I have a question for voters considering Kamala Harris in the upcoming election: What goes through your mind when a lie so massive, with such personal ramifications, is revealed right before your eyes?
Are you mad? Are you equally as mad when your side blatantly gaslights reality as, say, when Donald Trump says something that offends you?
You would think that the lies coming from the Biden-Harris administration over the past few years, on a topic that affects you and your family on a daily basis, would be significantly more infuriating than a mean Trump.
The lies about the economy have been plentiful. While your wallet has been suffering for years under this administration, President Biden and Vice President Harris have done nothing but repeatedly lie about a fictitious recovery and, rather than address your financial hardships, simply rewritten the rules to convince you that things really aren’t as bad as they are.
The White House’s main claim to economic success has been their repeated insinuation that they “created” millions upon millions of jobs during the U.S. recovery from the pandemic.
That took a major blow, however, with the announcement that The Bureau of Labor Statistics had reviewed employment data and revised the number of jobs created downward. Significantly. By nearly a million jobs.
That’s the reality. But then, we already knew the reality was different from the administration’s repeated insistence that they had created upwards of 15 million jobs. A vast majority of those jobs were being recovered from the pandemic, not new job creation.
Their stats also neglect to address how many people had to take on second or third jobs just to keep up with Biden-Harris inflationary levels.
So, the jobs were inflated, and the unemployment rate was deflated. But at least Kamala and Joe kept us out of a recession, right? Right?
Well, no. You may or may not recall that in 2022, the economy hit a widely accepted rule of thumb for the definition of a recession – a contraction in GDP (gross domestic product) for two straight quarters.
Did the president or vice president come out and accept that these are difficult times and vow to improve things?
No, they actually rewrote the definition of a recession. The White House, we kid you not, published a blog post in which they suggested traditional definitions of a recession no longer apply.
It was such a blatant reversal of reality that even CNN laughed at the attempt and accused them of trying to “fake” it.
Another rewrite? That same year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that in 2023 they were changing the way they calculate the CPI (Consumer Price Index) as a means to soften inflation numbers.
This announcement meant that weighting would be calculated on an annual basis rather than biennially. The calculation is cited by economist Christophe Barraud as a reason inflation was “expected to slow” in 2023.
UBS on the coming February revision to the CPI calculation:
“The new approach to weighting inflation will use consumer spending from 2021…. US inflation will start to give more emphasis to the prices that are weakening, heightening downside risks to consumer price inflation.”
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 14, 2023
On that matter, how many times did Biden-Harris tell you that inflation was transitory? In reality, inflation has risen by 20.2 percent since they took office.
Harris has denied reality and insisted time and again that “Bidenomics is working.”
The American economy was in a recession this whole time, and they simply rewrote the rules to make it not so.
While you were struggling to afford gas to get to work — where your real take-home pay was no longer stretching as far as it did under Trump — and then realized that the money you put in the tank earlier meant you couldn’t afford groceries later in the day, they found ways to tell you not to believe it.
That you were the crazy one. You felt it. It hurt. But they told you the pain wasn’t real.
That’s all Harris has going forward. Her track record as part of this administration on the economy is abysmal. A Financial Times/Michigan Ross poll shows 42 percent of respondents believe Trump’s policies would leave them better off, compared to 33 percent for Harris.
Can you imagine what those numbers would be if they didn’t cook the books for years? Are you willing to vote for four more years of these lies while your family suffers financially?
