President Joe Biden just set another record: The worst inflation since 1981, as consumer prices climbed a staggering 8.5% over the 12 months ending in March.
That’s our sixth straight month of inflation above 6%, and our 11th straight month above 5%.
The White House response? A waiver to allow usually banned sales of high-ethanol gasoline over the summer, which impacts only the gas sold at 2,300 gas stations nationwide, out of around 150,000 total.
Pathetic.
The inflation picture gets even uglier when you drill down (though, of course, Team Biden opposes new drilling). Fuel oil is up an eye-popping 70%; gasoline, 48%. Not a single category of food saw sub-7% inflation.
The overall number just for March was 1.2%, the sharpest monthly jump since September 2005. That translates to a loss of 2.7% for monthly wages.
This inflation is costing the typical family (median household income of $67,500) at least $5,000 a year.
“Extraordinarily elevated” numbers, Biden’s departing flack Jen Psaki called them, before again repeating the bogus claim that it’s all “Putin’s price hike.”
Hardest hit are those Democrats claim to care about most: Some 35% of non-white voters report major financial strain along with almost 50% of voters with incomes below $60,000.
But the president refuses to adjust course. His budget calls for more taxes, more borrowing, more spending. He’s made no move to end his war on domestic energy. And he definitely won’t admit that his disastrous American Rescue Plan was, as a Fed study has shown, the spark that touched off this conflagration by dumping almost $2 trillion into an already overheating economy.
Nope, all Americans get from Joe & Co. is trivial gestures and lame blame-shifting.
All of which basically guarantees that inflation, along with all the other disasters wrought by Democratic control of Washington, will only keep getting worse.
