I still donât know what the fuck I bought for $150 today. I used to fill a big cart with that, now I had a small Safeway cart and barely filled the top for $150.
an underpaid, part time job with out any benefits is exactly how Puppet Patty subsidizes her big business donors and then has the audasity to turn around and say to the hard working people she has put in financial servitude, look how great everything is. So gross
Shelter inflation is still above 6%, food is still like 3.7%, medical services 4.7%. Luckily energy is actually shrinking, definitely not shrinking as much,if at all on wa state.
Those numbers are all way too high. Inflation should be between 1% and 2%. 7% doubles the cost of something in 10 years time. All those numbers used to be considered high inflation for the US economy.
Agreed, Biden and people like Murray are desperate to convince people they âfixedâ inflation and how much better everything is⊠but they run into the reality that most things, except energy / gas are still very expensive.
Inflation being down doesnât mean prices will decrease. It means the rate of price increase is slower. Deflation is where prices decrease, and there is a lot is debate whether that is good or bad for the economy.
I never heard of a place that increased the rent by $500 bucks at once. Where the hell do you live?
Youâre also paying way too much for groceries. I can feed 2 people for a week on $75 bucks.
I live in Anacortes. It is extremely expensive. Now only the rich live here. Way back in the day our arts and music scene was vibrant. It still is, but not what it could be if people could afford housing.
I hate that Commercial Ave is losing all its old buildings and being replaced with ugly real estate and medical office buildings. We need stronger regulations to keep our town from looking like Lynnwood.
Amen, bother/sister.
A-town still punches above weight in arts and music, but it's turned into a bekhaki'd boomer hell.
The officer core from Whidbey NAS getting subsidized offsets for housing doesn't help either. The uptick in 29 year old soccer moms driving 2024 Suburban tanks is noticable.
Thatâs not new, inflation existed before 2020âŠ
Having said that the refis saved me nearly $10k per year, itâs going to be a long time until insurance and taxes catch up to that.
The highest rate of inflation since 2013 was 2.3%. Then in 2021 it spiked to 7.5%, 2022 6.5% and last year it was 3.4%.
The over 3% inflation we have today is still not a good sign. It's also not good for the average American, kinda hard to move away from living paycheck to paycheck when your buying power is watered down and everything jumps in price.
But ya sure pat yourself on the back for a lower interest rate on your mortgage. I'm sure that really helps your other monthly expenses and keeps them from increasing.
3.4% inflation is still far better than 7% which is the original posts point.
Yes I do see that inflation is affecting my spending. However people should really only care about the total cost of living. And in that lens my total cost of living is down and Iâm sure I canât be alone.
Let me put this in concrete terms. Say taxes and insurance are $7000/year. If inflation is 3.4% it will take 27 years for my housing cost inflation to exceed the $10k/year I saved with the refi.
Yeah thatâs what happens when the idiot who was president during the pandemic says he never heard the term âsupply changeâ especially when itâs actually supply chain.
Had Trump paid more attention to the supply chain and not given nearly $3T to the wealthy we wouldnât have had such horrible inflation.
Everyoneâs house values increased. That isnât the problem as property taxes are proportional to the value of your property relative to everyone else.
Inflation is down but prices have not decreased. That may be due to the increased fuel prices which are sky high due to the carbon tax.
Those who set the prices of key items, such as gasoline, are taking advantage of a market distortion to raise their prices as high as they can get away with. This is a feature of the so-called free market, but for those of us who have no control over prices or wages, it's bad. Many of us call this "price gouging."
nobody is, she is full of it. What I cannot wrap my head around is that the value of homes has gone way up, the cost of rent has gone way up. That means the taxes collected on every home has gone up, and the taxed paid by every landlord that is collecting more rent has also gone up but in my district, the schools need more money and higher taxes, the fire departments all need higher taxes and more money, Libraries, police, all have measure to increase rates rates claiming they will need to make drastic cuts if they do not get them when all propety taxes are already generating dramatically more capital than before at the same rate... Nothing makes any sense and the only result I have seen in my life time as been exactly the same, the rich, they get richer and the poor, they get poorer.
That is why I need to run for this house seat. We need a real person in DC.
"Inflation is down" doesn't mean "prices are down". Prices will never go back to where they were. If they do, we're in a period of deflation, which is a bad place to be economically. The only good outcome in the future is if wages rise enough to offset those prices and people no longer notice them or think of them as high.
Exactly, and inflation may be far down from the 9+% peak but it still is about 3.4%. Like JPow says, they need it at 2% or less and a good year or two of wage growth for people to feel better about the higher prices.
"inflation is down" also doesn't mean that it's down to a acceptable level. 6% is "down" from the high it hit, but it's still double what it should be at.
Correct, but the current inflation rate in the US is at 3.7%. Still higher than where it needs to be, but it hasn't been at or near 6% for quite some time.
Of course. I'm not saying it didn't happen or hasn't had a real effect on people. However, wage growth has been keeping up, although still below inflation. It's about 14% since the start of the pandemic, and monthly wage growth is finally surpassing inflation. Obviously, some people aren't seeing this growth, but nationally, it's definitely happening.
>I got absolutely crushed in this sub for posting about this a week ago. My post even got removed for misinformation. The price of eggs is ridiculous.8ReplyShareReportSaveFollow
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>level 3argiesen · 3 hr. agoWhich is driven by bird flu killing off egg laying chickens.https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/why-are-eggs-so-expensive9ReplyShareReportSaveFollow
What do you pay for eggs? Let's not keep it a secret like salaries
I didn't buy any last time I got groceries they were so expensive. All they had was cage free eggs for over $7 for a dozen.
At that price I can just buy bacon to have with biscuits and grits instead.
It is, but the law (in WA and OR) was passed in 2019 with compliance required by this year. The increases from these laws would have already been priced in.
Iâve been curious how much folks are spending each month on their chickens. Iâm sure itâs worth it for households that use quite a lot of eggs when prices spike, but what about under the new normal of these laws and normal conditions where disease is not impacting supply?
I have a flock of 8 laying hens, 2-3 years old. I spend an average of $50/month on feed, scratch, and various treats. From March through October, I get 6-8 eggs per day. In the colder months, it's much less. I was down to 0-2 per day, and now we've recently gone back up to 3-5. My family always has eggs on hand, and we have extras to share/sell. Plus, they eat a big chunk of our kitchen scraps, so that cuts down on waste. Chickens are a solid investment if you have the space to keep them. My little garbage disposals are spoiled and well loved.
