'Three years ago, our economy was thriving,' Republican Sen. Tim Scott argued. 'Today, we’re all worse off.' As stevebenen writes, this is the kind of outlandish claim that calls out for some important fact-checking.
"Three years ago, our economy was thriving," GOP Sen. Tim Scott argued. "Today, we’re all worse off." Is this true? Let's do a little fact-checking.In early 2012, as Barack Obama’s re-election campaign took shape, there was ample debate about the strength of the economic recovery. The Great Recession that the Democratic president inherited was over, but much of the country was still feeling its effects.
It was against this backdrop that Sen. Marco Rubio thought it’d be a good idea to pick a different kind of fight: Instead of saying that the recovery was too slow, the Florida Republican told voters that the recovery didn’t actually exist at all. “The bottom line is this president inherited a country with serious problems,”I remember this because on my very first day at MSNBC, I explained.
More than a decade later, we’re apparently stuck in a similar conversation. Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina published“Three years ago, our economy was thriving. Today, we’re all worse off under the Biden administration. America needs to get back to what works: energy independence, responsible spending, and freedom from government control.”
The good news is, the underlying question isn’t entirely subjective. President Joe Biden and his White House team insist conditions have improved, while Republicans such as Scott says Americans are “all worse off.” Who’s right? Let’s check.
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