'I don't blame people for being down': President Joe Biden says he understands Americans' frustrations
President Joe Biden acknowledged and sympathized with the angst permeating the American population on Sunday's edition of This Week.
"I want to ask about the economy. You talk often about how the inflation, the rate of inflation, has begun to slow. Unemployment now at its lowest level in fifty years. But you've also seen the polls. Our latest ABC News poll shows four in ten Americans say they're worse off than when you were elected. Only sixteen percent said they were better off. So why is that? Why aren't Americans feeling this?" ABC anchor David Muir asked the president.
"Well, look, I think it goes well beyond the economy. Think about it. You make the news, I mean you interview for the news. Can you think of anything when I turn on the television and go, 'God, that makes me feel good?' Almost anything. Everything is in the negative," Biden said.
"We're also finding out now that one of the outlets has decided that they even put things on, they know to be false in order to increase their ratings," Biden jabbed at Fox News, whose hosts peddled former President Donald Trump's conspiracy theories about the 2020 election despite knowing that they were false.
"So I think things are a little outta whack and I don't blame people for being down. You know, when you had a year, two years of the pandemic, kids outta school, the mental health problems in the country are seriously increased, especially among young people. Some things are, for example – even feeling down about employment. They've got better jobs. They're making more money," Biden continued.
He noted, however, that "inflation is still higher than it should be, and you know, everything from gasoline prices to a, to a war going on in Ukraine. I mean, so I can't think of a time when there's been greater uncertainty, notwithstanding the fact that we've created eight-hundred-thousand manufacturing jobs, we're better off than virtually any other major nation in the world economically. But it's understandable why people are just down."
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