(01-08-2024, 08:32 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(01-08-2024, 08:09 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Lol. You dolt. The price of almost everything in this country has gone up by almost 25%. Put another way, 1 dollar in 2019 is equivalent to 1.24 today. That's insane. Over 4 years? 1 in 4 people are struggling with the cost of living. A person making 50k would need a 10k raise today to have the same standard of living they had just over 3 years ago. At 100k, you would need 20k more to have the same purchasing power. I'm glad you're doing fine, but you lost a boatload of money largely due to bad governance.

The problem with you and your friends is that you're perfectly happy to be told what the right hand is doing while the left hand is in your pocket. If you think this trend will slow down with another 4 years of establishment power, I don't know what else to tell you.

You guys said that Biden was going to make us stop driving our own cars and start taking the bus.  You guys were very specific.  
You don't get to say "we just meant inflation in general".  Have you started taking the bus or not?

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(01-08-2024, 03:15 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: I'm subsidizing my daughter's fuel expense so she can drive to work. I will not allow my daughter on a city bus that takes her to the downtown bus terminal or expect her to ride it home at night. Fortunately I can afford that but it's an unneccessary strain on her independence and my wallet. I imagine that many people would do the same if they could. [BLEEP] hole.

You're probably subsidizing more than just that for her.  If gas going from $2.50 to $3.00 is that big of a deal for her, you're probably covering her insurance and other stuff too.  Was she driving much when Trump was President? Did she have the same job? Have you considered helping her get a more fuel efficient car?

Gas, rent went up 450 a month, car insurance went up 340 for 6 months, child care went up $110 a week, diapers for example went up 6 dollars for the same count package. She got a nice 1.5% annual raise each year the last 3 years. Yeah,, she had to move back home because of [BLEEP] holes like you that voted for that vegetable to destroy our economy.

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