TV Says You’re Wrong, Joe Biden’s
Economy Is Really Wonderful
Newsbusters,
by
Rich Noyes
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/16/2023 12:43:13 AM
As polls show Joe Biden’s re-election is in peril because of the public’s negative opinion of how he’s handled the economy, TV viewers woke up Friday morning to a round of happy talk telling them that, despite what they might think, the economy is really quite spectacular.
“The economy is in solid shape. Job growth is steady and inflation is cooling,” ABC’s Elizabeth Schulze exclaimed on Good Morning America. Over on Today, NBC’s Tom Costello cheered that travel will be cheaper this Christmas: “Gas prices now below $3 a gallon in more than 20 states,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 12/16/2023 1:10:13 AM (No. 1618406)
Well, Golly Gee, if it was on TeeVee, it must be the truth. Right?
/s off
That BS won't sell, to anyone.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ogden Pod 12/16/2023 1:27:19 AM (No. 1618412)
Reelecting Biden is not so much supporting him or favoring the policies he is pushing as it is a demonstration of power. Like all totalitarians, the bigger the lie they can sell to the masses the greater the validation of their authority.
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Oh…. And there is no affordable housing crisis anywhere in the United States! The 20 million new fecund “immigrants “ have found habitation without raising the availability and cost of housing for the established population including the already homeless Americans in virtually every major city and the elderly who live on their Social Security payments and their life savings which diminishing rapidly in purchase power because of government spending on wars around the globe.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mifla 12/16/2023 4:39:18 AM (No. 1618425)
I guess the increased demand for food from our church pantry is a figment of my imagination, along with all the calls our SVDP group is getting requesting rent help.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Petronius 12/16/2023 5:47:53 AM (No. 1618441)
NPR is doing the very same thing, ironically enough after I just got done doing some grocery shopping after work.
I had picked up a few things that I knew we needed at WalMart, paid for them at the self checkout and went out to my car. As I was driving home it suddenly struck me what I had paid for the small bag of items and thought "There must be some mistake, it had cost nearly double what I had paid a while back".
I went back to the store with my receipt and checked the prices and confirmed that the price hikes were real. Then I got to listen to NPR tell me how great and wonderful Joe Bribeme's economy is all the way home.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/16/2023 5:54:20 AM (No. 1618444)
North of $500 for a roundtrip price to DC, even with the holidays, is about double the normal price from where I live, before people who steal elections stole the White House.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 12/16/2023 6:40:28 AM (No. 1618462)
To take the Bagdad Bob's on the boob tube words as truth is like taking fool's gold to an assayer's office. No one believes the words emitted from their mouths. JRB has fubared America, lock stock and barrel.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
franq 12/16/2023 8:18:51 AM (No. 1618500)
Food costs way more and you get less. Gas prices are just a smokescreen. All "hard" goods have increased in price significantly too. The washer (Speed Queen) we bought for $1000 five years ago is now almost $1300.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Tanker76 12/16/2023 8:27:12 AM (No. 1618510)
Economy is SO great, my wife has just lost her second job in 6 months, in the mortgage industry.......
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
smokincol 12/16/2023 8:44:40 AM (No. 1618518)
maybe so .... but every time I look at my checkbook the numbers tell me a very, very different story
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
volksford 12/16/2023 9:02:35 AM (No. 1618523)
Yes , they sincerely believe you are that stupid.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 12/16/2023 9:29:47 AM (No. 1618544)
Every time I got to the grocery store, I know they're slinging BS. Houses in my area (even costing seven figures) used to sell in days, now they're sitting on the market for months. Even the "modestly priced" are languishing for months.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Snow Possum 12/16/2023 9:43:47 AM (No. 1618550)
This is like the guy at a cocktail party who started the year with 1,000,000 in the markets, lost half of that in 6 months, then in the next 6 months turned the remaining 500K into 750K.
He tells everyone in the room how he is up 50% in his investments.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Krause 12/16/2023 10:47:41 AM (No. 1618571)
Democrats do this all the time. They come into office and spend a ridiculous gazillion dollars. Next year they spend a bit less than a ridiculous gazillion dollars....and then shout out that they are 'cutting the deficit.' Smart people see the scam, but the moronic left media laps it up, because, as democrats, they don't know any better. And, they want more of the same.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 12/16/2023 10:59:27 AM (No. 1618581)
Re #5, listening to NPR is a mistake all by itself.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
jalo1951 12/16/2023 11:04:05 AM (No. 1618588)
Inflation is an accumulative tax. Each month's rise is added to all the others and it never goes down. That is why my groceries are 20% more than they were when Trump was in office. Beef roast is $8 a pound compared to $4 a pound. Try feeding a family of 5 a nice "Sunday dinner" at that price. I do not begrudge people their money if it was made honestly. But the cost of a beef roast never enters their mind. Eating out once a week for fun is no longer possible and take out pizza, forget that. When you are working for grocery money and the ability to pay utilities you are not pumping money into the stock market no matter how well it is doing. Or think it is cute that FJB wants to save the world and offers you a cheap $60,000 car with all their flaws or roasted bugs for your tacos. Paycheck to paycheck means just what it implies. If you have money you can ride out almost any situation. Most of us are not in that category. Hopefully we are living in a decent place and can feed our families and pay our bills. But there are no extras. Inflation is robbing the average family of $11,000 a year. No, things are not better and improving. There are dozens of problems in this country that are not being addressed. And if FJB and his minions think they can shuck and jive dance around the issues they are wrong. We are in the trenches, we know the truth. We know that lying is their strong suit.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/17/2023 12:53:01 AM (No. 1618961)
Is the Economy of life support...Is Joey's Diaper Full...YES and No one wants to know!
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