President Joe Biden will tout his economic agenda in remarks Wednesday as he campaigns for a second term amid low polling numbers on his job performance and the direction of the country.
The president’s plan, which the White House dubbed “Bidenomics,” aims to “move beyond” the “trickle down” economic theory that it says disproportionately benefits the wealthy and big corporations through tax cuts while reducing investment in priorities such as infrastructure and education, and failing to protect market competition.
Tying his name to it seems like a bad idea. People opposed Obamacare because of the name; half the country gets off on hating Democrats mostly because of the color of the ticket. Calling it Bidenomics will only make it easier for the talking heads to shit on it.
Is he/the White House doing it or is the press calling it that?
Obama consistently called it the affordable care act.
I don’t know if he started it, but he was quoted as saying “Bidenomics is working”, so he, at worst, is endorsing the name openly.
And yeah, but that sorta proves the point. Tying a Dems name to something is all it takes to mob it down; ignoring that it was incredibly similar to “Romneycare”
If there were a singular Bidenomics bill, I would agree. In this case, running for reelection, he needs to anchor discussion around his accomplishments. Historically, name-onomics has been a successful positive campaign pitch for presidential reelections. The risk is having the name tied to a downturn, which is (thankfully) not entirely under the president’s control.
I can see that. Plus by doing it himself, he has more control over the narrative. If it was bad, he wouldn’t be openly touting it as his own.
Idk, tho. I have no faith that people can rationalize information on their own. Whatever Tucker or Alex Jones says is gospel, because only their chosen media doesn’t lie.
If this economy is to be blamed on biden, then he’s perhaps the worst president in history, because the economy is the worst it’s ever been.
Regardless of whether you believe the economy is good or bad right now, saying it’s the “worst it’s ever been” is blatantly hyperbolic and untrue. The Great Depression and the 2008 Recession are two incidents we all still talk about. Today’s economic situation can’t hold a flame to how bad those periods of time were. I hope you’re using exaggerated language without ill intent, but it certainly comes off as disingeuous and manipulatively partisan to use language like that when it’s so clearly untrue.
Don’t disagree, but we can be realistic about about a large portion of the voting populace. Saying they’re a waste of breath doesn’t prevent that bloc from voting
Meh. They’d do it regardless and it’s not half, more like 25-30%. Rather a lot of the country doesn’t vote.
In any case, I think the focus should be on the substance of the policy, not what the local baboon population happens to be screeching about today.
I never wanted Joe Biden to win, but he has completely won me over. He has been an absolute class act. Americans are very fortunate to have a president who has experience with the Cold War right now. I can’t think of any major criticism, besides his age.
The economic policy has been effective, unemployment is low, inflation is under control, working class wages have risen, foreign relations are stronger, the deficit spending has been dropping, and the country feels much less hostile then it did 2-4 years ago.
I seriously was upset he won, but he’s impressed me.
I’m the same. I really wasn’t wanting him to be the Dem nominee, but he’s done so much to win me over. For a bit, I was quite unhappy with him over his resolution of the railroad worker strike since I’m pro-worker, pro-union-action. But that strike was over sick days and now I’m seeing railroads set up their employees with sick days. I don’t know what Biden’s involvement is in any of these resolutions, but it’s given me a good feeling that he’s really aware of the situations he’s approaching.
According to the IBEW, Biden’s involvement was significant.
http://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid
“We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” [IBEW Railroad Department Director] Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.
“We know that many of our members weren’t happy with our original agreement,” Russo said, “but through it all, we had faith that our friends in the White House and Congress would keep up the pressure on our railroad employers to get us the sick day benefits we deserve. Until we negotiated these new individual agreements with these carriers, an IBEW member who called out sick was not compensated.”
how about that policy where no federal land can be used for wind or solar power unless even more land is leased for oil and gas extraction?
He won me being the most Climate Progressive president in history. I did not expect that at all when he was nominated or elected. Is everything a win? Of course not, but he’s racked up more wins on climate than anyone else.
What has biden done for climate? I haven’t heard shit lol. AFAIK walkability is still a problem, rail is basically dead, agriculture is still animal-focused, energy is still not on sane renewables (tidal/geothermal/nuclear), production/consumption is still all time high.
The thing you got to realize is that the executive branch does not have free reign to pass whatever they want. To me, the mark of a good executive is their ability to pass legislation. The Biden administration has done a fantastic job in light of such a polarized political system in the United States. Not everybody is going to want the same things that we want. In order to get things passed, sometimes we have to make compromises.
Furthermore, the Biden administrations passing of the Inflation Reduction Act specifically invested 70+ billion into public transportation (specifically rail), and far more into renewable energy production.
Biden has been able to move the meter to the left while still working with conservatives on certain issues. If you’re looking at it from a progressive standpoint, and you might not think they’re doing as much as they can. But please keep in mind that they also have to represent moderates and conservatives of the democratic branch.
Also, walkability would be state/local issue lol.
middle out
the Silicon Valley-based memes already write themselves
Lots of people hating the name, but Reaganomics has been disastrous for our country, and republicans love the hell out of it.
I think republicans don’t actually understand reaganomics. Because almost always you hear them complain about it, but they call it “coporatism” and other such things. They don’t realize that reagan is the one responsible for that “corporatism” that they despise. They just know they like reagan (couldn’t tell you why though), and that he’s responsible for “reaganomics”. But ask them about benefiting the large franchises and corporations and opposing mom&pops? republicans agree that it was awful. it’s kinda like how they like the affordable care act, but despise obamacare, despite those being the exact same thing.
Name is cringe, but the policies behind it are decent