by Jeff Crouere, Ringside Politics, ©2021
(Nov. 7, 2021) — The Biden administration has been a disaster in every regard. This is one reason why poll numbers for President Joe Biden keep falling. He is now languishing at an embarrassing approval rating of only 38%.
Americans do not like what President Biden has delivered in his first ten months in office. The results have been catastrophic and include an open southern border with millions of people from dozens of nations streaming into our country. Biden has also delivered a military withdrawal debacle in Afghanistan that left behind hundreds of American citizens.
In the last ten months, Americans have witnessed rampant crime in our cities, empty store shelves, and supply chain worries. The Department of Justice is intimidating parents and radical leftist propaganda is masquerading as curriculum in our classrooms.
Americans are also not fond of a President mandating COVID-19 vaccines or weekly testing for workforces of businesses with more than one hundred employees. Fortunately, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily stopped this unconstitutional presidential order, The judges found “grave statutory and constitutional issues” with the Biden administration’s vaccine rules developed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
If enacted, the rules will start on January 4, 2022, and will impact eighty-four million Americans. Of course, this legal fight will continue as U.S. Justice Department spokesperson Anthony Coley claimed, “The OSHA emergency temporary standard is a critical tool to keep America’s workplaces safe as we fight our way out of this pandemic. The Justice Department will vigorously defend this rule in court.”
As the legality of the vaccine policies of the Biden administration are determined in court, the President’s troubling economic agenda is already making an extremely negative impact on Americans. Of all the problems caused by this administration, the worst is the economic hardship it is creating for Americans.
In the third quarter of 2021, our economy grew by an anemic rate of 2%, according to the Commerce Department. This slow growth of the country’s Gross Domestic Product was due to a sharp decrease in consumer spending.
While the October jobs announcement was positive, there are still millions of Americans no longer in the workforce. The wages of those people who are working are not keeping up with the surging inflation rate, so, in real purchasing power, Americans are falling farther behind economically.
Over the last 20 months, this pandemic has been a financial catastrophe for millions of American families. For struggling Americans, it is impossible to regain their economic standing with prices skyrocketing.
The inflation rate is at its highest point in thirteen years. As Americans fully understand, prices for groceries, home improvement products and other essential items are steadily rising, but nothing has climbed as fast as the price of gasoline.
Over the past year, there has been a 55% increase in gasoline prices. In November of 2020, the average price of gasoline was $2.19 per gallon. One year later, the average gasoline price is $3.49 per gallon.
The surging gasoline prices impact an incredible number of our industries, especially those involved in transportation, such as trucking. The increased prices also are a burden for Americans who commute to work and retirees on a fixed income who like to travel. Sadly, this Thanksgiving will be the most expensive one in history for not only the surging food prices, but also due to increased travel costs for Americans who drive to visit family members and must pay for the higher gasoline prices.
The mounting fuel costs involve more than just gasoline. Americans trying to stay warm this winter will face escalating prices for propane, home heating oil and natural gas. These costs will be at least 30% or more higher than last year.
All these new burdens are due to the reckless energy policies of the Biden administration. On his first day in office, President Biden halted construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. This project would have transported 800,000 barrels of oil daily from Canada to our refineries.
Biden also ended all federal subsidies for the fossil fuel industry and placed a moratorium on federal drilling. He also suspended all drilling in the vast Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which contains eleven billion barrels of oil, according to estimates.
Under President Donald Trump, America was energy-independent for the first time in decades. In this administration, the situation changed so dramatically that President Biden begged Russia and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to increase their oil production. Not surprisingly, these countries rejected Biden’s pleas and will keep to their scheduled production for the month of December.
When asked about these issues on CNN’s State of the Union program, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm admitted that energy costs will be “more expensive this year than last year.” She also claimed that “Every president is frustrated because they can’t control the price of gasoline. OPEC is unfortunately controlling the agenda.”
Of course, in the Trump administration, OPEC did not control “the agenda.” Sadly, with President Biden, both OPEC and left-wing environmentalists control the “agenda.”
Biden is committed to taking “action” on climate change, which is why he attended the recent U.N. climate change conference in Scotland. He reestablished the United States as a participant in the Paris Climate Accords. He also hired former U.S. Senator John Kerry to fill the role of the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, a position created by Biden. In addition, he is converting the entire government automobile fleet to electric power.
