When the people in the US and the world are facing acute sufferings due to financial crisis, President Joe Biden’s Energy Secretary suggested “poor” people in America to buy electric cars and solar panels to help deal with 40-year high inflation.
Commenting on such cruel remark by a senior member of the Biden administration, C Doulas Golden wrote in the Western Journal:
Inside President Joe Biden’s administration, it seems high-ranking staff members are playing a long-running game of “Hold My Beer” involving who can sound the most out-of-touch on matters of inflation.
While this could be traced back to the innumerable figures trotted out to tell us inflation would be “transitory” during the administration’s first year, that was some pretty low-stakes stuff. The first one to really up the ante was Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who told America in March that what they really needed to beat out-of-control gas prices was an electric car — something that costs, on average, over US$56,000.
Since then, we’ve had some doozies. Biden himself has gotten in on the game, with the president calling high gas prices “Putin’s price hike”, claiming that inflation is “worse everywhere but here” (spoiler alert: it’s not) and then ludicrously asserting — when inflation went down slightly from 9.1 percent in June to 8.5 percent in July — that the United States experienced “zero percent inflation in the month of July”.
Senate Democrats have horned in on the action, as well; how else can you justify the fact they trolled the country by naming their tax-and-spend climate bill the “Inflation Reduction Act“?
The problem with playing “Hold My Beer”, however, is that there’s always someone else who wants you to hold their beer. Enter Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm — who, despite the fact “Fox News Sunday” airs in the ante meridiem hours in the United States, still came with a frosty, hopped adult beverage for you to carry.
The moment came as host Trace Gallagher was talking about the aforementioned Inflation Reduction Act, and the fact it contains subsidies for green energy items most Americans can’t afford right now — “tax breaks for adding solar panels, energy-efficient windows, heat pumps”.
He’d just played a clip of people reacting to a US$7,500 tax credit for an electric car — who said that they couldn’t buy them anyway, thanks in part to the higher costs of these vehicles and higher prices in general. She was asked what she would say to people who couldn’t afford what Democrats were subsidizing.
…. Americans who can’t pay for gas, food and their mortgage are being told by Granholm that their lives will be made easier by paying for gas, food, their mortgage and solar panels because those solar panels are 30 percent off and can be financed. This is seriously their message — that paying 70 percent of something you can’t afford will allow you to afford it in the long run because it’ll cut your energy bill.
This may seem like a sick joke. Unfortunately, the joke’s on us.
Conservatives took to Twitter to lambast Granholm for her tone-deaf performance.
“Can’t afford food or gas, but this is great…” GOP Senator Ted Cruz of Texas wrote.
There has been storm of comments on the tweet of Senator Ted Cruz, most of them although were from the house of Democrats who had mocked him for stating “Can’t afford food or gas”.
Attorney Jim Filippi wrote: “With 40-year high inflation, I’m sure this is the first thing we were all looking help with!”
Donald Carman wrote: “@SecGranholm everyone is mocking you. Could it be your stupid comments?”
Bob Craig wrote: “Another fool of the Biden administration”.
Luscious Gringo wrote: “This girl is living in a luxurious cocoon which none of us will ever get to set foot in”.
