President Joe Biden is fond of taking credit for any and all economic improvement our country has seen over the past 12 months. Never mind the fact that inflation hasn't been this high in a half century. Never mind that many are still afraid to get back to work thanks to Biden's rhetoric about COVID or that employers can't find enough workers to keep the supply chain running.
According to the president, the economy is running along smoothly.
"We're heading into a holiday season in very strong shape," he said on December 1. "It's not because of luck. We averted a potential crisis by figuring out what needed to get fixed, and then we brought people together to do the hard work of fixing it."
Biden's chief of staff even claimed that strict COVID lockdowns help the economy.
Nope. Stronger COVID measures produce STRONGER ECONOMIC outcomes. That's why jobs, growth, and economic activity are UP this year, significantly over last year. https://t.co/06j5K7Qeb5
— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) December 1, 2021
We have a jobs report that says otherwise.
The November jobs report didn't even reach 50% of the job growth that financial experts had predicted.
"Nonfarm payrolls increased by just 210,000 for the month," CNBC reported, noting that the "Dow Jones estimate was for 573,000 new jobs."
And the president can't blame the Omicron variant. These numbers are from before the world started panicking about a new COVID surge.
Here's the truth this administration will never admit: the federal government can't "fix" the economy. In fact, all of his plans and policies have done nothing but hamper economic growth.
We should be in the midst of the strongest economic recovery in our country's history. After the vaccines became widely available, everyone should have gone back to work. No more lockdowns, no more mask mandates, no more vaccine requirements. Everyone would have had the opportunity to get a job and get vaccinated, and things would be more or less back to normal.
Instead, the president has fear-mongered about COVID and encouraged Americans to stay out of the workforce with the promise of more "stimulus." This led to inflation, the supply chain crisis, and the latest terrible jobs report.
Here's an idea: instead of trying to "fix" the economy, the president should get out of the way. The American economy is the strongest in the world if it isn't hampered by misguided and tyrannical government policies. It has the power to get us out of this mess if only Washington would pack up its policy proposals and go home.
They'll never stop meddling on their own, which is why we need to call a Convention of States. A Convention of States is called and controlled by the states under Article V of the Constitution and has the power to propose constitutional amendments. These amendments can limit the power, scope, and jurisdiction of the federal government and force them back into their constitutional box.
With this complete package of amendments in place, the president won't have the power to meddle in the economy and the American people can get back to pursuing work, building wealth, and achieving prosperity.
