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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: commonone ✹✹ HONORARY
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Subject: Re: Biden’s out
Date: 07/21/24 5:18 PM
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bighairymike: Keep telling you but you will not hear. Security and Prosperity.


Umm, the Biden administration rebuilt and expanded the single most successful military and political alliance in Western civilization. And has financially and militarily crippled Russia for less than 5% of our defense budget without putting a single American in harm's way.

Crime rates have fallen dramatically and the murder rate in the lowest since the 1960s. In 2020 under Trump, the murder rate rose to the highest level since 1997.

Everyone in America who wants to work can find a job. The unemployment rate is 4.1% and was under 4.0% for the longest stretch since the Vietnam War. Biden and Harris added nearly 16 million jobs, a record for a four-year cycle.

Trump left office with a unemployment rate of 6.3% and lost 2.9 million jobs, the first net job loss since Hoover.

The first half of 2020 was the busiest ever for bankruptcy filings, led by a record number of retailers, restaurants and oil and gas companies seeking Chapter 11 protection. Hertz, retailers Neiman Marcus, J.C. Penney, Brooks Brothers and J. Crew and oil and gas firms including Chesapeake Energy, McDermott International and Whiting Petroleum went belly up. More than 400 major companies went bankrupt through Aug. 9, 2020.

Evidently your idea of prosperity was not being able to buy toilet paper, paper towels, diapers, canned goods, household appliances, flour, yeast, poultry, bicycles, and cars.
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