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Ronald Klain with then-Vice President Joe Biden (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
White House chief of staff Ronald Klain got clobbered on Twitter after endorsing the notion that America's economic struggles with supply chains and inflation are "high class problems."
Klain on Wednesday retweeted a post from Harvard economics professor Jason Furman saying that "most of the economic problems we're facing (inflation, supply chains, etc.) are high class problems. We wouldn't have had them if the unemployment rate was still 10 percent. We would instead have had a much worse problem."
In a separate tweet, Klain also appeared to endorse the post from Furman, who also is the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under former President Barack Obama.
This https://twitter.com/jasonfurman/status/1448442874828410881\u00a0\u2026— Ronald Klain (@Ronald Klain) 1634178014
Furman saying "if the unemployment rate was still 10 percent" apparently is in reference to early 2021 comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell saying that January's unemployment was around that number, Fox News noted.
Klain got walloped by other Twitter users for his apparent endorsement of Furman's "high class problems" tweet.
Among his critics was Tommy Pigott, rapid response director for the Republican National Committee, who told Klain, "Struggling to pay for food, fuel, and housing because of rising prices is not a 'high class problem.' Biden is making everyone worse off, but instead of stopping the damage, their strategy is to try to gaslight Americans."
Conservative commentator John Cardillo also weighed in: "Holy s**t! You're more cognitively impaired than Biden."
Others voiced similar sentiments:
President Joe Biden reached an agreement this week with Los Angeles leaders and union workers to ease supply chain disruptions by keeping the ports of Los Angeles open 24/7. Cargo ships have been sitting off the coast of California for weeks, unable to offload goods due to worker shortages which has driven up retail prices and inflation.
Meanwhile the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Wednesday said Americans can expect their home heating bills to jump as much as 54% this winter compared to last year due to supply problems.