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Old 05-19-2022, 01:26 PM   #4313
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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton View Post
What has Biden done right? The withdrawal of the troops from Afgahnastan? Nope. Covid? "We're not going to eliminate jobs, we're going to eliminate the virus". Nope. Immigration? Nope, millions illegally crossing the border and with Title 42 set to expire, more and more undocumented migrants will enter the country each day. This government in its current from is a total failure.
Well he certainly has not gone out of his way to make things worse, which is more than can be said for recent republicans, which is something that should be carefully considered. You are basically a comic villain at this point, holding the girlfriend and some small children over a ledge asking who will be saved when you drop both.

Afghanistan, solely lays at the feat of the Bush administration for not negotiating when they had one the war, and then starting a second war which gave the enemy time to regroup, and of the 3 presidents that followed Biden was the only one with the gumption to take the bas press and do what needed to be done, he could have done what Trump/Obama did and let a marginal number of people continue to die in a low level conflict for another 4 years so he didn't have to suffer an ugly looking exit, but instead made the right choice.

Covid, hasn't been something to be controlled really since 3 months in when we realized how truely terribly Trumps administration bungled it. So I'm not always certain what people mean when they say Biden has bungled Covid? The communication hasn't been good, but I'm always sympathetic to somebody who is coming up against an opponent who is using brandolinis law against them and their ability to communicate.

Immigration? sure he hasn't done enough, for him to improve the legal immigration pathways to reduce illegal demand? Is there a preference to executive action, that will just be undone when idiots who actually convince themselves Biden was worse than Trump reelect Trump? Or should this be laid at the feat of congress instead of the President? What other way are you thinking of reducing this demand, maybe massive aide programs to these countries, so their people don't have as much pressure to leave? Maybe the US should just invade and take over those territories so their president can control everything.

These are really hard problems, and it is really easy to critique, but hard to suggest solutions. There is a big difference between complaining that guys have been ineffective about driving improvements and complaining about someone actively making things worse.

What's he do right? From a Canadian Prospective, this would be my favorite thing, I would like to see cooperative policy to economically isolate tax havens that are the underlaying problem of a lot of our issues. [ulr]https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/11/biden-and-g-7-leaders-will-endorse-a-global-minimum-corporate-tax.html[/url]
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