On Friday, former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, delivered two flat-out lies in one 16-minute interview with PBS. Biden falsely claimed that wages are stagnant and that he did not know his son Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma Holdings.
"We're now in a position where — you know — wages are stagnant," Biden told PBS News's Judy Woodruff.
In fact, wages have grown by almost 3 percent in the past three years. According to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report, "Wages and salaries increased 2.9 percent for the 12-month period ending in September 2019 and also increased 2.9 percent for the 12-month period ending in September 2018." During the year before that, wages increased 2.5 percent. Benefit costs also increased by 2.3 percent from September 2018 to September 2019, and 2.6 percent the year before that.
As The Washington Post reported last year, the 2017-2018 wage increase was "the biggest increase — not adjusted for inflation — since the year that ended in September 2008, when wages rose 3.1%."
Even when adjusted for inflation, the wage increases were substantial — not "stagnant." The Post reported the wage increases were higher in 2015 and 2016, when adjusted for inflation. If Biden wishes to take credit for the uptick in wages under Obama, he should acknowledge the wages are still increasing under Trump.
A few minutes after this lie, when Woodruff asked Biden about Ukraine, the former vice president insisted that he did not know his son Hunter was on Burisma's board.
"No one established that he did anything wrong, or that I did anything wrong. Period," Biden said.
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Biden and the others have figured out they can lie with impunity. MSM will not call him on it so he is free to say whatever he wants. We have a recording of Joe bragging that he got the Ukraine prosecutor looking into his son fired yet MSM declared it a false story without mentioning Joe bragged about doing it. That is a new level of bias.
"We're now in a position where — you know — wages are stagnant," Biden told PBS News's Judy Woodruff.
In fact, wages have grown by almost 3 percent in the past three years. According to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report, "Wages and salaries increased 2.9 percent for the 12-month period ending in September 2019 and also increased 2.9 percent for the 12-month period ending in September 2018." During the year before that, wages increased 2.5 percent. Benefit costs also increased by 2.3 percent from September 2018 to September 2019, and 2.6 percent the year before that.
As The Washington Post reported last year, the 2017-2018 wage increase was "the biggest increase — not adjusted for inflation — since the year that ended in September 2008, when wages rose 3.1%."
Even when adjusted for inflation, the wage increases were substantial — not "stagnant." The Post reported the wage increases were higher in 2015 and 2016, when adjusted for inflation. If Biden wishes to take credit for the uptick in wages under Obama, he should acknowledge the wages are still increasing under Trump.
A few minutes after this lie, when Woodruff asked Biden about Ukraine, the former vice president insisted that he did not know his son Hunter was on Burisma's board.
"No one established that he did anything wrong, or that I did anything wrong. Period," Biden said.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
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Biden and the others have figured out they can lie with impunity. MSM will not call him on it so he is free to say whatever he wants. We have a recording of Joe bragging that he got the Ukraine prosecutor looking into his son fired yet MSM declared it a false story without mentioning Joe bragged about doing it. That is a new level of bias.
