{"id":52626,"date":"2022-08-17T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52626"},"modified":"2022-08-17T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:12:07","slug":"are-we-better-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52626","title":{"rendered":"Are we better off &#8230; ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/joe-biden-296106-N4lAnZmL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47816\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/joe-biden-296106-N4lAnZmL-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/joe-biden-296106-N4lAnZmL-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/joe-biden-296106-N4lAnZmL-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/joe-biden-296106-N4lAnZmL-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/joe-biden-296106-N4lAnZmL.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Republican leader of the U.S. House of Representatives sought to make some political hay by asking if we are &#8220;better off today than we were two years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, Kevin McCarthy of California, your effort to denigrate Joe Biden&#8217;s presidency deserves a look. So &#8230; here goes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Biden&#8217;s watch, Congress approved a bipartisan bill &#8212; the first in 30-something years &#8212; that seeks to stem gun violence.<\/li>\n<li>When Russia invaded Ukraine this past February, President Biden was able to present a unified NATO and European Union front in response to the illegal and criminal act of war.<\/li>\n<li>The president was able to shepherd through Congress a massive infrastructure improvement bill that seeks to repair our nation&#8217;s roads, bridges and airports.<\/li>\n<li>Joe Biden nominated and then welcomed the nation&#8217;s first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court &#8212; Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.<\/li>\n<li>We have turned the corner on the international pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>Fuel prices, which skyrocketed and led the inflationary surge of recent months, have retreated dramatically.<\/li>\n<li>The United States has created more private-sector jobs in the first two years of President Biden&#8217;s term than at any similar time in its history.<\/li>\n<li>Unemployment currently stands at 3.5%.<\/li>\n<li>Congressional Democrats &#8212; fighting unanimous Republican opposition &#8212; managed to pass the nation&#8217;s first-ever meaningful law dealing with climate change; it also seeks to curb health costs and reduce inflation.<\/li>\n<li>We have cut by roughly half the nation&#8217;s annual budget deficit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, taken together, I think I have an answer to Leader McCarthy&#8217;s question.<\/p>\n<p>Yes. We are better off than we were when President Joseph R. Biden Jr. took office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican leader of the U.S. House of Representatives sought to make some political hay by asking if we are &#8220;better off today than we were two years ago.&#8221; Well, Kevin McCarthy of California, your effort to denigrate Joe Biden&#8217;s presidency deserves a look. So &#8230; here goes: On Biden&#8217;s watch, Congress approved a bipartisan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52626\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are we better off &#8230; ?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7910,9597,13],"tags":[1639,2272,2505,3219,9261,9899],"class_list":["post-52626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-news","category-joe-biden","category-national-news","tag-eu","tag-inflation","tag-joe-biden","tag-nato","tag-pandemic","tag-ukraine-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52627,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52626\/revisions\/52627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}