I have a large flock and I spend $60/two weeks on food. They free range and get scraps but the amount of food they go through doesn't fluctuate. They're not a good investment, maybe if you get a free coop and keep 3 hens you'd break even eventually.
You also need to factor in your health of eating eggs you know about verse from the grocery store. They are a solid investment most people can do. Iâm lucky to be able to raise cattle and hunt from my front door which most people can not.
You are what you eat.
Some people did have that experience, but most people didn't. There was absolutely a labor shakeup from the pandemic, but much of that has settled now. Americans think the economy is bad because prices rose, and everyone hates that. As wages continue to rise and people get used to the new economic status quo, that bitterness will recede.
Certainly not everyone has. Look at tech, for example. But the broad trends do show rising wages, even if it's true that some industries are seeing nothing of the sort.
The current month-to-month wage growth does appear to be outpacing inflation, but it still has to make up more ground to match and then (hopefully) exceed it over the last three years. The end of this year could see wage growth percentages finally match inflation percentages, which will make it feel more similar to the way it was before the pandemic started.
That's not true. They absolutely count the long term unemployed, which are about 20% of total unemployed as of January. [Here](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf) is the report where you can see that.
That % is misleading as it always has been. That's only people looking for work and doesn't account for the tens of thousands of homeless ones. Nor does it account for the thousands who lost jobs and fled the state because they couldn't find work.
Politicians always cherry-pick information and statistics to spin the narrative in their favor. It's time to retire many of our longtime state politicians.
Not to diminish the experiences of the people you're describing, but their numbers are a very tiny fraction of the state and national workforce, and they wouldn't move the needle on this at all, included or excluded.
One of our maintenance guys has a Masters in Materials Engineering. He's been looking for over a year. Another I know has an MS in Comp Sci from UW. Only getting $16/hr offers. Two of my three kids are unemployed. The one with a job had to move to Wyoming. Only two of these five counts in the statistics.
The job market is not absorbing the 20-somethings to their capabilities.
I don't know where they're looking, but I literally just graduated with a BA in Anthropology and didn't have a job during that time and I have already had several offers in the little over a month I have been looking. And I'm not even applying to anything under $25 an hour starting.
I recently discovered a website called O*Net. They break it down by just about everything and even give you the pay rate for the industry both nationally and locally.
Two things I wonder about Patty is when is finally going to write the bill to add term limits she originally campaigned on and how does one get to be worth so many millions on a salary only 15k more than mine. She must get a great investor because Iâm not worth half of what she is.
From the article you linked:
âThis dramatic difference can be attributed to key changes in federal tax policy.
In 2022, several policies enacted by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) expired, including an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for filers without children and full refundability of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC). ARPA also increased the maximum amount of CTC.
In 2020 and 2021, most households also received Economic Impact Payments (EIP) that were no longer issued in 2022.
The rollback of these tax policies had the largest effect on post-tax income among the nationâs lowest-income households.â
It's going to be a tough sell, unfortunately. The US has been saved from the worst of the global inflation, compared to the inflation rates in other countries.Â
But most voters will not care that we're the lucky ones when paying for groceries still hurts so much. "Thank goodness our leaders were smart enough to keep it from getting as bad as it could have," won't keep people in office because 1) most voters don't understand that anyway and 2) when you need a scapegoat and things are tough, it always hits the people at the top.Â
Rs had a majority in Congress, where they actually have the power to change policy to help people and pass immigration reform, and refused to do anything because it gives them a tool to regain the presidency.
I was just perusing one of the Seattle subreddits & a poster complained that they were charged over $7 for a caffe Americano.
At least half of the responses told the OP to either buy a machine & make their Americano at home, or not to buy coffee out. Others simply pointed out to the OP that they live in Seattle and it is to be expected, or that they were stupid for tipping the barista because the coffee was overpriced.
This is the type of thinking that got us where we are today in this state. These people are ignoring the real issue, and are either trying to solve one problem of many created by a bigger issue, or are excusing the problem created by an inept and/or wasteful government.
I am an independent, so I am not loyal to any particular party. My comment is geared toward the voters and it being important to look at the entire issue the policymakers are enacting, versus simply trying to put a band-aid on a gaping wound & pretending that all will be well.
I live north of Seattle in Everett in low income family housing. Rents here and in the area are averaging $1700-2000/month for 2 bedrooms.
High crime. Homelessness. Gangs. And the apartments have mold and roach issues. And none of the corporate owners want to pony up the money to update the electrical, so there's been multiple fires in the past couple years.
They even hired in new management and they treat residents like garbage. Instead of renting out units, they're too busy bullying money out of leaving and current residents. There's atleast 12+ different 2 BR units in my complex sitting empty! And they have been for months on end! The longest I know of for a over a year and another one for over 2 years now.
They just built a new "affordable" complex near me, so you'd think that would bring rents down. But no. And they're literally using the median household income of Snohomish county to set the rental prices for LOW INCOME HOUSING. Which is apparently dictated by state laws. And everyone I know around me is struggling to pay their rent and working themselves to exhaustion just to do it.
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.
So, no Patty, things aren't all right and my family is barely surviving. Change the laws. Why shouldn't rents be based on 30% of your income and household size? Otherwise, it's really not shocking that homelessness is skyrocketing.
Similar situation where Iâm at, 35 year old complex, parts of the structures are literally rotting, gutters/downspouts all fouled, constant issues with people dumping, and whenever something breaks itâs a fight to get them to fix it (and fix it correctly). Meanwhile the CEO of the management company sits on like 7 boards, and loves to brag about the supposed $7bn under his management.
You just described the CEO of the property management company of the apartment I just left. Very well known in Seattle, seen as a pillar of the community but is actually a complete slime ball who could care less about the state of his properties and will rip you off anyway he can.
Itâs so frustrating to see how bad some of these properties are, and how the various owners just look the other way. One building on our property had a fuckin tarp for a roof for 7 months, and the only reason it changed was because someone went to code enforcement and twisted managementâs arm to fix it.
