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A Biden campaign speech about inflation [1]

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Date: 2022-10-19

There are a great many issues on the ballot on November 8, 2022: abortion, gun control, climate action, and democracy to name a few. Every poll, however, says that the economy and inflation are at the top of the list in voters’ minds.

Currently Democratic candidates are doing an excellent job of ignoring inflation and the economy. President Biden recently addressed the issue in this way, “The economy is strong.” That is not enough, Joe. Listen up. I am going to tell you what you need to be saying if we are to keep control of the House of Representatives and gain a couple of seats in the Senate. Here is a speech you can give. Excuse me if I don’t get the voice completely right.

America isn’t the only country experiencing record inflation. Most countries around the world are in the same boat. Over 100 countries are experiencing worse inflation than ours . Prime Minister Truss in Britain may lose her job because she thinks the solution is to give tax breaks to the rich.

My fellow Americans when I was running for President of the United States, I said there would be no Malarkey. I meant it. I understand your pain when you go to fill up your tank or buy groceries. Inflation in America is at its highest in 40 years. You may not think so, but my administration is doing everything possible to bring the inflation down without causing a recession. Meanwhile the Republicans are working really hard to convince you that we caused the inflation and are doing nothing. So, let’s talk about inflation for a minute.

In France the entire country is prepared to go on strike because they need relief from rising prices. You gotta ask yourself, ‘If old Joe here caused our inflation, how come so many countries are suffering from it?’ The answer is simple. We didn’t. This global inflation was caused by how all of us nations reacted to the pandemic, putting billions and billions of dollars into circulation to make sure COVID didn’t kill 50 million people before we had vaccines, to make sure our citizens didn’t starve while we waited, and to make sure our economies didn’t crash and make things even worse. In America, most of that money was spent before I became President.

Regardless of who you elected in 2020, our rescue effort during the pandemic was going to cause inflation. You elected me. That makes the pandemic inflation my problem.

Then in February, Russia invaded Ukraine wrecking the supplies of oil and wheat around the world. Gasoline and grocery prices soared. Just as gasoline was becoming affordable again, OPEC decided to cut production by 2 million barrels per day. And that’s where we stand now.

The Fed is raising interest rates to slow the economy a little without causing a deep recession. We’ve passed the Inflation Reduction Act. We’ve lowered prescription drug prices and opened the strategic oil reserve so we can pump and refine more oil. There is legislation before congress to reduce our dependence on oil and make America energy independent... from oil. Legislation to allow farmers to grow more to reduce food prices, to invest in childcare to reduce its cost to our working parents and to tax the rich so they pay their fair share toward running America. I could go on.

But the point is that getting this inflation under control is going to take a little time, more time than we have before November 8. If you want to see this inflation problem solved, if you want to protect a women’s right to choose, if you want to have sensible gun controls, if you want to act decisively on climate change, if you want the January 6 perpetrators to be held responsible for their actions, then you need to give us a little more time. You need to vote to keep the Democrats in control of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

If the Republicans are put in charge, we will still have this inflation and they will raise taxes on the poor and middle class, ban abortion nationwide, end Social Security and Medicare, continue to deny that Climate Change exists, and let the planners and instigators of January 6 off Scot-free. The choice is clear.

That’s why I need you to get out and vote for Democrats on November 8.

That’s how I see it. No Malarkey.

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