Massie admits Trump caused inflation on Fox

[Nevilledog]

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Massie: One of the reasons we had a lackluster performance in the midterms is because we couldn't run against inflation because most of my colleagues were urged by Trump to spend three or four trillion we didn't have that caused the inflation.


7:17 PM · May 24, 2023

[onecaliberal]

1. The ad wrote itself.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Well hell badass

Break out that AR 15 on your Jesus CHRISTMAS card and go to town. You couldn’t run against inflation or anything else because you are freedom hating garbage.

[Cha]

3. Does he even know what Beans

he spilled?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

4. isnt this a com sin?

Admitting the truth?

[House of Roberts]

5. Spending 'three or four trillion' didn't cause the inflation.

The money distributed during the pandemic replaced SOME of the lost aggregate demand when workers lost their jobs. Supply chain issues were the initial cause of some price increases, while corporate greed kept the prices rising after the supply chain issues subsided.

This just feeds the right wing narrative that 'free money' is bad for the poor and working class, but fine for the wealthy.

I'm still waiting for an Austan Goolsbee or Stephanie Kelton, or Elizabeth Warren's staff, or anybody to show me comparison figures for the REAL aggregate demand pre-pandemic, during the pandemic, and post pandemic, to prove or disprove the idea that giving people money caused this ridiculous inflation and not mere greed.

[bhikkhu]

7. How about if you start with "mere greed", then throw 3 or 4 trillion at it?

There's no reason it has to be just one thing. How many workers really lost their jobs anyway? I'd like to read about it if there's a good write-up somewhere.

In my case, working as a mechanic, business took off during the pandemic and never slowed down. I was busier than I ever have been, and wound up early-retiring six months ago by necessity from a knee issue that I never could take a break to let heal up. I made enough in the last three years to tide me over until SS, and I don't actually know any working people who didn't flourish during and after the pandemic. That's anecdotal, of course, and might be entirely atypical.

[Celerity]

6. asshat, 'never vote for any spending' Massie says this all the time, he had one of the lowest Trump

scores in the 115th Congress (lower than a few Dems, like Henry Cuellar, Connor Lamb, Collin Peterson, and Sinema (when she was in the House) ) because he almost always voted against any spending bills.


https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/house/

[roamer65]

8. GQP are TOTAL LIARS when it comes to fiscal responsibility.

Even Raygun was a fucking liar. He promised to balance the budget by 1983. I remember his lying ass saying it in the 1980 presidential debates.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/11/07/reagan-abandons-pledge-to-balance-budget-by-1984/3c9d8dfe-59d6-4862-93f8-9f883cb72795/

Never believe a GQP scum sucker when it comes to government spending.

[lame54]

9. I will vote enthusiastically for the guy who caused inflation