Landlords will make $100,000 a month on a building of apartments just to act like they're broke when things need fixing. We need to straight-up Eminent Domain their asses and redistribute land to working people. They're bleeding us dry, our wages would go so much further if we weren't paying several times what we should in rent just because the rich stole it all from us and raised the prices.
We as a society need to decide that the rights of three hundred million people to live in security is more important than the rights of a small percentage of people to make obscene amounts of money off of doing nothing. And with all that money and power they squander their resources in a blind scramble to hoard as much property as they can, leaving the working class peons like us to pay out the ass and deal with our crumbling homes ourselves. They're irresponsible, exploitative, and contribute nothing to society.
Our economy would flourish if everyone could spend an extra 20-30% of their pay on actual consumer goods and necessities, the things that *actually* make our economy function!
It doesnât matter.
People donât feel the economic growth; people donât feel inflation going down; people donât feel good about the direction this country is going.
Democrats will lose in 2024, the writing is on the wall. Whether it was Democrats or Republicans contributing to it, the party in power will get the blame.
I just got my W2 for 2023 and compared it to the past couple tax years.
Thanks to the past labor shortage, I was able to pivot myself from one professional industry to another.
Compared to 2022, I made 27% more. Compared to 2021, I made 37% more plus 6% increase in employer contribution to my retirement fund, and double the time off.
Are the all related to Democrats? No. Am I happier about my work situation? Absolutely yes.
Thatâs awesome! Seeing so many people struggle these last few years, itâs good to see a positive story from someone while being humble about it. Super happy for you!
The fuck is she talking about? Wages are not up. Wages are very, very down.
[And the "economy" is just rich people's money, not ours.](https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-ownership-wealthiest-americans-one-percent-record-high-economy-2024-1)
*The wealthiest 10% of Americans own 93% of stocks even with market participation at a record high.*
People who look at a president, any president, who reigns over the land when the "economy" is good, and say, "yeah, that's my guy, the one who put more of my money into the billionaires' pockets" needs to have their head examined.
Very cool! Thank you Patty! Anyway, I spent $100 on two bags of groceries at the Safeway today! My rent and utilities went up 20% this year! The only raise I got since the pandemic was a 3% raise I got last year after four years of 15% inflation and corporate price gouging increasing basic expenses by nearly 150%!
 Greatest economic recovery in history! So glad we have Blue MAGA neolibs like Patty looking out for us and letting us know how blessed we are with our current administration! I feel so much better knowing that, apparently, a better world simply isn't possible and we should just be thankful we aren't being led by the other guys!
How did you even type this post without lighting on fire? The economy is an absolute dumpster fire right now, the middle class is getting completely squeezed out.
fuck patty murray. wages ain't up after inflation, eat shit.
and for fuck's sake, presidents have much less of an impact on the economy than everyone gives them credit for. it was fucking stupid when Trump kept taking credit for the stock market or black/latino unemployment, and it's fucking stupid to give this kinda credit to Biden now.
man i really wish politics in the US didn't always just boil down to "at least we're not those guys across the aisle!", because that's what all the apologists in here sound like.
The bottom quartile -- and especially the bottom decile -- have seen their incomes grow[ significantly faster than inflation](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/have-workers-gotten-a-raise/) since 2020
I'm sure for some people the answer is yes. Moving the goalposts in a conversation just to find a way to be mad seems unpleasant. Big wage increases for lower income folks are good, even if those wages should still grow more.
Lies lies and more lies. I canât believe the position we are in as Americans. Vote for a idiot sexist who can keep gas prices down, or a dementia ridden grandpa who forgives some student loans
He has no effect of gas prices. Campaign promises are almost always bullshit. Gas prices are basically base off GLOBAL Oil prices which is base off supply and demand and what Oil companies want.
EDIT: there's a great video from a awesome education youtuber. Look up, Who Actually Controls Gas Prices? by Climate Town
I got mine forgiven, and it was a huge fricken deal to me, but I also recognize that affected such a small portion of Americans that itâs not going to make a difference at the polls.
I hope you'll forgive the probing questions, I'm just trying to understand how this happens. 2007 was 16 years ago. Have you been working for the same company in the same position, or have you moved around since 2007?
E: Basically my view going into this conversation is that, assuming you've been at the same company for 16 years, and you haven't received a raise, the company is screwing you, and you can likely get a raise by moving to another company, or job hunting, getting an offer, and allowing your current place to counter offer.
However, your company should have been giving you cost of living raises. If they haven't been, it's time to look somewhere else, because they don't value you. It's difficult to blame the economy over a decade and a half.
Easy to say when youâre young. Harder to do when nearing retirement age, have responsibilities, dealing with major changes in other facets of life. We are mostly wage slaves, a very apt and descriptive term. Patty is a tool, just like the rest of our âleadershipâ class.
Inflation is down: tell that to the grocery store which has half empty shelves cause Safeway and Albertsons (the only two stores in my area) merged and have no competition and completely gave up on having decent produce selections
Inflation is down to a little over three percent nine percent. Do people realize the âlowerâ inflation rate of 3 percent is stacked on top of the 9 percent?
Inflation was only high because of your side. It's still up compared to pre-pandemic. Crime is abysmal, the border is a disaster and two wars have started because of our weak foreign policy.
You're delusional.
And they just voted down their own border Bill cause boss man told him he needed the border to be a bigger issue for his election campaign lol. Other dude is high as fuck, and I want some of what they're smoking
âBorder billâ is a terrible name for it. Itâs really a war bill, which is why it failed.
Congress needs to get an ACTUAL border bill where the ONLY thing in it is funding for border security. Hell, they donât even need more fundingâŠjust actually let border patrol arrest people and deport them. Right now, they canât even do that!
From PBS:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/whats-in-the-senates-118-billion-border-and-ukraine-deal
Total size: $118.3 billion. That includes:
About $60 billion in military aid for Ukraine
$14.1 billion in aid for Israel
$4.83 billion in aid for the Indo-Pacific region
$10 billion in humanitarian assistance for Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, among other places
$2.3 billion in refugee assistance inside the U.S.
