Inspired by the decades-long success of Earth Day protests in motivating political action on environmental issues, Breitbart economics editor John Carney uses the platform to demand policy changes on the issues most pressing to Americans. He called for nationwide Inflation Day protests in June this year.
Carney unveiled his idea in an interview with Fox Business host Larry Kudlow on Monday, which also happened to be Earth Day. Despite President Biden’s policy focus on climate change, recent polls show Americans are far more concerned about inflation, Carney explained.
“Americans don’t care about climate change,” Carney told Kudlow. “That’s what, by any realistic measure, is said to be happening 50 to 100 years from now. But the problem they’re facing now is inflation. The border crisis is what they’re facing now. It’s a problem.”
“Tonight on Breitbart Business Digest, I will be calling for a National Inflation Day,” Carney said. “Earth Day, that’s a thing of the past. It started in 1970. We all know about it. We celebrate it in schools too. We need an Inflation Day. Inflation can be influenced by policy. The American people need to stand up. [and] erase. They say it will be there in June. That’s when inflation peaked under the Biden administration. And we can all come together and say, “No more inflation,” every June. National Inflation Day — make it happen.
In Monday’s Earth Day edition of Breitbart Business Digest, Carney wrote:
Oddly enough, establishment media often refers to inflation as if it were akin to a natural phenomenon for which politicians are not responsible, while climate change is a pressing problem that needs to be addressed through policy. will be treated as. In other words, inflation is weather and climate is policy. Perhaps starting an Inflation Day campaign could draw more attention to the fact that rising price levels are the result of public policy choices.
Today’s climate change agenda leads to higher prices. Limiting fossil fuel production, promoting expensive electric vehicles, restricting energy-intensive economic output, and luxuriating in “green” business with deficit-financed subsidies and giveaways will lead to inflation. It’s policy. This is sometimes even obvious, as when climate change activists advocate various taxes to make energy consumption more expensive. It’s no coincidence that the most climate radical president has overseen the worst inflation in 40 years.
Biden inflation peaked in June 2022. Therefore, it is not too late to choose a June date as Inflation Day, Biden’s national day of protest against inflation.
Kudlow highlighted a recent Gallup poll, which Carney also cited in the Earth Day Breitbart Business Digest, in which 79% of Americans say they are worried about inflation and 55% are very worried about inflation. This indicated that they were worried. This does not dwarf the 37% who said they were very concerned about the environment.
“This is a big problem for Democrats,” Carney said. “Because the issue that Joe Biden wants to campaign on is, we saw him today – he wants to campaign on the Green New Deal. But Americans don’t want to campaign on it. They say we need to do something about inflation. And all of his proposals are inflationary. If we crack down on fossil fuels, prices will go up. Putting money into demand for panels will increase inflation. Everything he’s doing is inflation, and the biggest problem Americans don’t want him to do is to keep prices from going up. Thing.”
President Joe Biden speaks at the Earth Day Climate Change Virtual Summit on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)
Mr. Kudlow also asked Mr. Carney about comments made last week by International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, who acknowledged that “abundant labor flowing across borders” would lower wages for American workers.
“Now this is the IMF,” Kudlow said. “I mean, there’s a million economists out there. Sometimes they’re right. Sometimes they’re wrong. But it’s a very established operation. And they don’t do what a lot of people say. We’re saying the same thing: open borders hurt real wages and took jobs away from American-born Americans.”
“For decades, we’ve been told, ‘No, no, immigrants don’t compete with natives for wages.’ But now that we have an inflation problem, immigrants are the solution to the inflation problem. They say they’ll do it for you, but that’s not true,” Carney said.
“I don’t think that inflation is caused by workers being paid too much,” he continued. “I don’t think it’s because Americans are too well off. I think it’s because the government is too well off. I stole a quote from Ronald Reagan, who was the first to say that. Yes, and that is still true today.”
“It’s not because wages are too high. It’s not because workers are paid too high. It’s because when we’re not in a crisis, Joe Biden is running a World War II-level deficit, a financial crisis-level deficit. Because we have very little unemployment today. We shouldn’t have that kind of deficit. So… all the immigrants are hurting the wages of the natives. “Of course when we start to acknowledge that, yes,” Carney concluded.
