15 Signs That The Middle Class Is In Serious Trouble
Biden Fiddles While Inflation Blaze Burns On
And he lies about his record on inflation.
President Joe Biden is not only in a state of denial about the surge of inflation that his reckless spending has let loose. He continues to lie to the American people.
For example, most recently on September 26th, President Biden claimed that the price of a gallon of gas had decreased “below three bucks” in “some few states.” That’s a lie.
As reported by ABC News, “according to AAA gas price averages by state, no state in the U.S. has an average gas price below $3.00 as of Sept 27.”
On September 26th, the same day that President Biden also falsely claimed that the price of gasoline was “in the low threes in most places,” AAA reported that “the national average pump price hit $3.72.”
During President Biden’s “60 Minutes” interview on September 18th, the president tried to play down the inflation problem. “Inflation rate month to month was just– just an inch, hardly at all,” he said. “We’re in a position where, for the last several months, it hasn’t spiked. It has just barely– it’s been basically even.” This distortion of the real toll that Americans are experiencing from the highest inflation rate in the United States in the last forty years is of little comfort to the millions of people coping with skyrocketing prices for necessities such as food and shelter.
In true Marie Antoinette “Let them eat cake” fashion, the Biden White House threw an Inflation Reduction Act party on the same day, September 13th, that the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers showed that inflation is not going anywhere anytime soon. James Taylor entertained the White House guests with a rendition of his 1968 hit “Fire and Rain” as the stock market indexes were plummeting. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 1,300 points in response to the dismal inflation news. The stock market is still going down as recession looms on top of inflation.
The latest year over year CPI increase from August 2021 to August 2022 was 8.3 percent. The cost of food rose by 11.4 percent year over year, the largest 12-month increase since the period ending May 1979. Electricity prices rose by 15.8 percent while shelter prices rose by 6.2 percent year over year.
The American people are paying outrageously high prices for basic necessities like food, shelter, and gasoline but the Biden White House partied like it was 1999. Perhaps James Taylor should have sung Prince’s hit “1999,” the song from which the words “parties like it’s 1999” came from.
The White House displayed utter tone deafness in holding their celebration of the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, which will do nothing to reduce inflation, on the same day that the latest CPI numbers were announced. President Biden’s remarks only added to the surreal atmosphere.
“This is the extraordinary story being written today in America by this administration,” the president told his enthusiastic audience. It sure is an “extraordinary story” that has been written by the Biden administration since it took office – an extraordinary story of failure.
An extraordinary story of inflation that has surged to historic levels since President Biden took office.
An extraordinary story of more than two million illegal immigrants crossing Biden’s open border in this past fiscal year alone, who are straining public resources after being released to go wherever they want in the country.
An extraordinary story of rising crime in the streets not seen since the 1970’s.
An extraordinary story of a chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, which left 13 American service members dead, American civilians and Afghan allies left behind, and the abandonment of billions of dollars of sophisticated military equipment.
But President Biden was just getting started with his message of self-congratulation. “This is what it looks like when the American government works for the people,” he said.
Just imagine how the American people would be faring if the president and his tax-and-spend fellow Democrats had not worked so hard to pass their fiscally irresponsible legislation. We might have had an inflation rate closer to the 2 percent level that prevailed during the days of the Trump administration when the American people could better afford groceries, gas for their cars, and housing.
President Biden claimed that the Inflation Reduction Act “helped reduce inflation at the kitchen table.” Really? Where are the provisions in this legislation that will help reduce the cost of foods at the kitchen table like meats, poultry, fish, and eggs, which rose in price by 10.6 percent from August 2021 to August 2022? How about the price of cereals and bakery products, which rose by 16.4 percent during the same period, or the price of fruits and vegetables, which rose by 16.2 percent?
The answer is that the highly touted Inflation Reduction Act does absolutely nothing to help reduce the pain of these rising food prices for the American people. The same is true for the price of shelter, which rose 6.2 percent from August 2021 to August 2022, unless you want to live in a federally subsidized electric vehicle or perhaps inside a wind turbine.
When White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked what the Inflation Reduction Act would do to reduce inflation in the short term, she fumbled for an answer. “So I — I — when you look at the lowering costs, in particular, for Americans,” she said, “I think that’s important when you think about how inflation has — has increased cost for American — Americans,” before citing some small potential savings in Obamacare premiums.
