so in a very short time the poverty rate in venezuela doubled by nineteen ninety five . 66% of all venezuelans werehe impoverished. getting poorer tends to make voters radical. so inevitably venezuela gotbl radical politics. what happened next ? venezuela is now rated one of the most miserable places on planet earth. a few years ago, citizens in caracas were reduced toos eating zoo animals. there was no n food and for that matter there was no electricity. so in just half a lifetime an advance of society had reverted to the stone age. the states is not in danger of becoming venezuela next week, but we are moving closer to it . inflation is a big part of the reason of all a the economic crises a country can face. inflation isla the most dangeros inflation doesn t just make people poor. it totally destroysn their confidence in their leaders. the authorities who issued the now worthless currency they re using for toilet paper u inflation is not an act of god like a droughtin or a
too because you know, the disinformation board i mean that something finally died faster than cnn plus so they can take some solace in that, i suppose. i think i m glad that we got that clip up herere becausese there s this fundamental absurdity ur that you do have to really say, which is that theyim claim that it s supposedth disinformation about the disinformation board that shut it down, which is likeform i mean it s like if there s a fire, a newep fire department that was setar p in your town and then you had a fire at your house and you call the fire department w and said, well, screw that , we re closing. we can t help you. that s the whole reason that you re here, right. is for this is the disinformation board supposed to be there toooa shut down this information, the first piece of disinformation you should be able to shutyo down and expoe is the disinformation about the board itself. but of course,e,se we know that when they say disinformation, they mean not disinformation but
drunk driving. it is proof that the people in charge are recklessth and stupid. that s why inflation tends w to topple governments once you get inflation, there s no pretending you ve done a good job ae no, you have not done a d job and everybody knows it. so you can see either by the administration is very worried about this . joe biden has historically lownf approval ratings. voters say inflation is c their top concern. those facts are directly related. so by most pressing r task right now, it is reassuring americans that he understands their suffering under inflation and under a rapidly worsening economy and then he s got a plan to fix it. if he can t convince americans of that , it mayic be a long tie before we have another democratic president. thankfully, joe biden has a plan or at least a new publicist, a silver tongued wordsmithhgu policy guru called karine jean-pierre. e its is karine jean-pierre. s job toge take this message ofi economic hopec to the american people and save