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kentuck

(111,051 posts)
Thu Jul 16, 2020, 07:01 AM Jul 2020

Delusional?

Are you one of those folks that believe the economy will be all right as soon as Biden takes office? That all the problems we are now facing will be fixed? It may be just the opposite?

Listening to NPR yesterday morning, they were discussing the health of the airline industry in Denver and other places. More specifically, they were discussing Delta and United airlines. Both were hemorrhaging jobs and profits. One expected to have lay-off in the tens of thousands. They had lost up to 90% of their business.

If this is any indication of the economy in the near future, it does not look good for the next President, in regards to turning around a devastated economy. We haven't seen anything yet.

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abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
1. I don't believe in magic. But I do believe that with Biden in power we'll get back perhaps the
Thu Jul 16, 2020, 07:28 AM
Jul 2020

most effective thing we've been missing: HOPE!

tanyev

(42,514 posts)
2. I don't think everything magically gets better with Biden in office,
Thu Jul 16, 2020, 08:48 AM
Jul 2020

but I know everything gets exponentially worse if Trump gets four more years.

uponit7771

(90,301 posts)
4. K&R, ... and this is why the "vaccine" fallacy is taking such hold in the financials where there ...
Thu Jul 16, 2020, 08:54 AM
Jul 2020

... have been multiple studies showing immunity don't last long.

Get us quick testing ... NOW ... and America turns a huge quick corner ... NOW ...

Silent3

(15,142 posts)
5. What I worry about is that the stupid short-attention span, short memory-span American public...
Thu Jul 16, 2020, 08:58 AM
Jul 2020

... will blame Biden and Democrats that everything, of course, isn't fixed right away, forget how much Republicans are to blame for all the damage inflicted on our country, and then vote in a bunch of Republicans in 2022 who'll do their level best to increase public misery before the 2024 election, saddling Democrats with the blame for their sabotage.

Rinse and repeat.

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