The White House recently tweeted that the average family will save 16 cents on their July 4th cookout this year. Then, and rightfully so, they were mocked.
Everybody knows that however Biden’s team calculated the 16 cent savings, they did it incorrectly. About the only way they could have come up with an estimated savings of 16 cents would be if they considered only the cost of a watermelon (for some reason they seem to be cheaper this year). But, if you look at the cost of an entire plate of food, it’s probably going to run you 20% more than it did last year. And that estimate is me being kind.
But the Biden team didn’t say the savings was per-plate. Their tweet said the July Cookout was going to cost 16 cents less.
Whoop-de-freaking-doo.
I remember when 15 cents was a lot of money. When I was much younger, around eight or nine years old, 15 cents would go a long way. That is, from the perspective of an eight or nine-year old.
With 15 cents (I didn’t even need the extra penny), I could buy a squirt gun, or an ice cream cone, or a fairly large-sized candy bar, or a box of caps (for my cap gun) or even 15 pieces of Bazooka Joe bubble gum.
For a small kid, it seemed like with 15 cents in my pocket, the possibilities were endless.
When I found out that today’s cookout was going to cost me 16 cents less than it did last year, I was thrilled. I had 16 extra cents burning a hole in my pocket. I could spend my newfound windfall any way I wanted.
Then I remembered that it’s no longer 1970 I’m no longer nine years old.
With the 16 cents I’m going to save on this year’s cookout, I couldn’t buy much. With 16 cents, I could buy almost 10 tablespoons of gas. Or I could buy a little more than 1/10 of an ounce of steak or just shy of an ounce of ground beef or almost a quarter of a hotdog (not the bun, just the hotdog). With my extra 16 cents I could choose to buy any one of those things. But only one.
The issue that everyone should be focusing on here isn’t the 16 cent savings, because we all know that’s ridiculous.
The real issue is the fact that ANYONE would think the tweet was a good idea. This one tweet demonstrates everything that is wrong with the Biden Administration. Biden’s team is packed with people who have absolutely no idea what they’re doing.
Let’s say that their calculations are correct and that the average family saved $.16 on their holiday cookout. Their calculations aren’t correct, but let’s say that they are. Is that the best they could come up with?
It probably is. Joe Biden and his team have done nothing but make things worse since they took office. I can’t think of a single thing they’ve done that has improved anything. Apparently neither can they.
If saving us 16 cents per family is the best thing they’ve done with the six months they’ve had to “build back better”, I’m afraid to see what the next three and a half years will bring.