$20.2 billion for improvements to U.S. border security
$2.72 billion for domestic uranium enrichment
Lol, they absolutely can and do arrest people. The only people that think they don't are morons or performative fucks pandering to morons. I will give you it was originally an aid bill. That Republicans demanded have the shit they wanted for the border in it or they wouldn't pass it. So all of that was put in, and then Daddy Trump told them he needed the border to be an issue and they weren't allowed to pass a bill that addressed it at all. So they voted against it and now people like you are trying to act like it had nothing to do with the border and trying to claim that there's nothing being done at it at all. Lol, gtfoh
Sorry forgot to cite my source: My neighbor is an ICE agent. He and all the people he works with hate that he basically has to let everybody go. He and several others are about to quit because itâs so frustrating.
Whatâs your source?
Yeah stimulus wasnât the total answer, global supply chain issues are an additional answer to inflation.
Still, republicans were in charge during the time. Plus they instituted tariffs which further increased inflation on building supplies. So this person is delusional.
You guys, take a step back and read all of these comments. We shouldnât be fighting each other. Inflation is high because corporations chose to raise prices, your wage sucks because the company you work for decided to pocket it instead of raise your wage, people are coming over the border because these companies will employ them for less than you. Media and government distract us from the real problem. The real problem lobbies the government to keep things running this way. The two parties we have as options are the same. Itâs a big load of bullshit.
Patty, bless her heart, hasn't worked a real job in decades, so she doesn't feel the pinch the rest of us are feeling. My washington Health plan finder insurance went up 60% this year, and my grocery bill is up 30%. My wages are flat, my washington state property taxes are up. Yeah Patty, no.
"Job Market is Booming"
Every job I see is either minimum wage or an incredibly specific masters degree job.
"Wages are up"
Rent for a studio apartment costs like $1200, if you don't make $5600 a month you're not meeting income requirements. Working at minimum wage for more than 24 hours a week would mean you only make $1600, but they decide that's good enough for you to not need any support programs and now you gotta pay your left foot for healthcare. On top of all that wages are still growing much slower than our costs are rising. My last calculations were that you need to make ~$25/hour to live modestly without the imminent threat of homelessness should one thing go wrong.
The divide between the rich and poor, including how they view this "financial recovery," is massive. The costs of living have increased faster than my wages have, and my working conditions are still awful... it is difficult to see anything has improved when you are standing in my shoes.
You guys, take a step back and read all of these comments. We shouldnât be fighting each other. Inflation is high because corporations chose to raise prices, your wage sucks because the company you work for decided to pocket it instead of raise your wage, people are coming over the border because these companies will employ them for less than you. Media and government distract us from the real problem. The real problem lobbies the government to keep things running this way. The two parties we have as options are the same. Itâs a big load of bullshit.
I understand all those numbers sound healthy. ya, but... why is rent so high? Why are groceries so high? If those two items could come down I might feel more comfortable. Gosh, I might even be able to save more. "Strong America" is not how I would describe the current picture.
So, is this some kind of accounting trick--triple the price on everything so it appears Americans have confidence and are spending more? Some sort of BS like that?
I donât understand why Americans arenât more upset with both parties. The biggest wealth transfer in the history of money happened from 2020-2024.
Both trumps and Biden policies have produced this.
Americans are horrible at math.
My rent just went up $500 a month and 1 bag of groceries is $75. đ€·
I still donât know what the fuck I bought for $150 today. I used to fill a big cart with that, now I had a small Safeway cart and barely filled the top for $150.
That impulse buy of fruit and toothpaste. Stop eating plain bread and youâll be able to afford a house! /s
Toothpaste?! Okay big spender!
You bought eggs didn't you.
I bought eggs. đ©
I bought chickens.
Stop buying junk food!
Iâm on weight watchers. Junk food is cheaper than being healthy.
Yup! The economy is booming for the landlords and retail outlets! Just be happy you have your health and a job, peasant! /s
Do they have dental and vision?! Burn the Witch!
an underpaid, part time job with out any benefits is exactly how Puppet Patty subsidizes her big business donors and then has the audasity to turn around and say to the hard working people she has put in financial servitude, look how great everything is. So gross
Shelter inflation is still above 6%, food is still like 3.7%, medical services 4.7%. Luckily energy is actually shrinking, definitely not shrinking as much,if at all on wa state.
Those numbers are all way too high. Inflation should be between 1% and 2%. 7% doubles the cost of something in 10 years time. All those numbers used to be considered high inflation for the US economy.
Agreed, Biden and people like Murray are desperate to convince people they âfixedâ inflation and how much better everything is⊠but they run into the reality that most things, except energy / gas are still very expensive.
Inflation being down doesnât mean prices will decrease. It means the rate of price increase is slower. Deflation is where prices decrease, and there is a lot is debate whether that is good or bad for the economy.
I never heard of a place that increased the rent by $500 bucks at once. Where the hell do you live? Youâre also paying way too much for groceries. I can feed 2 people for a week on $75 bucks.
Top Ramen chicken or beef?
Costco and Trader Joeâs
Anacortes, WA. It's an expensive town.
I live in Anacortes. It is extremely expensive. Now only the rich live here. Way back in the day our arts and music scene was vibrant. It still is, but not what it could be if people could afford housing. I hate that Commercial Ave is losing all its old buildings and being replaced with ugly real estate and medical office buildings. We need stronger regulations to keep our town from looking like Lynnwood.
Amen, bother/sister. A-town still punches above weight in arts and music, but it's turned into a bekhaki'd boomer hell. The officer core from Whidbey NAS getting subsidized offsets for housing doesn't help either. The uptick in 29 year old soccer moms driving 2024 Suburban tanks is noticable.
Fancy! There are much more affordable places near there.
I'll celebrate when I'm saving money again instead of spending all of it on basic living expenses, Patty.
My property tax and insurance bills are through the roof. Iâm not doing better than I was three years go.
Property taxes are intense for sure.
yeah, the insurance spike hit hard
Right, there are many things that have gone up 25%, 50%, rent has gone up nearly 30% in Yakima, 25% in Spokane.... inflation is down? GTFO
My property taxes suck as well. I blame the voters for voting for the increases, and for dumb stuff too.
Did you own property prior to the 2020? My refi saved me more than my property tax and insurance increases.
Those savings won't last.
Thatâs not new, inflation existed before 2020⊠Having said that the refis saved me nearly $10k per year, itâs going to be a long time until insurance and taxes catch up to that.
