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The economy is booming because of all the money corporations are charging you for your food and rent.

My job is laying off people every 6-12 months despite having immense reserves of wealth. Remind me how great the economy is?

Fuck the economy. Make my goddamn grocery bill go down. Make the fucking rent go down.

These things are actually the things that make up the economy.

The problematic thing with inflation is that when people get a pay raise they think it's not because the economy improved, it's because they worked hard for that pay raise. Sure no one's disputing that you worked hard, but if you worked hard and the economy didn't improve you wouldn't have gotten that pay raise.

And yeah food prices are high. Something about a land war in the part of Europe that produces a lot of the global grain supply may have something to do with that. That situation would be resolved sooner if the GOP stopped blocking the funding to go towards ending that situation sooner.

Real estate... yeah that's because the rich suck. Gotta tax those bastards so they don't keep dumping their excess wealth into real estate which drives up prices. But again, the GOP isn't going to approve of that.

Biden has done insanely well on the economy despite the efforts of the GOP to sabotage him.

So be angry, but know who to be angry at. The guys blocking things have a majority in congress and has the filibuster in the Senate. Maybe that should change?

Fyi, the US president cannot set prices for these things.

That said, he's trying, using what power he does have.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/grocery-stores-should-cut-prices-costs-ease-biden-white-house-says-2024-02-02/

I suspect it's booming because the cost of living situation is worse

Ehh, I think the economy is doing okay. Inflation is being controlled/managed. In some cases it's correcting itself.

Don't lose sight of the forest for the trees. The media in this country has been really pessimistic about the economy and blaming the admin--to the point it seemed intentionally misrepresented.

This economy could have gone the other way pretty easily especially with the billions thrown into circulation during the pandemic.

If we want to credit Presidents when the economy is bad, you need to credit them when it's good too.

If anything this admin should get credit for being stable and a source of order in all of the chaos--not the cause of it.

Some people are already too big to fail. It's just not you or me.

Look at Trump. He's too big to fail. He's not in jail, despite numerous counts of accusations, from rigging elections to treason to sexual assault.

When you're rich enough or connected enough, you're too big to fail.

You get two jobs, and you get two jobs, everyone gets two jobs!

Gas prices are down. General cost of living is stabilized. Unemployment is extremely low and the percentage of eligible workers on the sidelines is dropping. Wages are up for the lowest income levels and continue to climb despite slowing inflation. Black households, in particular, have seen a significant narrowing of the income gap, more so than they've seen in many many years. The percentage of women in the workforce is up and salaries are climbing for them as well. In fact, the post-COVID recovery has been wildly successful when you compare it to post-2008 with respect to the improvements for the poorest among us, which is precisely the opposite of what you're claiming.

Yours is purely an appeal to anecdote. The data is clear. Unfortunately, as study after study has shown, data can't compete with vibes, and we just spent the last two years with the MSM (not to mention social media...) telling everyone a recession was around the corner.

This has always been the case.

Republicunts ruin as much as they can and stand in the wreckage saying 'See we were write? Govrmnt Bad!'

And democrats have to come in and fix as much as possible before the entire nation forgets again and elects another right wing shitstain come in to ruin things again.

Rinse and repeat for the last near 5 decades.

I'm so fucking tired of this. So fucking tired.

It was extra hilarious when they were complaining about the environmental impact of Taylor Swift's plane. Like you admit the climate needs help, Fox?

Me?

Gas prices are below $3 here, only spent $91 on weekly groceries yesterday, and my high interest savings accounts are sitting around 4.75%

My property taxes went up 20% but that's a local thing...

And I'll toss this in here even though you'll cry that it's not a valid metric, but my retirement accounts are at a record high

Like, what more do you want??

I don't know why this guy's getting downvoted. Rent prices are at record high. APRs are through the roof. Groceries are getting more expensive every year. I'm even paying $20 more every month for car insurance. Sure Trump was worse but let's not act like everything is all sunshine and rainbows just because it's an election year.