Posted on 01/01/2024 5:34:22 AM PST by MtnClimber
The lies coming from Biden and the press will come fast and furious in the coming months as the false promises of “Bidenomics” become more apparent.
Joe Biden has a New Year’s resolution for the media: “Start reporting the right way” on the economy.
You would never guess from Biden’s admonition that news coverage of “Bidenomics” has been overwhelmingly positive—in fact, borderline sycophantic.
What Biden was upset about was the media noticing—with a patronizing glance—that voters are unhappy. And unfortunately for Biden, that’s just a fact.
Perhaps Biden can draw on his reserves of “decency” and “empathy” to put himself in the shoes of his subjects.
The average American doesn’t have a vacation home on the beach or a six-figure job that only requires a 30% attendance rate. The average American definitely doesn’t have a cadre of powerful cheerleaders to cover their mistakes when they screw up or millions of dollars from shady international business dealings.
The average American is living beyond their means to insulate themselves from the chaos of modern America.
The average American is wondering when prohibitive home prices and mortgage rates will begin to fall so they or their children can take the next step in life. The average American is competing with foreign laborers, who, thanks to Biden, are now pouring in at record rates to find work and stay off the streets. The average American senses the American dream is dying, and they know Biden isn’t making it any better.
Against this crushing reality, the Biden administration and its regime toadies have created pleasing fictions.
The press is full of breathless reports of the dawning prosperity that lies ahead. They say there is a thing called a “soft landing”—doesn’t that sound awfully nice?—which no one can define with any satisfaction—that is coming our way very shortly. The bad times of inflation will be over, and there will be no recession either—just in time for the election!
Gee! What are the odds?
The economy is not a collection of models and charts. The word economy is derived from Greek “oikos,” for household. The economy is about people. When regular people think the economy stinks, it probably does.
Everyone remembers how much better the Trump economy was. Prices have risen astronomically since then, and wages have not kept pace. More and more Americans are taking on a side hustle, burning through savings, racking up credit card debt, or raiding their retirement accounts to keep their heads above water.
That is the reality. The stuff about “Bidenomics” is propaganda.
Why, then, hasn’t consumer spending slowed down?
One answer is that the real pain hasn’t hit yet. This is not Weimar Germany, however striking the parallels may seem.
Another is that people like to buy things—to cope with stress or to show love to people they care about—even if they can’t really afford them. It isn’t wise, but it’s human nature.
Nobody, least of all the economic wizards who said inflation would be “transitory,” knows what 2024 will bring.
The best-case scenario, according to the wizards, is the so-called soft landing, which really means economic contraction. Everything will still be expensive, and there will be fewer jobs, but it won’t technically be a recession.
Some credible experts believe that a huge crash is ahead.
When the rest of the “experts” are predicting sunshine and rainbows, it pays to heed a pessimist.
More and more Americans feel like the country has no future because, increasingly, it doesn’t have one.
Our criminally negligent leaders are focused on their own self-preservation at the cost of the country and its welfare. Nobody represents the corruption of this class quite so well as Biden.
The economy poses a serious threat to Biden’s re-election, so it’s not surprising that he is upset by the media’s failure to deceive the people—or rather, the people’s failure to be deceived.
The lies coming from Biden and the press will come fast and furious in the coming months as the false promises of “Bidenomics” become more apparent.
I think money will be printed to give the economy a “cheap drug high” until the election. And then the crash happens. If the democRATs lose, the crash will be blamed on the Republicans.
The Plunge Protection Team will work overtime until the election.
It happened under Jimmy Carter and the democrats learned from it. Just look at how the subject got changed under BJ and the Kenyan. Even the cigar was a distraction from all the legitimate criticism the right could bring up. What difference...?
They’re smarter than us and we can throw in the wimp factor.
They have redundancy in place to make sure nothing can be done about the end goal even if folks wise up.
It tells you a lot about Biden that his policies foster failure,
lawlessness, adverse behavior, dependency, mediocrity, skepticism, etc.
Biden is clearly on the side of cultural ruination, a
curious aspiration for the president of the United States.
Biden’s policies are dismantling cultural norms, not
building them up, as one would expect from a chief executive.
Biden seems unable to rise above mediocrity.
We once expected presidents to advance activities and behaviors
that serve to enhance culture, into a civilization that rewards success.
If Biden cannot aspire that high then he should just get
out of the dam way and let someone take the job who does.
interesting thing about redundancy is it doesn’t take into account every contingency.
Biden says the economy is expanding.
Biden says people are working.
Biden says inflation is under control, an inflation caused by his spending bills.
The truth is that if you subtract inflation, the economy is still contracting. Inflation is still higher than economic growth.
The truth is that 106 million working age Americans are not working, and 146 million are working. Adding the illegals and green card members, whose unemployment is over 60%, and about half of working age people aren’t working.
If anyone believes inflation is under control, go grocery shopping. That’s the truth.
“interesting thing about redundancy is it doesn’t take into account every contingency.”
Except in this case they have had since 1965 to create rock solid redundancy from a hundred directions. Over half a century of preparation for this very moment in history.
I think I know this content creator’s favorite word.
If those illegals all are given a $5000 cash card paid for by taxpayers, that will fuel spending too. It is a false economic picture they’re making.
I was about to make a similar comment - Xiden had a couple trillion to spend thanks to McCarthy and the pack of GOPe RINOs in raising the debt limit by trillions so the money is already being printed and spent. Xiden already spent countless billions of printed money for Jan/Feb in 2024 (about a month ago) so this current effect of inflation is going to flare up even higher any day. We might see a total bust this fall as suggested however the pain of inflation might spike due to printed money and excessive spending in a couple weeks.
On a side note no matter what happens Xiden is a total fail, can’t recover, and won’t be re-elected. On a side note of this should Xiden not withdrawal it stands to reason the cheating by the left will be largely less this time, it just isn’t worth it to risk getting caught for this POS.
There’s still lots of money floating around.
Senor y Senora Conquistador can make $100,000 a year by mopping floors and handing out meals while employed by a California hospital.
“El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional extendió los periodos de reinscripción para las designaciones al Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS) de El Salvador, Haití, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua y Sudán.
El periodo de reinscripción bajo la designación a TPS de:
El Salvador está abierto actualmente y se extiende hasta el 9 de marzo de 2025;
Haití está abierto actualmente y se extiende hasta el 3 de agosto de 2024;
Honduras está abierto actualmente y se extiende hasta el 5 de julio de 2025;
Nepal está abierto actualmente y se extiende hasta el 24 de junio de 2025;
Nicaragua está abierto actualmente y se extiende hasta el 5 de julio de 2025; y
Sudán está abierto actualmente y extiende hasta el 19 de abril de 2025.”
They are telling the populations of entire countries that they can move to the USA.
Gavin Christopher Newsom will be the candidate….And will win….theGOP is hopeless……Another steal for the democrats
PPT! Blast from the past
Biden still has $1.8T left from IRA and The Infrastructure bill to shore up support!
They will not cede the ground they have gained. Anything goes The end justifies the means. Prepare accordingly
Indeed it’s why the big push from media and party to keep in in office society must be altered to fit the agenda of socialism and we know what comes after that.
“They will not cede the ground they have gained. Anything goes. The end justifies the means. Prepare accordingly.”
That is where we are now at this point. Can’t put the toothpaste back in this tube.
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