No, Biden Has Not Been a "Complete Disaster"--He Has Done Some Good Things

[JWBooth]

I admitted I was a fool for suppirting it.

Now I have a philosophic grounding for such, back then it was simply when you give your guys a new power, think what the other guys could use it for when they are in charge.

 

[eagle1462010]

Vote against Biden to demonstrate your hatred that peoples and civilizations move forward.

Always.

If your WOKE is the future we need to Embrace the past.

 

[jc456]

 

[JWBooth]

Vote against Biden to demonstrate your hatred that peoples and civilizations move forward.

Always.

I’m sold

 

[mikegriffith1]

LMAO. So you are not a US citizen?

You get that list from the White House website?

Are you new here? Yes, I'm a U.S. citizen. No, I did not get the list from any White House website.

To answer someone else's question, less than 8% of the infrastructure bill was for electric vehicles.

 

[mudwhistle]

I did not vote for Biden in 2020 and will not vote for him in the next election, but his presidency has not been all bad. He has done a number of good things. For example:

-- Biden backed and implemented the Pentagon’s Replicator program proposal to counter China’s lead in military AI-enabled drones. The Replicator program is building thousands of relatively cheap and quickly replaceable drones that can work together to attack, swarm, and defeat enemy defenses. Once all the drones are built, the U.S. will at least have achieved parity with China in AI-enabled drones, if not modest superiority.

-- Biden pushed for and signed the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure bill, which has sparked a huge increase in infrastructure improvement. The bill has also sparked a huge jump in the construction industry. Nearly 700,000 new construction jobs have been created since the bill’s passage. This construction boom, in turn, has fueled a sharp rise in orders for construction materials.

Let’s keep in mind that even conservative Republicans have long argued that infrastructure spending is one of the best investments that the government can make with taxpayer dollars.

-- Much to the consternation of radical green energy advocates, in late 2021, Biden “quietly” began to promote expanded U.S. oil production. As a result, U.S. oil production is now at record levels, and is expected to go even higher next year. U.S. oil production is now over 13 million barrels per day (13.3 million), the highest production rate ever (barrels per day under Trump ranged from 9.9 million to 12.9 million barrels).

As one liberal commentator has noted, “Demanding an ‘all of the above’ policy that includes all forms of energy has become cliche among lawmakers. Under Biden, that may have become a reality few politicians will want to publicly discuss. Democrats don’t want to alienate their green backers on the left who’ve accused the administration of abandoning its climate focus, while Republicans are loath to admit that Biden’s oil boom is bigger than Trump’s.”

-- Biden has requested the largest increase in defense spending allowed under the 2023 Biden-McCarthy budget deal’s spending limits. When Biden took office in January 2021, defense spending stood at $806 billion. It was $816 billion in 2023. This year’s defense budget is $842 billion. Biden has asked Congress for an increase to $895 billion for Fiscal Year 2025.

-- Although Biden admittedly failed to act decisively when he learned that Russia was going to invade Ukraine, after Putin invaded, Biden exerted great effort to send massive amounts of weapons and supplies to prevent Ukraine from collapsing. He has approved the sending of increasingly lethal weapons to Ukraine. Yes, he could and should have done more, but he has definitely done more than Bernie Sanders or Liz Warren would have done.

-- Biden has moved aggressively to increase microchip production in the U.S. to reduce our dependency on foreign-produced microchips. During the pandemic, Americans discovered that we were too dependent on microchips produced overseas (mainly in China and Taiwan). When factories shut down in Asia and supply chains bottled up during the pandemic, U.S. automakers and other manufacturers could not get the chips they needed, idling their plants and spiking prices for cars and other goods.

Biden worked with Congress to pass the CHIPS and Science Act, which offered more than $50 billion to subsidize the construction of new microchip facilities in the U.S. and boost research and development across a series of national research facilities. The bill passed in July 2022 with solid bipartisan majorities.

As a result, major chipmakers have announced plans for new semiconductor plants in the U.S, including an Intel campus near Columbus, Ohio, and a facility from Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC in Arizona. More than a dozen new tech research hubs are also planned based on the CHIPS Act’s funding. And the Biden administration recently announced its first actual CHIPS Act grant : a $35 million grant to defense contractor BAE to expand a facility that supplies Air Force fighter jets.