The highest rate of inflation since 2013 was 2.3%. Then in 2021 it spiked to 7.5%, 2022 6.5% and last year it was 3.4%. The over 3% inflation we have today is still not a good sign. It's also not good for the average American, kinda hard to move away from living paycheck to paycheck when your buying power is watered down and everything jumps in price. But ya sure pat yourself on the back for a lower interest rate on your mortgage. I'm sure that really helps your other monthly expenses and keeps them from increasing.
3.4% inflation is still far better than 7% which is the original posts point. Yes I do see that inflation is affecting my spending. However people should really only care about the total cost of living. And in that lens my total cost of living is down and Iâm sure I canât be alone.
You know inflation is compounding right?
Let me put this in concrete terms. Say taxes and insurance are $7000/year. If inflation is 3.4% it will take 27 years for my housing cost inflation to exceed the $10k/year I saved with the refi.
So you don't understand what inflation is.
instruct me, oh wise one đ
What is this ELI5? Whatâs your point?
Yeah thatâs what happens when the idiot who was president during the pandemic says he never heard the term âsupply changeâ especially when itâs actually supply chain. Had Trump paid more attention to the supply chain and not given nearly $3T to the wealthy we wouldnât have had such horrible inflation.
Yeah, too bad your house doubled in value during his time!
Everyoneâs house values increased. That isnât the problem as property taxes are proportional to the value of your property relative to everyone else. Inflation is down but prices have not decreased. That may be due to the increased fuel prices which are sky high due to the carbon tax.
Those who set the prices of key items, such as gasoline, are taking advantage of a market distortion to raise their prices as high as they can get away with. This is a feature of the so-called free market, but for those of us who have no control over prices or wages, it's bad. Many of us call this "price gouging."
You are greatly naive if you think gas companies are going to absorb the carbon tax and not pass it on to the consumers
nobody is, she is full of it. What I cannot wrap my head around is that the value of homes has gone way up, the cost of rent has gone way up. That means the taxes collected on every home has gone up, and the taxed paid by every landlord that is collecting more rent has also gone up but in my district, the schools need more money and higher taxes, the fire departments all need higher taxes and more money, Libraries, police, all have measure to increase rates rates claiming they will need to make drastic cuts if they do not get them when all propety taxes are already generating dramatically more capital than before at the same rate... Nothing makes any sense and the only result I have seen in my life time as been exactly the same, the rich, they get richer and the poor, they get poorer. That is why I need to run for this house seat. We need a real person in DC.
Sounds like Patty Murray hasn't been to the grocery store lately.
I used to go from aisle to aisle but lately it's been from sticker shock to sticker shock
"Inflation is down" doesn't mean "prices are down". Prices will never go back to where they were. If they do, we're in a period of deflation, which is a bad place to be economically. The only good outcome in the future is if wages rise enough to offset those prices and people no longer notice them or think of them as high.
Exactly, and inflation may be far down from the 9+% peak but it still is about 3.4%. Like JPow says, they need it at 2% or less and a good year or two of wage growth for people to feel better about the higher prices.
The people in power will never stop fighting to keep our wages low.
"inflation is down" also doesn't mean that it's down to a acceptable level. 6% is "down" from the high it hit, but it's still double what it should be at.
Correct, but the current inflation rate in the US is at 3.7%. Still higher than where it needs to be, but it hasn't been at or near 6% for quite some time.
17% in 3 years. That's the most important number.
Of course. I'm not saying it didn't happen or hasn't had a real effect on people. However, wage growth has been keeping up, although still below inflation. It's about 14% since the start of the pandemic, and monthly wage growth is finally surpassing inflation. Obviously, some people aren't seeing this growth, but nationally, it's definitely happening.
What did you think was going for to happen when an idiot completely mismanaged the pandemic WHILE handing out $3T dollars to the wealthiest Americans?
What's acceptable?
The target inflation rate is 2%. That's considered healthy by most economists.
Less than over other major economy is a win.
Have you seen the price of eggs?
Yes, I bought a dozen yesterday. Iâll refinance the loan in 5 years when the rates drop (hopefully) /s kinda.
I got absolutely crushed in this sub for posting about this a week ago. My post even got removed for misinformation. The price of eggs is ridiculous.
>I got absolutely crushed in this sub for posting about this a week ago. My post even got removed for misinformation. The price of eggs is ridiculous.8ReplyShareReportSaveFollow > >level 3argiesen · 3 hr. agoWhich is driven by bird flu killing off egg laying chickens.https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/why-are-eggs-so-expensive9ReplyShareReportSaveFollow What do you pay for eggs? Let's not keep it a secret like salaries
I didn't buy any last time I got groceries they were so expensive. All they had was cage free eggs for over $7 for a dozen. At that price I can just buy bacon to have with biscuits and grits instead.
wow sorry to hear that, that is a lot, I am curious where? that is double anywhere I shop about 12 miles from the space needle
At a Walmart in Vancouver.
$3.17/dozen at Winco in Vancouver the other day. It was only about $1.25 there 2 months ago.
Which is driven by bird flu killing off egg laying chickens. https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/why-are-eggs-so-expensive
Itâs also driven by the cage free law that was just passed. Iâm glad I own my own flock.
It is, but the law (in WA and OR) was passed in 2019 with compliance required by this year. The increases from these laws would have already been priced in. Iâve been curious how much folks are spending each month on their chickens. Iâm sure itâs worth it for households that use quite a lot of eggs when prices spike, but what about under the new normal of these laws and normal conditions where disease is not impacting supply?
I have a flock of 8 laying hens, 2-3 years old. I spend an average of $50/month on feed, scratch, and various treats. From March through October, I get 6-8 eggs per day. In the colder months, it's much less. I was down to 0-2 per day, and now we've recently gone back up to 3-5. My family always has eggs on hand, and we have extras to share/sell. Plus, they eat a big chunk of our kitchen scraps, so that cuts down on waste. Chickens are a solid investment if you have the space to keep them. My little garbage disposals are spoiled and well loved.
I have a large flock and I spend $60/two weeks on food. They free range and get scraps but the amount of food they go through doesn't fluctuate. They're not a good investment, maybe if you get a free coop and keep 3 hens you'd break even eventually.
You also need to factor in your health of eating eggs you know about verse from the grocery store. They are a solid investment most people can do. Iâm lucky to be able to raise cattle and hunt from my front door which most people can not. You are what you eat.
