Posted on 03/17/2022 10:51:19 AM PDT by jeff_clark
The Washington Post’s editor and chief writer of “The Fact Checker” Glenn Kessler pushed misinformation about President Joe Biden’s responsibility for sky-high energy prices in the U.S.
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Sadly, lots of Americans are stupid enough to buy this garbage.
If they admit there’s even a “little evidence”, there must be a lot.
Wapo doing the Asspress’ work today.
Well, then, it must’ve been just coincidental that, after Biden close pipelines and stopped drilling at ANWAR and declared war on oil, that the prices of all types of fuel went up.
It’s the same kind of coincidence that occurs when a country declares war, and people start dying shortly afterwards. Just mere coincidences.
Follow the logic, President Biden.
President Trump turned over to you an inflation rate of 1.5%, the lowest rate of the all the G7 nations except Japan. Currently, these 7 most advanced free economies in the world, less the US, has an average trailing 12 month inflation rate of 4%, with Japan as low as less than 1% and neighbor Canada and the UK as high as 5.1% and 5.8% percent, respectively.
All 7 nations have had common economic exposure to the covid menace and escalating energy prices from the Ukraine war impacting their economies. Yet, our US rate has surged from the next to lowest to the highest by a wide margin at 7.9%, close to double the average 4% inflation rate of our 6 G7 partners with our rate over the last trailing 3 months running at 8.5%, up from the 1.5% rate handed over to you.
The reason for moving from the next to lowest inflation rate to the highest by a wide margin is, unlike the other 6 G7 nations, we are coming off a spending blowout in 2021 with a record breaking 2.7 trillion annual deficit led by a 1.9 trillion covid relief vote buying bill, a 1.1 trillion infrastructure bill that is far more subsidy than bricks and mortar infrastructure, and the latest yet be spent 1.5 trillion spending bill recently passed by the House and may pass in the Senate (and all of this without the 5 trillion Build Inflation Back Better spending orgy bill that went down in flames).
To paraphrase a bit: Perhaps, just perhaps, it’s the spending, stupid
Well what do you expect the Dmoecrat Party would say?
So they admit there is evidence.
Fact-checker: Def. one who certifies or accredits statements as true or false using official standards.
But as long as it's understood "Biden" == those Democrats running things, of course it's BS.
WaPo, Biden, and most Democrats believe free markets are to blame.
Gas prices are just supposed to go down when Biden commands them to.
To the author of the article, not the poster.
If inflation is caused by greed then Biden is still incompetent. Because Greed does not come and go. The oil companies, ranchers, and other businesses raising prices were just as greedy 2, 4, 8, 16, or 32 years ago as they are now. So why didn’t gasoline and food prices double in a year when, Trump, Obama, G.W. Bush, Clinton, G.H.W. Bush, or Reagan were president? Because while I may or may not have liked some of those guys, none of them were as incompetent as Biden. The rampant inflation we are seeing IS BIDEN’S FAULT, YOU MORON!!!!!!!!!! Because even if companies are greedy, those other presidents were able to control them. Biden can’t, so he is incompetent.
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