It isn't either president's fault.

 Inflation leads to all kind of problems for must of us.  Stuff costs more and the next time you look it costs even more.  Wages won't keep up with inflation, and if they did that would cause even more inflation.  This is just what happens when the Fed prints a whole lot of money and dumps it into the economy.

Of course the right will blame it on Biden.  Those of us on the left would love to blame Trump.  After all, all that printing and dumping happened while he was president.  But you can't pin the blame on him.

Maybe he could get a very little amount of the blame, for downplaying COVID which probably made the death toll higher than it needed to be.  But the thing about handing out money to keep businesses open, keep their employees in their homes, and just generally prevent crashing the economy?  That was the Congress.

 First of all, he wouldn't give a rat's ass if half the country was starving. So he wouldn't give a shit about that.  And second, he isn't smart enough to understand the implcations of a pandemic to the country until it was much to late.  

The legislation originatated in Congress not the White House.  And as bad as inflation is, and now the rising interest rates that the FED is imposing to try and get it under control, it was the right thing to do.  Keeping businesses afloat and helping people stay in their homes was what we needed at the time.  The price we are paying is substantially less that what could have happened had Congress abandoned the working class.   

So someone from Congress shook him about the head and shoulders and pointed out how much he was pissing off all his MAGA crowd and told him to sign the damned legislation.  It wouldn't surprise me if he somehow managed to scrape off a little off that cash for himself too.

I don't like it either, but this is how we get the economy back in sync.  It's probably going to get worse before it gets better.

Can someone please explain to me...

A man lies in a hospital bed, his wife standing by the bedside.  He is hooked up to machines that are keeping him alive.  A doctor is explaining to her that he will never wake up, that he is essentially brain dead but his body will function as long as the machines are running.  Then the doctor leaves the room, giving the woman time to think about what he has told her.

She leans over the bed, kisses her husband and tells him goodbye, and that she loves him.  She steps out of the room and motions for the doctor to come back in.  She tells him her decision and watches as he disconnects the machines and her husband takes his last breath.

Would you fault her for this, for making a difficult decision on behalf of her husband?  Do you think it would be easy?

Alzheimer's runs in my family.  Both of my parents died with it.  There is no cure, and the few treatments that have been developed are woefully inadequate.   My choice, were it legal, would be that when I can  no longer recognize my friends and family, the people I love, that rather then spend my remaining days in confusion that I be anesthetized, anything of use be removed from my body, and then I be allowed to die.  Even though it is not enforceable under current law, I put that into my advance medical directive.

How is that unreasonable?  When the person I am is gone, replaced with a confused and frightened infant in an aging body, why am I required to keep going until something else breaks down, or my brain finally forgets to tell my heart to beat or my lungs to breath?