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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.
half is being optimistic here though
Grocery prices dropping by half would be amazing. I would be interested in learning what he has done for grocery prices and why congress feels the need to ask him to do something about it if he has supposedly done so much already.
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.
