Less than one month before Election Day, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ published data confirms that the consequences of Democrats’ disastrous economic policies have continued to plague Americans.
Democrats and their corporate media and economic “expert” allies preemptively claimed inflation would “return to normal” just in time for the 2024 face-off. Shortly after the July 2024 consumer price index was released, former Deputy Director of the National Economic Council Bharat Ramamurti even went so far as to declare that “We’ve won the battle against inflation.”
The 2.4 percent price hike Americans suffered from September 2023 to the same month this year, however, was “a little hotter than anticipated.”
Consumers specifically paid more for food at home (1.3 percent), food away from home (3.9 percent), electricity (3.7 percent), shelter (4.9 percent), and transportation (8.5 percent) last month than they did the year prior. Overall, essential goods and services are more than 20 percent more expensive now than they were when President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office in January 2021.
Corporate media such NBC News, the New York Times, CBS News, and ABC News tried to paint the additional September leap as inflation “cooling.”
The Washington Post even published an opinion piece taunting Americans for feeling discouraged by the economic woes they have suffered under the Democrat-controlled White House.
“This is a great economy. Why can’t we celebrate it?” the headline states.
The article’s author not only claims “the U.S. economy is in good shape,” but
