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Biden’s Bizarro World: Inflation has become self-aware and ‘it is being stubborn’
American Thinker ^ | 4/18/2024 | Olivia Murray

Posted on 04/18/2024 5:38:21 PM PDT by simpson96

Does anyone remember when in 2016, Barack Obama mocked then-candidate Donald Trump over his campaign comments about revitalizing the American economy? Obama painted Trump as a naive and foolish con artist, because this was a complex issue and Trump lacked a “magic wand.”

Well, what Obama either didn’t understand, or at least pretended to not understand—an effort to cover over calculated sabotage, no doubt—is that economic prosperity is perhaps one of the easiest things for any developed nation to achieve. It’s as simple as getting the government out of the market—which is exactly what Trump did when he got into office. Jobs came back at a record pace, industries roared to life once again, and the stock market went through the roof. It’s exactly what Argentina’s Javier Milei has done, creating a nearly-six-hundred-million-dollar budget surplus after a mere 60 days of slashing government “jobs” and rolling back useless programs that would die a quick death if forced to exist on merit.

So why are the above realities...reality? Because the economy is not a sentient being with a mind of its own, it’s an inanimate byproduct of human activity and influence.

But strangely enough, Joe Biden thinks otherwise, and in a recent interview claimed that inflation in the U.S. wasn’t his fault, it was simply being “stubborn.” Here’s the story, from a report by Ian Hanchett at Breitbart News this morning:

During an interview with Nexstar Media that took place on Tuesday and was released on Wednesday, President Joe Biden stated that inflation ‘is being stubborn and not going down to the 2% we need…’

Well what a nightmare! Inflation has become self-aware, and it’s not even a helpful and accommodating little creature, but more like a bratty toddler prone to temper tantrums and emotionality, or a

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KEYWORDS: inflation

1 posted on 04/18/2024 5:38:21 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96
economic prosperity is perhaps one of the easiest things for any developed nation to achieve

I really think that's true.

And it's really amazing how rare it is for a nation to really achieve the prosperity it should. The Ruling Class enriches itself and screws everyone else.

2 posted on 04/18/2024 5:48:18 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: simpson96

Simple answer…..Drill Baby Drill !!


3 posted on 04/18/2024 5:56:32 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: simpson96

All bammy had going for him was shucking and jiving.


4 posted on 04/18/2024 5:56:38 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: simpson96

Lifelong grifters and simpletons like Obama and Biden have no grasp of economics. To think that getting elected somehow makes idiots economic gurus is ridiculous.


5 posted on 04/18/2024 6:03:43 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: simpson96

Inflation means different things to different people.

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6 posted on 04/18/2024 6:03:55 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

Sadly, not unbeleveable.


7 posted on 04/18/2024 6:56:08 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: simpson96

Inflation: too much money chasing too few goods. Notice how Bitcoin, which is limited , keeps going up , even when it is nothing but software?


8 posted on 04/18/2024 6:56:32 PM PDT by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: simpson96

We now have millions employed by government, many of which are unionized no less.

If I ran a private business like this obese federal government runs itself, I’d be bankrupt, in extreme debt and living under a freeway off-ramp.

A computer could run this monster way more efficiently. Government needs to be reduced dramatically across the board. Millions of these government workers have become an all consuming crushing burden...Heavy luggage. This ever growing bloated corrupt government spreads like a disease, and will eventually choke the entire country off.


9 posted on 04/18/2024 7:29:02 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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