{"id":1057103,"date":"2021-11-26T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T16:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1057103"},"modified":"2021-11-26T11:44:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T16:44:47","slug":"let-them-eat-cake-the-most-condescending-things-the-left-says-about-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/let-them-eat-cake-the-most-condescending-things-the-left-says-about-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Let Them Eat Cake\u2019: The Most Condescending Things The Left Says About Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flet-them-eat-cake-the-most-condescending-things-the-left-says-about-inflation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1057103&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Inflation has been called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/stephen-moore-economy-inflation-transitory\/2021\/11\/14\/id\/1044626\/\">the cruelest tax<\/a>,\u201d because it falls heaviest on the poor. If that is the case, then the Biden administration is the cruelest administration in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation rose by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/inflation-october-overheating-fears\">6.2%<\/a> in October, the highest level <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/finance\/581060-biden-gets-inflation-gut-punch?rl=1\">since November 1990<\/a>. 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/5-times-the-biden-administration-laughed-at-your-pain\">laughed at the pain of U.S. citizens<\/a>, while promising to make Border Patrol agents \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-slams-faulty-media-narrative-of-border-patrol-whipping-haitians-which-it-pushed-for-a-week\">pay<\/a>\u201d for repulsing Haitian illegal immigrants. As the rising prices of everyday necessities squeeze Americans\u2019 wallets, the Left has gaslighted Americans about the problem, told us we should be grateful for Biden\u2019s massive deficit spending, and insisted nobody is worried about surging costs except \u201crich people flipping their s***.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s 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. \u201cYour Thanksgiving Day meal is going to cost about 8% more, nearly twice the increase in average weekly earnings since a year ago,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/monetary-policy\/commentary\/cost-thanksgiving-dinner-rises-twice-fast-wages\">reported<\/a> the conservative Heritage Foundation. The liberal New York Times&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/25\/dining\/thanksgiving-inflation-supply-chain-food-costs.html\">agreed<\/a>, \u201cThanksgiving 2021 could be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/thanksgiving-just-got-more-expensive\">the most expensive meal<\/a> in the history of the holiday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rising grocery costs are the worst aspect of inflation because they threaten the marginal\u2019s survival. CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1457880103472574465\">reported<\/a> that spiking costs have created a \u201cgrowing struggle to feed families in need.\u201d But the bruising prices produced by inflation are not restricted to food. Even the Dollar Tree has announced that it will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/dollar-tree-prices-125\/\">raise the price of most items to $1.25<\/a> by March 2022. No wonder a recent CBS News\/YouGov poll found that only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/poll-just-4-of-americans-think-country-is-doing-very-well\">4% of Americans<\/a> think things are going \u201cvery well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With food shortages, surging prices, and a supply chain crisis, CBS News reports on &#8220;the growing struggle to feed families in need.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BnIAnrVxgV\">pic.twitter.com\/BnIAnrVxgV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1457880103472574465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom 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,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sen_JoeManchin\/status\/1458443966135902221\">said<\/a> Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, when Joe Manchin speaks common sense, the Biden administration begs to differ. Here are a few of the Left\u2019s worst examples of dismissive and demeaning rhetoric on inflation:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki: It\u2019s only a dollar!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s White House press briefing, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2021\/11\/23\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-and-secretary-of-energy-jennifer-granholm-november-23-2021\/\">asked<\/a>, \u201cWhat message does it send to the middle-class Americans President Biden says that he\u2019s 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\u2019s compound in Nantucket?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve cooked a turkey before, but a 20-pound turkey is a pretty big turkey, I think we can all agree.&nbsp;They\u2019re about one dollar more. So, not to minimize that \u2014 any increase in prices is something the president is concerned about,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IPJn0GrJ-qY\">responded<\/a> Jen Psaki. \u201cBut I just want to be clear that there are abundance of turkeys available. They\u2019re about one dollar more for a 20-pound bird, which is a huge bird if you\u2019re feeding a very big family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Downplaying the one-dollar increase in the cost of just one item in the Thanksgiving meal seems especially hardhearted coming from an administration that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/1410709115333234691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1410734324652003330%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fbiden-ripped-for-bragging-about-saving-americans-16-cents-lunacy-and-divorced-from-reality\">bragged on Twitter<\/a> about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-ripped-for-bragging-about-saving-americans-16-cents-lunacy-and-divorced-from-reality\">saving Americans 16 cents<\/a> on their July 4 cookout.