Joe Biden has become America’s “it’s not my fault” president. Whether it’s the inflation, the border, the crime, the gas prices, the Afghanistan exit fiasco or the stock market collapse, Biden has become an expert at pointing the finger at someone else.
His presidency so far reminds me of the famous campaign slogan of then-New York Mayor David Dinkins, who admitted that everything was going wrong in the Big Apple on his watch and confessed, “I’m doing the best I can.” New Yorkers believed him. And they wisely tossed him out of office for Rudy Giuliani, who actually fixed things.
Take the supply chain crisis. Biden constantly blames shortages, empty shelves and back orders of everything from cars to tampons to baby formula on “supply chain” disruptions. For example, if you try to buy a new car these days, you will probably have to wait for weeks or even months to pull into your driveway. Or you will have to pay $5,000 to $20,000 above the sticker price to get a car immediately.
I don’t recall having these supply problems when Donald Trump was president. Do you?
One of the most remarkable business innovations of the last 40 years has been “just-in-time inventory” management. It is a logistical triumph of the economy that cut prices and ensured full shelves at the grocery store and Walmart. Then digital age companies such as FedEx, UPS and Amazon reliably deliver merchandise to your door.
Why is it just now that we are confronted with the goblins of supply chain disruptions? Biden says it is because we had the economy shut down, and then Trump left him with an economy in miserable shape. According to this narrative, Biden had to “build back better” and solve bottlenecks with cargo ships, airlines, warehouses and factories.
But that’s not even close to the truth. The economy soared out of the COVID shutdowns that had paralyzed the economy in early 2020. In the second half of 2020, the economy snapped back with a rapid rebound. These were the last six months of the Trump presidency. There were few shortages or delays (except when companies couldn’t get workers back because of sky-high welfare and unemployment benefits). Prices were stable in the first six months of the COVID recovery. When Trump left office, inflation was 1.5%, even though the economy grew by about 20% in the six months before Biden left office.
But then, when Biden took over, right from the get-go, here, there and everywhere “supply chain” problems emerged.
Why? First, Biden declared war on the American fossil fuel industry, so it began to contract output. Prices soared. Then he appointed regulators who made anti-business climate change rules that disrupted commerce flows.
And finally, he appointed people to key positions in his administration who were woefully unqualified for the task at hand. Kamala Harris, his vice president, was in charge of securing the border, and this was like a monographed invitation to illegal immigrants to come on over. Next, Pete Buttigieg was put in charge of transportation. He seems like a very nice man, but he went on paternity leave amid the cargo shipping crisis and took no practical steps to alleviate the jam up at the ports. With airlines canceling thousands of flights and leaving passengers stranded in strange cities, Mayor Pete is flunking again. People in the airline industry are starting to call the transportation secretary “Pass the Buck Buttigieg.” As aviation analyst Gary Leff of the influential View from the Wing blog puts it: “While Buttigieg is scolding airlines over their operational performance, he is partly responsible for the problem and isn’t actually doing things within his power to help fix it.” He’s acting a lot like his boss.
In sum, the supply chain problems and high inflation aren’t going away because no one in this administration knows anything about logistics, business, commerce or fixing things.
The Committee to Unleash Prosperity did a Google test to see how often people search for the term “supply chain problems.”
Sure enough, the searches weren’t too common for any of the 20 years before Biden was inaugurated. Then almost from the month that Biden was sworn in, the number of searches quadrupled. Coincidence?
Perhaps Biden, the man who blames everyone else for his failed presidency, is the real source of the supply chain problem. Maybe to get the Great American economic engine running smoothly again, he needs to be replaced.
Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at Freedom Works. He is also author of the new book: “Govzilla: How The Relentless Growth of Government Is Devouring Our Economy.” To find out more about Stephen Moore and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
“Joe Biden has become America’s “it’s not my fault” president.”
Joe Biden is NOTHING but a corrupt, demented, puppet president. Joe Biden only does what he is told to do by his masters, the treasonous, socialist Democrat Party’s elite. We the U.S. have been conned and deceived by this treasonous, socialist Democrat Party’s elite. Their motives and objectives are to gain control, stay in power any way possible and to dominate the citizens? No matter the costs to the people, the government or the nation. To take away the government by the people and for the people and replace it with the “Socialist Democrat Party Dictatorship”.
If We the People do not destroy this Socialist Democrat Party, than this Socialist Democrat Party will destroy our country and we will be servants, slaves and wards to this Socialist Democrat Party. 🙁 🙁 🙁
This treasonous, hateful, destructive, immoral, socialist Democrat Party and their corrupt, demented puppet president has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
Supply Chains, just like real chains are only as strong as their weakest link……Enter Joe Biden, the weakest example of an American leader to ever walk the halls of the Whitehouse, or get caught swimming nude the Whitehouse pool.
Like the Oracle of Omaha Warren buffet stated, “When the Economic tide runs out, you soon see who has been swimming naked.” The Same applies to when the American Voters dry up the Whitehouse pool for a cleaning come election time, a job that used to be done much earlier by the media who proved to be just Janitors in a Drum,,,make that janitors of the drumbeat. Everything that Joe touches just ends up down the drain. He and his entire group of economic advisors belong on a Tidy bowl raft inside the bowl whose handle is about to be flushed.
inluminatuo on 9:19 am June 30, 2022 at 9:19 am
” ….. Supply Chains, just like real chains are only as strong as their weakest link……Enter Joe Biden, the weakest example of an American leader to ever walk the halls of the Whitehouse….” You Commented.
Democrat President, Barack H. Obama Once Said, To Paraphrase Him, Said, ” Ameria Is, And Always Will Be, A Land Of Immigrants. ” Then John F. Kennedy Once Said, ” Where Civil -Rights Opponents Went Off The Raills Was When They Justly Demanded Equal Rights To Unjustly Demanding Equal Outcome. ” This From A democrat President. What, May American citizens ask of all these immigrants coming to America, what are you going to contribute to America for your acceptance in this country???
He’s a rabid libtard.. ANY PROBLEM is never ever, their fault… just ask them.
Any Distraction Will Do According to the Joe Biden Administration, Don’t Blame us , blame the Russians, Blame the Former Republican President , Donald Trump, But Its Not Our Fault. But Barack H. Obama Said of our Country , To Paraphrase Him,
” America wasn’t Exceptional, Any more than Any other Piece of Land although America had elected A Black Man President for two terms .
You Rightly Commented, Scruffy_USN_Retired on 7:37 am June 30, 2022 at 7:37 am
“Joe Biden has become America’s “it’s not my fault” president.”
” Joe Biden is NOTHING but a corrupt, demented, puppet president…. ” And The Leftist Pope Would Also have to Agree.!
ltuser on 4:00 pm June 30, 2022 at 4:00 pm
” He’s a rabid libtard.. ANY PROBLEM is never ever, their fault… just ask them.”
And Thanks to Modern Indoctrine Public Educational Institutions Only 39% of Citizens are Proud of Their Country.
Democrat -2 Term President, Barack H. Obama, Once said , that America Wasn’t Exceptional, to Paraphrase Him.
So true. if not for the commie ridden teachers unions, PUSHING this ‘anti-american agenda’ in schools, from K to college, i wonder, if we would be in this mess..