{"id":1444463,"date":"2022-04-18T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444463"},"modified":"2022-04-18T15:30:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T19:30:27","slug":"mark-levin-are-usually-we-better-off-these-days-than-we-were-4-years-back-hell-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-levin-are-usually-we-better-off-these-days-than-we-were-4-years-back-hell-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Levin: &#039;Are usually We Better Off These days than We Were 4 YEARS BACK? Hell No&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fmark-levin-are-usually-we-better-off-these-days-than-we-were-4-years-back-hell-no%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=1444463&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/16503249209_4c9db7dab6_k-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Conservative talker Mark Levin opened up his Sunday broadcast of FNC\u2019s \u201cLife, Liberty &#038; Levin\u201d by criticizing President Joe Biden and Democrats for how it has approached the American economy.<\/p>\n<p>He also blasted the Biden administration for a series of foreign policy blunders and education and corruption allegations within the Biden family.<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>MARK LEVIN: Ronald Reagan used to ask the question, are you better off today than you were four years ago? So, I\u2019ll ask the question. Are you better off today than you were four years ago? Is the country better off today than it was four years ago under President Trump?<\/p>\n<p>Well, let\u2019s take a look at these dismal numbers \u2014 dismal numbers \u2014 and we\u2019re still heading south. Consumer prices, the price that you pay rose eight and a half% in March. Eight and a half \u2014 that\u2019s the highest in 40 years, eight and a half%. \u201cThe Consumer Price Index, which measures a wide-ranging basket of goods and services jumped eight and a half% from a year ago on an unadjusted basis. The data reflect price rises not seen in the U.S. since the stagflation days of the late 70s, in the early 80s. March\u2019s headline reading, in fact, was the highest since December 1981. Core inflation was the hottest since August 1982.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re feeling this. You know this already.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the surge in inflation, worker wages, despite rising 5.6% from a year ago, weren\u2019t keeping pace with the cost of living.\u201d No. If something goes up eight and a half% and your wages go up 5.6%, last time I checked, that\u2019s almost a three% gap. \u201cFood rose one% for the month, 8.8% over the years. Prices for goods such as rice, ground beef, citrus fruits and fresh vegetables all posted gains of more than two% in March. Energy prices were up 11% and 32%, respectively, as gasoline prices popped 18.3% for the month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrice gains in clothing, services, excluding energy and medical care, each which increased 0.6% for the month. Transportation services also rose two% bringing its 12-month gain to 7.7%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are monthly increases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoaring gas prices are forcing some Uber and Lyft drivers off the road.\u201d You can\u2019t \u2014 when prices for gasoline are going up almost 20% a month. \u201cFood prices\u201d more on food prices. \u201cHere items predicted to cost a whole lot more at grocery stores.\u201d I\u2019m going through the various news items, \u201cPoultry and eggs, fats and oils, fruits and vegetables, non-alcoholic beverages,\u201d you know like milk, \u201cSugar and sweet cereal and bakery,\u201d and may I mention meat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupplier prices rose 11.2%.\u201d What are those? This is called the Producer Price Index. This affects you, too. \u201cThe prices that goods and services producers receive like wholesalers rose in March at the fastest pace since records have been kept. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the Producer Price Index, which measures the prices paid by wholesalers increased 11.2% from a year ago, the most in a data series going back to November 2010 on a monthly basis. The gauge climbed 1.4% stripping out food, energy, and trade services.\u201d Although I don\u2019t know why you would strip out food and energy that seems to me the be the biggest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo-called core PPI or Producer Price Index rose 0.9% on a monthly basis.\u201d That\u2019s where you get the 10 or 11% on an annual basis. That\u2019s excluding food and energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupply chain crisis continues.\u201d We never had a supply chain crisis. \u201cA whole host the Biden policy just decision,\u201d says the former Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao under Donald Trump and what are those whole host of Biden policy decisions? They\u2019ve been telling you that our ports are working 24\/7.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll give you an example. Long Beach has seven. One is working 24\/7. Why aren\u2019t they all working 24\/7? Because of union rules for the longshoreman, because of environmental rules in California, they can\u2019t work 24\/7. What\u2019s Joe Biden doing about that? Absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Just another group he is bought and paid for by. \u201cBiden: New Plan to Fight Inflation.\u201d Remember, he talked about going after Big Meat, and now, it\u2019s Big Oil. And of course, all of this has to do with Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Everything that\u2019s in short supply, everything where inflation is going through the roof, where the currency is being debased by deficit spending, it is on Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Look, Putin is a monster. He has committed atrocities of the worst kind. He is a genocidal maniac, but that does not give Biden a pass on what he is doing to our country internally.<\/p>\n<p>His policies are destroying the United States of America. They are destroying our economic system, they\u2019re destroying your pensions, they\u2019re destroying whatever salary you are receiving, whatever bonuses you receive. They are driving up medical costs. They\u2019re creating food shortages.<\/p>\n<p>Next thing you know, listen to me, we\u2019re going to have brownouts and blackouts and gas shortages. What are we going to do? Like we did in the 70s, even and odd days, you can fill up your car, it is coming, and it\u2019s not because Russia invaded Ukraine. It\u2019s because the Democrats invaded the Oval Office and Congress. These are their policies at work.<\/p>\n<p>Remember what they said? They embrace Bernie Sanders, who you don\u2019t hear from anymore. Gee, I wonder why. They embrace this Marxist agenda of rejiggering the entire society, of destroying fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>You remember that document about 120 pages in length that Bernie Sanders and Biden put out, the most radical screed in American political history. It could have been written by Marx and Engels. That\u2019s what they\u2019re instituting, whether it\u2019s cultural, whether it is economic, whether it is political, whether it\u2019s immigration, they\u2019re going through this, his staff, the people he has surrounded himself with who are the radicals of the radicals, this is what they\u2019re instituting.