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Economic Optimism Has Collapsed Under
Build-Back-Better-Biden: TIPP Poll

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Posted By: RockyTCB, 5/19/2022 7:12:19 AM

Last week, President Joe Biden gave a speech about the economy, saying that “as I go across the country, our economy has gone from being on the mend to on the move.” What country is Biden talking about, exactly? Because here in the U.S., the economy went from booming under President Donald Trump to disaster under Biden. The latest evidence of Biden’s detachment from reality comes from the IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index, which plunged 9.5% in May, dropping down to 41.2 (anything under 50 signals pessimism). That puts it below the Index’s worst reading

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DogFacedPonySoldier 5/19/2022 7:21:08 AM (No. 1159715)
Biden gets his "state of the economy" information from James Carville.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 5/19/2022 7:35:02 AM (No. 1159724)
More disinformation? Brandon says all is well and no one should disagree with him. They are focused, although Brandon is well past being able to focus on anything, on handling inflation. Most experts say all the tools available to the government, even if used to their maximum, are too little, too late to prevent a recession, especially with the drag of all the bad policies of the administration. I suspect that after November there will be a LOT of investigations of Brandon's actions and those rock turnings and spotlights will have a LOT of swamp insects scrambling for cover. Unfortunately, things cannot fully be fixed until Brandon is flushed down the pipes in 2024. Hopefully voters will remember for quite a while what kind of results happen when dems are elected. Of course dems will try to blame it all on an incompetent although well meaning Brandon. The public needs to be reminded, the whole dem party voted for many things that damaged the economy. It is the whole dem party that is at fault.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: WhamDBambam 5/19/2022 8:05:21 AM (No. 1159751)
They're giving him the charts upside down.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Rinktum 5/19/2022 9:15:40 AM (No. 1159847)
It’s difficult to be an optimist when you realize that the country has just undergone a coup d’etat. That tends to dampen joy and confidence.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: MDConservative 5/19/2022 9:23:59 AM (No. 1159861)
"Economic optimism" is a joke to contemplate. Whether mismanagement or intentional, Americans will be hurt, some very badly. This "inflation" will last for years, and our "supply chain issues" will persist as government intervenes in the market - whether with shutdown orders, lease cancellations, or "Defense Production" demands. McConnell will save us, I'm sure.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: red1066 5/19/2022 9:54:20 AM (No. 1159906)
There was never any optimism. Anyone with more than two brain cells knew damn well the demosluts were going to ruin the economy, and they saw it starting with Biteme's executive orders on his first day.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 5/19/2022 12:13:25 PM (No. 1160058)
With Biden - we are all Busted, Broken and Burglarized.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Kafka2 5/19/2022 11:23:17 PM (No. 1160528)
Biden is half right. The economy has gone from being on the mend to going over a cliff.
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