{"id":1696481,"date":"2022-10-16T15:19:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T19:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696481"},"modified":"2022-10-16T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T19:19:10","slug":"joe-biden-between-bites-of-ice-cream-brags-the-economy-is-strong-as-hell-ice-cream-prices-are-up-13-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-between-bites-of-ice-cream-brags-the-economy-is-strong-as-hell-ice-cream-prices-are-up-13-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden, Between Bites Of Ice Cream, Brags \u2018The Economy Is Strong As Hell\u2019: Ice Cream Prices Are Up 13.6%"},"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\">40<\/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%2Fjoe-biden-between-bites-of-ice-cream-brags-the-economy-is-strong-as-hell-ice-cream-prices-are-up-13-6%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=1696481&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>President Joe Biden paused while eating an ice cream cone to brag that the United States economy was \u201cstrong as hell\u201d \u2014 despite the fact that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cpi.t02.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inflation rate<\/a> for the sweet dairy treat alone is 13.6% over last year.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, who often <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/the-cost-of-joe-bidens-ice-cream-has-risen-9-6-maybe-now-hell-start-paying-attention-to-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stops for a cone<\/a> while he\u2019s out and about, explained over the weekend that he was not worried about the American economy so much as he was about economies around the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BIDEN, eating ice cream: &#8220;Our economy is strong as hell&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x5dyCg14l3\">pic.twitter.com\/x5dyCg14l3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1581450969447124997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust one more economic question,\u201d a reporter pressed the president as he began to eat his ice cream. \u201cAre you concerned about the strength of the dollar right now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not concerned about the strength of the dollar, I\u2019m concerned about the rest of the world,\u201d Biden replied as he attempted to chew. \u201cDoes that make sense?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur economy is strong as hell,\u201d Biden continued. \u201cThe internal \u2014 inflation is worldwide, it\u2019s worse off everywhere else than it is in the United States. So the problem is a lack of economic growth and sound policy in other countries, not so much ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s worldwide inflation, that\u2019s a consequence of \u2014\u201d Biden walked away from the microphone mid-sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/biden-claims-america-had-zero-percent-inflation-in-the-month-of-july\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worked to downplay<\/a> the staggering inflation that is being felt across the country, using month-over-month averages to show that inflation rates are plateauing or even beginning to fall \u2014 but the year-over-year averages (over 8% consistently) have hit <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/jim-cramer-says-theres-just-nothing-good-here-about-biden-inflation-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">record levels<\/a> not seen in four decades.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse for the Biden administration, the 8% average is just that: an average. Many American families have experienced much higher inflation rates on items they need to live, feed their families, and get to and from their places of employment.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Annual inflation via BLS just out:<\/p>\n<p>42.9% airline fares<br \/>33.1% utility gas<br \/>30.5% eggs<br \/>18.2% gasoline<br \/>17.2% chicken<br \/>15.7% coffee<br \/>15.2% milk<br \/>14.7% bread<br \/>10.1% furniture<br \/>9.2% vegetables<br \/>8.2% all items<br \/>8.2% fruit<br \/>8.1% ham<br \/>7.6% women apparel<br \/>7.2% used cars<br \/>6.7% rent<br \/>3.7% men apparel<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanstruyk\/status\/1580539772212502530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\">line-item breakdown<\/a> of September\u2019s inflation numbers \u2014 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics \u2014 shows that several items have seen much higher than the \u201caverage\u201d 8% inflation rate since September of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Airline travel is up an estimated 42.9%, gas for heating homes and cooking is up 33.1%, eggs have skyrocketed \u2014 in part because of avian influenza outbreaks combined with inflation \u2014 30.5%, gasoline is still up 18.2%, chicken (also related in part to the AI outbreaks) is up 17.2%, coffee has risen 15.7%, milk is up 15.2%, and bread has climbed 14.7%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden paused while eating an ice cream cone to brag that the United States economy was \u201cstrong as hell\u201d \u2014 despite the fact that the inflation rate for the sweet dairy treat alone is 13.6% over last year. Biden, who often stops for a cone while he\u2019s out and about, explained over the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/joe-biden-between-bites-of-ice-cream-brags-the-economy-is-strong-as-hell-ice-cream-prices-are-up-13-6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696481","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}