No. Both parties suck at cutting spending, which is apparently what you mean by "taking responsible action on the economy". But, like most conservatives, you have no idea what "responsible action on the economy" actually is.

No. Republican policies are dreadful for the economy. They are largely based on supply-side economic --- which has failed miserably every time it's been tried. But it does have one "redeeming" value --- it makes a lot of rich people even richer, so, of course, Republicans are all for it.

SO, let's review the last 34 years:
1988-1992 Bush-41 - Continued Reagan's Supply-side economics. Caused a recession.
1993-2000 Clinton. - Fixed the economy. Longest peace-time economic expansion. Was able to ride out the dotcom bubble without a recession.
2001-2008 Bush-43 - Screwed up Clinton's roaring economy. Brought back supply-side economic. Caused the Great Recession.
2009-2016 Obama - Fixed the economy. Longest peace-time economic expansion (passing Clinton's).
2017-2020 Trump - Screwed up Obama's roaring economy. Brought back supply-side economic. Caused a recession.
2021 - Biden - Fixed the economy. (He still has time to do more)

Now, I said "40 years" and that was only 34, but Reagan is a special case, so we have to deal with him separately.

You may recall back in the 70s, we had the Nuclear Family where the husband worked, and the mother stayed home with the kids. But, by the 90s, to make ends meet, BOTH parents had to work. So, what happened between the 70s & the 90s?? Reaganomics! The single most destructive force in American history. (But it made a lot of rich people even richer, so the GOP loved it!) Economists have described Reaganomics as "a textbook example of how to cause a recession", and sure enough, it caused a recession. Most of the recession hit in Bush's term, but we still had Black Monday right in Reagan's year --- when the DJIA dropped 25% in one day (the equivalent of it dropped 8000pt today). Like Trump, Reagan liked happy headlines today more than planning for the future. When all his economists told him the economy was overheated and was headed for a recession, he just egged it on more. The GOP has been trying to repeat the Reagan model (An actor who could make you believe anything) ever since. And they thought they found their guy in Trump -- a person who made a career convincing people he knew something about business)

Why do you refuse to accept the truth?

No need to get so worked up. You could just admit you can't cite any point in the last 40 years when the GOP was right about the economy.

Ok, so when exactly has the GOP ever been RIGHT about the economy in the last 40 years?

Well, let's see. Currently, I pay 594.34/month (297.17 a paycheck) for SS. According to the Social Security Statement I just got (1-Aug-2022), if I retire at 67, I'll get $3310/month. Doing the math, it takes over 5 1/2 months of my contributions just to pay for one month of my retirement. 27 years of contributions would pay for just 5 years of retirement (except 27 years ago, I made a lot less, and therefore paid less into SS)

No. Good for America.

It's not "everyone" who knows it "will not work" --- just the right-wing. And I might listen to them-- except for the fact that, for the last 40 years, conservatives have had a 100% perfect record of ALWAYS being wrong about the economy.

Sorry about that. You replied with such specificity I assumed you were the original poster. You Trumpers speak with one voice; it's hard to tell you apart sometimes.



HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa. Keep in mind, this is a man who has fought for SIX YEARS to prevent releasing his tax returns (something every presidential candidate in the last 40 years has done as a matter of course). Sure he tweets a lot. Scam artists always tell stories; that's how they work -- they get you to "trust" them (The "Con" in con-artist is short for "confidence"). (Of course, some of Trump's tweets reflect his oncoming dementia). But he has a phalanx of lawyers to make sure no real information ever comes out.

Actually, Biden is quite brilliant. He just got major legislature passed by making deals with Congress. Trump boasted & bragged but actually got nothing done. Biden knows how to work the levels of power behind the scenes to get things done.

Oh, right. I forgot that Conservatives have zero self-awareness, and a complete inability to draw logical conclusions.

So, let's recap:
- You said that Trump was right about Ivermectin. (providing no evidence).
- I said he was wrong, and provided a report by the NIH to back up my statement.
- You dismissed that report with a simple "I suppose you do not understand the relationship between drug companies & FDA." (Again, with no supporting evidence, and even getting the government agency wrong).

So, you just implied that NIH and the Drug companies, instead of doing their jobs (providing useful information, and helpful drugs, respectively), are actually in cahoots to scam us --- But Trump alone is willing to give us the straight info. This is in addition to the long list of groups you must believe are refusing to do their jobs and lying (FBI, CIA, DOJ, Secret Service, approx half the Trump WH staff, tens of thousands of election workers across the country) -- if you continue to believe Trump.

OR -- you could believe what the majority of the voters in the last election realized --- all those people are doing their jobs honorably, AND JUST ONE MAN is trying to scam us: Trump.

For the first 40-50 years of its existence, most recipients received far more than they paid in.

Taken in appropriately sized doses, it won't hurt you. It just won't help you with covid either.

Oh, Right.... Because no one in the world actually does their job, and everyone is scamming you --- except Donald Trump!

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/antiviral-therapy/ivermectin/

A lot of Spin there.

Ivermectin has been shown to work against the virus in laboratory studies --- but it would require doses so high they would kill the patient.

And when you say "closing the border as he wanted would have been a HUGE help," implies that we didn't do it. Actually, Trump DID impose his "travel ban". Specifically, the policy prohibited non-U.S. citizens, other than the immediate family of U.S. citizens and permanent residents, who have traveled to China within the last two weeks from entering the U.S.

And it WAS racist, because it was targeted only at Chinese nationals. US Citizens were free to travel back & forth to China, bringing the virus with them, as were people throughout Covid-ravaged Europe. An ACTUAL travel ban (prevent anyone coming from an affected area from entering the country) might have helped. But Trump's plan was just an attack on the Chinese.

Funny how you can't decide if Biden is incompetent or a master strategist.

Biden's action was completely legal. The law (passed under Trump) gave the president wide-reaching powers to deal with student loans. Republicans are just upset that power was passed to a democratic president.