(December 12, 2022 at 8:09 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Presidents have marginal if any input into the strength of the economy ... but voters don't care.
It makes a powerful headline, and the media and the PR people know it. Spin is a powerful thing.
Now and then husband blames Biden for gas prices going up. Like Biden actually runs around and changes the price at the pumps.
He seems to forget that in 2008 and 2009 when we were running back and forth across the country to tend to dad, gas prices were outrageous and there was a Bush in the White House.
Husband spends too much time with FOX news and other FOX news junkies at work.
I finally told him that we need not discuss politics anymore. That's been working pretty well. Now, when he starts, a raised eyebrow from me lets him know that this is not a discussion I intend to have with him.
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius