{"id":30969,"date":"2024-08-15T21:29:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T02:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=30969"},"modified":"2024-08-15T21:41:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T02:41:45","slug":"lawmakers-press-meta-over-illicit-drug-advertising-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=30969","title":{"rendered":"American Consensus: Biden-Harris Economy Stinks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2024\/08\/15\/american-consensus-biden-harris-economy-stinks\/\"><br><\/a>The majority of Americans are suffering because of the state of the economy under the Biden-Harris administration, several recent polls have revealed with less than 90 days to go until the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As U.S. consumers feel the brunt of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2024\/08\/15\/kamalanomics-worst-inflation-record-since-1977\/\">worst inflation<\/a>&nbsp;since Jimmy Carter was president, higher costs for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2024\/08\/13\/breitbart-business-digest-julys-food-inflation-leaves-families-hungry-for-relief\/\">groceries<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2024\/08\/12\/report-u-s-auto-insurance-rates-shotup-15-first-half-2024\/\">insurance<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2024\/08\/14\/policy-experts-blast-biden-harris-admins-plan-to-use-billions-of-taxpayer-dollars-to-offset-medicare-plan-d-premiums-fake-costly-demonstration\/\">health care<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2024\/07\/17\/breitbart-business-digest-bidens-cynical-and-dangerous-rent-control-scheme\/\">rent<\/a>, and more, they have been voicing their true feelings in surveys about the economy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In an&nbsp;<em>Economist<\/em>\/YouGov&nbsp;<a href=\"#page=8\">poll<\/a>&nbsp;that surveyed 1,618 adult citizens between August 4-6, 84 percent of respondents said they are about the same or worse off financially compared to a year ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Only five percent described the economy as \u201cexcellent,\u201d while 44 percent said it was \u201cpoor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In a late July Gallup&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/647846\/low-economic-confidence-steady.aspx\">poll<\/a>, 70 percent of respondents said the American economy is getting worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cGenerally, people are negative about the economy,\u201d senior Gallup editor Jeff Jones&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/consumer-news\/2024\/07\/despite-economic-growth-70-believe-economy-is-getting-worse\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe did see some improvement earlier in the year, but all those gains have been lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The poll, conducted using a random sample of 1,010 adults, found that the economy and inflation are among Americans\u2019 top issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe majority of people still say that inflation has caused hardship for their families, so I think that\u2019s really kind of underlying a lot of what we see, even though a lot of the macroeconomic numbers are pretty strong at this point,\u201d Jones told WTOP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In another late July survey conducted by Harvard-Harris,&nbsp;<a href=\"#page=5\">61 percent<\/a>&nbsp;of respondents said&nbsp; the economy is on the wrong track and&nbsp;<a href=\"#page=6\">60 percent<\/a>&nbsp;think the economy is weak.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden have spent the last three and a half years promoting the same ideas and touting the same economic programs. That is now seen as a burden for Harris as she tries to distance herself from Biden\u2019s unpopular programs and economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">However, Harris is likely to have trouble escaping responsibility for inflation and economic malaise. As vice president, she set a record for casting the most tie-breaking votes in the Senate for Biden\u2019s partisan legislation, including some of the largest deficit spending bills in recent history. Many economists see&nbsp;the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, passed with Harris\u2019s tie-breaking vote shortly after Biden and Harris took office, as a key accelerant of inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2024\/08\/15\/american-consensus-biden-harris-economy-stinks\/\">breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of Americans are suffering because of the state of the economy under the Biden-Harris administration, several recent polls have revealed with less than 90 days to go until the election. 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