A Des Plaines letter to the editor: How does 2021 amount to a failure?

I opened the Daily Herald on Feb. 4, flipped to the Opinion page and the first line in one of the letters to the editor called President Biden "a complete failure in office."

Then I glanced at my smartphone and a headline streamed across the screen reporting the U.S. economy added 467,000 jobs in January.

Digging deeper into the story I learned job numbers for November and December were also adjusted upward for a net gain of about another 700,000 jobs.

It seems the economy added nearly 7 million jobs during President Biden's first year in office, apparently the biggest one-year gain in history, and grew at its fastest rate since Ronald Reagan was president. Plus, wages are up and Biden actually passed an infrastructure bill after four years of false starts. So much failure!

Things aren't perfect. Inflation is a real concern, but it is also a global issue directly related to conditions created by the pandemic.

There have been missteps by this administration and some criticism is no doubt warranted. But much is based on misinformation and outright fabrications that have been accepted as truth.

Dean Geroulis

Des Plaines