All these actions have negative economic consequences for Americans. When Bloomberg TV host Tom Keene asked Granholm, “What is the Granholm plan to increase oil production in America?” She responded by laughing and claiming, “That is hilarious.”
Rising gasoline prices are no laughing matter to the American people. Granholm and Biden need a wake-up call. It seems they have not received the message. Let it just serve as another motivation to vote in the 2022 midterm elections.
Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and his award winning program, “Ringside Politics,” airs nationally on Real America’s Voice Network, AmericasVoice.News weekdays at 7 a.m. CT and from 7-11 a.m. weekdays on WGSO 990-AM & Wgso.com. He is a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and on Crouere.net. For more information, email him at jeff@ringsidepolitics.com
devildemocommiecrats dismiss inflation as a rich peoples’ problem but it has hit me very hard. I am retired, old and disabled on a very small fixed income so it hurts me much more than it does the ultra wealthy, especially the political ruling class that steals from working American citizens!!!!!!!!!!
The usurping presidency of Obidet has all of the earmarks of the third illegal term of the CIA-backed regime of the foreign spy – Obama.
Exactly. It is so easy to see and understand the connections between Obama and Hillary, and why Hillary had to be the after Obama cover president. There is no real mystery, but the complicity of both parties in the Obama fraud and its still on-going cover-up is a crime, so far, to big to prosecute. That and having so many people who are are complicit in the Obama fraud investigating themselves means a lot of time is spent for them to find themselves innocent………
Will Durham be any different?
Your theme applied as comments never sways and it should not.
I will never forget, and I am glad that you don’t either, how all components of the US government and the lying news media masterminded to allow the unstoppable downward spiral of this Constitutional Republic when they allowed this low-life bath house occupier (Obama – or whatever his name is) to invade our country and who thumbed their nose at the US Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 presidential natural born Citizen requirement.
I am still skeptical of the true intent of all those Republicans (Rubio, Cruz, and Jindal) who are not natural born Citizens who previously ran for the POTUS under the guise of either born a citizen or the misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment.
https://thefederalist.com/2018/07/23/no-fourteenth-amendment-not-authorize-birthright-citizenship/
Republicans I do not understand, but those democrats, I do understand, because of late, it seems evil is their first agenda.
Thanks for the compliment and here are some thoughts on this:
“Republicans I do not understand, but those democrats, I do understand, because of late, it seems evil is their first agenda.”
Sorry to be so wordy with my reply…………….
Perhaps the three you listed; Cruz, Rubio and Jindal chose to run for president in spite of being ineligible because they believed the media would accept their running without question. The media did not want to bring up the subject of Obama’s eligibility, or lack thereof. Also, both Cruz and Rubio were in Congress when both parties did/said nothing to try to prevent John Roberts from swearing-in the ineligible Obama, meaning they were complicit in effectively giving America’s government and her military to her enemies and violating their sworn oath to protect the Constitution.
Apparently it was believed the eligibility requirement would disappear if enough ineligible candidates ran and were accepted as eligible. Unfortunately, that seems to have worked. Hillary, the planned and promised in 2008 after Obama cover president was well aware of Obama’s ineligibility, but IMO kept quiet after accepting an offer she had better not refuse to shut-up and be Secretary of State in Obama’s regime ($$$), and also the ever important after Obama cover president.
When Hillary was defeated by the “birther” (that’s a good thing) Donald Trump, both parties panicked fearing Trump would reveal and act on The Obama Fraud. President Trump was kept under siege with fake impeachment attempts and removed from office in a stolen election to prevent a second term, where the truth might still be fully revealed and acted on. The many complicit in Obama’s usurpation and the still on-going cover-up fear Trump at least as much as they hate him. Hillary was not supposed to lose……….
Biden was chosen to replace Trump because he was part of the Obama regime and its many criminal acts, and aware of what he would find still left from the Obama regime. Also, IMO Obama picked Kamala Harris for Biden’s V.P. because of her ineligibility. The more ineligible candidates who occupy the office of president and/or V.P. the less likely it is that anything will ever be done about the ineligible, identity fraud, Barack Hussein Obama…………If Obama continues to be race and ineligibility protected America loses……..probably forever…….
What inherent personality trait does Jennifer Granholm have in common with Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton? She, like them, is a condescending, responsibility shirking, elitist.