Claiming that the Inflation Reduction Act will reduce the deficit, President Biden said, “I don’t want to hear it anymore about “big spendin’ Democrats.” We spend but we pay.”
Yes, Mr. President, you are paying. You are paying off college student loans with taxpayer money and with no plan on how to offset the enormous cost.
During an address on September 23rd at a Democratic National Committee event, President Biden said that because of the reduction in the deficit that he claimed credit for, “we can afford to cancel $10,000 in student debt and $20,000 if you’re on a Pell Grant for tens of millions of Americans making under $125,000.” That is another one of the president’s whoppers. We cannot afford this reckless program at all.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a letter on September 26th stating that, after accounting for suspended loan payments, interest accrual, and involuntary collections from September 2022 to December 2022, “CBO estimates that the cost of student loans will increase by about an additional $400 billion in present value as a result of the action canceling up to $10,000 of debt issued on or before June 30, 2022, for borrowers with income below specified limits and an additional $10,000 for such borrowers who also received at least one Pell grant.” The CBO added that the net effect will be to “increase the amounts that the federal government borrows over time.”
The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model had estimated a higher cost incurred for the debt cancellation portion of President Biden’s plan alone than the CBO estimated – as much as $519 billion over 10 years. If all elements of President Biden’s student loan relief plan are taken into account, the cost estimate would be significantly higher.
This college student loan giveaway is yet another example of reckless spending by the Biden administration, with the backing of tax-and-spend congressional Democrats, which is adding fuel to the inflation fire. President Biden wants the American people to believe him that inflation is under control rather than believe what they are experiencing every day in their own lives as they try to make ends meet. His smoke and mirrors won’t work.
Joseph Klein
Joseph Klein is a Harvard-trained lawyer, and the author of Global Deception: The UN’s Stealth Assault on America’s Freedom and Lethal Engagement: Barack Hussein Obama, The United Nations & Radical Islam
Poll: Just 36% Approve of Joe Biden 41 Days out from Election
Just 36 percent of voters approved of President Joe Biden 41 days out from the midterm election, a Wednesday Grinnell College National Poll shows.
Biden’s approval rating is drastically fading, which indicates the Democrats could have huge losses come election day. Fifty-one percent disapprove of the president, a 15 point deficit.
A presidential approval rating is a key indicator of how the electorate will vote in the midterms. Polling shows the midterm election will likely be a referendum on Biden’s ineffective management of the nation.
Only 21 percent of Americans are satisfied with the direction of Biden’s America, a Gallup poll found Wednesday. Sixty-seven percent believe it is Biden’s fault the United States is on the wrong track. What is worse, just 35 percent of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents favor Biden for the 2024 nomination.
Americans’ dissatisfaction with Biden and his management come while Biden’s sagging economy is the number one issue among voters. Only 35 percent do not believe Biden’s economy is in a recession. Of the 35 percent, 20 percent say the economy is souring. Fifteen percent say it is improving.
Overall, just 20 percent believe Biden’s economy is very good to fairly good, while 77 percent said it was very bad to fairly bad. Among independents, 51 percent say Biden’s economy is very bad, while two percent of independents said it is very good.
With the midterms six weeks away, Biden and the Democrats will have a tough time overcoming the negative data points. Republicans are expected to retake the House, but the Senate is a tossup. Yet even establishment Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has become more optimistic about the GOP’s chances of retaking the deliberative body with many conservative candidates.
Senate races in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Nevada have narrowed within the margin of error. In Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida, Republican candidates still hold leads. New Hampshire appears to be the only swing state where Democrats have the largest advantage over Republicans.
The Grinnell College National Poll sampled voters from September 20-25. The margin of error was not provided.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
Survey: Nearly 7-in-10 Americans Searching for Extra Work Due to Surging Inflation
15 Signs That The Middle Class Is In Serious Trouble
KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED. NAFTA JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN AT IT HIS ENTIRE POLITICAL LIFE EVEN AS HE STAGES HIMSELF AS THE 'POPULIST FROM SCRANTON'.
A majority of Americans say they are being forced to search for extra work as inflation increases the cost of living.
Extraction Migration
Since at least 1990, the D.C. establishment has extracted tens of millions of legal and illegal migrants — and temporary visa workers — from poor countries to serve as workers, consumers, and renters for various U.S. investors and CEOs.
