Biden tells unimpressed restaurateur struggling to hire staff
to pay higher wages but suggests his unemployment
benefits DID stop people going back to work as he speaks
at half-empty town hall
Posted By: PChristopher, 7/22/2021 5:48:03 AM
Joe Biden told a business owner struggling to hire staff that he needs to pay better wages, as he seemed to concede that the pandemic increase in unemployment benefits was keeping people away from work. The president spoke at a half-empty CNN town hall at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati on Wednesday night. Flattering camera angles hid the small crowd from viewers at home, but reporters traveling with Biden tweeted pictures of rows of empty seats. At the event, Biden was asked by Ohio restaurant owner John Lanni how he planned to resolve the staffing crisis in his industry
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Biden is absolutely clueless. Typcal of someone who'se never actually worked for a living. It reminds of what Hillary said years ago, during Bill's Administration, when she said: "I can't go out and save every undercapitalized entrepreneur in America," when asked what might be done to ease the burden of her health care plan on small business. They don't care. None of them do.