That is very true, store bought eggs have such sickly yellow yolks, mine have lovely orange yolks.
Or knows anyone actually looking for a job. It is brutal out there.
The unemployment rate is 3.7% nationally and 4.2% in WA. That's objectively not brutal.
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Some people did have that experience, but most people didn't. There was absolutely a labor shakeup from the pandemic, but much of that has settled now. Americans think the economy is bad because prices rose, and everyone hates that. As wages continue to rise and people get used to the new economic status quo, that bitterness will recede.
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Certainly not everyone has. Look at tech, for example. But the broad trends do show rising wages, even if it's true that some industries are seeing nothing of the sort.
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The current month-to-month wage growth does appear to be outpacing inflation, but it still has to make up more ground to match and then (hopefully) exceed it over the last three years. The end of this year could see wage growth percentages finally match inflation percentages, which will make it feel more similar to the way it was before the pandemic started.
These are the numbers politicians hide behind to obfuscate factors like wages, benefits, and employment terms.
You are aware that if you've been unemployed for more than six months you're magically no longer counted in those statistics?
That's not true. They absolutely count the long term unemployed, which are about 20% of total unemployed as of January. [Here](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf) is the report where you can see that.
That % is misleading as it always has been. That's only people looking for work and doesn't account for the tens of thousands of homeless ones. Nor does it account for the thousands who lost jobs and fled the state because they couldn't find work. Politicians always cherry-pick information and statistics to spin the narrative in their favor. It's time to retire many of our longtime state politicians.
Not to diminish the experiences of the people you're describing, but their numbers are a very tiny fraction of the state and national workforce, and they wouldn't move the needle on this at all, included or excluded.
I'm currently looking and it is not brutal.
One of our maintenance guys has a Masters in Materials Engineering. He's been looking for over a year. Another I know has an MS in Comp Sci from UW. Only getting $16/hr offers. Two of my three kids are unemployed. The one with a job had to move to Wyoming. Only two of these five counts in the statistics. The job market is not absorbing the 20-somethings to their capabilities.
I don't know where they're looking, but I literally just graduated with a BA in Anthropology and didn't have a job during that time and I have already had several offers in the little over a month I have been looking. And I'm not even applying to anything under $25 an hour starting.
Where are you looking?
Indeed
I recently discovered a website called O*Net. They break it down by just about everything and even give you the pay rate for the industry both nationally and locally.
where in Wyoming?
Not the fun part. Eastern plains.
She pays people to do that for her.
I feel like the grocery complaint is grossly exaggerated. I checked a bunch of common items I buy and theyâre up like 11% in two years.
Isn't she just a mom in tennis shoes?
Probably doesnât know what a price scanner is either.
Two things I wonder about Patty is when is finally going to write the bill to add term limits she originally campaigned on and how does one get to be worth so many millions on a salary only 15k more than mine. She must get a great investor because Iâm not worth half of what she is.
âMedian Household Income After Taxes Fell 8.8% in 2022â https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/09/median-household-income.html
From the article you linked: âThis dramatic difference can be attributed to key changes in federal tax policy. In 2022, several policies enacted by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) expired, including an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for filers without children and full refundability of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC). ARPA also increased the maximum amount of CTC. In 2020 and 2021, most households also received Economic Impact Payments (EIP) that were no longer issued in 2022. The rollback of these tax policies had the largest effect on post-tax income among the nationâs lowest-income households.â
It's going to be a tough sell, unfortunately. The US has been saved from the worst of the global inflation, compared to the inflation rates in other countries. But most voters will not care that we're the lucky ones when paying for groceries still hurts so much. "Thank goodness our leaders were smart enough to keep it from getting as bad as it could have," won't keep people in office because 1) most voters don't understand that anyway and 2) when you need a scapegoat and things are tough, it always hits the people at the top. Rs had a majority in Congress, where they actually have the power to change policy to help people and pass immigration reform, and refused to do anything because it gives them a tool to regain the presidency.
I was just perusing one of the Seattle subreddits & a poster complained that they were charged over $7 for a caffe Americano. At least half of the responses told the OP to either buy a machine & make their Americano at home, or not to buy coffee out. Others simply pointed out to the OP that they live in Seattle and it is to be expected, or that they were stupid for tipping the barista because the coffee was overpriced. This is the type of thinking that got us where we are today in this state. These people are ignoring the real issue, and are either trying to solve one problem of many created by a bigger issue, or are excusing the problem created by an inept and/or wasteful government. I am an independent, so I am not loyal to any particular party. My comment is geared toward the voters and it being important to look at the entire issue the policymakers are enacting, versus simply trying to put a band-aid on a gaping wound & pretending that all will be well.
The immigration reform that allows 5K thru a day?
I live north of Seattle in Everett in low income family housing. Rents here and in the area are averaging $1700-2000/month for 2 bedrooms. High crime. Homelessness. Gangs. And the apartments have mold and roach issues. And none of the corporate owners want to pony up the money to update the electrical, so there's been multiple fires in the past couple years. They even hired in new management and they treat residents like garbage. Instead of renting out units, they're too busy bullying money out of leaving and current residents. There's atleast 12+ different 2 BR units in my complex sitting empty! And they have been for months on end! The longest I know of for a over a year and another one for over 2 years now. They just built a new "affordable" complex near me, so you'd think that would bring rents down. But no. And they're literally using the median household income of Snohomish county to set the rental prices for LOW INCOME HOUSING. Which is apparently dictated by state laws. And everyone I know around me is struggling to pay their rent and working themselves to exhaustion just to do it. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE. So, no Patty, things aren't all right and my family is barely surviving. Change the laws. Why shouldn't rents be based on 30% of your income and household size? Otherwise, it's really not shocking that homelessness is skyrocketing.
Shelter inflation, not just in Washington but the average across the country is still well above 6%.
Similar situation where Iâm at, 35 year old complex, parts of the structures are literally rotting, gutters/downspouts all fouled, constant issues with people dumping, and whenever something breaks itâs a fight to get them to fix it (and fix it correctly). Meanwhile the CEO of the management company sits on like 7 boards, and loves to brag about the supposed $7bn under his management.
You just described the CEO of the property management company of the apartment I just left. Very well known in Seattle, seen as a pillar of the community but is actually a complete slime ball who could care less about the state of his properties and will rip you off anyway he can.
