Residents across Long Island are freaking out about inflation and the high cost of living. As this scourge makes us dig deep for everyday needs and forces many, especially seniors and low-income New Yorkers, to sometimes choose between paying the rent or buying food, l urge you to join me in fighting back against those who destroyed our economy and drove up prices to devastating levels.
The pocketbook problems we are suffering through were caused by the policies and decisions of government leaders in Washington and Albany. They are the cause, pure and simple; no debate.
Let’s start in Washington. On day one of the Biden-Harris administration, the president declared war on domestic energy and pushed a trillion-dollar Green New Deal. While he approved the Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to the rest of Europe, he canceled the Keystone pipeline here in the U.S., denying Americans a vital energy source. He made it clear that he would drum out oil and gas, even though we have the world’s richest reserves, and switch us to all-electric. This drove the cost of energy to record levels. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to see that higher fuel prices equal higher prices on everything else—duh.
Next were the Ungodly stimulus packages rammed through Congress, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote to break the tie in the Senate. These massive spending bombs benefitted their corporate friends and special interests and flooded the economy with dollars. Did you get any of the money? If any of them paid any attention in economics class, they would know the basic rules of supply and demand. Give out trillions in free taxpayer dollars, and the demand for goods and services goes up. When demand goes up, supply goes down. When supply goes down, prices go up—the textbook cause of inflation.
To make fools out of us all, they even called their $891 billion economy-killing bill the “Inflation Reduction Act.” This was a pork barrel monstrosity that did no such thing. Have you seen the price of anything go down? President Biden, in one of his more lucid moments, actually admitted that the act had more to do with funding his Green New Deal than bringing down inflation.
The second Harris tiebreaker was cast for the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, which again flooded the country with money for special interests. Do you feel rescued? Did your cost of living go down? Adding insult to injury, they told us the Biden-Harris inflation is “transitory.” It is not. The high prices on gas, groceries, insurance, homes, cars, and everything else are here to stay unless we see drastic changes in how things are done.
Even worse, all of the money they spent was borrowed from countries that hate us, such as China. Currently, the National Debt is $35.4 trillion, or $269,000 per taxpayer, and it’s going up a trillion dollars every 100 days. There’s no free lunch. Our kids and grandkids will be paying this back, and the American Dream for them is pretty much shot because of this enormous debt.
The Democrats who control New York government did us no better. They collaborated with the Biden-Harris regime to overwhelm our state with millions of illegal immigrants, essentially poor people who we now have to support. Taxpayers had to shell out $2 billion for them this year alone in Gov. Hochul’s budget, and they are projected to drain $12 billion from New York City over the next few years. Funded by our tax dollars, the migrants compete for housing, jobs, and services. This drives up prices, folks.
The Republicans in the legislature introduced a “Rescue New York” agenda, which emphasizes cutting taxes, reducing regulations, and improving the state’s business climate, in addition to pausing the state tax on fuel and other taxpayer-friendly measures such as cutting government spending. The Democrats would have none of it and instead pushed their policies that made things worse.
The solution to the problem of inflation and the unbearable high cost of living is simple. Get rid of the politicians who caused this mess. Please make sure you vote on Election Day. For that matter, vote even before then to make sure your voice is heard. If you like what’s going on, vote for the status quo. If not, throw the bums out. What do you have to lose?
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