-- Biden inherited senseless interagency squabbling over 5G wireless technology, which reduced the government’s ability to auction off valuable spectrum ranges used for commercial wireless technology. For years agencies had been feuding over how to use different chunks of these airwaves, often pitting the Federal Communications Commission against the Pentagon, the Transportation Department, and other departments that have their own increasing demands for spectrum to operate military radars, aviation equipment, and other systems. These turf wars fueled anxiety over our ability to compete against global rivals like China, which is seeking to dominate the wireless ecosystem and subsidizing telecom giants like Huawei.

Biden created a system that enables the Commerce Department and, when necessary, the White House to settle interagency disputes over 5G spectrum usage and allocation. This move has put the U.S. on firmer global standing and has helped to streamline government policy and usage of the 5G spectrum.

-- Thanks to Biden’s vast increase in the federal investment in renewable energy, renewable energy is now the second largest source of electric power, whereas just a few years ago it ranked fourth.

-- Biden has cracked down on junk fees charged by airlines, cable companies, concert ticket-sellers, and hotels, saving Americans at least $2 billion per year and rising.

-- Biden has cracked down on China-based companies operating in the U.S. who were refusing to disclose their audits. Ever since the Enron and WorldCom scandals, the U.S. has allowed companies to publicly list their stocks only if they agree to let federal watchdogs review their auditors’ work. However, until 2022, Chinese authorities, citing national security concerns, refused to allow American inspectors to examine the books of China-based companies.

Biden secured a landmark deal in August 2022 that gives American inspectors at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the top American accounting watchdog, unprecedented access to the audits of Chinese and Hong Kong-based firms trading on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

I should add that this deal was made possible by the 2020 bill that Trump signed that empowered the government to expel companies that did not allow their audits to be inspected.

-- Biden is in the process of raising the threshold for receiving overtime pay to $55,000, a long-overdue increase. Under current law, only employees who earn less than $36,000 can receive overtime pay for overtime hours. Thus, if you earn $37,000 per year, your employer can require that you work overtime hours without getting overtime pay for those hours. My oldest son was the general manager of a large restaurant and had to work 60-70 hours per week, but he received no overtime pay for the extra hours because his salary was $60K per year.

Again, I did not and will not vote for Biden, but he has done many good things, and his reelection would not necessarily mean the end of the world.

If you think he has redeeming aspects then you are willing to overlook the horrors he has unleashed on America and other countries.

Biden has difficulty going to some parts of the US because his actions have destroyed families and ruined lives.
One of those families was screaming at him during the State Of The Union message because his refusal to allow our troops to defend themselves caused several of them to die in Afghanistan. He checked his watch several times during their funerals.
Last year he refused to visit East Palestine OH after their town was devastated by government screwups.
Going there this year on the anniversary of the event was too little and way too late.
He showed up in Maui but fell asleep during meetings.

 

[Man With A Plan]

Are you new here? Yes, I'm a U.S. citizen. No, I did not get the list from any White House website.

To answer someone else's question, less than 8% of the infrastructure bill was for electric vehicles.

You do realize that 8% of that massive bill is a lot of money...right?
So tell me, Mike...how would you describe how that is working out so far?

 

[Whodatsaywhodat.]

How so?

Why didn't he end it before so he couldn't have lost his 2nd election?

Do you know what ending democracy means? It means not letting people vote for who they want. He never did that, but the Biden administration and their party sure have tried to make the past 4 years be where we can't vote for trump if we want.

2 impeachments, Jan 6th council that went on for years, fbi raid on his home, dozens of lawsuits, countless accusations, states trying to make it so he can't be on the ballot in their state, personal verbal attacks on him, and so on. And after all this time and all that effort they can't nail him on anything, but they keep trying. After some point you have to think that maybe he isn't the evil villain he is made out to be

But your avatar tells me you don't care about what's best for America or actually considering anything. You're a contrarian. That's why all you posts here are short, closed ended and add nothing to the conversation. You just want to make throw away inflammatory comments and that's it. You've been duped by hatred to be a political party tool. I am a Republican and a conservative, but I also am not a slave to them like you are the Democrats, my love for America and reality is stronger than my party.