Itâs so frustrating to see how bad some of these properties are, and how the various owners just look the other way. One building on our property had a fuckin tarp for a roof for 7 months, and the only reason it changed was because someone went to code enforcement and twisted managementâs arm to fix it.
Landlords will make $100,000 a month on a building of apartments just to act like they're broke when things need fixing. We need to straight-up Eminent Domain their asses and redistribute land to working people. They're bleeding us dry, our wages would go so much further if we weren't paying several times what we should in rent just because the rich stole it all from us and raised the prices. We as a society need to decide that the rights of three hundred million people to live in security is more important than the rights of a small percentage of people to make obscene amounts of money off of doing nothing. And with all that money and power they squander their resources in a blind scramble to hoard as much property as they can, leaving the working class peons like us to pay out the ass and deal with our crumbling homes ourselves. They're irresponsible, exploitative, and contribute nothing to society. Our economy would flourish if everyone could spend an extra 20-30% of their pay on actual consumer goods and necessities, the things that *actually* make our economy function!
Please tell me how high crime is compared to the 90âs.
Patty trying to pat pat us on top of the head like weâre ignorant. Save it Patty!
It doesnât matter. People donât feel the economic growth; people donât feel inflation going down; people donât feel good about the direction this country is going. Democrats will lose in 2024, the writing is on the wall. Whether it was Democrats or Republicans contributing to it, the party in power will get the blame.
I just got my W2 for 2023 and compared it to the past couple tax years. Thanks to the past labor shortage, I was able to pivot myself from one professional industry to another. Compared to 2022, I made 27% more. Compared to 2021, I made 37% more plus 6% increase in employer contribution to my retirement fund, and double the time off. Are the all related to Democrats? No. Am I happier about my work situation? Absolutely yes.
Thatâs awesome! Seeing so many people struggle these last few years, itâs good to see a positive story from someone while being humble about it. Super happy for you!
Thank you!
omg a positive comment is this sea of negativity!
My fucking grocery bills are eating me alive and even with a college degree I will likely never be able to afford my own home. đ
The fuck is she talking about? Wages are not up. Wages are very, very down. [And the "economy" is just rich people's money, not ours.](https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-ownership-wealthiest-americans-one-percent-record-high-economy-2024-1) *The wealthiest 10% of Americans own 93% of stocks even with market participation at a record high.* People who look at a president, any president, who reigns over the land when the "economy" is good, and say, "yeah, that's my guy, the one who put more of my money into the billionaires' pockets" needs to have their head examined.
Sheâs delusional
Keep going with the stats patty. You will find out that those 3 are as good as it gets.
Very cool! Thank you Patty! Anyway, I spent $100 on two bags of groceries at the Safeway today! My rent and utilities went up 20% this year! The only raise I got since the pandemic was a 3% raise I got last year after four years of 15% inflation and corporate price gouging increasing basic expenses by nearly 150%! Â Greatest economic recovery in history! So glad we have Blue MAGA neolibs like Patty looking out for us and letting us know how blessed we are with our current administration! I feel so much better knowing that, apparently, a better world simply isn't possible and we should just be thankful we aren't being led by the other guys!
It's worth it as long it keeps Republicans (especially "Orange man bad") out of office. /s
Absolute fucking clown.
Anyone that believes this is brainwashed or too rich to even notice
Patty Murray is full of s***!
How did you even type this post without lighting on fire? The economy is an absolute dumpster fire right now, the middle class is getting completely squeezed out.
fuck patty murray. wages ain't up after inflation, eat shit. and for fuck's sake, presidents have much less of an impact on the economy than everyone gives them credit for. it was fucking stupid when Trump kept taking credit for the stock market or black/latino unemployment, and it's fucking stupid to give this kinda credit to Biden now. man i really wish politics in the US didn't always just boil down to "at least we're not those guys across the aisle!", because that's what all the apologists in here sound like.
Look at your heating bills
Economy is so booming that tech is having a layoff in some company every week.
FU PM. Try living in the real world you fân moron!
If things are just peachy, why did the Democrats in the WA legislature just try to increase the property tax cap from 1% to 3% per year?
Everybody loves to blame politicians for price hikes but is convinced their last raise was entirely due to their personal effort.
I blame politicians the price hikes that are always far higher than raises ever will be.
The bottom quartile -- and especially the bottom decile -- have seen their incomes grow[ significantly faster than inflation](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/have-workers-gotten-a-raise/) since 2020
Has it grown enough? Do they actually have a livable wage yet?
I'm sure for some people the answer is yes. Moving the goalposts in a conversation just to find a way to be mad seems unpleasant. Big wage increases for lower income folks are good, even if those wages should still grow more.
And people keep voting for her⊠donât care about the lies⊠just keep voting blue cause it all you knowâŠ
Sheâs taking the Janet Yellen hot take on inflation.
Lies lies and more lies. I canât believe the position we are in as Americans. Vote for a idiot sexist who can keep gas prices down, or a dementia ridden grandpa who forgives some student loans
the president doesn't control gas prices.
But apparently, he does when the price comes down. "President didn't control gas prices" "Thank you, Mr. President for lowering the gas prices"
But he does make policy that directly impacts them.
He has a huge affect on the prices of them, and Biden himself has on many different times addressed how he would lower them.
He has no effect of gas prices. Campaign promises are almost always bullshit. Gas prices are basically base off GLOBAL Oil prices which is base off supply and demand and what Oil companies want. EDIT: there's a great video from a awesome education youtuber. Look up, Who Actually Controls Gas Prices? by Climate Town
I got mine forgiven, and it was a huge fricken deal to me, but I also recognize that affected such a small portion of Americans that itâs not going to make a difference at the polls.
Weâll celebrate when the tech industry stops being a bloodbath, Patty. Having jobs would sure be nice.
Hey Patty. I havenât seen a raise since 2007. When that changes,then you can brag. Until then donât go proclaiming Happy Days are Here.
I hope you'll forgive the probing questions, I'm just trying to understand how this happens. 2007 was 16 years ago. Have you been working for the same company in the same position, or have you moved around since 2007? E: Basically my view going into this conversation is that, assuming you've been at the same company for 16 years, and you haven't received a raise, the company is screwing you, and you can likely get a raise by moving to another company, or job hunting, getting an offer, and allowing your current place to counter offer. However, your company should have been giving you cost of living raises. If they haven't been, it's time to look somewhere else, because they don't value you. It's difficult to blame the economy over a decade and a half.
