Are Americans Better Off Now Than 4 Years Ago? | The View 

Thank you. They know that uninformed consumers will just accept the blanket excuse of inflation or supply chain disruptions, when it’s really just a focus on stock buybacks for investors. The Pharmaceutical industry can just tell people all that money is going to medical innovation, when it’s directly going into pockets. I respect Mark Cuban for creating a drug company that manufactures drugs at a lower price than all the other corporate vultures in that space

And Putin

Why do we let them do it? Even the laundromats went up. There is no reason prices are that high.

Keep telling yourself that. Poor emotionally brainwashed MSM sheep

Exactly.any opportunity these corporations get to hike prices they will. They think that since everyone is in the mine that it's a recession no one will question it .

Funny it wasn't a US problem before Jotato got in.

It’s well known that the Covid recovery is a global phenomenon.

Trump could have done what other first world economies did during Covid. Which is NOT be the country that had the WORST COVID death rate per Capita than any other first world country. USA: the best country in the world and the MOST number of deaths per capita than any other first world country!???? Seriously???

Trump could have done what other first world economies did during Covid. Which is NOT be the country that had the WORST COVID mortality rates per Capita than any other first world country. USA: the best country in the world and the MOST number of deaths per capita than any other first world country!???? Seriously???

@@chucksgrace3225. Trump could have done what other first world economies did during Covid. Which is NOT be the country that had the WORST COVID mortality rates per Capita than any other first world country. USA: the best country in the world and the MOST number of people per capita who died than any other first world country!???? Seriously???

Oh, the good old days of 2020 when 1 million Americans died, we couldn't leave our houses, unemployment was 7% and our president was telling us to drink disinfectant to cure covid. So many good memories back then.

as if trump made covid lol

Had lower gas prices because no body was going anywhere... people were home... so of course there were lower gas prices.

@@jasonlara1943they are such liars. Trump had nothing to do with Corona virus.

Groceries were 30% less four years ago. Thanks Brandon.

lol…a death count that every liberal media outlet turned off the second Biden won the election

Don’t forget the governors morning address!

Right

Dem-leaning advisors urged Trump to permit the states to lockdown, Dem mayors and governors carried it out, then scapegoated Trump for the deaths and severe restrictions. They insisted on the total lockdown continuing for years, which is why Trump expedited the emergency vaccines for those who wanted it. It was the Dems who insisted taking an undertested drug be MANDATORY, which means it was THEY who fostered the vaccine skepticism. That's the rest of the story, in spite of the View's selective memory.

WAY more people died under Sleepy Joe than Trump. But let's not post facts...

Blame China for the pandemic

Wish u would have done the bleach test. U are as sad as these hens.

Cap

And Democrats were telling you not to take the "Trump vaccine". Selective memory?

if you take the poison vaccine you will not get covid... Biden!!! We all know now that was a lie LOL if you can still catch covid and pass it to others even after taking the poison then exactly what good are the boosters??? #pureblood

I am so sorry you and your family had to go through that.

Where did it come from?

@@flashinthepanpaydirt7387it cane from Trump calling Covid "Congflu" and said "blame china"

I remember Chinese people in China blaming black people for the pandemic. They were being deported, excluded from entering stores.

@@flashinthepanpaydirt7387 Dirty white people 🤷🏼????

Lol. Pandemic was global

@@CharlesMgbekemAustralia and New Zealand had some competent leadership and more or less avoided the pandemic. Amazing the difference good leadership can make.

@@CharlesMgbekemYes, what does your obvious point have to do with the original comment you’re responding to?

@@amberbanuelos7053Exactly hahah. Conservatives love a false equivalence when it serves their predetermined narrative

​@@amberbanuelos7053Competent? Lol. They were literally arresting people for sitting on a beach. Fascist much?

Smh so your basically going to completely undermine the other good things that did happen 4 years ago smh 🤦‍♂️

Excuse me but you won’t get an answer from me I don’t answer to maga kids.

@@dohseyes5744 whatever happened to just being American citizen your at war with your own ppl

@@dohseyes5744 _you won’t get an answer from me I don’t answer to maga kids_ Because you can't. You have been programmed by your school/college of what to think and what to believe, and NEVER debate. The left's indoctrination of you, is complete.

really has nothing to do with gas prices how do you think your groceries get on the shelf? ignorant statement lady very ignorant

Yes but democrats are not doing anything to stop it

Thank you. Why aren’t people realizing this.

