Commentary
Like Nero bragging about rebuilding Circus Maximus after burning it down, President Joe Biden took to the podium Tuesday night to take credit for solving a slew of problems he helped create.
At the top of his State of the Union address, the president boasted that he had “more jobs created in two years than any president has created in four years.” No president—not Joe Biden nor Donald Trump—creates jobs. But Biden’s contention was exceptionally misleading, considering he inherited an economy that had been unplugged by an artificial, state-induced shutdown. If the government compels businesses to shutter, it doesn’t “create” jobs when allowing them to open….