To the Editor:

Mr. Timothy J. Albright clearly communicates his intolerance and contempt for President Donald Trump, in his letter to the editor [“True Republicans who still believe in our democracy must stand against Trump Republicans,” The Altamont Enterprise, Feb. 12, 2022].

Unfortunately for Mr. Albright, Trump hasn’t been in office for over a year, but Joe Biden has. Of course, things have been so bad under Biden that Trump is a viable threat to run again. If Trump-haters could point to a great economy to demonstrate how much better things are post-Trump, they would. They can’t, so they don’t.

Inflation is now so high, under Biden’s leadership that, if it were to continue unabated, prices would double in less than 10 years. Such an economy is terminal for a president, but Biden seems intent on fueling inflation by pumping more money into the inflationary spiral that he created. Recall the Bill Clinton’s “It’s the economy, stupid” 1992 campaign mantra.

Think: If things were great, and if people were fond of the president and his party’s majorities in the House and the Senate, would Trump be such a threat to Democrat partisans in this election year?

Edgar Tolmie

Altamont

Editor’s note: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the United States added 467,000 jobs in January so, with over 6.6 million jobs since Biden took office, more jobs were created than in any other year in history.

The Democrats’ passage of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan halved child poverty by putting $66 billion into 36 million households. It also expanded access to the Affordable Care Act, enabling more than 4.6 million Americans who were not previously insured to get health-care coverage, bringing the total covered to a record 13.6 million.

By the end of 2021, United States companies were showing 15 percent profit margins, higher than they’ve been since 1950. U.S. economic output jumped more than 7 percent in the last three months of 2021. Overall growth for 2021 of about 6 percent is the highest for the United States in decades, and higher than any other country in the world.

Despite the increased spending, the federal budget deficit in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022 dropped 33 percent from that of 2021. The downside of this growth is inflation of up to 7 percent, which is a global problem.