We’ve heard all of it earlier than. The truth is, a recording of final 12 months’s State of the Union might have been replayed, saving President Biden a visit to Capitol Hill.

Numbers could be selectively used to cover actuality and advance one’s political agenda. Each events do that, however Democrats and their media allies do it higher. It’s vital to transcend the claims of success. For instance, on the time of Biden’s State of the Union final 12 months, the president additionally claimed to have added tens of millions of “new” jobs. There was a big development in authorities jobs, however a decline in personal sector employment. It additionally will depend on how one counts. Does an individual coming again to the identical job after the pandemic depend as newly employed? Do individuals who work two or extra jobs get counted greater than as soon as? What about part-time jobs?

Based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the variety of open positions within the personal sector decreased to 9.501 million in November, down from 9.528 million in October. November was the sixth decline within the final eight months since hitting a report excessive final March. In the meantime, authorities jobs in any respect ranges grew.

President Biden can take credit score for the numbers, however the public isn’t shopping for it. They see costs on the grocery store a lot increased than when Biden took workplace. Fuel costs stay at the very least $1 a gallon increased than two and a half years in the past and are  rising once more. Solely 37 p.c of Democrats need Biden to hunt a second time period and 41 p.c say they’re worse off financially since Biden grew to become president, in line with a Washington Put up-ABC Information ballot.

There was extra baloney about taxing “the wealthy” in Biden’s speech when the true drawback shouldn’t be income. It’s spending. Biden’s laundry listing of proposals would add trillions to the debt. As soon as once more, the federal authorities is taking in report quantities of income. It’s their undisciplined spending that has produced a debt of $31 trillion and counting, exceeding our gross home product by greater than 100%. Large nationwide debt has been a contributor to the decline of nice nations of the previous, together with uncontrolled immigration and the unfold of secularism. All three now confront the nation.

Biden had nothing to say about particular person accountability. He offered our authorities as the one energy that may save us.

Within the Republican reply, newly put in Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders spent 11 minutes deconstructing Biden’s hour and 12 minute speech with strains reminiscent of this:

“Being a mother to a few younger youngsters taught me to not imagine each story I hear. So forgive me for not believing a lot of something I heard tonight from President Biden … Democrats have failed you. They understand it. And you realize it.”

Sounding Reaganesque, she mentioned, “authorities exists to not rule the individuals, however to serve the individuals. Democrats need to rule us with extra authorities management…”

Then she introduced up the age situation, which is sure to be an element within the 2024 marketing campaign, and delivered this zinger: “At 40, I’m the youngest governor to go my state. At 80, he’s the oldest president in American historical past. I’m the primary lady to steer my state. He’s the primary man to give up his presidency to a woke mob that may’t even inform you what a lady is.”

Gov. Sanders mentioned extra in her brief speech than Biden mentioned in his lengthy one. Yet another factor. If authorities was the answer to all our issues, why hasn’t it solved the issues Biden once more talked about – from poverty to crime? Why does nothing ever appear to get higher, particularly when Democrats are operating the federal government?

The Republican majority within the Home will – and may – cease a lot of this spending nonsense.