Posted on 07/12/2022 5:04:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
In Monday's White House briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre admitted what most Americans already know to be true: prices on everyday goods are still surging amid inflation that surged to forty year highs under Biden's economic policy.
"On Wednesday we will have new CPI inflation data and we expect the headline number — which includes gas and food — to be highly elevated," Jean-Pierre told reporters. For context, May's Consumer Price Index jumped one full percentage point from April, hitting 8.6 percent year-over-year. For the White House to be trying to manage expectations ahead of Wednesday's release for June suggests there's much worse yet to come.
As usual for the Biden administration, Jean-Pierre's warning was also accompanied by the obligatory refusal to accept any responsibility for the spend and print economic policy that Biden has embraced and which has spurred red-hot inflation to continue setting records despite Biden's initial denial that any issue existed or was merely a "high-class problem."
The surging inflation the White House expects on Wednesday was "heavily impacted by the war in Ukraine," Jean-Pierre said trying to keep up the Biden administration's appearance of zero fault in the pain facing Americans' wallets. She added, in a new excuse, that "June's CPI data is already out of date" because prices have fallen since June, Biden's press secretary argued. Never mind, apparently, that every CPI release follows the month it measures because...that's how inflation, employment, and every other economic metric released by the Department of Labor works — they're not real-time numbers, they're a measure of the previous week/month/quarter/year.
When asked in a separate question about a new poll showing that 63 percent of Democrats believe the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction under Biden's leadership, Jean-Pierre again proclaimed that President Biden knows what Americans are feeling.
But even that answer, which is dubious given the White House's previous messaging on surging inflation, the broken supply chain, and a formula shortage, is a condemnation of Biden's leadership. If he knows what Americans are feeling — which is pain, something of a Carter-era malaise — then his failure to act is even more damning.
Jean-Pierre's answer on polls in general made it as clear as can be: Biden supposedly knows what Americans are feeling — as she just said — but the White House refuses to "pay attention" to their pain.
The lack of awareness or attention paid to Americans struggling under Biden was reemphasized by Jean-Pierre when she stated that the U.S. economy is "strong."
Using the White House's past playbook for dealing with runaway inflation as a guide, calling the economy "strong" is only further evidence that the economy is diving into a recession. The question then becomes who Biden and Jean-Pierre will blame for that mess right before the midterms?
Notice how BidenIdiot has become the scapegoat for these idiotic characters.
BidenIdiot is merely a sock puppet and the ones that really need to be blamed, hammered into oblivion, and ultimately removed from the positions are the puppet masters pulling the strings of BidenIdiot’s mouth and teleprompter, etc.
Ph, what’s a little pain, when we need to “save the Earth”!
Save da Urf!
Of course not. His allegiance is with the Chinese government.
Personally, I’m shocked at how much damage Biden’s handlers have done in such a short time.
It escalated quickly. This is full frontal liberalism.
Those behind the curtain have been planning this for years. All they needed was a good sock puppet or two.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
It is apparent that Biden does not matter. His poor and declining show in the polls doesn’t matter.
Biden actually isn’t.
What is and what really matters is making the massive change to the socialist America that mimics the UK and EU. The agenda is all that matters. It must be accomplished now.
Yope,
Give us Ice age, Now!
January 21, 2021, Biden signs EO to kill keystone pipeline, oil leases, and drilling. That was the beginning of inflation.
Is she out of high-school yet?
I KNOW, right???????
I mean we figured slow-Joe would be bad, but THIS bad????
That takes some concerted effort.
Biden doesn’t pay attention???? Should be - BIDEN DOESN’T CARE or BIDEN DOESN’T HAVE A CLUE. Both are more accurate.
The problem with inflation (the Government and the FED have been lying about this for decades) is too much spending, printing of fiat currency, and stupid and short sighted policies. The two big culprits, imho, are the profligate spending/printing of dollars, and government policy with regard to energy. The shortage of energy with the concurrent rise in prices for everything else is a result of years of attacks on the fossil fuel industry. Capital Expenditures have been greatly reduced, and now we see the results. OPEC doesn’t have the spare capacity to bail us out anymore.
Is she out of elementary-school yet?........................
Jo Jo doesn’t care about Americans. His number one priority right now is freebies and handouts for freeloading foreign invaders.
Stagflation is hear people. It’s the jimmy Carter malaise. Embrace the suck is what the Whitehouse is telling us.
Yep!
Biden is just a sock puppet.
Its VJ, Holder and Obama calling the shots.
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