Biden goes bonkers over inflation
Posted By: PageTurner, 3/12/2022 8:45:16 AM
Joe Biden should be hopping mad about inflation, which rolled in at 7.9% and is destroying the purchasing power, wage gains, and savings of the citizenry even as he touts good economic times in his speeches. Instead, he's going bonkers over the voter reaction to inflation, not the inflation itself. (Snip for tweet) "I'm sick of this stuff!" he hollered. "We have to talk about it because the American people think the reason for inflation is the government spending more money. Simply. Not. True." Which of course is perfectly true. He's wallowing in denial about it and now thinks he can yell his way into making Americans think differently.
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Biden goes bonkers over inflation
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Joe Biden should be hopping mad about inflation, which rolled in at 7.9% and is destroying the purchasing power, wage gains, and savings of the citizenry even as he touts good economic times in his speeches.
Instead, he's going bonkers over the voter reaction to inflation, not the inflation itself. (Snip for tweet) "I'm sick of this stuff!" he hollered. "We have to talk about it because the American people think the reason for inflation is the government spending more money. Simply. Not. True."
Which of course is perfectly true. He's wallowing in denial about it and now thinks he can yell his way into making Americans think differently.
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In Ukraine, though, Biden draws sidelong comments
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nation the way the Ukrainians are doing?
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Turning into King Lear now, maddened by reality.