‘Let Them Eat Cake’: The Most Condescending Things The Left Says About Inflation

Inflation has been called “the cruelest tax,” because it falls heaviest on the poor. If that is the case, then the Biden administration is the cruelest administration in decades.

Inflation rose by 6.2% in October, the highest level since November 1990. But the Biden administration, and its enablers in the legacy media, have callously dismissed the suffering of the American people. At times, they have literally laughed at the pain of U.S. citizens, while promising to make Border Patrol agents “pay” for repulsing Haitian illegal immigrants. As the rising prices of everyday necessities squeeze Americans’ wallets, the Left has gaslighted Americans about the problem, told us we should be grateful for Biden’s massive deficit spending, and insisted nobody is worried about surging costs except “rich people flipping their s***.”

The Biden administration’s indifference, like everything else, becomes clearer in light of the holidays. Economists across the political spectrum agree: Inflation will make family gatherings costlier than ever. “Your Thanksgiving Day meal is going to cost about 8% more, nearly twice the increase in average weekly earnings since a year ago,” reported the conservative Heritage Foundation. The liberal New York Times agreed, “Thanksgiving 2021 could be the most expensive meal in the history of the holiday.”

Rising grocery costs are the worst aspect of inflation because they threaten the marginal’s survival. CBS News reported that spiking costs have created a “growing struggle to feed families in need.” But the bruising prices produced by inflation are not restricted to food. Even the Dollar Tree has announced that it will raise the price of most items to $1.25 by March 2022. No wonder a recent CBS News/YouGov poll found that only 4% of Americans think things are going “very well.”

With food shortages, surging prices, and a supply chain crisis, CBS News reports on “the growing struggle to feed families in need.” pic.twitter.com/BnIAnrVxgV

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“From the grocery store to the gas pump, Americans know the inflation tax is real and D.C. can no longer ignore the economic pain Americans feel every day,” said Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) earlier this month.

As usual, when Joe Manchin speaks common sense, the Biden administration begs to differ. Here are a few of the Left’s worst examples of dismissive and demeaning rhetoric on inflation:

1. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki: It’s only a dollar!

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki apparently believes Americans should not worry about the most expensive Thanksgiving meal in history because the cost will only rise by a dollar a turkey. At Monday’s White House press briefing, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked, “What message does it send to the middle-class Americans President Biden says that he’s trying to help, who are struggling this week to cover the cost of the most expensive Thanksgiving ever, that the president is going to take a few days off at a billionaire’s compound in Nantucket?”

“I don’t know if you’ve cooked a turkey before, but a 20-pound turkey is a pretty big turkey, I think we can all agree. They’re about one dollar more. So, not to minimize that — any increase in prices is something the president is concerned about,” responded Jen Psaki. “But I just want to be clear that there are abundance of turkeys available. They’re about one dollar more for a 20-pound bird, which is a huge bird if you’re feeding a very big family.”

Downplaying the one-dollar increase in the cost of just one item in the Thanksgiving meal seems especially hardhearted coming from an administration that bragged on Twitter about saving Americans 16 cents on their July 4 cookout.

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2. MSNBC’s Joy Reid: Where’s your gratitude for your $2,000 stimulus check?

MSNBC’s Joy Reid implied that Americans who complain about the Biden administration must lack gratitude for the $2,000 stimulus checks they received (which were actually $1,400). She then asked whether the American people’s views even “matter.” Reid ranted on November 15:

There’s also a lot of Americans who, despite having gotten the shots and checks, are still telling pollsters that he’s accomplished nothing, or almost nothing, which I find amazing. I guess they spent the whole $2,000. Now they’re not happy anymore. But does that matter?

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The next day, Reid continued, minimizing the highest inflation since the New Kids on the Block topped the charts as a mere “buzzword” coined by political operatives. “Republicans jump on the inflation buzzword bandwagon, ignoring all the signs of America’s economic comeback,” Reid said on Tuesday, November 16. “Republicans are seizing on inflation and blaming Joe Biden for it personally, which is a fun twist, after Republicans and Trump maxed out the national credit card on tax cuts for the super-rich and a partial wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.” She concluded that “what [Republicans] say has nothing to do with reality, because they want to get