The re-elect Joe Biden Committee and its PR agency, the New York Times, can’t understand why Americans aren’t buying into Bidenomics. Why can’t the Average Joe and Josephine see how wages are up, jobs are plentiful and inflation has slowed?
I’ll tell you why.
Because at the end of the month, when all the bills are paid and American families push away from the kitchen budget table, they have less money to spend than they did before Joe Biden took office. And, the poorer you were at the start of the Biden presidency, the worse it is for you.
Consider this report from the Times last Sunday:
“Polling last month from Democratic organization Navigator found that 25% of Americans support Biden’s major actions, such as the Inflation Reduction Act, but still think the president is doing a poor job handling the economy. It’s a group that tends to be disproportionately younger than 40 and is more likely to be Black or Latino voters critical to Democratic victories.”
Why the Biden crowd decided to go into the 2024 election cycle by voluntarily coining the phrase “Bidenomics” and making it the centerpiece of his re-election effort may go down as one of the more colossal blunders in re-election history. It’s a miscalculation that could only be made in a D.C. political think tank by people who take the bus to work and chow down on crab puffs at the nightly cocktail parties thrown by lobbyists.
No one is doing better under Bidenomics.
Sure, jobs may have bounced back from the prolonged COVID shutdown. And, hourly wages have gone up. But every penny increase in a paycheck has been more than obliterated by inflation. People are reminded of this every time they shop for food or put gas in their cars.
When people think of Bidenomics, it’s not a good thing.
Do the math.
If the average household fills up the work car once a week with, say, 20 gallons of gas at $4 a gallon, they are spending 80 bucks when they used to spend $40 when gas was half that price. If the family has two cars, that’s 80 bucks of spending power that Bidenomics rips from the family wallet every week.
The price of food is up about 25% since Biden took over. School just started and national reports had the cost of school supplies up 24% in just the last 12 months.
My back-of-the-napkin calculations show that between gas, food and maintaining a pre-pandemic lifestyle, Bidenomics costs families about $15,000 more per year. Few saw their paycheck grow that much. Seniors on Social Security saw only a 6% increase this year.
So, when the president’s re-election slogan is “Let Biden/Harris Finish The Job,” I suspect a lot of Americans see that as a threat.
Good luck with that Bidenomics thingy, Joe.
GOOD WORK
Good work if you can get it.
That’s the title of the latest ethical brouhaha going on down south with Assemblywoman Michelle Gorelow (D-Las Vegas). She has announced she will not seek re-election in 2024 because she was found to have taken a job with a nonprofit after she voted to give that very same non-profit $250,000 of taxpayer’s money.
I make no judgments other than to point out that the appearances looked very bad and if Rep. Gorelow could not see that, she shouldn’t be in elected office.
I bring it up here to point out that Rep. Gorelow’s seat is a highly contested one. Democrats need to hold on to it if they are to hold a supermajority in the Assembly.
Pro tip for the next Democrat seeking the seat: Avoid Gorelow’s endorsement.
ONE MORE THING
– There is a top secret bakery in Sparks. I can’t tell you about it because it’s on a knead to dough basis.
– I just made synonym rolls, just like grammar used to make.
– Sept. 22 is the first day of Fall. Not today. Not tomorrow. Put down the pumpkin.
That’s enough for today. Thanks for reading. Until next week, avoid soreheads, laugh a little and always question authority.
“Properly Subversive” is commentary written by Sherman R. Frederick, a Nevada Hall of Fame journalist and co-founder of Battle Born Media, a news organization dedicated to the enhancement and preservation of community newspapers. You can reach him by email at shermfrederick@gmail.com.
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