That wasn’t Trump’s fault 😂 If Hillary had been president, she would’ve locked us down homie 😂 You wouldn’t be able to touch anything and the streets of Atlanta would’ve been empty for LONGER 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Naw dog. At least I could afford food and rent back then. Since 2020 my rent has more than doubled, the price of groceries is ludicrous,… The price of everything has gone up except for the rate of pay! I’d go back to 2020 in a heartbeat.

Short memories?no..Dems were insane when travel was stopped.They said come to China town..everything is fine.The dems fueled the riots and gave it a pass,they kept schools and states shut down too long...wow..no we remember

You can thank China for the covid.

Well that was the first year of covid. (Oddly an election year too). 🤔

Get help.

Not like you got drafted for War lol

That's called TDS... glad you feel better now but it comes in waves...

You are so right about that. The chaos of the Trump presidency was all him. I wish to erase it from history! The massive volumes of corruption, racism and greed will definitely be the black stain on our country for years to come. I waver between anger that it happened and anger that willfully uninformed people are willing to vote him back in office. Let me be clear! I voted Republican my whole life, I’m in my 60’s, until Trump. If we had all taken the time to investigate who he was from the beginning he never would have been in office.

@@sammiejo6557 get a life.🙄🤬

At least I could afford food and rent back then. Since 2020 my rent has more than doubled, the price of groceries is ludicrous,… The price of everything has gone up except for the rate of pay! I’d go back to 2020 in a heartbeat.

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@@HH-gv8mxI rather have my sister-in-law back. And I’m sure everyone who lost someone would disagree with you.

​@@alee7322That is not entirely the President's fault though, in my opinion.

​@@ceterisparibus8966I appreciate your opinion. I disagree. If the President had followed the Pandemic playbook he was left by the previous administration we would have been better prepared. My husband and I started preparation in Jan. Masks, disifected spay, gloves, social distance. Neither of us got sick. My Son got sick from work, I took care of him. My Mother and Father-in-law, I took care of them. I didn't get sick. My daughter pulled her kids out of school, got PPE . They didn't get sick. I feel we would have lost people but not as many as we did if the Government took it more seriously.

I am 64 and Bush number one passed the American Disability Act, or whatever it was called. I have had multiple sclerosis since 1982, so i noticed

You are right. I’m 73.

@@batgurrl That's fair. Thanks.

​@batgurrl Trump would call that socialism now

@@batgurrlThe fact that going back 34 years was the earliest work history for the people on a Republican presidential resume speaks volumes. Also the fact that Reps have consistently lost every popular vote for decades, and only win thanks to the electoral college. Seems like the electoral college is a “participation trophy” for Republicans

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That’s embarrassing to write

I feel that same.

​@maxpower8429 whats embarrassing are those who still support the orange traitor!😂

@@Brielle6 The Actual SNOWFLAKE Is trump, THE SORE LOSER, That COULD NOT HANDLE THE LOST, In THE LAST ELECTION!!!! NOTHING But LIES, CHAOS, CRIMES, SINCE!!!!

Howso???

​@@truthbtold8697you seriously have to ask? People were DYING!!

@@deelee7641more people actually died from Covid under Biden than under Trump. FYI

​@@deelee7641all over the world dummy😂😂😂

@@deelee7641 were you dying? It was a legitimate question.

@@shogreene9215 HAIL ODIN, HAIL THOR, HAIL SATAN! \m/

@@delaneyalusa make debauchery weird again. Good luck in November. Democrats are too morally bankrupt to vote for anymore

@@delaneyalusa make debauchery weird again

@@shogreene9215 Besides, as a "Christian< You'd never tell me to repent. You'd also not eat Pork )Bacon, Ham, Sausage), Eat Shellfish. You would never shave your beard as a male and as a female you would walk 50 paces behind your husband, you would not wear clothing made of 2 materials. The list could go on and on and on and on. So GFYS False Christian

And you are the .1 percent jacking up this country with complete delusions. So you’re a dude right!

So you don't own a home you work for someone else and you are paying interest on a car the bank owns? Wow doing great!

What state are you in where rent is affordable? I can’t find anything reasonable in my area 😩

@@marlowilliams4264 the state of denyle

Thank you! I’ve made the most money of my life the past two years. Hoping to surpass that this year 🙏🏽

Happy for you. Everyone isn't so well off.

