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When the Economy Gets Rough
More financial obstacles ahead for struggling Americans?
Media outlets like to point out that A.) the U.S. economy could be worse and B.) some economies around the world are worse. These rosy angles on the U.S. economic recovery from COVID-19 and other afflictions, while they may be true in the larger sense, don’t exactly soothe the worried minds of millions of working-class Americans struggling to pay their — now much higher — bills.
Plenty of Americans have been anxious to take their economic woes out on incumbent President Joe Biden and “Bidenomics.”
“Bidenomics Versus the American Family,” Akash Chougule lobbed for Real Clear Politics this week.
“The President may be proud of ‘Bidenomics,’ with its massive, seismic transformation in the size and scope of government, but to voters, it is raw pain,” accused Chougule. “Like a runaway train that has smashed into a small town’s railyard, everywhere you look, no part of the life we knew remains as it was before.”
“Every time we open our wallets and we are hit by these new, hard choices — delay our child’s braces, forgo our teen’s college contributions, and pray the minivan tires hold up another month,” Chougule complained. “This daily struggle of millions of families sitting at their kitchen table trying to make their hopes, dreams, and numbers…