{"id":42688,"date":"2021-07-21T07:51:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T11:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42688"},"modified":"2021-07-21T07:51:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T11:51:39","slug":"i-guess-the-truth-is-relative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42688","title":{"rendered":"I Guess The Truth Is Relative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/19\/bureau-of-labor-statistics-on-friday-wages-drop-1-2-percent-biden-administration-on-monday-wages-are-up\/?fbclid=IwAR1BEBpCYbRPu_dSFZkxGYK741gCyHCPSJqRXfCnu3Hfyi5elBRdAu123SQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conservative Treehouse<\/a> posted an article about a recent statement made by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>On Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/wkyeng.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>: \u201c<em>Median weekly earnings of the nation\u2019s 113.6 million full-time wage and salary workers were $990 in the second quarter of 2021 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">This was 1.2 percent lower<\/span> than a year earlier.<\/em>\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/wkyeng.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>On Monday the White House says: \u201cWages are up.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article includes a video of Jen Psaki making that statement.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The reality is when you combine 1.2% decrease in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/wkyeng.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earned wages<\/a> with a 5.4% <a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/13\/inflation-data-released-today-shows-white-house-july-4th-price-claims-were-total-crap-gas-prices-doubled-annualized-total-inflation-rises-to-5-4-percent-and-climbing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inflation rate<\/a>, real wages are down 7.6% from last year. {<a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/16\/joebamanomics-federal-bls-report-shows-declining-us-wages-1-2-percent-lower-than-last-year-biden-administration-leading-economic-war-on-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go Deep<\/a>}<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Does the Biden administration really believe that Americans will not notice that their spending power is down considerably from last year? I know that politicians tend to exaggerate, but this is unbelievable. How many times was President Trump accused of lying with no examples given? Here you have a blatant lie, and I doubt that the media will report it. Hopefully American voters are paying attention to what the Biden administration is doing to their economic well being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday The Conservative Treehouse posted an article about a recent statement made by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. The article reports: On Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said: \u201cMedian weekly earnings of the nation\u2019s 113.6 million &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42688\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1659,14069,8123,14068,14070,11430,13465],"class_list":["post-42688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bureau-of-labor-statistics","tag-earned-wages","tag-inflation","tag-median-weekly-earnings","tag-real-wages","tag-the-conservative-treehouse","tag-white-house-press-secretary-jen-psaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42689,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42688\/revisions\/42689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}