It's not his fault yall heard "drink bleech" when he's never even suggested such... that's a personal problem💯

brain washed lie go find your safe space

@@bellfaith1065seems like a lot of ppl disagree w you, perhaps you're the one w the problem 😅

@@blehsquared5628 definitely doesn't seem that way 2 me...but then again liberals r delusional, yall see wat you want to see💯✌🏾

@@blehsquared5628 g

I sold my home in CA in 2011 for $290,000...same house was at the market in 2018 for $700,000 and Biden was not president.

CA has been screwed up for a while! Sorry!

@@humbertovazquez3733 those were mostly Obama years, when Biden was VP…. 🧐

@@FXDLS-ot1wq On 2018, Trump was president.

Credit for what? What has he done??

Sounds like today except the toilet paper

And that was Trump's fault?

​@@mikewillett5076 A lot of it was INDEED Trump's fault, yes!

Liar.

@@rn6710cope 😂

P.S. Three loved ones died from Covid. 😱😭

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Too bad Biden is losing in every swing state and will lose in November 😄 Trump didn't cause the pandemic, he didn't have open borders and record inflation. Sorry!

Like Democrats pander to minorities? Yet, do absolutely nothing for them.

Absolutely not😂😂😂😂 the average American is saying the same thing...rent wasn't as high, interest rates weren't as high, overall prices weren't as high....the border wasn't what it is now, and we weren't inching closer to war

Yes, but sometimes people need a reminder. The Biden ad does that IMO.

Black America feels different from you white folks. Just saying

Really ...? How were gas prices and groceries prices 4 years ago? How was the economy and inflation pre China flu? You people are seriously delusional

That didn't change in the last four years. Most American schools have _never_ taught enough about the Holocaust.

Those Jew-ish Americans are bootleg converts. Jesus was a black. Israel is in Africa.

​@@yuyutubee8435what for? Yall don't teach enough about slavery. Which jew-ish converts profited off of.

Never forget or you become what you fled from in Germany

She's right.

Campaign funding

Because a lower inflation rate now doesn’t roll back two years of insane price increases in commodities! Kind of like how stopping a car doesn’t negate the 100 miles you just traveled before stopping. Nothing has reversed the trend, the rate of increase has only slowed. Dem politicians know this but they pretend they don’t because taking points!

We were better off because of Obama. Obama inherited a bad economy and fixed it in 8 years and he had the most deportations compared to trump and Biden. lol do your homework. Obama inherited a bad economy from bush and Trump inherited a great economy from Obama.

None of that stuff happened before January 20, 2021

The Trump administration inherited a great economy from the Obama administration. Obama inherited a terrible economy from Bush. It took 2 terms for Obama to fix it. I don’t like democrats so much but these are facts lol

​@@noname-op5zn More like because of the freedom we have now. No more curfews, limits on who can enter stores, businesses shut down, long lines at food banks, more toilet paper & paper towels around. No more 6 feet distance, masks, & hoarding sanitizers. Wake up.

Exactly. Our freedoms have been eroding for decades, the economy has been a dumpster fire our whole lives, and the only thing we’ve exported since anyone has been alive is 💀. They’ve got to keep the majority delusional and opposed to each other otherwise they might wake up and unite

And one of those years he just golfed!!

Yes...dummie...you are right...the President controlls the economy....your grasp of economics is amazing.....

@kimberley1449 He also worked while he golfed. Joe Biden term as been mostly spent on the beach eating ice cream or at some dinners mega million dollar estate, or lying thru his false teeth or wrapping his pants! ETC!!!

​​@@deansacca781Run along and google "spelling for dummies." Leave discussions on economics and policy to the intellectually curious.👌

What a strange comment.

She's married to an older gentleman. Get a clue.

@@mcpbaa3000 what does being married to an older gentleman have to do with”” my son-in-law’s father”. ? my son-in-law‘s father means that Ana‘s husband has a daughter who is married to a man whose father Ana is talking about.

@@HH-gv8mx Calm the f down. The original poster was a little puzzled by the ages.

Hahahaha greatest comment with the squawking bird

Absolutely. There has been a lot of inflation and financial fallout as a result of the pandemic, which we are still feeling today. Just go to the supermarket and look at the prices.

no we're taking about 4 years ago & all that happened then. you dont get to ignore Covid just cuz you want to 😂

Ya ok

Whoppie made a whoopie pie in here giant underpants

Don't forget FJB

@@jasonlee-le6oj why must you guys always be so rude?!! Are you that unhappy with your life...just move the EFF on...GEEZUS!!!

