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Biden gives his Final Exit Interview [1]
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Date: 2025-01-17
Bdens Final Address.
Something that we must always highlight is that Biden has been one of the most successful and consequential presidents in generations.
Ending Covid.-19 with a vaccine distribution plan
Saving the Economy with the American Rescue Act
Creating 16.6 Million jobs
Lowest Unemployment in 50 years
After-tax incomes increased by $4,000
Wealth rising 37%, adjusted for inflation
Bipartisan Infrastructure Act Replacing 500,000 Lead Pipes 450 Rail Projects Improvements on 200,000 miles of roads 12,000 Bridge repair projects High-Speed Internet for 23 Million low-income homes
CHIPs and Science Act
PACT Act for Veterans Exposed to Toxic Burn Pits
Lowest Health Uninsurance rate ever
Inflation Reduction Act Brought Inflation down from 9% down to just 2.5% Fastest recovery from Inflation in the G7 $300 Billion in Clean Energy Investments
Medicare Drug Price Negotiation
Medicare Insulin Capped at $35
Expanded Social Security Benefits
Raised minimum wage to $17.75 an hour for Federal Contract Workers
Collected $1 billion in unpaid taxes from delinquent millionaires
Expanded the Affordable Care Act Premium Tax Credit to save an average of $800 per year in health insurance premiums.
Expanded the Child Tax Credit cutting child poverty nearly in half to a historic low.
Cracked down on corporate price-gouging using anti-competitive, unfair, deceptive, or fraudulent business practices
Ended the longest war in American history.
Revitalized NATO raising the number of countries contributing at least 2% GDP from 9 to 23.
Built a historic Coalition of 50 Nations to support and defend Ukraine
Negotiated a Ceasefire Deal between Israel and Gaza
Brought home more than 75 unjustly detained Americans from prisons abroad, including Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich, and David Lin.
Removed terrorist leaders from the battlefield, including al Qaeda emir al-Zawahiri, Hurras al-Din emir al-Makki, ISIS emir al-Qurayshi and his deputy.
We haven’t had a President with this level of accomplishment since FDR. In the final interview of his administration, Biden was largely humble and largely admitted that his greatest failure was probably not marketing and promoting his achievements enough.
"You said it was stupid — as a joke — that you didn't sign the checks that went out to people from your administration when you were giving Covid help after Donald Trump put his name on the checks that went out during his administration," said O'Donnell. The host said he suspected Biden took former President Franklin D. Roosevelt's approach to social security checks. When they first went out in 1940 as FDR sought re-election, the checks went out with the signature of a Treasury officer. "Because it would be indecent and beyond his comprehension that a president would dare take credit for something that was legislated by the Congress and was enacted that way," O'Donnell continued. "Did it cross your mind to put your name on the checks?" In response, Biden said the thought only crossed his mind because he kept hearing people say back to him they received a check from the president. "'The president did that. Why aren't you helping me?'" Biden said he heard. "It did cross my mind," he confessed. "The mistake we made was — I think I made — was not getting our allies to acknowledge that the Democrats did this. So for example, build a new billion-dollar bridge over a river. Well, call it the 'Democratic bridge' figuratively speaking. Talk about who put it together. Let people know that this is something that Democrats did. That it was done by the party."
Yes, that is what the party did that is what Democrats did. Unlike MAGAs who are constantly bragging and complaining about things that haven’t even happened Democrats have a tendency to focus on implementing policy rather than brag about it.
Today the IMF reported that the American economy continues to outpace the world.
The U.S. economy has separated itself from the global pack — and its lead could widen in the new year. That’s the upshot of a new forecast by the International Monetary Fund, the organization created at the end of World War Two to support the global economy.
And yet people voted against Biden because they demanded an economy that was better than what was already the best in the world?
Some observers argue that Biden gave a “Masters Class” as he warned about the future danger of Oligarchy.
“Such an information rich interview with President Biden,” MSNBC host Symone D. Sanders Townsend wrote on X. “Thank you @Lawrence truly a materclass!” “The Joe Biden in this interview did not sound like a person in cognitive decline,” political analyst Sarah Rese Jones told her X followers. “In fact, Biden sounds light years more lucid than Trump does in his taped and heavily managed Fox News interviews.” This is probably @POTUS @JoeBiden best interview, and it's because he has the amazing @Lawrence interviewing him,” posted X user ifudontlike2bad, who identified herself as a political adviser. “He knows the assignment. President Biden knows exactly what he's talking about and his memory is just fine. I'm going to miss this man. Thank you POTUS."
Yes, many of us will miss the intelligence, compassion and his steady experienced leadership of Joseph Robinette Biden.
It’s a shame that he wasn’t properly appreciated for his hard difficult work.
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