{"id":65467,"date":"2021-05-16T13:06:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T17:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=65467"},"modified":"2021-05-16T13:06:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T17:06:19","slug":"imposter-potus-biden-proves-to-be-the-master-of-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=65467","title":{"rendered":"Imposter POTUS Biden Proves to be the MASTER OF DISASTER"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Biden is proving even more of a \u2018master of disaster\u2019 than Jimmy Carter<\/h1>\n

By Post Editorial BoardNew York Post<\/p>\n

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President Joe Biden entered office poised to oversee a record recovery and a return to the booming economy and all-round stability of pre-pandemic life. Instead, he\u2019s turned out to be a master of disaster, with self-inflicted crises across the board threatening to set America back to the 1970s \u2014\u00a0with that era\u2019s infamous \u201cstagflation\u201d as well as a foreign policy in flames.<\/p>\n

When Biden took office in January, the nation was on the mend from a post-holiday surge in COVID cases and seeing a light at the end of the tunnel with the vaccines produced at unprecedented speed and nearly a million jabs a day going into American arms. With the unemployment rate \u2014 3.5 percent \u2014\u00a0at a five-decade low in February 2020, Biden inherited a strong pre-pandemic economy that was already bouncing back strong as the pandemic and lockdowns began to end.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump had also done him a favor at the southern border, getting what was once a real crisis under control by prioritizing strong border security, negotiating a Remain in Mexico policy that saw asylum-seekers await the conclusion of their cases outside the country and instituting a public-health order that kept migrants out while we focused on eradicating the virus.<\/p>\n

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Biden even looked set to negotiate more peace deals in the Middle East, building on Trump\u2019s Abraham Accords, the first deals in decades between Arab nations and Israel.<\/p>\n

But barely four months into his presidency, it\u2019s disaster after disaster as Biden wastes every opportunity his predecessor left him.<\/p>\n

US\u00a0consumer confidence fell unexpectedly<\/a>\u00a0this month as rising prices, a hiring slowdown and energy uncertainty hit hard. On Friday, the University of Michigan said its Index of Consumer Sentiment declined to 82.8, from 88.3 in April. Economists had predicted it would rise to 90.4.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t the first disappointment for prognosticators this month. Economists expected the country to tack on 1 million jobs in April after seeing gains of 770,000 in March. Instead, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported just 266,000, as the unemployment rate rose to 6.1 percent.<\/p>\n

And then it announced that consumer prices rose 4.2 percent year-over-year in April \u2014\u00a0far worse than economists had predicted. It was the largest such jump since September 2008, when the financial crisis was at its height. Oh, and\u00a0core<\/em>\u00a0inflation rose 0.8 percent from March to April, the biggest rise in nearly\u00a0four decades<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You can thank Biden\u2019s focus on expanding government at the expense of everyone else. Democrats (alone) passed his $1.9 trillion\u00a0COVID \u201crelief\u201d bill<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0which had little to do with either \u2014 in March, as things were finally picking up. Throwing money into the economy without much consideration of its necessity directly led to the inflation we\u2019re seeing now, with the money supply up by 25 percent over last year.<\/p>\n

That \u201crelief\u201d bill also extended the $300 weekly federal unemployment supplement to Sept. 6, meaning nearly half of people getting checks\u00a0make more by staying home<\/a> than going back to work. Employers coast to coast have cited it as a reason they\u2019re having trouble hiring.<\/p>\n

Biden claims the jobs numbers show his two other big proposals ($5 trillion total for \u201cinfrastructure\u201d and \u201cfamilies\u201d) are desperately needed, but that \u201cmedicine\u201d would mean more disasters, not least because they\u2019re (partly) paid for via huge tax hikes on investments and business.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also adding fear and gloom now, by refusing to rule out making his planned tax hikes\u00a0retroactive.<\/p>\n

Gas prices were already on the rise under Biden before the\u00a0cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline<\/a>\u00a0led to long lines at the pump. It now costs $1.05 more per gallon than it did a year ago. With Biden closing the Keystone XL Pipeline on his first day in office and generally vowing to wage war on all fossil fuels, it\u2019s no wonder there\u2019s uncertainty and higher prices.<\/p>\n

Nowhere is the self-inflicted nature of Biden\u2019s disasters more plain\u00a0than on the border<\/a>. He put a moratorium on deportations his first day in office and ended the Remain in Mexico program as well as all construction on any border barriers. Border apprehensions were at a 20-year high last month, but deportations were at a record monthly low.<\/p>\n

And the feds have a record number of unaccompanied minors in custody \u2014\u00a0around 22,000 \u2014\u00a0because Biden ordered the public-health rule keeping migrants out to be lifted for solo kids.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Hamas and its allies have gone on the\u00a0attack against Israel<\/a>, leaving it no choice but to defend itself. As Jonathan Schanzer notes, the Biden team\u2019s drive to restore the Iran nuclear deal plainly inspired Tehran\u2019s terrorist clients to start firing, even as it makes Israel less willing to listen to Washington\u2019s efforts to broker a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s stunning how much success Biden has managed to reverse in not even four months. With long lines at the pump, slowing growth and rising inflation, it\u2019s looking like the Jimmy Carter era \u2014\u00a0except that it took Carter years to produce the disasters that this president has fostered in scant months.<\/p>\n

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