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=IPJn0GrJ-qY&#038;feature=oembed\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=IPJn0GrJ-qY&amp;feature=oembed<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2. MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid: Where\u2019s your gratitude for your $2,000 stimulus check? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid implied that Americans who complain about the Biden administration must <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/transcripts\/transcript-reidout-11-15-21-n1283927\">lack gratitude<\/a> for the $2,000 stimulus checks they received (which were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/heres-how-those-2000-stimulus-checks-promised-by-biden-became-only-1400\">actually $1,400<\/a>). She then asked whether the American people\u2019s views even \u201cmatter.\u201d Reid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p7vBKcOxnec\">ranted<\/a> on November 15:<\/p>\n<p><em>There\u2019s also a lot of Americans who, despite having gotten the shots and checks, are still telling pollsters that he\u2019s accomplished nothing, or almost nothing, which I find amazing. I guess they spent the whole $2,000. Now they\u2019re not happy anymore. But does that matter?<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=p7vBKcOxnec&#038;feature=oembed\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=p7vBKcOxnec&amp;feature=oembed<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The next day, Reid continued, minimizing the highest inflation since the New Kids on the Block topped the charts as a mere \u201cbuzzword\u201d coined by political operatives. \u201cRepublicans jump on the inflation buzzword bandwagon, ignoring all the signs of America\u2019s economic comeback,\u201d Reid said on Tuesday, November 16. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-media-has-entered-the-republicans-pounce-stage-of-critical-race-theory\">Republicans are seizing<\/a> 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.\u201d She concluded that \u201cwhat [Republicans] say has nothing to do with reality, because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-one-thing-that-explains-everything-democrats-do\">they want to get<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inflation has been called \u201cthe cruelest tax,\u201d 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 \u201cpay\u201d for repulsing Haitian illegal immigrants. As the rising prices of everyday necessities squeeze Americans\u2019 wallets, the Left has gaslighted Americans about the problem, told us we should be grateful for Biden\u2019s massive deficit spending, and insisted nobody is worried about surging costs except \u201crich people flipping their s***.\u201dThe Biden administration\u2019s 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. \u201cYour Thanksgiving Day meal is going to cost about 8% more, nearly twice the increase in average weekly earnings since a year ago,\u201d reported the conservative Heritage Foundation. The liberal New York Times\u00a0agreed, \u201cThanksgiving 2021 could be the most expensive meal in the history of the holiday.\u201dRising grocery costs are the worst aspect of inflation because they threaten the marginal\u2019s survival. CBS News reported that spiking costs have created a \u201cgrowing struggle to feed families in need.\u201d 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 \u201cvery well.\u201dWith food shortages, surging prices, and a supply chain crisis, CBS News reports on &#8220;the growing struggle to feed families in need.&#8221; pic.twitter.com\/BnIAnrVxgV\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 9, 2021\u201cFrom 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,\u201d 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\u2019s worst examples of dismissive and demeaning rhetoric on inflation:1. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki: It\u2019s 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\u2019s White House press briefing, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy\u00a0asked, \u201cWhat message does it send to the middle-class Americans President Biden says that he\u2019s 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\u2019s compound in Nantucket?\u201d\u201cI don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve cooked a turkey before, but a 20-pound turkey is a pretty big turkey, I think we can all agree.\u00a0They\u2019re about one dollar more. So, not to minimize that \u2014 any increase in prices is something the president is concerned about,\u201d responded Jen Psaki. \u201cBut I just want to be clear that there are abundance of turkeys available. They\u2019re about one dollar more for a 20-pound bird, which is a huge bird if you\u2019re feeding a very big family.\u201dDownplaying 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.[embedded content]2. MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid: Where\u2019s your gratitude for your $2,000 stimulus check? MSNBC\u2019s 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\u2019s views even \u201cmatter.\u201d Reid ranted on November 15:There\u2019s also a lot of Americans who, despite having gotten the shots and checks, are still telling pollsters that he\u2019s accomplished nothing, or almost nothing, which I find amazing. I guess they spent the whole $2,000. Now they\u2019re not happy anymore. But does that matter?[embedded content]The next day, Reid continued, minimizing the highest inflation since the New Kids on the Block topped the charts as a mere \u201cbuzzword\u201d coined by political operatives. \u201cRepublicans jump on the inflation buzzword bandwagon, ignoring all the signs of America\u2019s economic comeback,\u201d Reid said on Tuesday, November 16. \u201cRepublicans 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.