This federal economic policy of Extraction Migration has skewed the free market in the United States by inflating the labor supply for the benefit of employers.
Analysis: Biden Frees 1.35M Illegal Aliens into U.S. Since Taking Office, Exceeding Populations of Eight States
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released nearly 1.35 million border crossers and illegal aliens into the United States from February 2021 to August 2022, new analysis reveals.
The analysis, conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies’ Andrew Arthur, reviewed the latest Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency data that shows almost 2.2 million border crossers and illegal aliens have entered American communities since Biden took office — including nearly 1.35 million who were directly released into the U.S. interior by Biden’s DHS.
“If wealthy cities like D.C., New York, and Chicago are struggling to deal with the 11,000 released migrants border governors have sent them in recent weeks, imagine what will happen when the rest of us get our fair share,” Arthur writes.
The roughly 1.35 million border crossers and illegal aliens released into American communities by the Biden administration, which includes Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs), exceeds the resident populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Montana.
The number of releases is also twice the population of Boston, Massachusetts, nearly three times that of Atlanta, Georgia, and about 20 times the population of Portland, Maine.
Biden’s Catch and Release network ensures that border crossers and illegal aliens arriving at the southern border are briefly detained before being released into the U.S. interior by way of buses and domestic commercial flights and can quickly secure work permits to take American jobs.
As Breitbart News exclusively reported, sources at DHS have said that they are currently acting as a “full-service travel agency” for border crossers and illegal aliens.
“We’re aiding and abetting illegal entry to the United States,” the source said. “We’re using government cars to transport people to American towns. It’s working like an Uber service.”
Arthur’s analysis comes as Biden’s DHS has refused since June to reveal the number of border crossers and illegal aliens the agency has released into the U.S. interior. The last total, from May, showed over a million releases since February 2021 — suggesting that DHS has released about 350,000 in the last three months.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Survey: Nearly 7-in-10 Americans Searching for Extra Work Due to Surging Inflation
A majority of Americans say they are being forced to search for extra work as inflation increases the cost of living.
According to a recent survey by Bluecrew, a workforce service platform, 69 percent of Americans say they are actively looking for extra work hours, while 68 percent say they are reevaluating their current work situation.
Furthermore, 72 percent of Americans say inflation has impacted how they view their job, and 57 percent say they sought new or additional roles in the past year as the cost of living has ballooned since 2021 under the Biden administration.
Eighty-five percent of Americans said skyrocketing prices are affecting their spending and buying habits.
“Rapid inflation is forcing people to look at not only how they’re spending their money, but also how they’re earning their money,” Matt Laurinas, chief customer officer at Bluecrew, told CNBC.
During the pandemic, fewer individuals were seeking work, but high inflation is driving a rebound in the labor force participation rates, according to the Wall Street Journal.
While workers hope to take on extra work before the holiday shopping season, employers may not be as eager to hire due to recession fears and less consumer spending.
As CNBC reported, Walmart is planning on hiring 40,000 workers this holiday season, which is drastically down from the 150,000 retail workers and 20,000 supply chain workers that were hired the previous year.
That potentially puts the 58 percent of respondents who said they were interested in short-term work in a tight spot this holiday season. However, 65 percent did say they would consider opportunities that would go beyond the new year.
Even though a large number of those surveyed cited “work/life balance” (56 percent), “schedule/flexibility” (51 percent), and “prioritizing my mental health” (39 percent) as priorities when considering a job, most considered “wages/pay” (57 percent) as a priority for selecting a job.
The survey was conducted in September, asking more than 1,000 American workers from various backgrounds.
You can follow Ethan Letkeman on Twitter at @EthanLetkeman.
‘Fundamentally Transforming’ America Into a Communist Hellhole
You first have to tear the country down completely.
Let’s cut to the chase. In order to “fundamentally transform” America from a vibrant and free capitalist society into just another communist hellhole, you first have to tear it down completely, following the Marxist mantra of “the ends justify the means.”
In order to achieve that, it would include uncontrolled spending to create massive debt that the country simply cannot sustain, thereby crashing the economy. People see their savings and bank accounts dwindle to nothing as a result of ever increasing inflation. Eventually finding themselves dependent on government handouts for their very survival.
