Happy days are right here once more. Dementia Joe Biden introduced the opposite day that we now have whipped inflation now.
Had you seen that inflation was over? I missed it. Every week, I ask listeners on my radio present to fill in me on the newest inflation, shrinkflation and shortages that they’ve encountered not too long ago.
I assume that section is over after Brandon’s large announcement Wednesday.
“I just want to say a number,” he babbled. “Zero. Today we received news that our economy had zero percent inflation in the month of July. Zero percent.”
Zero! In June, the patron worth index was up 9.1% yr to yr, however final month it solely jumped 8.5%, yr over yr. But the worth of gasoline went down, so in Joe’s grasping-at-straws regime that’s all that issues.
Pay no consideration to the truth that meals prices are nonetheless skyrocketing — simply keep in mind these two phrases: “zero percent.”
My listeners would beg to vary with that rosy evaluation. Unlike Brandon, they reside in the actual world, not the reminiscence wing of the assisted-living facility that 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has grow to be.
Let’s go proper to the texters and the listeners:
From 978: “Just opened electric bill — $165 last month, $248 today. Even counting extra AC isn’t enough. We were away for a week in July so no AC.”
From 401: “Large container of All Laundry Detergent Pods at BJ’s, last yr. $13.99, this year $23.99. Thanks Brandon!”
From 617: “Can’t get any fishing lines. I went to 3 stores for some. There were only 2 packs between all of them, and they cost $20 per pack. It used to be $10.”
From 781: “People are cleaning out dollar stores, can’t get cheap deodorants, laundry liquid esp. Alternatives cost 4-5 times as much.”
If inflation is over, the place are all of the tales about flat costs? Is it potential that the president is utilizing what George W. Bush used to name “fuzzy math?”
A Wall Street Journal story yesterday mentioned it seems that Social Security checks will probably be going up 9.6% subsequent yr — “on track to be the highest since 1981, when Social Security benefits rose 11.2% to keep pace with inflation.”
I’m positive Brandon will probably be out taking one other bow when the official Social Security COLA improve is introduced. A ten% improve when inflation is … zero! Let the great occasions roll.
Every week I verify in with one of many shrinkflation threads on Reddit. One method you possibly can at all times spot a size-cut on the grocery store is after they change the packaging, like Snyder’s of Hanover Pretzel Pieces not too long ago did. From 12 oz. to 11.25 — is that what you name “New and Improved?” Or is it now a “Fun Pak?”
In Trump occasions, Dove cleaning soap bars have been 4 ounces. Brandon was put in as president and the dimensions was lowered to three.75 ounces. Now it’s down to three.17 ounces.
Back to the textual content line:
From 508: “My favorite Trader Joe’s nut mix is like 50% dried cranberries now. Must be cheaper.”
Steve: “Cherries are $6 a pound, usually $1.50-$2 this time of year.”
Joey: “Have you checked out the frozen-food aisle, especially potatoes? No Tater Tots, no sweet potato fries, no crinkle cuts, no nothing.”
From 978: “I buy frozen fruit to put in my salad at work. A bag of frozen raspberries was $4.99 to $5.99 before Brandon took control. I just went to Market Basket & they were $9.99.”
From 617: “A half-gallon of my favorite OJ is now 52 oz., and it’s gone from $3.69 to $3.99.”
From 617: “I live in Revere. The drugstores don’t have disposable razors out on open shelves anymore. I asked why. ‘They just get stolen.’”
Douglas in Augusta: “I can’t find any teriyaki-flavored Slim Jims.”
Baxter: “When I go to Market Basket, it seems like everything that used to be $3.99 is $6.99, and everything that was $6.99 is $10.99.”
From 508: “I bought one jug of special oil for my snowmobile. Under Trump $45. Under Biden $67. Thanks, Brandon.”
Last week the Senate handed one other Democrat pork-and-welfare handout to the non-working courses that the hacks absurdly referred to as the Inflation Reduction Act, as a result of it does precisely the other.
But now that inflation is zero, as Biden tells us, why do we have to print nonetheless extra nugatory foreign money? Do we actually have to spend one other $80 billion on the IRS, to not point out a half-trillion or so for billionaire Democrat bundlers and Red Chinese oligarchs who use slave labor to construct all these fantastic photo voltaic panels and windmills that don’t work and people rare-mineral batteries for EV’s that randomly explode in bus yards and garages.
You’d assume Democrats may simply shelve this newest boondoggle now that inflation was certainly “transitory” and every little thing is underneath management. But no, Brandon mentioned zero% inflation isn’t sufficient.
“We need to pass the Inflation Reduction Act right away,” he mentioned. “That’s the most consequential thing that Congress can do to keep our progress from uh on inflation from uh uh from getting better from getting worse to keep it mo-mo-moving in the right direction.”
Can we quote you on that, Mr. President?
Source: www.bostonherald.com”