The results are what I look at
The most decent human being to occupy the White House in my lifetime was Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was, and is, truly a good man.
I also remember the Carter years as a time of high inflation, energy crises, and weak leadership.
Now, to be fair, Carter inherited many problems. And the Tehran Hostage Crisis (which consumed the last year of his presidency) was not entirely his fault.
George W Bush was another good man (picking the other party for balance) whose presidency was, in retrospect, a disaster. He got us into two avoidable Middle East forever wars on credit, after Bill Clinton paid down the debt.
Bill Clinton, on the other hand, has always been a shifty character. I voted against him in both '92 and '96. But the Clinton years were great, in retrospect. Clinton was a fiscal conservative who paid down the debt. He was practical, not ideological.
I don't believe that Joe Biden is pure evil incarnate. I don't give two hoots in a rain barrel about his tax returns. But I am concerned that Biden is in thrall to the AOC wing of his party, and I'm very concerned about rampant inflation driven by money-printing.
Every economist knows that inflation rises when the government prints money. Today, Biden even hinted at price controls, a bad idea from the Nixon era that leads to shortages.
This is not going well so far.
For me, the question is not: who is the best person? Because the answer to that is: Jimmy Carter. The question for me is: Who will *not* screw things up too badly? And 8 months into his presidency, the Biden administration gives me cause for concern.
[QUOTE=DNut;5546659]I bet you posted that without checking his tax returns. It's publicly available. How about we check all the returns of past presidents to see which ones have been avoiding paying taxes.
The thing about Joe Biden being in government for 50 years, is we have 50 years of public financial disclosures available.
With that, we know he bought his first house in the early 70's when his first wife and daughter died. He still owns the home. We know he bought a second house in the 80's for $180 k and has steadily made improvements over 30 years to increase the value. We also know he was going to sell the house to pay for his son's cancer treatment in 2017. But President Obama offered to give him the money to not sell the house. Netflix just paid the Obamas $60 million for their series so we know where that money came from.
Wasn't there a former government official who hasn't disclosed his financials, claiming they're under fraud it. Oops. Sorry. Typo. I mean, "audit".
So it seems we know where the Bidens and the Obamas, and the Bushes, and the Clintons, and the Reagan, and the Carters, got their money. Who's missing from that list?[/QUOTE]