In addition, open the borders and flood the country with illegal immigration, overwhelming the social welfare system that is put in place to provide help and support to Americans. Instead pass those resources onto those who illegally entered the country, justifying it all as a humanitarian gesture.
Create a ‘climate emergency’ and turn it into a clarion call for groups of people who are easily manipulated. Make energy independence a thing of the past, and Americans become more susceptible to the whims of other countries in providing the energy necessary to drive our country’s economy, and allow people to go to work, and to stay warm in the winter. Rolling power outages become the norm as electric services are purposefully disrupted, and people look to the government to solve the problems.
Normalize and ‘mainstream’ deviant behaviors and attack anyone or any group that supports traditional morality and traditional gender roles. Expose children and youths to the same deviancy, and take the teaching of morality out of the hands of parents. Also attack traditional religion, and infiltrate and change organized religions from within by corrupting traditional doctrine into something accepting, even applauding what was once considered sin.
Then you undermine civil authorities. Neuter and demoralize the police so that crime runs rampant on America’s streets. People become fearful in their own homes, and venture out only as a last resort. Once crime is out of control people become more willing to accept a strong government crackdown, including the loss of what were once considered sacrosanct Constitutional rights.
Also focus efforts on disarming the population so that they have no means of protecting themselves, or resisting government oppression. An unarmed society is much easier to control than a society where people can defend themselves against crime, and government overreach.
Make endless accusations against and demonize your political enemies, and cover up your own questionable and illegal activities. Accuse your opposition of racism and every kind of ‘phobia’ you can think of, with the help of a compliant news media that is under your complete control.
Weaken the military with arbitrary and meaningless social justice experiments, and spend less time training in actual war fighting capabilities. A demoralized military will experience retention problems of their most qualified and best leaders.
What’s going on is a multi-step process and has been well under way for decades now, but it kicked into high gear with the election of a barely concealed Marxist in 2008. The current administration is nothing more than a front, a convenient collection of useful idiots and Marxist allies for the one elected back in 2008.
So how do we stop it? Well, to use the left’s own words against them, we stop it “by any means necessary”. First off never ever give up your guns. The Second Amendment is the one thing that keeps the communist wolves at bat. Secondly, take back our education system. Time to stop the communist indoctrination of our children. Run for school boards so that you have a say in what textbooks your children learn from, and who teaches your children. Thirdly, insist on fairness in, and an unbiased news media. If they refuse, hit them in the pocketbook by letting their advertisers know how you feel, and where you’ll be spending your money.
And finally, protect the integrity of the vote. ‘Election Day’ should be the only election day. Too many opportunities for fraud to occur. Absentee ballots for people out of the country should be the only ‘mail in voting’. Proper, government issued identification only to verified American citizens should be the acceptable proof that one is qualified to vote in any election. Registration to vote should be restricted to no less than one month prior to the date of the election. No more drive up, register, and vote the same day.
Voting is a right for American citizens, but it also comes with responsibility. If exercising their vote is important enough to people, then people will follow whatever rules are put in place to protect the integrity of their vote.
We need to be prepared to do whatever is necessary to fight back and prevent the “fundamental transformation” of our country, America as a free nation is at risk. If that means raising the stakes on them first then so be it. If we don’t, they’re going to do it to us.
We outnumber them by a large margin. We need to get better organized, and more committed. We can prevent the greatest nation on Earth from becoming just another communist hellhole.
George Soros, the Obamas, Susan Rice, Valerie Jarrett, and many other wealthy, elite, no-borders, one-world Marxist climate zealots have an iron grip on the Democrat Party from bottom to top. Are the elites deliberately choosing weak people so as to control them from behind the curtain? We know they have done that with Biden, Kamala, and Fetterman. Is this their new modus operandi; choose the weak who will bow to the strong because the weak are more palatable to voters than the strong? M.B. MATHEWS
After donating heavily to Barack Obama’s Senate and presidential races and pouring money into Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Soros spent even more to defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election. He told the World Economic Forum that Trump’s America First agenda ran counter to the globalist project. While criticizing big money’s influence in politics, he injected $81 million (including $70 million of his own) through the Democracy PAC. Using the pandemic as an excuse, his funding vehicles sought to increase vote-by-mail, expanding opportunities for vote tampering and harvesting.
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