Spot on sir.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Again, I did not and will not vote for Biden, but he has done many good things, and his reelection would not necessarily mean the end of the world.

But it would mean the end of the United States.

 

[JohnDB]

I did not vote for Biden in 2020 and will not vote for him in the next election, but his presidency has not been all bad. He has done a number of good things. For example:

-- Biden backed and implemented the Pentagon’s Replicator program proposal to counter China’s lead in military AI-enabled drones. The Replicator program is building thousands of relatively cheap and quickly replaceable drones that can work together to attack, swarm, and defeat enemy defenses. Once all the drones are built, the U.S. will at least have achieved parity with China in AI-enabled drones, if not modest superiority.

-- Biden pushed for and signed the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure bill, which has sparked a huge increase in infrastructure improvement. The bill has also sparked a huge jump in the construction industry. Nearly 700,000 new construction jobs have been created since the bill’s passage. This construction boom, in turn, has fueled a sharp rise in orders for construction materials.

Let’s keep in mind that even conservative Republicans have long argued that infrastructure spending is one of the best investments that the government can make with taxpayer dollars.

-- Much to the consternation of radical green energy advocates, in late 2021, Biden “quietly” began to promote expanded U.S. oil production. As a result, U.S. oil production is now at record levels, and is expected to go even higher next year. U.S. oil production is now over 13 million barrels per day (13.3 million), the highest production rate ever (barrels per day under Trump ranged from 9.9 million to 12.9 million barrels).

As one liberal commentator has noted, “Demanding an ‘all of the above’ policy that includes all forms of energy has become cliche among lawmakers. Under Biden, that may have become a reality few politicians will want to publicly discuss. Democrats don’t want to alienate their green backers on the left who’ve accused the administration of abandoning its climate focus, while Republicans are loath to admit that Biden’s oil boom is bigger than Trump’s.”

-- Biden has requested the largest increase in defense spending allowed under the 2023 Biden-McCarthy budget deal’s spending limits. When Biden took office in January 2021, defense spending stood at $806 billion. It was $816 billion in 2023. This year’s defense budget is $842 billion. Biden has asked Congress for an increase to $895 billion for Fiscal Year 2025.

-- Although Biden admittedly failed to act decisively when he learned that Russia was going to invade Ukraine, after Putin invaded, Biden exerted great effort to send massive amounts of weapons and supplies to prevent Ukraine from collapsing. He has approved the sending of increasingly lethal weapons to Ukraine. Yes, he could and should have done more, but he has definitely done more than Bernie Sanders or Liz Warren would have done.

-- Biden has moved aggressively to increase microchip production in the U.S. to reduce our dependency on foreign-produced microchips. During the pandemic, Americans discovered that we were too dependent on microchips produced overseas (mainly in China and Taiwan). When factories shut down in Asia and supply chains bottled up during the pandemic, U.S. automakers and other manufacturers could not get the chips they needed, idling their plants and spiking prices for cars and other goods.

Biden worked with Congress to pass the CHIPS and Science Act, which offered more than $50 billion to subsidize the construction of new microchip facilities in the U.S. and boost research and development across a series of national research facilities. The bill passed in July 2022 with solid bipartisan majorities.

As a result, major chipmakers have announced plans for new semiconductor plants in the U.S, including an Intel campus near Columbus, Ohio, and a facility from Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC in Arizona. More than a dozen new tech research hubs are also planned based on the CHIPS Act’s funding. And the Biden administration recently announced its first actual CHIPS Act grant : a $35 million grant to defense contractor BAE to expand a facility that supplies Air Force fighter jets.

-- Biden inherited senseless interagency squabbling over 5G wireless technology, which reduced the government’s ability to auction off valuable spectrum ranges used for commercial wireless technology. For years agencies had been feuding over how to use different chunks of these airwaves, often pitting the Federal Communications Commission against the Pentagon, the Transportation Department, and other departments that have their own increasing demands for spectrum to operate military radars, aviation equipment, and other systems. These turf wars fueled anxiety over our ability to compete against global rivals like China, which is seeking to dominate the wireless ecosystem and subsidizing telecom giants like Huawei.

