So people shouldn’t be upset that Biden hasn’t done enough because he’s not the king.
And then Democrats in the Senate who could investigate these things ask Biden because they’re incapable of it.
So are we to assume that the entire government is incapable of dealing with this?
The prices legitimately went up due to supply chain constraints during the pandemic. The problem is, they never went back down, and then continued to follow the steep inflation trends of a post-pandemic nation. That all just became additional revenue for the food industry.
The last time a President signed an Executive Order to fix grocery prices, it blew up in Nixon’s face when it expired and prices blew well past what should have been a consistent inflation trend.
The only way the government could successfully address it would be through congressional legislation, by either establishing a legal rate of inflation for food products, or finally breaking up the big food monopolies. There’s just no way Republicans would ever go for any of it.
He has done lots. People aren’t interested in positive news. Even if grocery prices drop in half, people will say he did nothing.
Okay but it would be nice to know if anyone our government is capable of doing anything about this.
They’re perfectly capable. About half just don’t want to.
I don’t know how to convince people to vote for ourselves instead of hate. I don’t know how to get people to vote for solutions, even imperfect ones, over someone to blame.
But if you figure it out, these are the kinds of problems we can go about solving.
A White House spokesperson noted that the Administration does not play a role in or comment on enforcement actions but pointed to another example of Biden’s DOJ blocking a merger that would have raised prices for lettuce and packaged salads, and also suing to address price-fixing of chicken, pork, and turkey meats
The sheer balls to say there’s nothing you can do because it’s not your job…
And then immediately demand credit for something similar?
I’m confused how you think it’s similar. Do you have some source that claims the Biden administration instructed the DOJ to block that merger?
Cause what they are doing is pointing out how their independent DOJ has a track record of already investigating these occurances. They aren’t demanding credit for directing them to do so.
We went over this when the last guy was in office. You don’t want politicians deciding who the FBI investigates.
Republicans abuse power so we can’t use it correctly
Not to mention you’re not addressing the part where they try and take credit
So the questions are collusion and abuse of a monopoly. Is that happening? Price gouging is not illegal, but competition usually limits it, if there is effective competition.
We’ve had similar ridiculous inflation as everyone else, but this is not an area dominated by one chain. We have several major chains and Walmart is just one of them: are they all colluding? Is there some vast conspiracy? Within the confines of the new much higher prices they seem to be competing as much as before
They’ve always been conspiring. They just rarely get caught. It’s even easier now because they can all use the same “market pricing software”.
When there are enough corporations to fit a boardroom table. Competition doesn’t exist.
It’s well within reason to think that many of Executives all attend the same events, have overlapping social circles, and moved around positions between the corporations.
All it takes is one company to get away with higher prices for the other companies follow suit.
But just the other day he said…
President Biden On 30% Increase In Grocery Prices: People “Have The Money To Spend”
Cool here’s the rest of it
“It really is, and it is real, but the fact is that if you take a look at what people have, they have the money to spend. It angers them and it angers me that you have to spend more. For example, the whole idea of this notion that you have… shrinkflation… It’s like 20% less for the same price, that is corporate greed. It is corporate greed and we’ve got to deal with it.”
Dude has no idea what life is like for the majority of people he “represents”…
That line is taken completely out of context. The full quote, pasted elsewhere in this thread, is about how people can pay these price hikes, technically, but it’s rage inducing that they keep having to, and we need to address this kind of corporate greed.
is about how people can pay these price hikes, technically,
But they can’t…
Maybe you’re fine, but lots of people aren’t. The more prices go up, the more people can’t.
Desperate people do desperate things.
Do you think you’ll feel the effects of prices or starving masses first that effect your life enough for you to care?
Because things aren’t heading in the rights direction. Republicans break too much and Dems don’t try to fix it all. Damage accumulates if we don’t make repairs faster than damage is done.
Electing Dems who try to fix the damage, gets them more votes and more like minded people in office. Half ass measures are what’s holding us back, and you need to think about whose donations ensure we keep ratcheting backwards.
