Biden’s policies are part of inflation’s cause

Regarding a recent letter to the editor claiming President Biden is not responsible for inflation; gas prices are set up by supply and demand. Biden cancelled the Keystone pipeline; then he canceled federal property leases to oil companies, which are some of the reasons why the price of gas is going up. Biden reduced oil production to increase gas prices; just maybe to make his climate change measures look more reasonable, which is all part of the Democratic Party agenda.

The letter writer mentioned full employment. Wow! Biden administration says unemployment is at its lowest at 3.8 percent and that is with 12 million jobs open. In Trump’s administration it was lower at 3.6 percent and with about six million job openings. How does one get that low of unemployment with that many job openings? Perhaps it is because figures lie and liars figure. Then you add federal unemployment and covid relief money.

Then we have vax mandates and Biden’s recent one was rejected by the Supreme Court for businesses. The states that have mandates have a higher rate of unemployment along with crime, homeless, etc. and are Democratic states.

Inflation is real and its Biden’s fault because of his agenda. The last time we had this high rate inflation was when Jimmy Carter was president and yes he was a Democrat too.

What Biden policies are actually working?

Jerry Dugan

Shoreline

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