Don't Fall for Joe Biden's Economic Fairy Tale
David Harsanyi
| Feb 11, 2023
Like Nero bragging about rebuilding Circus Maximus after burning it down, President Joe Biden took to the podium Tuesday night to take credit for solving a slew of problems he helped create.
At the top of his State of the Union address, the president boasted that he had "more jobs created in two years than any president has created in four years." No president -- not Joe Biden nor Donald Trump -- creates jobs. But Biden's contention was exceptionally misleading, considering he inherited an economy that had been unplugged by an artificial, state-induced shutdown. If the government compels businesses to shutter, it doesn't "create" jobs when allowing them to open.
On more than one occasion during the night, a mercurial Biden contended that COVID-19 had shut down the economy. No, states did. Politicians did.
Biden was an aggressive proponent of those shutdowns. During the 2020 presidential campaign, the president regularly attacked Republican governors for opening too early and for ignoring federal health officials. Even in August 2021, after it was clear that shutdowns hadn't saved any lives, Biden was still criticizing Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis for rejecting a new round of COVID authoritarianism, telling him to "get out of the way" of those trying to "do the right thing."
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