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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on May 07, 2021, 05:15:03 pm
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Joe Biden Blames Donald Trump After Unemployment Rises for the First Time Since April 2020
Charlie Spiering 7 May 2021
President Joe Biden blamed former President Donald Trump on Friday for a devastating job numbers report in April.
“When we came in, we inherited a year of profound economic crisis and mismanagement on the virus,” Biden said, alluding to Trump.
The jobs report showed unemployment rose in April for the first time since April 2020, when the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic first began.
Biden spoke at an event at the White House about the latest employment figures, complaining he inherited an economic crisis from the previous administration.
“There is more evidence that our economy is moving in the right direction, but it’s clear we have a long way to go,” Biden said.
The president said the jobs report was actually encouraging, after a “once-in-a-century pandemic and a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.”
“We knew this wouldn’t be a sprint this would be a marathon, and quite frankly we’re moving more rapidly than I thought we were,” he said.
The president laughed off critics who said the number was devastating for his administration.
“Listening to commentators today, as I was getting dressed, you might think that we should be disappointed,” Biden said with a chuckle.
He also dismissed the idea his decision to extend additional $300 a week payments to unemployed workers until September 2021 was keeping workers at home.
“Today’s report just underscores, in my view, how vital the actions we’re taking are,” Biden said. “Checks to people who are hurting.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/07/joe-biden-blames-donald-trump-after-unemployment-rises-for-the-first-time-since-april-2020/
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Biden Says Americans Need To Put Disappointing Jobs Report ‘In Perspective’
Anders Hagstrom
White House Correspondent
May 07, 2021 12:40 PM ET
President Joe Biden delivered a speech seeking to put Friday’s weak April jobs report “in perspective” after the increase in jobs fell far below expectations.
Biden was more than 20 minutes late in delivering the speech Friday morning, just hours after the jobs report went public. The economy added just 266,000 jobs in April and the unemployment rate rose slightly to 6.1 percent, according to the Department of Labor.
“We never thought that after the first 50 or 60 days everything would be fine,” Biden began. “Today there is more evidence that our economy is moving in the right direction, but it’s clear we have a long way to go.”
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https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/07/biden-jobs-report-april-trump-coronavirus/
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Keystone XL would have been hiring people if it were allowed to be built.
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Biden has never created anything and has no clue how the economy works. He is president now and the blame is on him.
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Curiously, it was an economic crisis that looked a lot more like prosperity.
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That's alright. Biden will fix it by pushing for more federal and state hiring to offset the numbers... Who needs a private sector when the public sector can do all the work for us...
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Yesterday, Biden actually said that he had created more jobs in a President's first 100 days than any other President in US history. Seriously. Yes, he really said it.
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Yesterday, Biden actually said that he had created more jobs in a President's first 100 days than any other President in US history. Seriously. Yes, he really said it.
Come on man you have to stop taking this imbecile seriously.
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Biden has never created anything and has no clue how the economy works. He is president now and the blame is on him.
He's creating unemployment and illegal aliens, isn't he?
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For all the economic destruction,desolation and senseless spending and job losses, biden says don't blame him, blame Trump! Expect this to be a common ploy, Biden borrowed from the NeverTrumpers, or was it vice versa?