{"id":52938,"date":"2022-09-16T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52938"},"modified":"2022-09-16T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T00:00:12","slug":"biden-helps-avert-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52938","title":{"rendered":"Biden helps avert crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52940\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52940\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/trains.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52940\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/trains-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/trains-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/trains-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/trains-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/trains-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/trains-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(AP Photo\/Michael Virtanen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hey, let&#8217;s heap a good bit of good cheer on the Joe Biden administration, shall we? Why the high-five and the back-slap? Because the administration did what Americans expect it to do by stepping in to broker a deal that averted a potentially catastrophic blow to the nation&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>As President Biden might say, this is a &#8220;<em>big &#8230; fu**ing &#8230; deal<\/em>,&#8221; if you get my drift.<\/p>\n<p>Had the strike gone forward, as it was slated to do on Friday, valuable shipments of grain, food, all sorts of commodities, heavy equipment &#8212; you name it &#8212; would have come to a halt. You want a &#8220;supply chain crisis?&#8221; There you have it &#8230; <em>in spades!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But the tentative agreement, presuming it&#8217;s ratified by the unions and the rail lines, means the goods will keep rolling and the crisis will have been averted.<\/p>\n<p>You all know that this blog supports President Biden and the work he is doing on our behalf. I will offer a word of good cheer to the president, because I believe he deserves it. However, the big winner of this deal happens to be the 330 million Americans that the president represents.<\/p>\n<p>Americans keep getting buffeted by doomsayers who suggest the economy is tanking, that &#8220;socialists&#8221; are poised to take over the government, that the U.S.A has become the &#8220;laughingstock of the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The news about the White House stepping up to provide its good offices to end a potentially horrendous labor dispute demonstrates that the opposite of all that is so very true.<\/p>\n<p>As The Hill reports: <em>\u201cIt\u2019s a big political risk. If it all blew up, the administration was going to be left holding the bag,\u201d an industry source familiar with the talks said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/3644993-how-biden-helped-avert-a-rail-strike-and-another-economic-crisis\/\">How Biden helped avert a rail strike \u2013 and another economic crisis | The Hill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears at this moment that nothing has blown up. I want to thank the federal government led by President Joe Biden for averting disaster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, let&#8217;s heap a good bit of good cheer on the Joe Biden administration, shall we? Why the high-five and the back-slap? Because the administration did what Americans expect it to do by stepping in to broker a deal that averted a potentially catastrophic blow to the nation&#8217;s economy. As President Biden might say, this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52938\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biden helps avert crisis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7910,9597,13],"tags":[2505,10001,10002],"class_list":["post-52938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-economic-news","category-joe-biden","category-national-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-rail-strike","tag-supply-chain-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52942,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52938\/revisions\/52942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}