{"id":602513,"date":"2021-07-26T10:36:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T14:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=602513"},"modified":"2021-07-26T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T14:36:37","slug":"tough-economic-love-cnn-praises-bidens-callous-answer-to-struggling-restaurant-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tough-economic-love-cnn-praises-bidens-callous-answer-to-struggling-restaurant-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tough Economic Love\u2019: CNN Praises Biden\u2019s Callous Answer to Struggling Restaurant Owner"},"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\">24<\/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%2Ftough-economic-love-cnn-praises-bidens-callous-answer-to-struggling-restaurant-owner%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=602513&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\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1234100731.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Even as some commentators called President Joe Biden patronizing and elitist for saying that prices will continue to rise and business owners will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-to-restaurant-owner-struggling-to-find-people-to-hire-your-business-is-going-to-be-in-a-bind-for-a-little-while?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter\">continue to struggle<\/a> to hire workers for the foreseeable future, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/21\/politics\/biden-town-hall-takeaways\/index.html\">dubbed<\/a> the president\u2019s statements an act of \u201ctough economic love\u201d driving home just how important it is that Congress enact his political agenda.<\/p>\n<p>CNN, which hosted a town hall meeting in Ohio last Wednesday night, called the president\u2019s comments on the economy an act of blunt truth-telling. \u201cPoliticians are ordinarily wary of bearing bad news. Biden has insisted he won\u2019t sugarcoat the facts,\u201d the story said.<\/p>\n<p>When a student at Mount St. Joseph University asked about steadily rising prices on consumer goods, Biden told her matter-of-factly, \u201cThere will be near-term inflation.\u201d But he maintained that the sweeping, multi-trillion-dollar spending packages he proposes will eventually \u201creduce inflation, reduce inflation, reduce inflation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the event, a restaurant owner said that he and many others are having a difficult time hiring employees and asked the president what he planned to do \u201cto incentivize those that haven\u2019t returned to work yet.\u201d Many economists blame the nation\u2019s hiring crisis on enhanced unemployment benefits which, in some cases, pay workers <a href=\"https:\/\/fox8.com\/news\/help-wanted-how-businesses-and-ohio-are-making-changes-to-fill-vacant-positions\/\">more to stay at home<\/a> than to work.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden replied, in effect, that the owner should be grateful the government had offered him a bailout during the COVID-19 pandemic and that owners will simply have to pay workers more, no matter how that cuts in to their tight profit margins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you notice, we kept you open. We spent billions of dollars to make sure restaurants could stay open,\u201d Biden said, referring to the Payroll Protection Program <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejcoop\/status\/1418008713533796352\">begun<\/a> under former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Biden added that \u201cthere\u2019s some evidence that \u2026 unemployment insurance has kept people from going back to work.\u201d But Biden later contradicted himself, saying, \u201cI see no evidence it had any serious impact on\u201d unemployment rates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it really is a matter of people deciding now that they have opportunities to do other things, and there is a shortage of employees. People are looking to make more money and to bargain,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so, I think your business and the tourist business is really going to be in a bind for a little while.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.5313807531381\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A restaurant owner asks Biden how his admin will incentivize returning to work. Biden suggests businesses should just pay better if they can\u2019t find staff. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v0ggrkHx0k\">pic.twitter.com\/v0ggrkHx0k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1418018142983446533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Viewers in real time called the president\u2019s answer \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kathrynw5\/status\/1418008897001041921\">struggling<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-blasted-for-fumbled-response-to-restaurant-owner-desperately-searching-for-workers?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter\">fumbled<\/a>.\u201d Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance called Biden\u2019s remark \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance1\/status\/1418017379972419588\">a joke<\/a>\u201d that is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance1\/status\/1418049943789527045\">insulting<\/a> [to] an entire industry of some of the hardest working people in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.285\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden is definitely struggling with this answer about what his administration is currently doing, and will do, to help restaurants that want to hire people<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kathrynw5\/status\/1418008897001041921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The man who asked the question \u2014 John Lanni, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/cincinnati\/news\/2020\/02\/12\/cincinnati-restaurateur-wins-technology-award.html\">award-winning<\/a> co-founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thunderdomerestaurants.com\/about.html\">Thunderdome Restaurant Group<\/a>, which has 39 locations nationwide \u2014 later said he found Biden\u2019s answer evasive and unsatisfying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like he didn\u2019t really answer the question,\u201d Lanni <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/2021\/07\/21\/thunderdome-owner-asked-biden-a-question-at-cnn-town-hall\/8051077002\/\">told<\/a> the Cincinnati Enquirer. \u201cHe was mixing answers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But CNN thought the answer showed how much faith Biden had in his own plans \u2014 and how everyone else should follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was some tough economic love,\u201d reported CNN\u2019s Kevin Liptak. \u201cBiden was trying to make a point about the major changes he is trying to affect on American workers\u2019 lives in his first year in office, convinced whatever side effects being felt right now pale in comparison to the larger benefits down the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s answers echo remarks he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/creepy-joe-trends-after-biden-keeps-whispering-at-press-conference\">whispered dramatically<\/a> during a press conference last month, when he defended excessive government unemployment benefits as giving workers leverage to stay at home.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said when people tell him that \u201c\u2018employers can\u2019t find workers,\u2019 I said, \u2018Yeah, pay them more,\u2019\u201d moving closer to the microphone and whispering. \u201cThis is an employee\u2019s bargaining chip now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Biden: \u201cPay Them More\u201d\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rBpNoY9XTEY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>But Lanni said his restaurants already pay most of their workers at least $15 an hour, with wages and tips.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just heard restaurants are going to have a hard road going forward and that we need to pay our workers more,\u201d Lanni said. \u201cI was hoping he would recognize<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/07\/21\/joe-biden-cnn-town-hall-mount-st-joseph-university-vague-who-approved-town-hall\/8048501002\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\">&nbsp;it is every industry\u2019s dilemma<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even moderator Don Lemon seemed to understand this point, telling the president, \u201cEverywhere I go, there isn\u2019t pretty much a shop in my town \u2014 a restaurant or whatever \u2014 where there isn\u2019t a \u2018for hire\u2019 sign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are currently <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/LMJVTTUVUSQ647S\">7.6 million<\/a> unfilled job vacancies nationwide, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis \u2014 more than any time in the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in a labor crisis, and we need to find a way to incentivize people to get back to work,\u201d Lanni said. \u201cI don\u2019t know that he fully understands the challenges we are facing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two questions are related in another way: Employers who pay workers higher wages will charge consumers higher prices, driving the inflationary cycle forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen minimum wage goes up, who do you think is going to pay for that? The customer,\u201d John Stratidis, the manager of a Greenwich Village diner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9815301\/Restaurant-owners-lash-Joe-Biden-telling-raise-wages-end-staff-shortages.html\">told<\/a> the Daily Mail. \u201cYou\u2019re going to be walking in somewhere to eat something and paying $40 or $50 for a hamburger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That sounds tough to love.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as some commentators called President Joe Biden patronizing and elitist for saying that prices will continue to rise and business owners will continue to struggle to hire workers for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602513","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\/602513","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=602513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602513\/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=602513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}