Biden created a system that enables the Commerce Department and, when necessary, the White House to settle interagency disputes over 5G spectrum usage and allocation. This move has put the U.S. on firmer global standing and has helped to streamline government policy and usage of the 5G spectrum.

-- Thanks to Biden’s vast increase in the federal investment in renewable energy, renewable energy is now the second largest source of electric power, whereas just a few years ago it ranked fourth.

-- Biden has cracked down on junk fees charged by airlines, cable companies, concert ticket-sellers, and hotels, saving Americans at least $2 billion per year and rising.

-- Biden has cracked down on China-based companies operating in the U.S. who were refusing to disclose their audits. Ever since the Enron and WorldCom scandals, the U.S. has allowed companies to publicly list their stocks only if they agree to let federal watchdogs review their auditors’ work. However, until 2022, Chinese authorities, citing national security concerns, refused to allow American inspectors to examine the books of China-based companies.

Biden secured a landmark deal in August 2022 that gives American inspectors at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the top American accounting watchdog, unprecedented access to the audits of Chinese and Hong Kong-based firms trading on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

I should add that this deal was made possible by the 2020 bill that Trump signed that empowered the government to expel companies that did not allow their audits to be inspected.

-- Biden is in the process of raising the threshold for receiving overtime pay to $55,000, a long-overdue increase. Under current law, only employees who earn less than $36,000 can receive overtime pay for overtime hours. Thus, if you earn $37,000 per year, your employer can require that you work overtime hours without getting overtime pay for those hours. My oldest son was the general manager of a large restaurant and had to work 60-70 hours per week, but he received no overtime pay for the extra hours because his salary was $60K per year.

Again, I did not and will not vote for Biden, but he has done many good things, and his reelection would not necessarily mean the end of the world.

Most Presidents do a collection of good and bad things.

In addition to your list I personally think that student loan forgiveness was a good thing that helped working people. The "junk fees" thing wasn't so great IMHO but YMMV.

Currently the FDA is a train wreck with such stars as the USDA, NIH and drug approval board highlighting. So is Border Patrol.

The chipmaking...that's another story. He should not have let Intel have a dime. They have certain ethics issues ongoing with predatory behaviors...like stealing technology from smaller companies. (They are facing a bunch of patent violations...some quite serious to the point that Micron pulled out of a joint operation with them)

Some of the stuff Biden did was good. Some inconsequential or indifferent. (Of course he claims it's instrumental and huge....he is a politician).

More needs to be done in order to protect the average person.

The main thing I have against Biden is his "cancel culture" attitude against half of America. Republicans are his constituents just as much as Democrats are. All that "fly over" section of America is important too....despite his best efforts to ignore and belittle them.

 

[Man With A Plan]

Most Presidents do a collection of good and bad things.

In addition to your list I personally think that student loan forgiveness was a good thing that helped working people. The "junk fees" thing wasn't so great IMHO but YMMV.

Currently the FDA is a train wreck with such stars as the USDA, NIH and drug approval board highlighting. So is Border Patrol.

The chipmaking...that's another story. He should not have let Intel have a dime. They have certain ethics issues ongoing with predatory behaviors...like stealing technology from smaller companies. (They are facing a bunch of patent violations...some quite serious to the point that Micron pulled out of a joint operation with them)

Some of the stuff Biden did was good. Some inconsequential or indifferent. (Of course he claims it's instrumental and huge....he is a politician).

More needs to be done in order to protect the average person.

The main thing I have against Biden is his "cancel culture" attitude against half of America. Republicans are his constituents just as much as Democrats are. All that "fly over" section of America is important too....despite his best efforts to ignore and belittle them.

How did the student loan forgiveness help "working people"? You do realize that the vast majority of the people being forgiven their debt are well paid professionals, right? And that blue collar "working people" who couldn't afford to go to college will be paying for that loan forgiveness? Why should the tax payers foot the bill for that? Why should blue collar workers have that burden?

 

[Whodatsaywhodat.]

