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In response to
"We got out of the pandemic better than anyone and it’s already memory hole’d because inflation/greedflation/enshitifcation ate it all up. -- nm"
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Qale
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I was just reading a Paul Krugman article about what Biden should be saying about the economy and how people see him as out of touch with people's
Posted by
pmb (aka pmb)
Jun 3 '24, 19:52
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experience if he touts its accomplishments. But it's bullshit. He's letting the lie that things are terrible be the narrative if he does. He can acknowledge that the inflation that happened was challenging while noting that wages have outpaced it and it's very close to target at this point. Point out how much better it's been than every other country when inflation (which was still mostly due covid supply chain disruption (followed by greedy companies exploiting it)) was largely a global phenomenon and less tied to the deficits that republicans rail against. He can and should do both.
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