Your spirituality has been steadfast for your entire career (even when you were asked to abandon your second term) and you welcomed your successor into the White House this November, honorably and with dignity maintaining the American tradition of a peaceful transference of political power.
Thank you for your service and Merry Christmas to you and your entire family.
What an exciting career you have had for 50 years, which will be ending shortly. Your service was driven by honor and decency. Your progressive bipartisan approach throughout, showed improvement in U.S. communities and often the entire western world. Virtue was your reward as you did not seek nor gain personal wealth from your service. Your decency was relentless.
Your spirituality has been steadfast for your entire career (even when you were asked to abandon your second term) and you welcomed your successor into the White House this November, honorably and with dignity maintaining the American tradition of a peaceful transference of political power.
When you won the oval office in 2020 you inherited the COVID 19 problems and of course the $7.8 trillion additional Federal debt under the prior Administration. The economy seemed shaky, and you started your Presidency after the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol building. You assumed your Presidency knowing there was no facts, no evidence, and no proof that you were stealing an election or had done anything irregular. And since then no proof, no facts, no evidence that your side did anything wrong. You were immediately attacked as to your methods of practicing your politics, you were attacked for your age, and right-wing radio and television was relentless in criticism. However, as you got underway and began creating many new jobs which were accumulated at 16 million before November of 2024, you also had shown friendship and leadership with NATO and EU countries. When the Ukraine war broke out you provided billions of dollars in military assistance so the Ukrainians could defend themselves against Russia.
Your ventures in rebuilding the U.S. infrastructure, focusing on a clean energy economy, then bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. (like microchip makers etcetera). The Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and your strengthening of the unions helped keep the forward motion of our U.S. economy.
Your success was reflected in the stock market as well, according to The Week magazine of October 2024, the United States value of stocks is $63 trillion. That is four times the size of Europe's Bourse. We have over 1000 billionaires arising out of our American business environment and despite their success, they always complain about regulations and taxes.
Immigration has actually been a positive in the United States under your rules because of the need created by employee shortages. The construction industry has over 12% of their employees who are immigrants, and over 11% agricultural employees are immigrants. You have made the United States the number one target for immigrant opportunity. Russian citizens are fleeing their own country at such a rate that their neighbor Finland has had to shut its borders. The Texas border issue did hurt your political position but when the opportunity was there to fix the border problem through the May 2024 Senator James Langford Bill, the MAGA Republicans led by Donald Trump turned it down. Most Americans are not aware that factually, immigrants commit fewer crimes than the average American citizen. That is despite the rants of Fox News pundits who constantly tell untruths over immigrant behavior. The reason they are doing this is to simply rile up their viewers and sell more soap and pillows.
Your service in getting the United States out of the Afghanistan was indeed somewhat flawed simply because leaving a dysfunctional political area is never easy. However, the withdrawal from Saigon in 1975 was over 10 times more damaging to America and that includes the loss of military equipment and hardware left behind.
Dear reader, on behalf of President Joe Biden, it must be pointed out that the country of Afghanistan is the size of Texas, full of peaks and valleys with over 40 distinct political groups. These groups are so disconnected that there is no actual population count ever done in the country. It should be noted that the Macedonians and Alexander the Great over 3000 years ago bypassed Afghanistan as he went on to conquer the entire Middle East. Meanwhile Great Britain left that county twice in the 19th century. And of course, Russia left as a loser in Afghanistan in 1989. You determined the bottom line for America was to simply get out of the mayhem and chaos. A move necessary that you had the courage to accomplish for the benefit of your country.
Finally, you are leaving our country better than you found it. The U.S. is the envy of the free world as our inflation rate is half of theirs in many cases. Your replacement will receive an economy in excellent shape because of your long-term legislative activities. Your spirituality and calm approach to governing in my opinion has equaled that of President Abraham Lincoln. And it should be noted that professional American historians whose job it is to judge Presidential performances, put you in the top 1/3 out of the 46 past Presidents. So again, let me say Merry Christmas and thank you for your decency and service for so many years. You always marched to the Battle Hymn of the Republic while giving your service!
History and truth will grade you well.
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Great tribute to a great president. Thank you to Joe Biden. And thank you Greg and Mike for your good work. Happy Holidays.