How did the student loan forgiveness help "working people"? You do realize that the vast majority of the people being forgiven their debt are well paid professionals, right? And that blue collar "working people" who couldn't afford to go to college will be paying for that loan forgiveness? Why should the tax payers foot the bill for that? Why should blue collar workers have that burden?

Of course , Democrats are always for the rich and famous . They claim to be for the poor , unfortunately they lie about everything. Biggest threat to America and Americans.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Shutting down the world has that effect. Most red states went back to work before Blue. And when you Order peeps home then pay to stay there it gets abused to hell and back.

This was a WEF Agenda move. Now our standard of living has took a nose dive as a result.

We should have never shut down

Like Shutting Down Baseball Because of Lou Gehrig

The virus was not contagious; it was an immune-deficiency problem.

 

[Flash]

Vote against Biden to demonstrate your hatred that peoples and civilizations move forward.

Always.

Potatohead's disastrous administration has set back civilization.

Remember when the filthy ass Democrats supported the six months of Negro insurrection with rioting, looting, murdering and arson was not very civilized, was it?

Letting millions of low life welfare queens to flood into the country just to boost the Democrat filth's voting rolls is as uncivilized as it get.

Liberals in general and Democrat's in particular are the scum of this country.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Even an idiot squirrel leaves a nut intact.....

The Sum of the Squirrels on Both Sides of the Aisle Equals the Squirrel of the Hippopotamus

 

[Flash]

Vote against Biden to demonstrate your hatred that peoples and civilizations move forward.

Always.

The filthy ass government stealing the money that I worked hard to earn and giving it away to Illegals, ghetto welfare queens and foreign countries is as uncivilized as it gets.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

How help "working people"? who couldn't afford to go to college

Daddy Buying Dummy a Job

You must be from Gaza in your willingness to volunteer to sacrifice yourself for your Masters. Let the corporations pay for their crimes, promising high-paying jobs that would make loan payments a minor expense.

Most of all, let the heiristocracy pay. They invented tuition and student poverty to give an overwhelming advantage to their pitchfork-skewerable brats.

 

[Blaster]

I did not vote for Biden in 2020 and will not vote for him in the next election, but his presidency has not been all bad. He has done a number of good things. For example:

-- Biden backed and implemented the Pentagon’s Replicator program proposal to counter China’s lead in military AI-enabled drones. The Replicator program is building thousands of relatively cheap and quickly replaceable drones that can work together to attack, swarm, and defeat enemy defenses. Once all the drones are built, the U.S. will at least have achieved parity with China in AI-enabled drones, if not modest superiority.

-- Biden pushed for and signed the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure bill, which has sparked a huge increase in infrastructure improvement. The bill has also sparked a huge jump in the construction industry. Nearly 700,000 new construction jobs have been created since the bill’s passage. This construction boom, in turn, has fueled a sharp rise in orders for construction materials.

Let’s keep in mind that even conservative Republicans have long argued that infrastructure spending is one of the best investments that the government can make with taxpayer dollars.

-- Much to the consternation of radical green energy advocates, in late 2021, Biden “quietly” began to promote expanded U.S. oil production. As a result, U.S. oil production is now at record levels, and is expected to go even higher next year. U.S. oil production is now over 13 million barrels per day (13.3 million), the highest production rate ever (barrels per day under Trump ranged from 9.9 million to 12.9 million barrels).

As one liberal commentator has noted, “Demanding an ‘all of the above’ policy that includes all forms of energy has become cliche among lawmakers. Under Biden, that may have become a reality few politicians will want to publicly discuss. Democrats don’t want to alienate their green backers on the left who’ve accused the administration of abandoning its climate focus, while Republicans are loath to admit that Biden’s oil boom is bigger than Trump’s.”

-- Biden has requested the largest increase in defense spending allowed under the 2023 Biden-McCarthy budget deal’s spending limits. When Biden took office in January 2021, defense spending stood at $806 billion. It was $816 billion in 2023. This year’s defense budget is $842 billion. Biden has asked Congress for an increase to $895 billion for Fiscal Year 2025.

