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FactChecking Biden’s State of the Union Address The president stretched the facts on gas prices, jobs, tax cuts and more.
Factcheck.org/ ^ | March 2, 2022 | Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Robert Farley, D'Angelo Gore, Jessica McDonald, Catalina Jaramillo, C

Posted on 03/10/2024 2:40:06 PM PDT by daniel1212

Biden said the planned release of 60 million barrels of global oil reserves... “will help blunt gas prices here at home.” But energy experts said the emergency measures aren’t enough to have an impact.

He said the economy added 369,000 manufacturing jobs last year, which is about right. But the manufacturing sector hasn’t recovered all the jobs lost during the pandemic, and manufacturing job growth (3.1%) is slower than overall job growth (4.6%).

The president said “our economy created over 6.5 million new jobs just last year, more jobs in one year than ever before.” That’s true based on raw numbers, but not on a percentage basis. The claim also doesn’t acknowledge the unique economic conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic...

Biden prematurely claimed he’d be the first president to cut the annual deficit by $1 trillion in a single year. Even if it happens at the end of this fiscal year, the deficit would still be among the highest in history...

Biden misleadingly said the tax cuts enacted in 2017 “benefited the top 1% of Americans.” Americans in every income category got tax cuts. It isn’t until 2027 when ..the top 1% sees the lion’s share of the tax benefits.

..the average weekly earnings of all private-sector workers, in “real” (inflation-adjusted) terms, rose 8.7% in Trump’s four years.

The president wrongly called gun manufacturing “the only industry in America that can’t be sued.” Though gun manufacturers are protected from some civil lawsuits, there are exceptions. There are also other industries that are shielded from certain legal actions....

.total nonfarm employment in January was still about 2.9 million jobs below the pre-recession peak in February 2020...

the 2005 law outlines six exceptions through which civil lawsuits can be brought against firearm manufacturers. These exceptions include cases in which there was negligence on behalf of the firearm seller, a firearm was transferred with the knowledge that it would be used to commit a crime, and manufacturers and sellers violated state or federal law when marketing or selling a firearm.

We can’t say what the impact of the Trump-championed tax cuts may have been on wages, but as we wrote in October for our story “Trump’s Final Numbers,” the average weekly earnings of all private-sector workers, in “real” (inflation-adjusted) terms, rose 8.7% in Trump’s four years. Wages for rank-and-file production and nonsupervisory workers — who make up 81% of all private-sector workers — went up 9.8% under Trump.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; bidensotu; factcheck; fjb; liar; lied; miscontruance; misrepresentation; prevarication; sophistry
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Another fact checker: State of the Union fact check: What President Joe Biden got wrong (and right): https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/03/08/joe-biden-state-of-the-union-fact-check/72843176007/

1 posted on 03/10/2024 2:40:06 PM PDT by daniel1212
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To: daniel1212

“stretched the facts”

Don’t you mean ‘lied’?


2 posted on 03/10/2024 2:46:12 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: daniel1212

I wonder why president retard lied about the State of Failure?


3 posted on 03/10/2024 2:49:56 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: daniel1212

Did anyone bother to see just how long that release from the oil reserve would last? Less than a day IIRC.


4 posted on 03/10/2024 2:51:15 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: daniel1212

70% of jobs he’s claiming wete pre-existing that are just now returning due to covid.


5 posted on 03/10/2024 2:53:06 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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...and this is from factcheck.org??? Yes, Biden flat out lied.


6 posted on 03/10/2024 2:54:11 PM PDT by Parley Baer (.)
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Cameras never panned over the small crowd that attended Biden’s post-SOTU Georgia campaign rally.

Fani Willis never even showed.......snx.


7 posted on 03/10/2024 3:01:33 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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Build back better is really build back higher. Higher inflation, higher prices, higher crime, higher deficits and higher illegal entrants. Among other unwanted highs.


8 posted on 03/10/2024 3:28:41 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: daniel1212

When Fact-checking Cho Bi Den it might be simpler to just list the actual true facts... Probably a shorter list.


9 posted on 03/10/2024 3:47:42 PM PDT by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: simpson96
“stretched the facts” Don’t you mean ‘lied’?

As in keywords?

10 posted on 03/10/2024 3:52:56 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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I would say as a general rule of thumb, Democrats never paid much attention to facts. The entire era of Russia Hoax, was never processed, and brought back to ADMIT, (Adam Schiff if you are one of these jerks are reading this)... These people lied and never apologized. Come on New York Times, for ONCE come out and admit you KNEW the facts and ignored them.


11 posted on 03/10/2024 3:56:06 PM PDT by rovenstinez (, )
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Biden gives his SOTU campaign stump speech.

12 posted on 03/10/2024 4:02:13 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: simpson96

Lucky for him his old man wasn’t Ward Cleaver.


13 posted on 03/10/2024 4:21:37 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: V_TWIN
70% of jobs he’s claiming wete pre-existing that are just now returning due to covid.

Kind of like enriched flour: it is "enriched" by first milling and chemical bleaching whole grains which removes or destroys many important nutrients and fiber, (white flour with a milling extraction rate 68% mean up to 32% of the original grain is not in the flour) which components are mainly located in bran and germ, (the bran is the outermost layer of grains that contains fiber, some protein, and trace minerals, and the germ is the embryo of the seed that contains B vitamins and trace minerals) and then adding 4 or 5 or back.

Thus, by being impoverished (Covid-29, etc.) and getting some back, you are deemed to be "enriched."

While accuracy is actually rather hard to come by, one site provides this graphic.
Source: Tamara Goldis. May 2008. Whole Grains. The Inside Story. Nutrition Action Healthletter

Yet we are God-blessed to overall live in an era of unprecedented high standard living. But which is a test the West is failing.

14 posted on 03/10/2024 4:40:09 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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15 posted on 03/10/2024 4:40:33 PM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: daniel1212
The president stretched the facts on gas prices, jobs, tax cuts and more.

The FREAKIN' BA$TARD simply LIED outright!

16 posted on 03/10/2024 4:49:22 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: simpson96

Thank you. Was going to say the same. Stretched is a lie in itself.


17 posted on 03/10/2024 4:56:37 PM PDT by madison10
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18 posted on 03/10/2024 7:56:25 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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