Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stands out as one of Joe Biden’s most disastrous hiring decisions.
Like virtually all Democrats, Buttigieg expects the media to be on his side and is never prepared for a question harder than a softball.
Pete Buttigieg looked like a deer caught in headlights after one devastating question.
In Joe Biden’s first two years in office inflation shot up nine percent year-over-year, the biggest jump in 40 years.
Now that inflation only rose at three percent in the last report Joe Biden and his allies want to take a victory lap.
There are two problems with that.
The first is that inflation only rising three percent does not provide the American people relief because that is a three-percent jump in prices from a year ago when prices rose nine percent.
And CNBC host Joe Kernen pointed out the second problem in an interview with Buttigieg on the “Squawk Box” program when he asked Buttigieg why Biden wanted to take all the credit for inflation supposedly cooling, yet blamed the rise in prices due to inflation being a global phenomenon.
“Now that it’s coming down it’s like, ‘Look what I did, I brought inflation down.’ That doesn’t make no sense, it’s not logically consistent,” Kernen stated.
Buttigieg’s answer danced around the question by trying to pretend inflation wasn’t really Joe Biden’s fault.
“I don’t think that’s quite fair for a couple for reasons,” Buttigieg responded. “First of all, these international comparisons, yes, we pointed out that inflation in the United States was not something that was just happening in the United States, it was happening around the world. But, we also pointed out all the ways that we were doing better than a lot of our peers around the world.”
When Joe Biden rammed the nearly $2 trillion blue state bailout bill through Congress in March 2021 even liberal economists warned inflation would result.
Former Obama top economic advisor Lawrence Summers predicted prices would jump as a result of the Federal Reserve printing trillions of new dollars to pump into the system.
Joe Biden and his allies did not care that the resulting inflation would damage the economy and make Americans poorer.
The Federal Reserve’s campaign of interest rate hikes is about to create a credit crisis in America as it stuck Americans with trillions in debt that is more expensive to pay off and makes getting loans more difficult.
None of that mattered to Biden and the Democrats.
That’s because Democrats knew they had a two-year window before the midterm elections to ram through as many power grabs as possible to push America closer to becoming a socialist nation.
Pete Buttigieg knows this is the case but can’t admit so in public.
And that is why Buttigieg and other Democrats talk themselves into circles on inflation.
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