Posted on 12/14/2022 10:50:07 AM PST by Red Badger
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The Biden administration has provided too many excuses to keep track of regarding the state of the crippling inflation crisis that continues to take a heavy toll on hard-working Americans, especially as the winter season approaches and energy bills climb.
On Tuesday, the White House trotted the 80-year-old president out in public to take a head-scratching victory lap over the latest news regarding the Consumer Price Index, a core inflation marker, which rose less than expected in November, at 0.2 percent, but continues to remain sky high overall.
At the news conference, Biden was asked by a reporter when he expects prices to begin to normalize. Instead of throwing out words like “transitory” or “moderating,” the president admitted at the end of the conference that he doesn’t have a clue, sounding almost as if he’s completely lost control of the situation.
“Can you say when you expect prices to get back to normal, Mr. President?” the reporter asked.
“I hope by the end of next year we’re much closer, but I can’t make that prediction,” Biden said. “I just — I’m convinced they’re not going to go up. I’m convinced they’re going to continue to go down.”
Biden’s non-answer generated plenty of justifiable criticism. Nobody expects Biden or any president to know precisely what will happen, but a general idea would have been nice.
“He’s really on top of his game isn’t he?” one Twitter user wrote.
Another Twitter user wrote, “So he admitted prices under his administration are not normal?”
Before his remarks about the future of inflation and where it will land, Biden said he believes the current numbers indicated “a lot of good news on the horizon.”
“We learned last month that the inflation rate came down, down more than experts expected,” Biden said, according to CNBC. “In a world where inflation is rising in double digits in many major economies around the world, inflation is coming down in America.”
Referencing the latest slightly-less-terrible CPI news on Tuesday morning, Biden took credit for the numbers, claiming it’s part of his “economic plan.”
“What is clear is my economic plan is working and we’re just getting started,” the president said. “My goal is simple: get prices under control without choking off economic growth; bring inflation down while keeping the labor market resilient; build an economy from the bottom up and the middle out; an economy with good jobs, good wages and for the long run, not a boom or bust economy.”
It’s fair to say that the U.S. economy under President Donald Trump, in many aspects, was much better than Biden’s version. But even when setbacks came up under Trump, he would at least provide the sense of leadership Americans need to hear during tough times.
President Biden, who seems perpetually confused and can barely read a teleprompter, doesn’t have to provide the perfect answer when questioned on such matters.
Still, he needs to exhibit the same optimism and leadership that Trump did. That’s all anyone’s asking.
Saying he doesn’t know when things will improve might be a shockingly unfortunate and honest assessment, but it’s not what the country needs to hear during these challenging times.
CORRECTION, Dec. 14, 2022: President Biden didn’t use the word “certain” in his comments about inflation. The original headline on this article suggested otherwise. It has been revised.
What’s the real solution? Will the Democrats just nationalize the economy? — then they can tell you for sure what the cost of beans will be next Tuesday.
Brandon never had control to begin with.
If I was trying to fundamentally change America.......crashing the economy is what I would do
If he were a GOP POTUS, the people would be lined up in the streets in front of the White House. Instead, no protests whatsoever are taking place anywhere. It’s no wonder the DEMs have little to no fear of Americans.
“Brandon never had control to begin with”
Of the economy or his bladder.......or both.
Captain Joe sailed the Titanic into an iceberg and then claimed he’d fixed the ice machine.
That’s okay. Single women can still have abortions, and that is all that matters. The alphabet media can still charge everyone but themselves with systemic racism, etc. And most importantly, the nation is being destroyed while everyone just stands around looking at each other.
When we get a real legitimate President.
I’m not an economist, I never played one TV, and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but I know that the economy will return, and prices will go down once Joe is out of office.
It’s called ‘growing the economy from the bottom up’.
IOW, the economy will become equally poor at all levels, with the bottom becoming the example for the the whole country.
Everybody will be equally poor. It’s the equity the democrats have been calling for.
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” - Winston Churchill
Biden, along with 1 million economists and forecasters.
That and his bowels.
Stolen election:
Consequences
Etc
Etc
Etc
I’m not sure it’s accurate to say he lost control of the economy. When did he have control of the economy?
His bladder, his bowels, his mouth, his son...
CC
Reminds me of this little diddy...
Fellow Americans I proudly standing here to humbly see
I assure you and I mean it now says I don’t speak out plain as de and fellow Americans I’m for progress and the flag long may it fly I’m a poor boy come to Greatness so it follows that I cannot tell a lie
Ooh I love to dance a little sidestep now they see me now they don’t I’ve come and gone and ohhh, I love to sweep around the wide step cut a little swath and lead the people on
Now my good friends it behooves me to be solome and declare I’m for goodness and for-profit and for Living Clean and saying any prayer and now my good friends you can sleep nights I’ll continue to stand tall you can trust me before I promise I shall keep a watchful eye upon you all
Ooh I love to dance a little sidestep now they see me now they don’t I’ve come and gone and
Ohhhbh I love to sweep around the wide step cut a little swath and lead the people on
Ohhh I love to dance a little side step
And ohhh I love to sweep around the wide step
Joe Stupid doesn’t know when prices are going down because Joe Stupid doesn’t know which end is up.
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