Posted on 08/15/2024 7:28:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The biggest issues to the voters this year are the economy, inflation, and immigration. Therefore, the Democrat campaign workers posing as journalists are working as hard as they can to divert blame for the multiple disasters from Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and other Democrats.
They are pretending that Kamala had nothing to do with the open border, even though she was clearly put in charge, and they are pretending that inflation and the decimation of the people’s purchasing power essentially occurred in a vacuum, instead of clearly being caused by Biden’s and Kamala’s policies.
This article by the NYT and via Yahoo News places the blame on the COVID virus and Russia, which is pure B.S.
How Food Prices Have Changed Over the Past Four Years
After the pandemic’s onset, consumers turned away from dining out and panicked shoppers stockpiled groceries. Workers became infected with COVID-19, making it harder to staff grocery stores, warehouses and meat processing plants, raising costs for businesses.
Then, in early 2022, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushed up energy prices and the cost of commodities like grains and vegetable oils. That raised the costs of producing and transporting food products. More recently, droughts and an avian flu outbreak have further strained food supplies.
The confluence of these events has made groceries more expensive as companies have passed along cost increases to consumers. The average price for a dozen large eggs, for example, has nearly doubled from four years ago, to $2.72 from $1.55. Prices for cereals and bakery products have climbed about 25% over the same period, while fruits and vegetables were up about 14%.
Author Madeleine Ngo blames COVID for higher grocery prices, even though the big “pandemic” problems occurred during Trump’s last year in office, and inflation was extremely low at 1.4% when Biden took office.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Biden and Harris didn’t inherit a deep recession, no matter how many times that lie is repeated; they inherited a rapidly growing economy. Jobs were coming back at a rate of over 1.5 million per month in the last eight months of 2020, much faster than the job “growth” during Biden.
The 2020 recession was the shortest in history, lasting just two months and ending nine months before Biden took office, so why does the media allow that lie to continue? The answer is that all they care about is Democrats winning elections, so facts don’t matter.
I’m confused. Is the U.S. economy rotten or is it not?
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“I’m confused. Is the U.S. economy rotten or is it not?”
You aren’t the target audience. The target audience for Dems has an advanced case of cognitive dissonance. They believe the economy is great, but they also believe their bank accounts. So, to help them, the communists give them reasons for the slim bank account in a booming economy.
At least they stopped blaming Bush.
Does a per food item .. for instance the cost of a dozen eggs.. comparison between when Trump was in office and when biden was “in office”?
https://ballotpedia.org/Tie-breaking_votes_cast_by_Kamala_Harris_in_the_U.S._Senate
She cast the deciding votes for Inflation Reduction & America Recovery spending, which have only fueled inflation, increased debt and increased interest rates.
RUSSIA!!!!
The media is the democrats, and the democrats are the media.
They are one in the same.
Journalist no longer exist in the mainstream media—they are all democrat advocates.
And the source was some guy at Fortune magazine.
Wait...
it was the pandemic and Russia?
Not Trump?
Trump has been the root cause for all of America’s problems, but now democrats and their MSM are pointing fingers elsewhere? Something’s up...
I don’t have the stats, But it seems to me that the typical weekly grocery bill is about 30% higher and eating out is 50% higher than it used to be. Buying a house or new car is becoming unaffordable to many people, along with the cost of insurance for those items. The higher cost of fuel/energy adds to the cost of everything you buy as well as your utility bill.
Another Democrat myth.
Nothing is ever the fault of demonicrats.
These two bills need to be hung around her neck, she is directly responsible for grocery prices 30% higher since her regime:
Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate for the first COVID-19 stimulus package in 2021 which led to inflation, in what critics call a sign of what’s to come in a possible Harris administration.Her second tie-breaker was for the stimulus package at the beginning of the Biden administration, which has significantly impacted the economy, as inflation has skyrocketed.
Following the passage of the stimulus package, inflation increased significantly.
OF COURSE. Who can forget “Putin’s Price Hike” from that grotesque goblin bobble head.
America has been uncommonly blessed by God with the availability of abundant natural resources, but the watermelon commies in office prevent their use.
The Democrat formula is to take all the credit and reject all the blame. This causes them slight problems occasionally when an initially popular policy turns out to be a disaster. In such a case, they simply resort to applied amnesia. Works every time.
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