FFormer President Donald J. Trump has started his mass rallies just right lately.
“I would like to start by asking you a very simple question,” Trump said Sunday in Macon, Georgia. “Are you better off? than four years ago?”
The crowd shouted in unison: “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
For almost every American and by almost every metric, things have deteriorated dramatically since Trump built a peaceful, prosperous, and safe nation — at least until COVID destroyed everything. Through a mix of incompetence and malice, Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden have reversed numerous reforms implemented by Trump. The result? A widespread mess that is grimly impressive in scale.
Contrasting data between January 20, 2021 – Trump’s last day as president – and today shows a country in decline. America’s next move is the biggest mystery voters will solve Tuesday.
Kamala can rightly brag about the financial markets. As of Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 34.8 percent from its closing price on January 20, 2021. The S&P 500 was up 48.7 percent and the Nasdaq stock market was up 35.5 percent. Not a bad benchmark for a far-left Democrat whose alleged experience in the private sector (McDonald’s) cannot be corroborated.
Deroy Murdock – November 3, 2024
But how does Kamala’s market growth differ from Trump’s? While the Dow Jones rose 42.9 percent during Trump’s first three years and 10 months, it rose only 34.8 percent during the same period under Kamala. Essentially, these assets grew 18.9 percent less quickly under Kamala than during the Trump administration.
The S&P 500 was 10.9 percent slower under Kamala, and the Nasdaq advanced 68.9 percent slower than under Trump. If you like cruising Interstate highways With a speed of 32 km per hour instead of the speed limit of 105 km per hour, Kamala has an electric vehicle for you.
Inflation is America’s universal headache. When Trump left in January 2021, prices rose painlessly by 1.4 percent year-over-year. Under Kamala, that number now stands at 2.4 percent. That is 71.4 percent more inflation than Trump failed to achieve. Thank you very much Unpleasant Kamalas decisive votes in the Senate trillions in government largesse, Inflation rose to 9.1 percent in June 2022 before returning to Earth after the Federal Reserve stepped on the monetary brakes.
During Trump’s first 45 months in office, inflation was 7.1 percent, or 1.9 percent average annual growth in the consumer price index. Kamala’s equivalent data is much worse: 20.1 percent and 5.4 percent.
This disease of inflation explains why Americans feel so light in their pockets. Real (inflation adjusted) average family income increased by 1.3 percent between 2021 and 2023 – from $79,560 to $80,610. However, actual average hourly wage under Kamala fell from $11.39 to $11.23 – 1.4 percent lower. In the meantime, actual average weekly earnings fell from $398.71 to $385.09 – a decline of 3.4 percent.
$385.09 per week? The last two compensation figures look poor because economists express them in constant 1982-1984 dollars. Reread this passage while listening to Donald Fagen’s Nightfly album, Duran Durans Rioor Michael Jackson’s monster smash LP Thrillerand everything will be fine. (Side note: recently passed away music legend Quincy Delight Jones produced Jackson’s seminal album, among countless other achievements. TEAR)
Kamala can now trumpet improvements in unemployment, compared to the last day Trump flew aboard to Palm Beach Air Force One. Unemployment has fallen 6.7 percent on that day until 4.1 percent now. Unemployment among women is 42.9 percent lower, as are blacks (down 42.4 percent), Hispanics (down 13.6 percent) and Asian-Americans (down 58.1 percent).
While this is impressive on the surface, right behind these numbers lurks an uncomfortable truth: Trump left the White House during the massive, job-destroying global COVID pandemic, which was completely out of his control. With that catastrophe finally in the rearview mirror, Kamala’s employment situation looks bright. This reality is reminiscent of President John F. Kennedy’s timeless observation: “Life isn’t fair.”
Deroy Murdock – November 3, 2024
Between his inauguration and October 30, 2020, Trump added $7.18 trillion to the national debt. (Unfortunately, COVID hit two Saturn V rockets on federal spending and borrowing.) Then Kamala further fueled the debt by adding $8.19 trillion — a 14.1 percent faster launch toward a budget black hole.
To combat the resulting inflation, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates Mortgage interest with a term of 30 yearsbefore relaxing it a bit. Nevertheless, interest rates, like inflation, remain higher than when Trump was in office. A 30-year mortgage was 2.79 percent when he left. Today that percentage stands at 6.54 percent. With home loans now 134.4 percent higher than when Kamala came in, home ownership now eludes millions of frustrated potential buyers. An increase of 24.2 percent average housing costs (from $338,600 to $420,400) reinforces this nightmare.
Food prices have made Kamalaflation unpalatable. Compared to January 2021, the price of milk has increased by 15.9 percent, bacon by 19.3 percent, sirloin steak by 28.8 percent, minced beef by 30.2 percent and eggs by as much as 160.6 percent.
Kamala promises to solve this by putting an end to alleged price gouging by greedy grocers. (How strange that their greed only started working when Kamala took power.) But for that to work, Kamala must first establish fair prices for items on store shelves and determine the acceptable price point at which they are now sold.
For example, what is the social justice price for a pork chop? Does that price increase the further away a supermarket is from pig farms, since transport costs would increase? Would the “Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Meat Production” set the stock-inducing price for pork chops, or would the feds? Who would control that price in America? 62,383 supermarkets? From the 39,500 articles How many would be subject to federal oversight at a typical Safeway or Whole Foods? Does this have to do with search warrants? And will “greedy” grocers go to federal prison if they oppose the Pork Chop Patrol? Did Kamala even think that deeply about her brilliant idea?
Kamala has the Strategic Petroleum Reserve by 39.5 percent. Carelessly, crude oil costs 28 percent more. Petrol has increased by 34.4 percent. Electricity is 30.9 percent more expensive.
Deroy Murdock – November 3, 2024
The minds close under Kamala. Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress fell between 2019 and the last session in 2022. The average math in fourth grade is a decrease of 2.1 percent. Do read a decrease of 1.4 percent. The scores of group eight lagged behind 2.8 percent And 1.1 percentrespectively.
Despite the left’s blatant lies about ‘declining lawlessness’, the… FBI crime data investigator confirms that Sheriff Kamala has made America much more dangerous. In January 2021, when Sheriff Trump wielded his badge, 238,498 violent crimes occurred. The latest data shows that 374,047 violent crimes were committed in December 2023 – an increase of 56.8 percent. The number of homicides in January 2021 was 1,485. Last December there were 2,115 – an increase of 42.4 percent. (RELATED: FBI caught misleading the public with false crime statistics)
Border Patrol agent Kamala Harris committed pure evil and purposefully destroyed the US-Mexico border while ruthlessly duping taxpayers. “The border is secure,” Kamala informed the American people on September 11, 2022 – among many other deceptions.
During their first 43 months in office, Border Patrol agents apprehended 2,554,478 illegal aliens under Trump. While Kamala slept, 8,427,854 were found – an increase of 229.9 percent. Border Patrol picked up 11 on the terrorist watch list while Trump was on patrol. While Kamala snored, 385 tried to cross 3,400 percent.
In contrast to Kamala’s sordid, deadly record, Donald J. Trump wants to take the US back to the future. He plans to restore the government policies that made this country shine before Cackling Kamala and Crooked Joe left it rusting.
“America’s future will be bigger, better, bolder, brighter, happier, stronger, freer, greater and more united than ever before,” Trump declared in a spectacular speech. closing ad for the campaign. “And we will make America great again!”
But first, if this place recommends that citizens should do one thing: ‘Go and vote’.
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.
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