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The SPASMIC Atlantic Berates Americans: ‘Inflation Is Your Fault’
NewsBusters ^ | 12/4/2023 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 12/04/2023 10:16:49 AM PST by JV3MRC

The leftist Atlantic actually victim-blamed Americans for the crushing high prices they’re experiencing. In the same breath, the outlet billed President Joe Biden’s ridiculously bad economy as the cat’s pajamas.

If “everyone is miserable,” how could things be “going great”? CBS News reported based on analysis by the Joint Economic Committee Republicans that Americans need an extra $11,400 today “just to afford the basics.” CNBC also recently analyzed that the increases in consumer expenditures constitute “doom spending” as a coping mechanism to deal with the increasingly insurmountable high cost of living, even if it is detrimental to them. But Lowrey attempted to have her cake and eat it too. She attempted to make Biden’s economy seem stellar by pointing to things like wage increases while simultaneously shaming Americans for their persistent economic struggles.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: bidenflation; bidenomics; bidensfault; economy; inflation; joebiden; theatlantic

1 posted on 12/04/2023 10:16:49 AM PST by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

i mean it is in the sense that we elect politicians who allow the Fed to enact insane monetary policy. Both parties are very guilty.


2 posted on 12/04/2023 10:22:04 AM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: JV3MRC

I think mass immigration is leading the false projection that the economy is so great. Everything is so expensive because of demand. Especially housing. More gas lightning.


3 posted on 12/04/2023 10:24:20 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: JV3MRC

Americans have been groomed for this kind of garbage. They will accept it.


4 posted on 12/04/2023 10:25:20 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: JV3MRC

It is wife beating syndrome.

The bully beats the wife to a pulp and tells her it is her fault.


5 posted on 12/04/2023 10:25:28 AM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: JV3MRC
Only some lies are intended to deceive.

Other lies are loyalty tests. Nobody really believes, but you'd better pretend or you're an infidel.

6 posted on 12/04/2023 10:26:09 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: JV3MRC

Misery index anyone?

https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_misery_index

Set the chart for 10 Years or Max. Notice anything?


7 posted on 12/04/2023 10:34:14 AM PST by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: JV3MRC

The Atlantic rates way below Mad Magazine in publishing factual news ... but they are above the Washington Compost and New York Slimes.


8 posted on 12/04/2023 10:55:15 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: antidemoncrat

They’re not in business to make money, but to spread the propaganda of the left.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2020/05/21/journalists-are-angry-about-layoffs-at-the-atlantic-owned-by-billionaire-laurene-powell-jobs/amp/


9 posted on 12/04/2023 11:07:13 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: JV3MRC

Bloomberg News conceded that while Americans did see pay raises since 2020, “much of those gains have been gobbled up by inflation. Some of the fastest wage increases in decades have left the average American largely no better off than before.” [Emphasis added.] Bloomberg News also pointed out Nov. 27 that housing affordability is currently at its “worst on record,” something Lowrey didn’t bother to mention. In addition, credit card debt is also over $1 trillion, another disaster “record” that Lowrey didn’t disclose.


10 posted on 12/04/2023 11:10:41 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: JV3MRC

Leftists are so out of touch with reality.

They live in a dream world that bears no resemblance to reality.


11 posted on 12/04/2023 11:18:12 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: metmom

Yo ‘lantic you fulla chit mon...


12 posted on 12/04/2023 2:06:52 PM PST by skinny old man (Still lurking and posting after all these years(27 yrs ?)(more ?)(seems like more...))
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