Posted on 10/26/2021 6:54:19 AM PDT by markomalley
At least once a week, a team of President Biden’s top advisers meet on Zoom to address the nation’s supply chain crisis. They discuss ways to relieve backlogs at America’s ports, ramp up semiconductor production for struggling automakers and swell the ranks of America’s truck drivers.
The conversations are aimed at one goal: taming accelerating price increases that are hurting the economic recovery, unsettling American consumers and denting Mr. Biden’s popularity.
An inflation surge is presenting a fresh challenge for Mr. Biden, who for months insisted that rising prices were a temporary hangover from the pandemic recession and would quickly recede. Instead, the president and his aides are now bracing for high inflation to persist into next year, with Americans continuing to see faster — and sustained — increases in prices for food, gasoline and other consumer goods than at any point this century.
That reality has complicated Mr. Biden’s push for sweeping legislation to boost workers, expand access to education and fight poverty and climate change. And it is dragging on the president’s approval ratings, which could threaten Democrats’ already tenuous hold on Congress in the 2022 midterm elections.
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Meeting once a week does help perpetuate
The American public is stupid beyond words. The media can convince them that what’s in the cup really is chocolate pudding, don’t mind the smell. But what the media cannot do is convince the idiots that they have what they don’t have. The American public is self entitled and demanding. As prices rise, and shortages become more common, those people will become angry, even if they don’t understand what happened.
“denting Mr. Biden’s popularity.”
LOL- if this happened under trump it would be called a constitutional crisis worthy of impeachment and execution...but for Biden, its ‘denting his popularity’
“threaten his agenda”?! This IS his agenda!
“Once Seen as Temporary”
By who?
Biden’s agenda is ice cream, followed by a nap and then reruns of “F troop”.
CC
You can’t underestimate the human ability to adapt to worsening and worsening conditions.
Ah…”once seen as temporary”…so, the new directive from the actual leaders of this country is…”deal with it”.
Somebody supported these stupid Democrat sons of bitches.
Probably the same idiots who come here and write that the Republicans are in charge.
The only folks who thought inflation was “transitory” were total morons.
They use “temporary” as if prices are going to go down sometime.
They never do.
L
I bet, regardless of what inflation does, prices for most items WON’T go back down.
“At least once a week, a team of President Biden’s top advisers meet on Zoom….”
Which means the ChiComs hear every word.
L
“Once Seen as Temporary”
I think they mean “once portrayed as temporary”.
In their world, perception is reality, might makes right, and the end justifies the means.
Some people need to Google “gas prices under Trump”.
The counter-message is simple enough for a government education victim to understand, even if the GOP leadership hates to repeat it: “This wasn’t happening under Trump.”
You are one of the few who gets it! This is real, to China. They’re keeping an eye on what their government in America is doing.
(I think Trump got it too, so he had to go.)
Be honest: they ARE his agenda.
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