In 1992, Al Gore made himself the target of well-deserved mockery when he told a crowd that, economically, “everything that ought to be down is up, everything that should be up is down!”
He continues to offer shady claims, now, mostly about the climate.
But Gore isn’t alone in manufacturing a false message for political consumption. On the whole, the US government does this virtually every month, when it releases cheery stats like “employment reports” that soon get revised downward when most people aren’t paying attention.
Many Americans become accustomed to this kind of Orwellian treatment, but sometimes, a politician is so thuggish and unembarrassed by his own ego, that he adds enough insult to let folks refocus on the core injury. Joe Biden just pulled off that hubristic feat by - get this - not only repeating his attempt to pretend that inflation has ended and gone into reverse, but by actually drawing more attention to the continuing price problem through his claim that grocers are at fault and are “ripping people off.”
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten reports for Fox News that at the South Carolina Democrat Party “First-in-the-Nation Celebration Dinner” held in Columbia on January 27, Biden told the audience a lot of things that not only were out of line with economic reality, he made sure to insult business owners and consumers trying to deal with reality.
"Inflation is coming down,” he claimed. False.
As I reported for MRCTV last month, prices are going up, but the rate of the increase in December was not as steep as compared to a year earlier.
"The cost of eggs, milk, chicken, gas, and so many other essential items have come down."
Incredibly deceptive. Not only have prices overall risen year-to-year, as I noted in December, the President cannot make any claim that January, 2024 has delivered some miraculous decrease in prices, because overall January inflation stats will not be updated until February 13. And, of course, if one wants to calculate the overall price increases from the time Biden entered office until the fall of last year, that would come to 17.7 percent.
Higher, not lower, Joe.
Curiously, none of the South Carolina Democrat Party partiers at the dinner spoke up for truth when Joe spouted his nonsense to them.
So much for self-respect and honor.
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And basic grocery prices have risen even more than the average rate of inflation.
As Rumpf-Whitten observes:
“Based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans must spend approximately $125.51 on groceries that would have previously cost $100 in December 2019.”
Surely, this will change if we just keep allowing ourselves to be dragged along Biden’s primrose path, the path paved with massive deficit warfare-welfare spending, government restrictions on energy import, energy discovery, fuel refining, and fuel transport, increasingly burdensome “regulations” (i.e. government threats to make people sell or buy the way the government wants) and more.
Surely this will get better if we just keep crawling on the Bidenista path that has seen anemic new orders in manufacturing.
Or perhaps that’s not the case. And business owners trying to survive in a government-controlled economic system are not to blame.
Perhaps one can point out to Biden that the sellers he excoriates actually try to compete with each other for our patronage, that we consumers try to get more, not less, for our money and efforts, and that sellers, therefore, are incentivized to bring us the best bang for our buck. If they try to “rip us off” we will respond by going to a competitor, and other free market participants can see our moves and respond accordingly.
Perhaps someone can tell Joe that the sphere of our lives in which we do not have a choice is the government, which imposes itself – or, more accurately, which sees its parasitic and egomaniacal rulers impose their edicts – on all of us.
If Joe Biden truly believes that the grocery sellers out there are “ripping us off,” why doesn’t he leave the world of politics and enter the private market? How about engaging those nefarious grocery gangsters with his own brand of Biden Buys? If he thinks sellers are setting prices too high, he can open a store and show ‘em how it’s done.
He talks a good game at the political podium. He adopts that “tough guy for the little guy” swagger. But is Biden willing to peacefully compete?
Of course not.
He is a devotee of deception, a promulgator of pronouncements and allegations that have nothing to do with reality and everything to do with blaming innocent people for the problems his own collectivist philosophy and controlling policies have wrought.
If we had freedom, real freedom, we could decouple from this disastrous relationship, but as Heritage Foundation economist and economic professor Peter St. Onge has noted, with recent government “hiring” behind over half of total net new jobs, is there really a light at the end of the economic tunnel?
And, if there is, will the Biden Administration ban that light, in order to fulfill another insane Climate Cult edict?
We will see, but for now, we can watch his rhetoric, see how the Dems don’t call him on it, and speak out, often.
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