President Joe Biden paused while eating an ice cream cone to brag that the United States economy was &#8220;strong as hell&#8221; — despite the fact that the <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t02.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inflation rate</a> for the sweet dairy treat alone is 13.6% over last year.
Biden, who often <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/the-cost-of-joe-bidens-ice-cream-has-risen-9-6-maybe-now-hell-start-paying-attention-to-inflation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stops for a cone</a> while he&#8217;s out and about, explained over the weekend that he was not worried about the American economy so much as he was about economies around the world.
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BIDEN, eating ice cream: &quot;Our economy is strong as hell&quot; <a href="https://t.co/x5dyCg14l3">pic.twitter.com/x5dyCg14l3</a>
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&#8220;Just one more economic question,&#8221; a reporter pressed the president as he began to eat his ice cream. &#8220;Are you concerned about the strength of the dollar right now?&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not concerned about the strength of the dollar, I&#8217;m concerned about the rest of the world,&#8221; Biden replied as he attempted to chew. &#8220;Does that make sense?&#8221;
&#8220;Our economy is strong as hell,&#8221; Biden continued. &#8220;The internal — inflation is worldwide, it&#8217;s worse off everywhere else than it is in the United States. So the problem is a lack of economic growth and sound policy in other countries, not so much ours.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s worldwide inflation, that&#8217;s a consequence of —&#8221; Biden walked away from the microphone mid-sentence.
The Biden administration has repeatedly <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-claims-america-had-zero-percent-inflation-in-the-month-of-july/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">worked to downplay</a> the staggering inflation that is being felt across the country, using month-over-month averages to show that inflation rates are plateauing or even beginning to fall — but the year-over-year averages (over 8% consistently) have hit <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/jim-cramer-says-theres-just-nothing-good-here-about-biden-inflation-numbers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record levels</a> not seen in four decades.
To make matters worse for the Biden administration, the 8% average is just that: an average. Many American families have experienced much higher inflation rates on items they need to live, feed their families, and get to and from their places of employment.
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Annual inflation via BLS just out:
42.9% airline fares 33.1% utility gas 30.5% eggs 18.2% gasoline 17.2% chicken 15.7% coffee 15.2% milk 14.7% bread 10.1% furniture 9.2% vegetables 8.2% all items 8.2% fruit 8.1% ham 7.6% women apparel 7.2% used cars 6.7% rent 3.7% men apparel
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A <a href="https://www.bls.gov">line-item breakdown</a> of September&#8217;s inflation numbers — from the Bureau of Labor Statistics — shows that several items have seen much higher than the &#8220;average&#8221; 8% inflation rate since September of 2021.
Airline travel is up an estimated 42.9%, gas for heating homes and cooking is up 33.1%, eggs have skyrocketed — in part because of avian influenza outbreaks combined with inflation — 30.5%, gasoline is still up 18.2%, chicken (also related in part to the AI outbreaks) is up 17.2%, coffee has risen 15.7%, milk is up 15.2%, and bread has climbed 14.7%.

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