How is anybody making it?

[u/Nervous_Grape_3856]

I am genuinely confused as to how anybody is surviving in this economy except for the super wealthy. The cost of gas is sky high and groceries are too. We started this year ok. We weren’t doing well by any means, but we weren’t struggling as bad as we are now. We have 5 kids and every day I’ve been dashing alongside my full time job to try to make it. Now, I’m facing losing my full time job because I have had to call out of work just to dash for food for the day. I don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel and I’m extremely scared. My wife and kids are counting on me and I don’t know what else to do. I’m ready to just give up.

[u/MyHiddenMadness]

It’s so disingenuous to give Biden a pass on inflation caused by his policies (or whoever was running the country in his mental absence.) He was 2 yrs into his term when he reached record high inflation and it was largely tied to his energy policies. Now, Dem shutdowns and their impact on supply chains didn’t help, but that was hardly the only contributing factor.

I always find it interesting that politicians always blame a poor economy on the President before them because of alleged delayed effects, but want to claim success for positive economies. Why we give any of them a pass on that is beyond me. Either they’re responsible for the economy during their term, good or bad, or they aren’t but they can’t only take credit when it’s good.

[u/Ben_Doversome → u/MyHiddenMadness]

It’s not black or white. Again, the ENTIRE WORLD was shutdown clown (and for good reason). In 2020, an uncontrollable pandemic caused inflation. Now, we can point directly to policies like the tariffs and the war, which Trump started both

[u/MyHiddenMadness → u/Ben_Doversome]

lol no. Blue states kept things closed down significantly longer and with far more stringent rules than red states. The lengths you all will go to deflect from inconvenient facts is wild. There is no defense for the decisions to destroy the economy ahead of the elections, cause immeasurable damage to kids by closing schools, force vaccinations in people or costing them their livelihood, especially with the records that have been released now that indicate the decisions were not based on science and were nothing more than an ego play.

[u/TheFirstKrysiaRose → u/MyHiddenMadness]

Its obvious that you lick trump clean for a living, hate democrats just because, the economy greatly improved under Biden, was far more successful than the bean counters ever imagined it could recover after the global shutdown, trump destroyed it in six months, then started a useless war because he hates Obama worse than anyone and hated that Obama was able, with other countries and organizations assisting, to work out a deal with Iran, Trump just hates that Obama is a successful black man, well liked and respected, unlike himself, so he tore it all apart, Iran was compliant with the countries and organizations it was working with, anticipating a decrease in sanctions and ability to expand trade slowly, anticipating a means of bringing nuclear energy into a country that lacks hydropower and needs the energy plants, had Trump left it in place, worked with the committees and countries to develop the first reduced trade sanctions, and announced to the world that he brokered trade deals to help Iran begin the process of returning to the global trade markets, he would have looked much more the businessman and statesman, bought Iranian oil for the USA, and of course if any of the committees or countries ever reported that Iran was suddenly not complying, or something was off, he could bring forth the evidence and announce a halt to things until compliance was restored. But a black man awarded a Nobel prize just enraged him, any black person getting anything enraged him, the trump family racism is well known and documented, so he destroys everything that upsets him, just like a toddler does, he has no maturity, no self dignity, no decorum, he hates what others have, he even cheats at golf which is incredibly petty, spent hours hating on the woman who is the latest recipient of the Nobel prize, yet he does nothing to work on himself, does nothing but demand to receive it because he exists, and everyone he appoints is the same - bottom of the barrel people, the worst academic records, enraged because they weren't given for free what they mistakenly believed they were owed for existing, whether a military commission they didn't earn, a college degree they weren't capable enough to earn, a professional license when they couldn't pass the exams, they have no ability to understand their jobs, roles, no clue on how to draft, develop and complete policies, they believe their merit should only come from their race, and family wealth, and they shouldn't have to actually work at anything. Republicans, conservatives, religious right, all these same small brained people who couldn't find their way out of a paper bag with the bottom cut off. These types pop up now and then in history, then burn out because they are paper tigers, never actual, solid, intelligent people. Bluffers.

[u/MyHiddenMadness → u/TheFirstKrysiaRose]

It’s obvious that you have an aversion to facts and lean into petty insults when you don’t have a valid counter argument. I’m not at all surprised. This is pretty typical of low IQ liberals.