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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 81 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

So people shouldn't be upset that Biden hasn't done enough because he's not the king.

And then Democrats in the Senate who could investigate these things ask Biden because they're incapable of it.

So are we to assume that the entire government is incapable of dealing with this?

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The prices legitimately went up due to supply chain constraints during the pandemic. The problem is, they never went back down, and then continued to follow the steep inflation trends of a post-pandemic nation. That all just became additional revenue for the food industry.

The last time a President signed an Executive Order to fix grocery prices, it blew up in Nixon’s face when it expired and prices blew well past what should have been a consistent inflation trend.

The only way the government could successfully address it would be through congressional legislation, by either establishing a legal rate of inflation for food products, or finally breaking up the big food monopolies. There’s just no way Republicans would ever go for any of it.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

He has done lots. People aren’t interested in positive news. Even if grocery prices drop in half, people will say he did nothing.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Okay but it would be nice to know if anyone our government is capable of doing anything about this.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They're perfectly capable. About half just don't want to.

I don't know how to convince people to vote for ourselves instead of hate. I don't know how to get people to vote for solutions, even imperfect ones, over someone to blame.

But if you figure it out, these are the kinds of problems we can go about solving.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

half is being optimistic here though

[–] hark@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Grocery prices dropping by half would be amazing. I would be interested in learning what he has done for grocery prices and why congress feels the need to ask him to do something about it if he has supposedly done so much already.