\u201d She concluded that \u201cwhat [Republicans] say has nothing to do with reality, because they want to get back in power.\u201d3. New York Times writer Sarah Jeong: \u201cRich people flipping their s***\u201dNew York Times editorial writer Sarah Jeong decided to engage in an erroneous piece of class warfare. She wrote last Wednesday that \u201call the stuff you see about inflation in the news is driven by rich people flipping their [s***] because their parasitic assets aren\u2019t doing as well as they\u2019d like.\u201d She closed the tweet \u201cjmt,\u201d which is short for \u201cjust my thoughts.\u201dall the stuff you see about inflation in the news is driven by rich people flipping their shit because their parasitic assets aren\u2019t doing as well as they\u2019d like and they\u2019re scared that unemployment benefits + stimmy checks + 15 minimum wage + labor shortage is why ~jmt~\u2014 sarah jeong (@sarahjeong) November 17, 2021In reality, inflation naturally hits the poor and middle class harder than the wealthy, since poorer people have fewer dollars to spend in the first place. The Biden administration has proven no exception, as The Hill reported:\u201cThe costs for low-wage households to cover their commuting costs, grocery bills and rents are eating into the jump they have seen in wages,\u201d wrote Diane Swonk, chief economist at Grant Thornton, in a Wednesday analysis. \u201cThe public is angry.\u201d4. White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain: Inflation is a First World problemWhite House Chief of Staff Ron Klain also buys the logically inverted idea that inflation hits wealthy Americans the hardest. Klain waded into the topic after seeing a message on Twitter from former President Barack Obama\u2019s economic adviser Jason Furman. \u201cMost of the economic problems we\u2019re facing (inflation, supply chains, etc.) are high-class problems,\u201d Furman wrote. \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t have had them if the unemployment rate was still 10 percent. We would instead have had a much worse problem.\u201d On October 13, Klain simply retweeted Furman with the curt statement, \u201cThis.\u201dThis \ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47 https:\/\/t.co\/ymh53nEHAg\u2014 Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) October 14, 2021Unfortunately, \u201cThis\u201d is false.5. MSNBC\u2019s Stephanie Ruhle: Ackshually, things are pretty greatAs The Daily Wire reported, on November 14, MSNBC\u2019s Stephanie Ruhle told Willie Geist:\u201cThe dirty little secret here, Willie, while nobody likes to pay more, on average we have the money to do so. Household savings hit a record high over the pandemic,\u201d Ruhle said, later adding, \u201cWhile the stock market isn\u2019t the economy, you have over half of American households with some investment in the markets and the markets have hit record highs.\u201dInflation airhead: NBC&#8217;s Stephanie Ruhle says the &#8220;dirty little secret&#8221; of people complaining about paying higher prices for food and fuel for their homes is they can afford it just fine. According to her, people should have been saving during the pandemic and stocks look good. pic.twitter.com\/RQ90focIXJ\u2014 Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 14, 2021Ruhle should know that \u201cinflation destroys savings,\u201d as the late economist Bettina Bien Greaves of FEE explained.6. President Joe Biden: You\u2019re welcome, America.As Americans wearily eyed their paychecks falling beneath the shadow of their rising bills, President Joe Biden said his policies have done a phenomenal job improving their finances.\u201cThings are getting better for American workers: higher wages, better benefits, more flexible schedules. Balance sheets for American families are better,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026 [F]amilies have more money in their pockets today than before the pandemic hit. That\u2019s even after accounting for inflation,\u201d he said on Monday, November 22. \u201cIt\u2019s a testament to the economic policies we fought so hard to pass and to put in place, especially the American Rescue Plan.\u201dPresident Biden: &#8220;America is the only major economy \u2014 the only one in the world \u2014 where the economy is bigger today, and families have more money in their pockets today, than before the pandemic hit. That&#8217;s even after accounting for inflation.&#8221; https:\/\/t.co\/Nj065CIsxp pic.twitter.com\/wGtpgz5Fll\u2014 CBS News (@CBSNews) November 22, 2021Biden made his statements on November 22, the 58th anniversary of John F. Kennedy\u2019s assassination. And if JFK had heard the second Catholic president make this statement, he would have died again of shock.Economists agree that wages are not keeping pace with inflation, which has been worsened by politicians on both sides of the aisle who have spent $6.4 trillion in \u201cCOVID relief\u201d over the last year. Rakesh Kochhar, senior researcher at Pew Research Center, wrote that \u201cinflation has ticked up recently, with consumer prices registering an increase of 4.8% in the second quarter of 2021 compared with the second quarter of 2020. Thus, the earnings of workers have eroded in recent months.\u201d (Emphasis added.) Fortune magazine also reported, \u201cAverage hourly wages rose 4.6% in September from a year earlier, a healthy increase, but not enough to keep up with inflation.\u201d\u201c[T]he plain truth is that our political leaders have brought on inflation by their own money and fiscal policies. They are promising to fight with their right hand the conditions brought on with their left,\u201d wrote economist Henry Hazlitt in his book \u201cWhat You Should Know About Inflation,\u201d published in 1960.At least in 1960, politicians didn\u2019t tell us we should be thankful that their free-spending ways ruined our Thanksgiving.The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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