Joe Biden can't even go anywhere without ceasefire protest everywhere he goes. People are acting like it's better no matter how propagandists spin it

Totally agree. Plus, I could afford food and rent back then. Since 2020 my rent has more than doubled, the price of groceries is ludicrous,… The price of everything has gone up except for the rate of pay! I’d go back to 2020 in a heartbeat.

@@HH-gv8mxno one cares, i'm gonna report you for spam stfu 😂

😂 no

​@@chef1088Yes, 🤡

Congratulations! And welcome back to Earth. We have sooooo much to tell you!!!

Congratulations! And welcome back to Earth. We have sooooo much to tell you!!!

@@gifted2teach lol... I've moved up in my job, I moved out of NYC and beautiful bought a home in Connecticut. I appreciate your humor, I'd be more inclined to sit at your table at a party than anyone else's for the jokes alone but in all honesty, I truly believe I am better today than I was in 2020. I'm not saying we're better collectively... I'm just saying on paper, it's me... Hi 😊

Trump supports greedy landlords over renters and the working class. He’s also anti-union in favor of corporate greed

Light bills r through the roof

No black vote and no young vote and no muslim vote = No chance against Trump

@@shogreene9215thank you. Couldn’t have said it better.

You mean the Black lives matter riots that burnt down half the cities supported by Democrat politicians?😂😂

Because they asked 4yrs ago, not 5yrs ago. 4yrs ago, March 2020, the first lock down happened and death toll started counting and everything else went to sh*t. Dumb question to ask..

​@@nwabobo😂😂😂😂👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿 so we WERE BETTER under Trump BEFORE C19 than we are now😂😂😂

Said the dimwit who can't spell "you're"....🙄

@@noname-op5znthat's what-aboutism 😂

This is not the first inflation America has gone through, & maybe study the Great Depression, when my mother was born. Crime is NOT UP -that is one of the recent lies

Energy prices r up, depression is up... morale is down & education systems r failing our kids.

Available jobs r down, people can't afford to live alone, birth rates r down, privacy is dwn, peoples overall health is down...

and Biden started all 3 of those wars himself... what a good point 😂

@@blehsquared5628 he certainly is doing nothing to stop them. Endless money going to Israel despite its obvious war crimes. Endless money going to Ukraine despite the fact we don’t benefit in anyway by defending that Nazi country

I’m sorry for your loss

China

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@@noname-op5zn One million Americans died, particularly republicans and it couldn't have happened to stupider people.

You don’t get to just excuse the pandemic. It happened, it was a crisis, and the guy we put in charge didn’t handle it well.

I love the excuses you guys make. If a Dem was in office during the pandemic you wouldn’t be saying it doesn’t count 😂 also the middle class isn’t hurting big time, you’re just repeating talking points from the right, to scare voters into supporting the other guy (instead of the incumbent who cleaned up trumps mess and won the election, despite lies from the loser) I’m sorry that *you* aren’t doing well financially, but that isn’t representative of the rest of the country or our good economy. Grocery prices are high because of unchecked corporate greed, and the fact that consumers like you will believe any excuse they make to inflate shareholder returns.

​​@@bernardwylie9760how about another 8 million illegal aliens cuz under Trump we didn't have that problem

@@bernardwylie9760 I am not excusing it. No one was prepared. All I am saying is you can't blame Trump for the economy during a pandemic. Were we better off before or now. I say before and so does my bank account.

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Unemployment is not at an all time low. That was January and April 2023. Even at the start of 2020, there was less unemployment than there is now (source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Vote blue no matter who is making life more unaffordable for us.

And Sunny was absolutely right on what she said here about Dr. Fauci. He was basically silenced by the Trump Administration during the height of the pandemic, when at the time we were losing anywhere between 1,000 and 3,000 Americans a day to COVID-19.

Lol. But if the economy was not doing well, you would have blamed Trump, yeah?

For his donors not voters, that's why they rejected him in 2016 by electing an game show host instead of Hillary

@@CharlesMgbekemCan you prove your claim/assumption about a stranger? Seems like you’re trying to service your own predetermined narrative with that assumption

Exactly

The economy sucked under Obama

in what city did she live? what was her age weight Bp?

@@tonyborelli.omfg 1st you excuse slavery and now looking to excuse a Covid death - gross behavior 😅

😂 keep buying those Chinese products though The country that unleash the virus on the United States