WHO IS REALLY TO BLAME FOR INFLATION, PART II?

 

                                    …President Biden needs to “get out of town”

 

The President needs for the grassroots to get involved in the economy

 

For years, as ever-bigger corporations grabbed ever-bigger chunks of market power, America’s political media scoffed at, and drowned out all of its critics.  But the concentration of corporate power can no longer be dismissed, for it is all too real.  It causes a real problem on large, economic sectors, including working family members, communities, and our nation’s essential attitude of fairness.  Those who speak of the status-quo can give out all the free-enterprise B.S. they want.  But a rising grassroots majority of conservative farmers and ranchers are experiencing corporate pressure today, and it's first hand. 

These rural families are doing their own kitchen-table calculations and realizing that the game has been deliberately rigged against them.  A “mad-as-hell” moment is developing in all of those grassroots families

President Biden at least seems to recognize this issue.  He seems to feel American’s pain and anger, and unlike other former presidents, has put it on his overall agenda.  As previously stated, he was the one that said in a recent speech: “Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism, it’s exploitation.” 

Biden has made some good reform proposals and appointed a couple of top-notch antitrust regulators.  He has issued a few useful procedural changes, and held some closed-door White House meetings on the topic.  He has also been willing to call-out a few of the worst profiteers…. and all of that is good!  But it is totally inadequate.

The stuff he has offered has been, that inside-of-the-beltway stuff.

Even though Biden has been an inside-player who has promised to “get things done,” the people being run over just see more political talk without any action.  Supermarket beef prices still rise, cattle prices still fall, meatpacker power and profits soar and the grassroots just keeps getting run over.

The establishment’s standard response of loud denunciation, the investigative task forces and the regularity proposals, they don’t do anything but stall any actual changes.  There needs to be a serious struggle for fundamental structural repair.  It requires having gutsy political leaders willing to go after the bastards with unconvential strategies.

But in fairness, Biden has a very heavy load.  He still has to deal with a sour, old, Mitch McConnell and the Manchin-Sinema mess, as well as the American monopoly lobby.  Like many milk-toast Democrats, and the clue-less media.

Joe needs to get out of town and visit the real world.

The key to winning this battle is not by schmoozing McConnell and Manchin, but by going into the country outside of Washington and rallying the majority of the American people that are fed-up with the corporate arrogance and their abuse.

The reality is to break the strong hold of some corporations (like aforementioned companies: P&G and K-C) that they have on our economy.

So President Biden should do the following: 

• Embark on a series of whistle stops to excite and enlist grassroots fighters.

• Join the ranchers and workers at the BIg Four meat packing plants to dramatize the protest and abuses

• Pursue high-profile charges against price-fixing executives

• Even ban stock buy backs

• Deploy cabinet members as back-ups to the program for publizing local abuses and demand stronger anti-trust laws

• Bring outside players like the cattle ranchers and others that can tell their stories which personalizes the issue.

Instead of blaming the president for inflation, if the president would or could do some of these things, it would help those that are today being seriously abused.

Copyright G. Ater 2022