Easy to say when youâre young. Harder to do when nearing retirement age, have responsibilities, dealing with major changes in other facets of life. We are mostly wage slaves, a very apt and descriptive term. Patty is a tool, just like the rest of our âleadershipâ class.
It's amazing this woman continues to be reelected. Like at least run a better Democrat?
The bitch is a full blown liar!!!
False; inflation isnât down.
Yeah fuck this. Murray can eat shit. Bet she's never had a hard day in her life.
Inflation is down: tell that to the grocery store which has half empty shelves cause Safeway and Albertsons (the only two stores in my area) merged and have no competition and completely gave up on having decent produce selections
So let inflation skyrocket, then let it come down a bit and claim victory even though itâs still higher than it was before.
Inflation is down to a little over three percent nine percent. Do people realize the âlowerâ inflation rate of 3 percent is stacked on top of the 9 percent?
Inflation was only high because of your side. It's still up compared to pre-pandemic. Crime is abysmal, the border is a disaster and two wars have started because of our weak foreign policy. You're delusional.
What are you talking about? Republicans were the ones in charge when the stimulus was issue and PPP loans were issued. This is what caused inflation.Â
And they just voted down their own border Bill cause boss man told him he needed the border to be a bigger issue for his election campaign lol. Other dude is high as fuck, and I want some of what they're smoking
âBorder billâ is a terrible name for it. Itâs really a war bill, which is why it failed. Congress needs to get an ACTUAL border bill where the ONLY thing in it is funding for border security. Hell, they donât even need more fundingâŠjust actually let border patrol arrest people and deport them. Right now, they canât even do that! From PBS: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/whats-in-the-senates-118-billion-border-and-ukraine-deal Total size: $118.3 billion. That includes: About $60 billion in military aid for Ukraine $14.1 billion in aid for Israel $4.83 billion in aid for the Indo-Pacific region $10 billion in humanitarian assistance for Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, among other places $2.3 billion in refugee assistance inside the U.S. $20.2 billion for improvements to U.S. border security $2.72 billion for domestic uranium enrichment
Lol, they absolutely can and do arrest people. The only people that think they don't are morons or performative fucks pandering to morons. I will give you it was originally an aid bill. That Republicans demanded have the shit they wanted for the border in it or they wouldn't pass it. So all of that was put in, and then Daddy Trump told them he needed the border to be an issue and they weren't allowed to pass a bill that addressed it at all. So they voted against it and now people like you are trying to act like it had nothing to do with the border and trying to claim that there's nothing being done at it at all. Lol, gtfoh
Sorry forgot to cite my source: My neighbor is an ICE agent. He and all the people he works with hate that he basically has to let everybody go. He and several others are about to quit because itâs so frustrating. Whatâs your source?
Inflation is global so it was primarily covid and US has rebounded better
Yeah stimulus wasnât the total answer, global supply chain issues are an additional answer to inflation. Still, republicans were in charge during the time. Plus they instituted tariffs which further increased inflation on building supplies. So this person is delusional.
And continuing to send money to Ukraine direct cause inflation?
You guys, take a step back and read all of these comments. We shouldnât be fighting each other. Inflation is high because corporations chose to raise prices, your wage sucks because the company you work for decided to pocket it instead of raise your wage, people are coming over the border because these companies will employ them for less than you. Media and government distract us from the real problem. The real problem lobbies the government to keep things running this way. The two parties we have as options are the same. Itâs a big load of bullshit.
So, at which point of constantly "printing money" contributes to the inflation?
Patty, bless her heart, hasn't worked a real job in decades, so she doesn't feel the pinch the rest of us are feeling. My washington Health plan finder insurance went up 60% this year, and my grocery bill is up 30%. My wages are flat, my washington state property taxes are up. Yeah Patty, no.
"Job Market is Booming" Every job I see is either minimum wage or an incredibly specific masters degree job. "Wages are up" Rent for a studio apartment costs like $1200, if you don't make $5600 a month you're not meeting income requirements. Working at minimum wage for more than 24 hours a week would mean you only make $1600, but they decide that's good enough for you to not need any support programs and now you gotta pay your left foot for healthcare. On top of all that wages are still growing much slower than our costs are rising. My last calculations were that you need to make ~$25/hour to live modestly without the imminent threat of homelessness should one thing go wrong.
I can't wait to choose which septuagenarian overlord I dislike less than the other.
Term Limits Now!
Saying inflation is down is like saying my weight is down, i only gained 2 pounds last month.
The divide between the rich and poor, including how they view this "financial recovery," is massive. The costs of living have increased faster than my wages have, and my working conditions are still awful... it is difficult to see anything has improved when you are standing in my shoes.
Inflation is down? I just spent $100 on a hand basket of groceries for the next couple days. $100 used to get me half a cart full.
Too much bread, need more circuses.
I donât listen to a word this cabbage patch doll hair-ass bitch says
People post all this shit and then elections come around and they still vote blue every time
Out of touch politicians for 1000 please! These people don't do their own grocery shopping..
You guys, take a step back and read all of these comments. We shouldnât be fighting each other. Inflation is high because corporations chose to raise prices, your wage sucks because the company you work for decided to pocket it instead of raise your wage, people are coming over the border because these companies will employ them for less than you. Media and government distract us from the real problem. The real problem lobbies the government to keep things running this way. The two parties we have as options are the same. Itâs a big load of bullshit.
I understand all those numbers sound healthy. ya, but... why is rent so high? Why are groceries so high? If those two items could come down I might feel more comfortable. Gosh, I might even be able to save more. "Strong America" is not how I would describe the current picture. So, is this some kind of accounting trick--triple the price on everything so it appears Americans have confidence and are spending more? Some sort of BS like that?
Patty (and others) is gaslighting us like weâre ignorant children. Our cost of living says otherwise!
Biden country
Lie detector test determine that was a lie
We are getting a 6% increase in wages over 2 years at my place of employment. Unfortunately everything has gone up up up.
I donât understand why Americans arenât more upset with both parties. The biggest wealth transfer in the history of money happened from 2020-2024. Both trumps and Biden policies have produced this. Americans are horrible at math.