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Oohh.... me, me - can I go first?
That's right it went up a whopping 0.2% and then dropped for an almost (not total) four year decline. Not sure how else to say that/
Holy history rewrite, Batman.
Trump was only in office for four years. Inflation stayed flat / slightly increased over the first year and a half, fell for about two years (bottoming out in May of 2020), and then started rebounding for the remaining 7-8 months. It hit 0.1% in May 2020 but was back up to 1.4% by the time he left office. That rebound represents a 1300% increase, which is more than double the peak-to-peak increase we saw under Biden (i.e. from 1.4% to 9.1%, or about a 550% increase)
My knife isn't sharp enough to split that hair
It really is. The parts that aren’t word salad that make no sense are pure fantasy.
I saw right off an important one at top, and I like to look at 1 thing at a time, so:
Crime statistics are skewed because only about 70% of Law Enforcement agencies report statistics to the FBI.
kansasreflector.com
Once again all rations were reduced, except those of the pigs and the dogs. A too rigid equality in rations, Squealer explained, would have been contrary to the principles of Animalism. In any case he had no difficulty in proving to the other animals that they were not in reality short of food, whatever the appearances might be. For the time being, certainly, it had been found necessary to make a readjustment of rations (Squealer always spoke of it as a "readjustment," never as a "reduction"), but in comparison with the days of Jones, the improvement was enormous. Reading out the figures in a shrill, rapid voice, he proved to them in detail that they had more oats, more hay, more turnips than they had had in Jones's day, that they worked shorter hours, that their drinking water was of better quality, that they lived longer, that a larger proportion of their young ones survived infancy, and that they had more straw in their stalls and suffered less from fleas. The animals believed every word of it.
How was that accomplished? What contributed to lower inflation rate?
Inflation usually rises in a strong economy and in 2018 the Fed started raising interest rates which Trump criticized in the news. They say they're separate entities but they're not. Biden inherited COVID
What does this even mean? People's perceptions do not always line up with reality. What matters when it comes to proper evaluation of the actual economic performance of the Biden administration are the facts, not the opinions.
www.frbsf.org
Once again all rations were reduced, except those of the pigs and the dogs. A too rigid equality in rations, Squealer explained, would have been contrary to the principles of Animalism. In any case he had no difficulty in proving to the other animals that they were not in reality short of food, whatever the appearances might be. For the time being, certainly, it had been found necessary to make a readjustment of rations (Squealer always spoke of it as a "readjustment," never as a "reduction"), but in comparison with the days of Jones, the improvement was enormous. Reading out the figures in a shrill, rapid voice, he proved to them in detail that they had more oats, more hay, more turnips than they had had in Jones's day, that they worked shorter hours, that their drinking water was of better quality, that they lived longer, that a larger proportion of their young ones survived infancy, and that they had more straw in their stalls and suffered less from fleas. The animals believed every word of it.
