Under the leadership of President Joe Biden’s administration, along with the great work of the 2021-2022 Democratic-controlled Congress – and ZERO thanks to Republicans, who have relentlessly obstructed and bad mouthed the economy – this morning we got yet ANOTHER tremendous jobs report, with a “blowout” 353,000 jobs added in January.
Also great news: wage growth has been outpacing inflation (which is totally under control/back to Fed targets at this point); the unemployment rate remains at decades-long lows; manufacturing has come roaring back under the Biden administration; clean energy (and energy in general) production is BOOMING (with the U.S. actually a net EXPORTER of energy!); the U.S. economy is the strongest IN THE WORLD; etc. Seriously, if anyone had predicted this back in 2020, in the midst of the COVID pandemic and disastrously botched response by the Trump administration, would anyone have believed it?!? Just amazing – not that the media will ever give Democrats the credit they deserve. Anyway, as Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA11) says, “I’ll take four more years of this economcy please.” Seriously, who wouldn’t?!?








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