americans don't know or care about that fact. To them EVERYTHING is about the little "R" or "D" after the name of the person who said it.