Posted on 05/08/2021 8:41:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The jobs report came out yesterday and it showed how the Biden policies are having a horrible effect on the economy. Instead of the almost one million new jobs which some, including the Biden team, had predicted, it was a record miss, with only 266,000 jobs. This is, at least in part, as we explained, because people are getting extended unemployment benefits so they’re not having to go back into the workforce.
What was the Biden team’s response? Let’s do more of the same! We’re not spending enough money on unemployment benefits! So let’s make things worse!
On top of that, and not unrelated, we’re also starting to see a rising inflation, as even this CNN report explains.
CNN's @ChristineRomans: "If you haven’t felt it yet, it’s coming. You can expect higher prices for toilet paper, diapers, soft drinks, plane tickets, a tank full of gas. Whirlpool is raising prices of some of its appliances by up to 12% …" pic.twitter.com/02JnIf4b4s
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 7, 2021
Donald Trump Jr. warned about it as well, comparing Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter. A stark reminder of the terrible inflation of the 1970s that Carter had no idea how to handle.
We can already see that Biden and his people have no idea what they are doing if they want to spend even more money.
But Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm demonstrated still more of the Biden team’s cluelessness when she was quizzed by Jake Tapper about the rising gas prices.
Quite the interview with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm w @jaketapper on CNN — she seemed to suggest that gas prices were high and rising because the virus isn’t yet fully under control.
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) May 7, 2021
Video: pic.twitter.com/Dfcxv2o5zA
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) May 7, 2021
Tapper said that gas was about fifty cents higher a gallon than when Biden took office. “Beyond whether or not you think your policies are to blame,” Tapper asked, “Are you worried that the prices could impact whether or not Americans travel, which is, of course, needed to put money back into the economy?” Her response? “People need to travel, right. We need to get the virus under control first. We need to get to that 70%. We need to get to herd immunity. You know, why have gas prices gone up? Could that be because of the virus itself, as well? Is it — I mean — everything is tied together.”
How is that an answer to Tapper’s questions about the rising prices and the greater question of how you guys are screwing up the economy? Tapper didn’t make it particularly hard or even blame Biden for it, he just basically asked what was her response to the rising prices, or was she concerned about them? She couldn’t even say, “Yes, we are worried, and here’s what we’re going to do to prevent that.” Likely because they have no idea exactly how they would go about doing that.
How clueless it is to deflect to the virus? If it were because of the virus, which we’ve been dealing with for over a year, why didn’t the increases come last year? But this is the same woman who tried to sell us on new definitions of the term “infrastructure.”
We’re entering the world they cheated for.
Well, she IS blond...
How would the virus make gas prices go up?
Last year, gas prices dropped because of the virus when people stopped driving and buying gas.
Jimmy Carter had a thousand excuses for his inflation and energy crisis.
The simple answer was—he was a *&^%-up.
Here we go again....
Every once in a great while the price of something moves up or down due to supply and demand factors, which are many and varied.
I know, I know, virtually never.
Somebody told her the gas pumps were infected with a virus & she assumed COVID.
It should be illegal for individuals with multiple nationalities to hold any Federal office, elected or otherwise ...
Oh, I’m totally “traveling”; hauling various gas guzzling FSJ Jeep Units across the US with reckless abandon.
Not to speak of corralling a few V10 Suburbans before BiXiden’s gas prices go Carter....
no matter what is going on libs and socialists have reasons for raising taxes and why prices are going up
if economy is good: prices go up because of demand, and if its taxes, raising them because of workload and processing increases, etc
if economy bad: prices going up because not enough people are buying and so theynhave to raise prices, if its taxes, they are being raised because of ‘unexpected’ shortfalls of projected revenue, govt can’t be without your money
if economy is the neutral: prices go up because inflation is always occurring, everything naturally goes up, if its taxes, they raise them because still need to fix infrastructure and ‘match’ inflation
It’s gonna be a long 4 years.
I guess this could mean that racism, white supremacy, (fill in the blank) is also caused by the Wuhanflu.
She is one of the top retards of the DNC.
SoCAl over $4/gal - $4.59 for premium/ 4.25reg
Grabhome: “Everything is tied together.”
Wish she had expounded on that a little more. On the other hand, if you don’t know how to answer the question, blame it on the virus.
She has no idea what supply and demand means.
I feel a “malaise” coming on... not an illness caused by viruses, but by another kind of difficult to eradicate scourge upon humanity. That is, of course, liberal stupidity.
Grabhome: “Everything is tied together.”
What a brilliant insight. I wonder if she got this from that powerhouse of economics knowledge, AOC.
How about multiple species?
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