Biden Takes Credit For 'Record' Job Growth Post-COVID - Again

Brittany M. Hughes | March 4, 2022
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President Joe Biden is once again deceptively taking credit for a record number of jobs having been “created” since he took office – jobs that weren’t new, but which simply returned after governments lifted the lockdowns that had forced businesses to close and lay off countless workers.

Which is kind of like taking a baseball bat to someone’s car, then patting yourself on the back when they get a new one.

But rather than acknowledge the simply truth that those jobs were only “created” because the government had destroyed them in the first place (22 million jobs were lost in the spring of 2020 alone), Biden congratulated himself for overseeing record job growth that had little to do with his administration's efforts.

“Over the course of my presidency, our economy has now created 7.4 million jobs,” Biden bragged while addressing the February jobs report, published Friday, which saw about 678,000 jobs added. “More jobs created in a 13-month period than any time before in our history. We learned that in February the unemployment rate fell to 3.8%, down from 6.4% the day I took office.”


Of course, that’s easy to say when unemployment was at near-record highs when Biden took office thanks to government edicts that literally forced businesses to shut their doors and fire their employees.

While he’s talking about records, perhaps Biden would like to point of the record inflation that’s come along with a post-COVID economy, hitting a 40-year-high of 7.5% in January.

Or perhaps he’d like to talk about the record number of illegal aliens still streaming across our Southwest border, clocking in at 2.1 million caught in 2021 and another 154,000 caught in January alone.

Maybe he could address the record gas prices that have spiked in some areas by as much as 30% in just the past week.

All of which have far more to do with Biden’s policies than these fictitious “new” jobs.

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