Skipping meals. Racking up debt. How inflation is squeezing single parents

Maybe the Democrat platform for 2024 could be "The Next Great Leap Forward".

 

Yes. Heading the wrong direction. Biden just canceled more lease sales. Look for more WH lying and "messaging" on this.

 

Wow looks like it took a **** under Trump and is back up close to 2019 levels. Nice chart, thanks!

 

Response from press secretary: You're racist homophobes.

 

Yeah.

What Trump built from the failed Obama administration is going to take Democrats more effort to destroy.

 

Built? Looks like it was on its way up when he took over.

 

LoL.

 

A sudden jump in 25% increase in cargo is utterly massive. That caused the backlog. And that jump was created outside the US so Biden can't do anything about that. While the article you mention now is basically about petty CEO's who probably earn multi million dollar paychecks for doing a bad job. And you are blaming Biden as if he is in charge of private companies. Maybe you should ring up Biden and ask him to let immigrants find jobs in the US.

 

It's a good thing that you're not in charge of the country.
A person down on it's luck due to economic decline would be homeless and starving to death if it was up to you. And even if he managed to stay alive, and the economy picks up, there suddenly is a shortage of labor like we have today that wouldn't be solved.... because homeless bums don't get hired to do the logistics in a harbor. Same thing with companies. When a company having 1500 trucks goes broke, you just don't have it replaced with a new one with the same amount of trucks to pick up when the economy picks up. EU countries got it a heck of a lot better organized.

 

malls, what are those? They've closed around here in SW FL. House prices now dropping. Folks who qualified at 3% mortgage now cannot at 5% and more.

RV and boat purchases that were to be financed are now being cancelled due to 7% ish rates.

This all started with Democrat votes which gave full Democrat control and the attack on energy. And the Democrats response; ....hey let's give out more free stuff. How about cancelling the debt of those who never should have taken those student loans...................guaranteed to get a Democrat vote

Democrat voters have hurt this nation

 

and let us not forget the inane mandates to erect barriers between workers, limit the number of workers, mandatory vaccinations when all that it did was strangle productivity.

Look to FL compared to Democrat states and FL came out pretty darn good

And here we are with treatments, vaccines yet death number 1 million from Covid is here. That is under Democrat leadership yet where is NPR and ANC with their sad voices and sad faces??????

 

Tapping our oil reserves rather than get production levels back to or even surprising the Trump years is like tapping into your 401K early rather than getting a job.

 

You do realize we have a homeless epidemic with children starving daily and has been growing at an alarming rate since the 2008 crash?! Breaking up a massive monopoly provides opportunity to smaller innovators. Regarding the banks... there are ample community banks that would have love to see business shift from the massive conglomerate to local banks. Regarding the Automakers, even with the massive bailouts, they still closed a large portion of their industry like Saturn, Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Hummer.

Ford refused the bailout and thrived as a product of it.

 

I never again walked into a GM showroom after the UAW bailout. It was a bailout for the Democrat voting union. Sickening

 

Cheap food, canned food, etc, are high in sodium, high in fat, with very, very little nutrition, to top it off with high sugar concentration. The cheapest brand cereals are the sugar cereals. Healthier cereals are more expensive. Since food stamps are not enough to eat healthy food to last a month on the limited food stamps available, people on food stamps have to ration what they eat. That means going to the cheap food that is high in sugar, sodium, and fat in order to survive and eat. Try to eat healthily, and those food stamps will not last long.

So, if you only had $125 for you, and you ate three meals a day, every day, for 30 days, how much is that per meal? Then look at healthy foods, I mean truly healthy foods, and see the prices there. Compare those prices per service to the cheap food that is high in sugar, fat, and sodium. You will see the difference.

Two points: food stamps and government assistance is not enough to live off. They are not going to one-star Michelin restaurants and eating in hog heaven. It is not even enough to pay rent, food, electricity, etc.

Second point is, because poor people have to ration the money they receive, their decision choices are limited to what can be stretched to its maximum value. This means no-name brand sugar cereal, bulk items when possible, cheap meats that are high in fat or parts of the meat that are the cheapest cut, basic spices in bulk, processed foods such as noodles and other items. Remember, they are looking at a meal that will cost them about $2 per meal here. $5 for a meal made at home is a splurge to them.

 

You show that you do realize that when a company like Ford goes bankrupt that all the employers will be unemployed and so they end up being homeless real fast. Companies who are in the supply chain of Ford most likely will go broke too, making more employers unemployed and homeless. Your idea that smaller innovators will move in, won't put a dent in how many people would become unemployed and so homeless. And ones homeless, it's just a spiral where you hardly can escape from.

So your idea is an unbalanced unhealthy diet / malnutrition for those who are unemployed ending up homeless.
That sure adds to the spiral that they will most likely not get the job they ones preformed well.
All that creates is a massive amount of people who do unskilled jobs for hardly anything.
That's not how you MAGA.

 

Did you just say not eating a balanced diet will likely make you homeless? Are you aware of how it's impossible to take you seriously?

 

I don't think you understand how bankruptcy works. It's restructuring... Sometimes that is the best thing for a company that becomes over bloated. GM NEEDED to restructure and did not due to the bail out and will be back in the very same position again.

What's funny is see how the left has gone from anti big business to all about big business.

 

When Reagan saved Chrysler, my thought at the time was that this would kill the American auto industry.

That's still my opinion.

 

About the thread, if it wasn't for sleazy BS, half the forum would have not a thing to say..

 

I applauded Lee Iacocca for finding a way to bail out Chrysler but, disagreed with govt involvement. I do however appreciate the Mustang that would not have existed without Lee

 

It was a really bad mistake. The country could only support 2 companies back then because we were losing market share. The Brits used to have a bunch of car companies (now they are mostly foreign owned and many have British bodies and German everything else). IOW, they lost them all.

Which could happen to us.

 

I saw some stat and am probably saying it wrong but there is more of Made in America in a Honda America than other cards made in America

 

It's called domestic content. And that does happen.

Car manufacturing has been slowly getting global (or at least it was). I had to have a part replaced earlier this year, and thought it was expensive, and thought out loud that I need to get an even smaller, less expensive car to save money on repairs. The mechanic said there was only one company that made that part, and the price would have been about the same.

But what I've heard is that if you're going to get a Honda, you're better off getting one made in Japan.

 

I know how bankruptcy works for companies. I don't think you know how bankruptcy works for individuals. You're flat out ignoring the negative consequences of that. It's not as if a bankrupt person gets replaced with a nice new innovative person so we can ignore the bankrupted one.

And where the left has a problem, is big CEO's getting a massive bonus even when their company is in very dire need of financial aid. And they are getting that aid at the expense of taxpaying joe the plumber who gets fired from those CEO's. Because they got money for themselves and their stockowners, but none for the company or the people who make the profit happen by doing the actual work.