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>The 2010s were a lost decade This is the first time I've ever heard this, how do you even begin to justify this claim.

wombatpm 3y ago
I'd start with the trillion spent on wars we didn't need. Holding an empire together is expensive. If Trump hadn't tied Biden's hands, we would still have troops in Afghanistan.
yyyk 3y ago
* No meaningful regulation of banks and definitely no attempt to charge bankers for fraud. Dodd-Frank was emptied of most meaning rather quickly, and no other steps were taken to prevent 'too big to fail'. Only very recently has Anti-Trust finally recalled its mandate. * American life expectancy rate of increase slowed down since the Great Recession, to the point that life expectancy went down between 2014 and 2017 and only then recovered. 2019 life expectancy was still slightly below 2014. And then COVID arrived... (There are slight changes due to various data issues and slightly different definitions, but the general shape of the graph is identical everywhere you'd look) https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?end=2021&locations=US&start=2000 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?end=2021... https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/25/1164819944/live-free-and-die-the-sad-state-of-u-s-life-expectancy https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/25/1164819... * Foreign policy far too desperate to woo every US adversary, starting with the famous 'reset' with Russia and turning a blind eye towards Putin's crimes. That worked out really well, didn't it? It's not an accident Obama was followed by Trump, or that the D primary was so savage that year - the failures of 'moderate' 'responsible' technocracy were already showing themselves, the voters wanted it to change. Fortunately, Biden is smart enough to understand that he must be the change the voters want. He just needs to put this into practice more.

I'd start with the trillion spent on wars we didn't need. Holding an empire together is expensive. If Trump hadn't tied Biden's hands, we would still have troops in Afghanistan.

yyyk 3y ago

* No meaningful regulation of banks and definitely no attempt to charge bankers for fraud. Dodd-Frank was emptied of most meaning rather quickly, and no other steps were taken to prevent 'too big to fail'. Only very recently has Anti-Trust finally recalled its mandate. * American life expectancy rate of increase slowed down since the Great Recession, to the point that life expectancy went down between 2014 and 2017 and only then recovered. 2019 life expectancy was still slightly below 2014. And then COVID arrived... (There are slight changes due to various data issues and slightly different definitions, but the general shape of the graph is identical everywhere you'd look) https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?end=2021&locations=US&start=2000 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?end=2021... https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/25/1164819944/live-free-and-die-the-sad-state-of-u-s-life-expectancy https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/25/1164819... * Foreign policy far too desperate to woo every US adversary, starting with the famous 'reset' with Russia and turning a blind eye towards Putin's crimes. That worked out really well, didn't it? It's not an accident Obama was followed by Trump, or that the D primary was so savage that year - the failures of 'moderate' 'responsible' technocracy were already showing themselves, the voters wanted it to change. Fortunately, Biden is smart enough to understand that he must be the change the voters want. He just needs to put this into practice more.