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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For four years, politicians and bureaucrats in D.C. touted the Biden economy as strong — and criticized anyone who disagreed.

But the data tells a much different story.

Under Biden’s administration, foreign-born workers accounted for a whopping 48% of job gains, including ALL net job growth in 2024. In May 2024 alone, 263,000 foreign-born workers joined the labor force while 171,000 native-born Americans LEFT.

Plus, due to inflationary spending policies, real wages plummeted by $3,000 under Biden and the affordability crisis spiraled out of control.

Joe Biden and his administration failed the American Worker.

Now, under President Trump’s leadership, we’re working every single day to fix the colossal mess Biden made.

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Time to retire your bogus talking points.  They fall apart the second you look at the actual BLS data. BLS data does not even remotely support your claim foreign workers took half the job gains. That’s not economics, that’s arithmetic abuse. And the stat about "all net job growth" coming from foreign‑born workers is pulled from the noisy household survey, which the BLS itself warns is too volatile for month‑to‑month conclusions. Meanwhile, the gold‑standard establishment survey shows broad job growth across the economy, with native‑born unemployment at 4.0%, nearly identical to foreign‑born unemployment. If displacement were happening, that number would be spiking. BUT IT ISN'T. So, your claims are not supported by BLS data.

The wage claim is just as flimsy. Median weekly earnings for native‑born workers still substantially exceeds those of foreign‑born workers, your claim that foreign‑born workers are somehow "out‑earning" or "replacing" anyone is contradicted by the very data being cited. Inflation did surge globally in 2021–2022, but by 2024 it had cooled and real wages were rising again. The "$3,000 loss" is a political slogan, not a BLS statistic.

Bottom line: your dishonest narrative depends on cherry‑picking, misframing, and ignoring the broader labor‑market picture. The data doesn’t show a workforce in collapse - it shows a workforce recovering, expanding, and functioning exactly as a modern, high‑participation labor market does.[/quote]

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