-- Although Biden admittedly failed to act decisively when he learned that Russia was going to invade Ukraine, after Putin invaded, Biden exerted great effort to send massive amounts of weapons and supplies to prevent Ukraine from collapsing. He has approved the sending of increasingly lethal weapons to Ukraine. Yes, he could and should have done more, but he has definitely done more than Bernie Sanders or Liz Warren would have done.

-- Biden has moved aggressively to increase microchip production in the U.S. to reduce our dependency on foreign-produced microchips. During the pandemic, Americans discovered that we were too dependent on microchips produced overseas (mainly in China and Taiwan). When factories shut down in Asia and supply chains bottled up during the pandemic, U.S. automakers and other manufacturers could not get the chips they needed, idling their plants and spiking prices for cars and other goods.

Biden worked with Congress to pass the CHIPS and Science Act, which offered more than $50 billion to subsidize the construction of new microchip facilities in the U.S. and boost research and development across a series of national research facilities. The bill passed in July 2022 with solid bipartisan majorities.

As a result, major chipmakers have announced plans for new semiconductor plants in the U.S, including an Intel campus near Columbus, Ohio, and a facility from Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC in Arizona. More than a dozen new tech research hubs are also planned based on the CHIPS Act’s funding. And the Biden administration recently announced its first actual CHIPS Act grant : a $35 million grant to defense contractor BAE to expand a facility that supplies Air Force fighter jets.

-- Biden inherited senseless interagency squabbling over 5G wireless technology, which reduced the government’s ability to auction off valuable spectrum ranges used for commercial wireless technology. For years agencies had been feuding over how to use different chunks of these airwaves, often pitting the Federal Communications Commission against the Pentagon, the Transportation Department, and other departments that have their own increasing demands for spectrum to operate military radars, aviation equipment, and other systems. These turf wars fueled anxiety over our ability to compete against global rivals like China, which is seeking to dominate the wireless ecosystem and subsidizing telecom giants like Huawei.

Biden created a system that enables the Commerce Department and, when necessary, the White House to settle interagency disputes over 5G spectrum usage and allocation. This move has put the U.S. on firmer global standing and has helped to streamline government policy and usage of the 5G spectrum.

-- Thanks to Biden’s vast increase in the federal investment in renewable energy, renewable energy is now the second largest source of electric power, whereas just a few years ago it ranked fourth.

-- Biden has cracked down on junk fees charged by airlines, cable companies, concert ticket-sellers, and hotels, saving Americans at least $2 billion per year and rising.

-- Biden has cracked down on China-based companies operating in the U.S. who were refusing to disclose their audits. Ever since the Enron and WorldCom scandals, the U.S. has allowed companies to publicly list their stocks only if they agree to let federal watchdogs review their auditors’ work. However, until 2022, Chinese authorities, citing national security concerns, refused to allow American inspectors to examine the books of China-based companies.

Biden secured a landmark deal in August 2022 that gives American inspectors at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the top American accounting watchdog, unprecedented access to the audits of Chinese and Hong Kong-based firms trading on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

I should add that this deal was made possible by the 2020 bill that Trump signed that empowered the government to expel companies that did not allow their audits to be inspected.

-- Biden is in the process of raising the threshold for receiving overtime pay to $55,000, a long-overdue increase. Under current law, only employees who earn less than $36,000 can receive overtime pay for overtime hours. Thus, if you earn $37,000 per year, your employer can require that you work overtime hours without getting overtime pay for those hours. My oldest son was the general manager of a large restaurant and had to work 60-70 hours per week, but he received no overtime pay for the extra hours because his salary was $60K per year.

Again, I did not and will not vote for Biden, but he has done many good things, and his reelection would not necessarily mean the end of the world.

Please keep your posts short and to the point. I don't bother to read long drawn out posts.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

If your WOKE is the future we need to Embrace the past.

The Proud Become the Putrid

The Preppy Progressives believe they are on the cutting edge. Sucks for them that they don't realize it's the cutting edge of a shredder.

Their Daddies have told them they are the wave of the future. For the rest of us, if they aren't put down first, that will be a tsunami.

 

[ozro]

So from reading this thread the message seems to be;
"Reelect Biden/Harris.....the disaster is NOT complete!"

God help our nation.