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. government debt \u2014 U.S. government debt, ladies and gentlemen, is over $30 trillion. When Biden took office, it was about $23 trillion. $30 trillion. It\u2019s unimaginable.<\/p>\n<p>That is a%age of the GDP we haven\u2019t seen since the height of World War II, and we are surpassing it in peacetime \u2014 relative peacetime. That\u2019s number one. Number two, the interest on this debt, as interest rates go up as they must, because the currency is being devalued with inflation. As the interest rates go up, we have to pay the interest on this debt. This takes a bigger and bigger%age of the Federal budget.<\/p>\n<p>We haven\u2019t had high-interest rates for over a decade, now they\u2019re going to start to kick in. So you folks are going to see high inflation, you\u2019re going to start to see shortages, you\u2019re going to see costs going way up, supplies going way down. This is the horror that is created by the left when they abuse the laws of economics. The laws of economics are just as correct as the laws of physics. You can\u2019t change them with legislation, you can\u2019t change them with borrowing.<\/p>\n<p>Mankind has experienced this sort of thing before, whether in Germany or Zimbabwe, or Venezuela or wherever you look. You keep printing money and printing money and printing money, you keep creating economic dislocations, you keep creating situations where people don\u2019t know where to put their money, they don\u2019t know what to invest in, research and capital, they\u2019re not sure where to go and so forth and so on.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re having a war against fossil fuels. And what happens? You get less fossil fuel.<\/p>\n<p>We were energy independent 18 months ago, 15 months ago. Now, we\u2019re begging Venezuela and Saudi Arabia for oil. No, Putin didn\u2019t do that, Joe Biden did that. Chuck Schumer did that. Nancy Pelosi did that. The Democratic Party did that. That\u2019s who did that?<\/p>\n<p>Never forget.<\/p>\n<p>So we have around $30 trillion to $31 trillion in debt, and Biden wanted to add, I want you to remember, the Build Back Better nonsense, another $6 trillion. Where would we be today with that?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at this country. Are we better today than we were four years ago? Cities across the U.S. are breaking all-time homicide records this year. Wow and it\u2019s not just homicide, it is violent crime across the board and it\u2019s not just violent crime, you see how people are stealing things from stores willy-nilly and so forth? Under lawlessness?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the Department of Justice doing? Chasing down parents in front of School Boards, going after Republican legislatures where they disagree with what the will of the people have to say in a particular state about abortion, or putting sensible voting laws back in place. What\u2019s the Department of Justice doing? They have 13,000 Special Agents in the FBI, give or take, 13,000.<\/p>\n<p>How many of those 13,000 are focused on going after people who are quote, unquote \u201cparading or trespassing on January 6.\u201d They say it\u2019s the biggest investigation they have going today. The biggest one in the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; not terrorism, not the mob, no; not sex crimes, the Mexican cartels \u2014 January 6.<\/p>\n<p>So how many of those 13,000 Special Agents are busy looking at video? They say they\u2019ve looked at 20,000 hours of video. We\u2019ve got to get those trespassers and those paraders. Yes, we all agree about violent crime. Of course, the media don\u2019t and the left don\u2019t, they were all fine with violence in the summer of 2020. I mean, that after all, was liberating.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let\u2019s look, are we better off today than we were four years ago?<\/p>\n<p>Look at Afghanistan, a horrific surrender that resulted in the murder of 13 American soldiers. Look at Russia, threatening to use nukes against us. Would they have done that under Donald Trump? Look at Iran getting nukes from this President? Would they have gotten nukes under Donald Trump? No. They were barely surviving under Donald Trump, economically and otherwise. China producing more nukes than ever before. They weren\u2019t doing that under Trump either.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d say our foreign policy is an abject disaster, absolute disaster and a grave threat to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Look at our classrooms, the reason we have a parents\u2019 movement, because Joe Biden and the Democratic Party and their Big Government, teachers, educational bureaucrats unions have taken control of these classrooms. They don\u2019t want parents involved in the teaching of their little babies. They\u2019re pushing transgenderism and sexualization. They\u2019re pushing critical race theory. They\u2019re pushing all kinds of the hard left Marxist agenda on your little kids. The one thing they\u2019re not pushing is education.<\/p>\n<p>And then we have these executive orders. Destroying women\u2019s sports, Title 9, womanhood. We can\u2019t even define a woman anymore. We have a historic appointee, we\u2019re told, a Black woman to the Supreme Court of the United States, who can\u2019t even define why she is historic. What am I talking about? She wouldn\u2019t define what a woman is. Why? Because she wants to be free to rule in a radical left way when it comes to these ideologies. They are destroying womanhood and women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n<p>And then in my view, we have the most corrupt President in American history, potentially. The former Mayor of Moscow\u2019s wife invested three and a half million dollars in the Biden family. China has invested tens of millions of dollars in the Biden family. The former Ukrainian regime invested millions of dollars in the Biden family. We don\u2019t know about Joe and Joe Biden\u2019s S-corporations, they haven\u2019t released their tax returns on that. So they invested millions in the Biden family.<\/p>\n<p>What do we know about this other than what some of these intrepid reporters had been doing? Not enough. Shouldn\u2019t we know if Joe Biden is the Manchurian Candidate? Shouldn\u2019t we know if he\u2019s been bought off and sold out? I think we should. There\u2019s more predicates here than you can throw a stone at, to have a Special Counsel investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Are we better off today than we were four years ago? Hell no. The country is in grave straits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative talker Mark Levin opened up his Sunday broadcast of FNC\u2019s \u201cLife, Liberty &#038; Levin\u201d by criticizing President Joe Biden and Democrats for how it has approached the American economy.He<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}