martsiva wrote:
Yeah - he`s really done a great job with everything going through the roof in price!! He`s done a great job creating the border crisis and allowing i******s to cross the border!! Why don`t you ask 1000s the Americans whose jobs in the oil industry Biden destroyed right along with our energy independence!! Ask the Americans he left behind in Afghanistan! And these are just for starters!! Do you really think that freedom loving Americans have respect for this clown when they shout f$%k Biden??
"price" -- Yes it is expensive. So? It's a matter of priorities. Republicans usually want to reduce taxes a little bit for everybody and keep them really, really low for wealthy people and corporations. Every time Republicans cut taxes, that makes a deficit and then the next Democratic administration inherits the associated national debt. _That's_ expensive.
If something's necessary then it may be worth a high price to pay for it.
Note that there's a big difference between a trillion dollars spread out over 10 years and a trillion dollars spent all at once.
"I******s" crossing the border is almost no problem at all. Yes, there is something illegal about some entrances and some stays. I'm not much concerned about it. I believe that, currently, most i*****l i*******ts do more good than harm. The very vegetables I eat may have been picked by some of them, and I don't want to do that field work myself. We have plenty of more significant "problems" to think about. I'm pretty sure that Western European immigrants from 1492 to about 1800 or 1900 did more harm than good, but the i*****l i*******ts now do more good than harm.
"jobs", "oil", and "energy": All that is only good when it benefits people more than harms people. Pollution's a really important problem. And: People can do more than just one kind of job. For example back in the beginning of the p******c the government should have created a whole lot of government jobs to make and distribute medical equipment such as masks, which were in short supply at hospitals for a very long time. It would have been worth the cost to pay those people in those jobs. It would have made people healthier, not sicker. We also needed lots of contact tracing and testing, and there should have been a lot of jobs created to do those things. It would have helped millions of people be healthier and would have helped preserve much of the rest of the economy too, because with contact tracing and testing there wouldn't have been so much rapid spread of the v***s so there wouldn't have had to be so many closings and slowdowns of businesses. And it would have been worth the cost.
As those things weren't done soon, now they will be done later, and it will cost more. It would have cost less if it had been started vigorously at the start of the p******c.
"Afghanistan": I guess that it was wrong to publicly announce any timetable for withdrawal. I think that was a mistake. More generally though, the U.S. presence in Afghanistan was going to be a disaster almost from the beginning. I don't think Trump did much better with it -- what did he do, promise to withdraw? Then Biden actually did it, and of course we see how difficult it is to actually do it. And, I agree with you about people (not just Americans -- I'm thinking more of Afghans who helped Americans) being "left behind" in Afghanistan -- that truly is an awful situation, and I think the withdrawal could have been done better, without publicly announcing any timetable for withdrawal, but instead just getting people out gradually in the best order that could be planned. Again, Biden bit the bullet and actually commenced a withdrawal, whereas Trump talked about it, and talking's easier than doing.