(07-19-2024, 10:59 AM)Jag149 Wrote:

(07-19-2024, 10:05 AM)mikesez Wrote: Yes, but it is not the President's job to make the economy "good."  
The government is supposed to manage some things on the margin of the economy, like social safety net when workers get laid of or become disabled.  Then they oversee workplace safety, they punish fraud, they punish workplace discrimination.  
Most workers have no interaction with these things at all most of the time.
Because as far as producing value and earning money off of it, that is entirely up to the private sector.
The President gets too much credit when the economy is good and too much blame when it is bad

While I agree generally, in the case of the lions share of this inflation I differ.  Once taking office whether it was ego, the green plan etc. the Biden administration attacked the use of fossil fuels.  I do not know if they fully understood the impact of their actions. They moved us away from being energy independent and reversed all Trump energy policies. This reduced domestic production and drove the price of oil up. It is not a coincidence that inflation peaked at the same time the price of diesel did. Shortly after that moment the administration began a loosening process. The price of oil came down and with it inflation.  Of course this made quite a few liberal groups upset which was reported in the news.  In this case the Biden administration's management of "things" failed horribly, the word safe and orderly transition must not be in their vocabulary.  I suspect since many of these individuals have never run a business they do not quite understand how this is done or the impacts currently of energy prices on costs. 

DEI is just another form of discrimination.  Before you go all haywire let's examine the definition.

Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation.

You cannot eliminate discrimination by creating more of it. That is what DEI in it's current form does, just that.  To enable more females to join the secret service the height requirements were eliminated.  Additionally, there are lower physical requirements for only women. Just look at the different requirements link attached. So this current administration is by definition enabling discrimination?  I thought they were suppose to punish it?

https://www.secretservice.gov/careers/te...-standards

I am not saying that the Biden administration is handling its job well.
They need to punish and prevent discrimination, and that's good, but I do agree with you that some of what they're doing in this area is overzealous, counterproductive, and bad.
I am only saying that them addressing discrimination is a big part of what they do, but it's a small part of the overall activity in the economy.

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