President Joe Biden will not do a Super Bowl pre-game interview for the second consecutive year.
Biden and the people around him insist it’s not that the president fears doing an interview seen by tens of millions. His aides cite political fatigue as the reason for his snub, according to CNN.
However, the Biden White House should give us the real reason. Biden refuses to do the interview because he is failing America and the public.
Biden has been president for over three years, and the public has suffered the consequences of their poor decision-making at the ballot box.
Real wages are down since Biden assumed office. The U.S. dollar has lost over one-sixth of its purchasing power during Biden’s tenure as president, hitting minimum wage workers the hardest, as the federal minimum wage remains stagnant at $7.25 an hour. Remember when Biden ran on the pie-in-the-sky promise of a $15 hourly federal minimum wage? Now, our federal minimum wage is far less valuable than when he took office.
We can thank loose monetary policy from the Federal Reserve and Biden’s big-government spending agenda for this inflation. The president signed the wasteful $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law in February 2021. The bill alone may have caused inflation to rise by as many as 3 points, according to a March 2022 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Notably, the bill featured many wasteful provisions, such as giving $350 billion to state, municipal, and tribal governments. Many of these entities already had massive surpluses and spent this money on wasteful pork projects as their constituents struggled financially.
Plus, two of Biden’s other so-called policy achievements, the CHIPS Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, were corporate welfare for wealthy multinational semiconductor manufacturers and the lucrative green energy industry, respectively; the Inflation Reduction Act did almost nothing to reduce inflation.
The Biden administration also perpetually fails us at the southern border, to the benefit of the Democratic Party because it imports what could one day be a new bloc of blue voters, given the party’s support for amnesty and pathways to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
Since Biden took office, there have been well over 10 million illegal border crossings. Thanks to gotaways, the country’s illegal immigrant population has increased from 11 million to 13 million since Biden took office. For years, the illegal immigrant population in the United States was relatively stable because similar numbers of them entered the country as left. However, that has changed under Biden.
The border crisis also hurts northern states, including New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts. In Massachusetts, an influx of immigrants to the state’s emergency shelter system contributed to its recent financial woes that resulted in, among other things, funding cuts for dozens of fire departments across the state.
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This is the same administration that thinks men can get pregnant and breastfeed, says more than two genders exist, and supports men competing in women’s sports. And the White House is radical on abortion; the administration refuses to say if it supports a gestational limit on the child-killing practice, even in the third trimester.
The Biden campaign promised a return to normalcy, but if this is what normalcy looks like, America desperately needs an abnormal president.
Tom Joyce (@TomJoyceSports) is a political reporter for the New Boston Post in Massachusetts.