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Joe Biden: My Plan for Fighting Inflation
Wall Street Journal Editorial Page ^ | May 31, 2022 | Joe Biden

Posted on 05/31/2022 7:45:50 AM PDT by Wuli

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.....the U.S. can transition from recovery to stable, steady growth and bring down inflation without giving up all these historic gains. During this transition, growth will look different. We will likely see fewer record job-creation numbers, but this won’t be cause for concern. Rather, if average monthly job creation shifts in the next year from current levels of 500,000 to something closer to 150,000, it will be a sign that we are successfully moving into the next phase of recovery—as this kind of job growth is consistent with a low unemployment rate and a healthy economy. Things should also look different from the decades before the pandemic, when too often we had low growth, low wage gains, and an economy that worked best for the wealthiest Americans.

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First, the Federal Reserve has a primary responsibility to control inflation. My predecessor demeaned the Fed, and past presidents have sought to influence its decisions inappropriately during periods of elevated inflation. I won’t do this. I have appointed highly qualified people from both parties to lead that institution. I agree with their assessment that fighting inflation is our top economic challenge right now.

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We can also reduce the cost of everyday goods by fixing broken supply chains, improving infrastructure, and cracking down on the exorbitant fees that foreign ocean freight companies charge to move products. My Housing Supply Action Plan will make housing more affordable by building more than a million more units, closing the housing shortfall in the next five years. We can reduce the price of prescription drugs by giving Medicare the power to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies and capping the cost of insulin. And we can lower the cost of child and elder care to help parents get back to work. [snip]

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: biden; inflartion; taxes
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This rant of Biden's is sooo wordy, and 90% political boasting of his non-existent success tackling the nation's problems so far.

His sense of current conditions and his sense of his "solutions" demonstrate he is economically tone deaf and much more the senile idiot he shows us every day.

The "permalink" link WSJ gives us subscribers is supposed to work for all who use it to get to the full article.

1 posted on 05/31/2022 7:45:50 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

Here’s a crazy idea for fighting inflation... STOP PRINTING MONEY!


2 posted on 05/31/2022 7:47:31 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I pledge allegiance to Hedy Lamarr)
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To: Wuli

What’s his next trick to reduce inflation?

Reduce the physical size of money by 50%?


3 posted on 05/31/2022 7:47:51 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Wuli

😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴


4 posted on 05/31/2022 7:48:05 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Wuli

So....... things will continue to get worse.

Got it.


5 posted on 05/31/2022 7:48:16 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Wuli

One block of cheese to supplement the long whine.


6 posted on 05/31/2022 7:48:59 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti-Socialist Derelict at Large)
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To: Wuli
Joe Biden: My Plan for Fighting Inflation

...Is to send a stimulus check in the amount of $1,500 to each household in America, plus another $1,000 for each child under 18.

7 posted on 05/31/2022 7:50:36 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Wuli

a retread of obama’s new normal

that economy sucks but that is normal

gaslight at full blast


8 posted on 05/31/2022 7:51:47 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: Wuli

Nothing Go Brandon is saying here inspires any confidence that his five-year plan will work any better than Stalin’s ever did.


9 posted on 05/31/2022 7:52:44 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Wuli

Sleepy Joe


10 posted on 05/31/2022 7:53:04 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Wuli

ROTFLMFAO!!!

IT, and its vile ilk of flying monkeys, is the cause of all of it. IF its lips are moving, its lying.


11 posted on 05/31/2022 7:53:17 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: Yo-Yo

I predict this will happen and before the elections


12 posted on 05/31/2022 7:54:20 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Yo-Yo

He’s gonna send another stimulus check?

Not to everyone, again?


13 posted on 05/31/2022 7:54:57 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Wuli

“...inflation is that...thing... and we’ll do...something or other...because that thing...you know...

“...oh well...”


14 posted on 05/31/2022 7:55:28 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Wuli

Obama ridiculed Trump’s plan to fix the economy, saying he would need a “magic wand”, and that we should get used to bad times, his “new normal”. Too bad most voters can’t remember last week, not to mention how good things were 2 years ago.


15 posted on 05/31/2022 7:55:30 AM PDT by Hazwaste (Socialists are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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To: Wuli

Republican need to impeach this senile old fool. Problem is, Mitch McConnell doesn’t have the balls, and we all know it.


16 posted on 05/31/2022 7:55:49 AM PDT by rod5591
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To: Wuli
"My Housing Supply Action Plan will make housing more affordable by building more than a million more units, closing the housing shortfall in the next five years.

Where is he going to get the workforce to do that? Well I guess we know why he is letting all those illegals in.

17 posted on 05/31/2022 7:56:22 AM PDT by Yogafist
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To: SaveFerris
He’s gonna send another stimulus check? Not to everyone, again?

No not everyone, just illegals and Ukrainians.

18 posted on 05/31/2022 7:56:32 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Wuli

“if average monthly job creation shifts in the next year from current levels of 500,000 to something closer to 150,000, it will be a sign that we are successfully moving into the next phase of recovery—as this kind of job growth is consistent with a low unemployment rate and a healthy economy.”

HUH?

The FED causes inflation by printing more money.

STOP IT!

Lunchbucket Joey Bidet&Co are brain dead.


19 posted on 05/31/2022 7:58:13 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: HombreSecreto
What’s his next trick to reduce inflation? Reduce the physical size of money by 50%?

You mean like newspapers and magazines?

20 posted on 05/31/2022 7:58:44 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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