Chris Hayes makes the case for Biden recovery
“These are just the facts,” Chris Hayes argued Tuesday night.
In the wake of the pandemic inflation spike, I’ve experimented with store brands. Some are better than others. But many are just as good as the higher-priced, better-shelf-placement, name brands. Gas has come down to about $3/gal. Eggs are no longer $5/dozen. But that breakfast cereal I used to buy at about $3.69 a box is now about $6.39 and not budging. So, nope.
You can’t eat GDP charts or statistics. And those persistently higher food prices are in your face each week. That makes it a harder sell for President Joe Biden that the economy has recovered under his administration. Even if it has. And it has.
Chris Hayes made a valiant stab at making that case on Tuesday evening with a series of massive charts. Behold.
Wages are up, and disposable income. Even if it doesn’t feel like it at the grocery store. The consumer price index is better “than any of our peer countries,” Hayes points out. “They would all trade places to be us.”
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Bad things happened in 2020, and they all got better once Donald “91 Counts” Trump left office, Hayes argues. Americans have blocked out the nightmare that was the Trump administration, while Republicans have rewritten the history of Trump’s tenure to end it in 2019.
‘A’ for effort. But what Americans feel is the economy, not what they’re told about it. And there’s more to people’s voting behavior than their pocketbooks anyway, as TikToker mrsmisanthrope2 explains. Even if Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D) of Texas explained it more succinctly to Bill Moyers over 60 years ago.
I’ll still be watching for that cereal to go on sale at its pre-pandemic price.
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