Posted on 05/15/2024 2:38:04 AM PDT by Libloather
Dozens of Democratic lawmakers signed a letter to President Biden, pleading with him to act on high grocery prices that have been slow to fall as inflation has come down.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., led the letter Monday morning, calling on Biden to "exercise your executive authority to take additional action to address rising food prices without congressional action."
The letter amassed 40 Democratic signatories between the House and Senate, including senators Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and representatives Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., among others.
The lawmakers acknowledged "Americans are facing sky-high food prices."
Notably, grocery prices have not fallen at the same rate as inflation. This is "caused by excessive price gouging by food and grocery giants," the Democrats claimed.
Democrats asked Biden to direct his administration's Department of Justice to "prosecute actors in the agricultural and food sectors for pricefixing and other anticompetitive behavior" and task the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with creating a joint task force with the purpose of investigating the manipulation of food prices.
"Our letter is about pointing out areas that exist in the law but have long been underused," Warren told Time magazine in an interview. "Now is the perfect moment to move."
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Democrats are not able to fix it because they don’t
want to fix anything.
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They fix things and that is the reason we are in the
situation we are in. They fix things to suit the needs
and causes that support their various causes. We the
opponents don’t take the necessary actions to stop them.
jmo
Getting a demented old man to do anything he doesn’t want to do is nigh impossible.
Only Obama could do it, and he doesn’t want to either...............
They will start prosecuting farmers and confiscating their lands..............
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It never ceases to amaze me how little Democrats understand basic economics or even mathematics
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The Uniparty, as they continue to push toward Totalitarianism, understands the People are STUPID and will blindly support “our guys/{X}” as ‘good’ & castigate {Y} as ‘bad’.
“Oddly” missing, the (R)N(C) milquetoast ‘push-back’ that will 1) appear to be exceedingly tone-deaf, turning off voters while being THE ‘talking point’ for days/weeks & 2) fail to address the root issue (aka: G-O-V-T)
“creating a joint task force with the purpose of investigating the manipulation of food prices.“
This is the joke the RATs always do to look like they know your pain and are doing something about it.
They create a goofy task force with a few known people who sit around a jabber but do nothing,
They RAT media reports that the RATs care and are working on this problem just for you.
They will do nothing other than talk all the way to the election where they plan to cheat like hell.
TYSON SHUT DOWN 4 PACKING operations with little or no notice-—Stranding chicken growing farmers & bankrutping them.
“What does Biden have to do to get food prices down appreciably enough to make a difference in this election?”
Unlike the petroleum reserve, there is no “grocery reserve” where FJB can at the stroke of a pen release groceries into the grocery supply chain.
There is absolutely nothing he can do, that is why the demonkkraps are writing a letter to him, asking him to “act” on food prices. Their goal has always been to acquire power, and keep power. Like Scarface Tony Montana said, first you get the power then you get the money. So they need to (1) blame the food industry (enemy) as the cause of the problem (not the feral givernment’s fiscal irresponsibility) and (2) make it look like caring FJB is doing something (”act”) even though FJB is not, (3) censor any info to the contrary so that (4) there are enough demonkkrap dolts to show up at the ballot box to give the steal a patina of legitimacy. Also, food prices in my book are also increased by illegal immigration. With millions more illegals and their anchor babies in the stores using givernment paid cards drives up demand versus supply chains that have not recovered since the great pandemic shutdown of 2020.
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These kind of Democrat polices are akin to the forced collectivization policies of the Soviet Union what created starvation in cities and liquidation of the Kulak class to shift the blame away from the politicians who created the problem.
With the Democrats, everything that is old is new again
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And the (R)N(C) *STILL* can’t pull its head out of its @ss to deftly, swiftly nor absolutely, counter their policies/message.
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They never explain why these evil corporations weren’t greedy, colluding and fixing prices during the Trump administration.
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Nor does ANYONE, esp. the (R)N(C), dare question the ‘windfall profits’ of G-O-V-T for doing absolutely *checks notes* NOTHING to bring {X} to market+.
The majority of them are just salivating at the prospect of government controlling food production, pricing, and profit.
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It is Democrat policies that have caused the mess we are in. Democrats are not able to fix it because they don’t want to fix anything.
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(D)??? Maybe you missed whom has had control of each chamber these days?
(R)N(C): “These policies are *poop*. WE can run/do things ‘better’ than the (D). We just need to pass a few things.” [REF: O’Care+]
“Dozens of Democratic lawmakers signed a letter to President Biden, pleading with him to act on high grocery prices”
Why not ask Al Capone to act on all the bootlegging, prostitution, illegal gambling, police corruption, and murders that are occurring in Chicago?
Nixonian wage and price controls before or after July 4th? From the party of bleeping idiots who haven't the first clue about economics?
I will argue that a lame duck president can’t issue wage and price controls.
Actually he said he turned it around already...lol.
He also said people are having no problem affording food.
“Dems push Biden to act on food prices with inflation ranking as top issue ahead of election ... exercise your executive authority to take additional action to address rising food prices without congressional action.”
History 101 has REPEATEDLY taught us throughout the ages that ANY action that a government implements to attempt to reduce inflationary prices will actually make prices INCREASE ... period ...
so, joe, i say go for it!
Free food for students don’t ya know....
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