Posted on 11/29/2025 11:41:01 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Democrats’ latest con job is blaming President Donald Trump for former President Joe Biden’s legacy inflation and claiming that Zohran Mamdani-style socialism will solve the “affordability problem” rather than make it far worse. If the Ocasio-Cortez-Sanders-Jeffries crowd gets away with this propaganda, the next “red wave” to wash over America will be a Marxist-controlled Congress in 2026.
Without question, families continue to feel the sting of Biden’s high prices — at the grocery store, at the gas pump, and in their monthly rent. Lower-income families feel it most, because they devote almost one-third of their budgets to food and another quarter to shelter — exactly the categories where Biden-era inflation has hit hardest.
President Trump and his economic team viscerally understand this pain and are working overtime to bring relief. Yet solving inflation isn’t like flipping a switch — it’s more like turning an aircraft carrier around: steady and deliberate, but agonizingly slow in some categories to show progress. As a practical and increasingly political matter, the impact of the new Trump policies is governed by lags that, in some sectors, stretch longer than the 10 months he has been back in office.
Food: A tale of two market lags
Consider food, which accounts for about 14% of the average household budget and roughly 20% of the total rise in consumer prices since 2021.
Food inflation exploded during 2022 and 2023 as a perfect Biden-Yellen-Buttigieg storm hit: massive fiscal stimulus pushed by a profligate Democratic House and Senate that overheated demand, fuel and fertilizer costs that surged under Biden’s green war on domestic energy, and Pete Buttigieg-era supply chain breakdowns that drove up the...
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dems version of whack a mole. Aided and abetted by the media.
Even in Trump friendly media there is no coverage of the facts.
Inflation is down in Gas, fossil fuels and transportation. Car manufacturers stopping the subsidy of electric cars will stop inflation in car prices.
Inflation is down in food (except beef ...and until recently coffee)
Inflation still persists in housing. The FED is expected to lower interest rates in Dec. But even then, the increased cost of both Fed, State and Local regs..and the time to comply with them...is still driving up the cost of housing.
Inflation still persists in the cost of government. As the national debt increases, the cost of interest on the debt increases and that is both inflation, and the cost of much of the other inflation.
The federal debt is ~$110,000/American resident.
The federal debt is ~$240,000/American worker.
The federal debt is ~$300,000/American citizen worker.
The federal debt is ~$400,000/American citizen full-time worker.
There is no affordability crisis. I work for the post office. Yesterday I had 187 packages. My route only has 200 customers. Mind you, not all get packages. There were multiples at some addresses but everyone has plenty of money to spend. Even my poorest ones.
What do people expect when the government arbitrarily shuts down the supply chain due to a cold bug?
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