{"id":13113,"date":"2023-06-07T05:02:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T10:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=13113"},"modified":"2023-06-07T05:02:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T10:02:23","slug":"biden-brags-about-falling-food-prices-even-though-they-arent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=13113","title":{"rendered":"Biden brags about falling food prices, even though they aren&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The border is closed. Inflation was &#8220;zero.&#8221; Gasoline prices are lower than they were at the beginning of Joe Biden&#8217;s term. And now, food prices are falling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The above misstatements on the part of Biden may have been politically correct, but they had little connection to reality, as Biden&#8217;s actions have literally left the southern border wide open for millions of illegal aliens to enter, and have caused a huge explosion in the average family&#8217;s gasoline and home heating costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inflation, after blowing up family budgets with a disastrous 9.1% mark last summer, still is at a white-hot 6.5% in the most recent assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now a new report from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/states\/center-square\/fact-check-biden-touts-falling-food-prices-when-they-are-actually\">Just the News<\/a>&nbsp;pointed out that Biden was touting &#8220;falling food prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is they &#8220;are actually rising.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report noted, &#8220;President Joe Biden touted falling food prices Thursday, but the latest federal data shows the price of food is actually on the rise and has been for more than a year. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released new inflation data Thursday that showed the overall consumer price index dropped 0.1%, driven in part by a decrease in energy prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden claimed on social media, &#8220;For the sixth month in a row, yearly inflation is down. It might be rising in economies around the world, but it&#8217;s coming down here. And gas prices, food, and more are following. That adds up to a break for families and proof that my plan is working.&#8221;But the BLS confirmed that the food index increased 0.3% over the month of December, &#8220;with the food at home index rising 0.2%.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later Biden tried to explain his comments by saying that food prices were rising more slowly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BLS, in fact, said the food at home index was up 11.8% over the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2023\/01\/biden-brags-falling-food-prices-even-though-arent\/\">Wnd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The border is closed. Inflation was &#8220;zero.&#8221; Gasoline prices are lower than they were at the beginning of Joe Biden&#8217;s term. And now, food prices are falling. The above misstatements on the part of Biden may have been politically correct, but they had little connection to reality, as Biden&#8217;s actions have literally left the southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5780],"tags":[1282,1169,7962,1252,6675,7963],"class_list":["post-13113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livehood","tag-average","tag-biden","tag-explosive-growth","tag-inflation","tag-misrepresentation","tag-white-fever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13115,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13113\/revisions\/13115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}