Joe Biden has betrayed blue-collar America – By Sean Collins (Spiked) / July 22, 2022
His policies have fuelled inflation and pummelled working-class people.
Working-class Americans are unhappy about where the country is headed and it isn’t hard to see why.
In June, it was revealed that inflation had soared to 9.1 per cent – a level not seen since the early 1980s. Prices have increased across a range of goods and services and this has not been limited to essentials like gasoline (up 61 per cent) or groceries (up 12 per cent).
While everyone is affected by higher prices, working-class people are hit disproportionately. The costs to fill up a car with gasoline, or put food on the table, take up a higher share of workers’ incomes than the upper classes’ incomes. Americans’ average real (that is, after inflation) weekly earnings fell 4.4 per cent over the past 12 months. As the Wall Street Journal puts it, workers ‘are suffering the largest reduction in real wages since the 1970s’.
A CNBC survey shows that President Biden’s economic approval rating has dropped to its lowest level yet, well below Trump’s and Obama’s lowest ratings. Only 12 per cent believe he is helping to combat inflation. ‘Scranton Joe’ likes to portray himself as in tune with blue-collar Americans, but there’s no sense that he recognises their financial struggles at all.
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