Posted on 05/16/2022 3:45:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
Inflation, over the past year, has gone from conspiracy theory, to transient, to no big deal, to ignored, and now finally reluctantly acknowledged by the ruling class. Yet to consumers paying more for groceries, restaurant meals, airline tickets, and gasoline, it is painfully real.
Democrats in Congress and the White House are reticent to take any responsibility for inflation with their reckless spending and deliberate hampering of getting petroleum products out of the ground and into cars and homes.
After presiding over a more than doubling of gasoline prices during his first year and a half in office, President Biden is adding fuel to the inflationary fire by canceling offshore oil lease sales in Alaska and the Gulf Coast. Gas prices hovered around $2 per gallon during most of 2020 only to set records four days in a row this past week, settling at $4.44 per gallon, hence the ubiquitous Joe Biden “I did that” stickers peppering gas pumps nationwide.
Not only fuel, but also food prices, increasing at the fastest rate in 40 years according to the US Department of Agriculture. For example, meats, poultry, fish, and eggs are up 14 percent with fruits and vegetables costing 8 percent more.
And that assumes you can find these items. Baby formula stocks are low and getting worse, according to CNN, now at a 40 percent out-of-stock rate. What’s the solution? Rather than keeping American grocery store shelve stocked with baby formula, the Biden administration is shipping available supplies to our open southern border to feed migrant children. Or to Ukraine, along with $40 billion in aid which could be better spent on crumbling American infrastructure. The answer for hungry American babies? Get in line or make your own formula
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Economists in government seem unable to grasp the textbook definition of “inflation”.
Their greed. Blaming others for it is just a symptom of it.
The anti-capitalists are loving this. They can blame greed for the shortages and high fuel prices and nobody will ever fact-check them.
This is the setup to justify the great reset when it comes.
Deep State to Americans: Beatings will continue until morale improves!
Name just one time any DemonRat EVER owned up to a problem they or their policies caused/created. Just one time or name, should be simple. I can’t think of one.
Sociopathic deflection and protection; absolutely no personal insight.
The next step after blaming others for greed is to tell the American people to stop being selfish and to tighten their belts.
Those who forget Jimmah Carter are destined to repeat Jimmah Carter.
>>Democrats Blame Inflation on ‘Greed,’
Its just weird isn’t it?- apparently nobody was ‘greedy’ during the entire 4 years of the Trump administration - as soon as Biden got elected, all businesses suddenly got greedy all at once.
Inflation has momentum and it’s hard to reverse it, including the psychological factor. Anyone around in the 70s experienced this. Biden is even worse than Carter.
To be fair, its a hugely rare thing in politics for people to admit mistakes.
The ones who should judge are the people at the ballot box. Hopefully that hasn’t become a totally corrupt machine. I have doubts.
1) These a-holes don't care what you think. They don't need to justify anything.
2) You are already in the great reset.
Never let a crisis go to waste, making things unbearable so they can ride in on their white horses and save us
When you are no longer accountable to voters .... when every "election" is stolen.... this is the result.
I totally agree. There is nothing to stop it now. A big event will make it happen faster.
Yeh. Deep State is counting on Americans lack of knowledge in economics. Most don’t understand that a corporate tax is a pass-through cost to the consumer. There’s really no such thing as a corporate cost. It’s just slight of hand trickery by your government to tax the blue collar middle class. And, very regressive tax for sure.
Americans understand plenty.
Which is why Deep State has to steal elections.
These idiots don’t understand… if you shut off the cheap credit and stop flooding the nation with handouts, the “greed” will magically disappear and inflation will come down.
Of course. If these people were capable of honesty, they wouldn’t be Democrats in the first place.
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