Democrats blame inflation on stores, not policy

As inflation reaches Jimmy Carter levels, Democrats are passing the blame on to the stores. 

Elizabeth Warren, who faked being an Indian to land a $400,000-a-year job at Harvard, tweeted, "Working families are paying the price for corporate greed. We need more competition and strong antitrust enforcement so these meatpacking monopolies can’t jack up prices so casually."

Jen Psaki tried to label the scapegoats Big Meat. That drew guffaws from immature men who represent like 99% of all men.

The media duly publicizes the narrative.

NBC said, "The levers of government are being primed for an escalating crackdown on excessive food price inflation, which the Biden-Harris Administration and its Congressional allies believe is partially a result of over-concentration and lack of competition in the food and grocery supply chain.

"With inflation at its highest point in almost 40 years, American families are facing higher prices at the checkout and are making do with leaner meals. Once deemed essential, workers in grocery stores now say they feel expendable, and have been rewarded with only marginal increases in wages they say leave them unable to cover their own rising food costs.

"Meanwhile, producers and grocers are exploiting the pandemic to jack up prices more than necessary to pass on increased costs to consumers, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., blasted in a new letter sent to the heads of Kroger, Albertson's, and Publix and shared exclusively with NBC News."

In a fair world, no one would take the word of Warren who lied her way into a cushy Harvard job which was a springboard to the Senate.

But the world is unfair. The media consists of a pack of Democrat stooges.

NBC ran the story without bothering to balance it, saying in Paragraph 9, "The stores did not immediately respond to an NBC News request for comment."

The story was not breaking news. NBC could have waited. But NBC no longer practices journalism.

Reuters ain't much better.

It reported, "Four of the biggest meat-processing companies, using their market power in the highly consolidated U.S. market to drive up meat prices and underpay farmers, have tripled their own net profit margins since the pandemic started, White House economics advisers said.

"Financial statements of the meat-processing companies -- which control 55%-85% of the market for beef, poultry and pork - contradict claims that rising meat prices were caused by higher labor or transportation costs, advisers led by National Economic Council Director Brian Deese wrote in an analysis published on the White House website Friday."

But Reuters did balance the story, beginning in Paragraph 5, which said, "Trade group the North American Meat Institute accused the White House of cherry-picking data."

Overall, as inflation rises the noses lengthen for the Pinocchios of the Press.