re: How is inflation impacting you? Radio host gets some pretty serious answers

Someone's upset they're still a handyman making $18/hour at age 50.... sorry you're an uneducated nobody just like the people who created you. Get a grip, inbred.

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Their pizza sucks. Its paste on cardboard.

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You might have gone to the wrong place. NY has awesome pizza. I an criticize the hell out of that place, but not for that. And yeah, good pizza there has always been expensive.

I also love Chicago Deep Dish from Lou Malnati's (not to be confused with Giordano's, which isn't very good IMO). I just don't consider deep dish as "Pizza". Our normal Lou Malnati's deep dish order went from about $25 a year ago to nearly $40 today.

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agent orange, sheeple.

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TDS is strong with this one. You know he's not in charge anymore, right? No more mean tweets. Just wars, economic distress, incompetent and mentally ill leadership.

You get what you vote for. Congrats I guess.

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Kids who live in Manhattan can't understand why everyone doesn't have a Jewish Deli 100' from their studio apartment.

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Not just kids. You've definitely captured the very bubble that houses the people who are pushing these green initiatives.

They don't understand other ways of life, but that's a criticism for almost everyone across the world.

What sets the coastal progressives apart here is that they struggle to empathize with people who have a different world view than them. They don't even really try. Most of them would rather that the flyover state people not even exist. Hard to ignore that reality especially after the last 10 years. The proponents of radical green energy legislation do tend to live deep in a progressive bubble and seem to enjoy dismissing any criticism of their agenda as overtly political so that they don't have to address the concerns over the practicality of implementing these changes or the unintended consequences of these rules on our economy.

Yeah, we should try to conserve fuel and reduce our own dependence on oil. But this is a huge country, and this kind of change doesn't happen overnight - consumers are slowly adopting things like EV's or supplemental solar power for their homes. But expediting it or forcing it through legislation is just going to make things extremely expensive and penalize citizens. This at a tumultuous time when inflation is already extremely painful and energy independence is far more important than the source of said energy.

For the life of me I don't understand why The White House and other high ranking Democrats can't put down their green agenda for a while and be pragmatic for just one fricking second. We need to figure out how to supply energy to ourselves and our allies in Europe as fast as possible. Excluding oil and gas from that discussion because of an ongoing progressive war on everything that's been good to this country is nonsense. And it just points to them being completely unglued from reality.

Should really reconsider/improve your sense of humor. It fricking sucks. But I'm sure you do too. Makes sense living in Louisiana... fricking losers.

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More gross revenue but not necessarily more profit. Let’s say at 40 dollars he profited 20 dollars a yard after labor, equipment, fuel etc costs. He had 20 yards a week for 400 dollars a week income. Then inflation made costs jump to 40 dollars a yard so he raised prices to 65 to keep his current income level plus 5 dollars a yard for inflation on personal expenses. Then he loses 5 yards. Now he makes 375 in income at 25 dollar profit on 15 yards. If he raises more he could lose more yards. His only hope would be to work more and undercut his competitors and gain more yards by cutting his profit per yard. Even then people may not be willing to pay 50 or 55 dollars for that to work.

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I agree with all of this but it is not really relevant to the point of my post. The current cost is the current cost. That is irrelevant.

In the simplest of terms, before inflation, let’s say his business operated at a level of 8/10. Then after inflection (currently), it operates at a 2/10.

The tweet in the OP basically says the guy made a change that helps his business increase from a level of 2/10 to 4/10.

Yes, the business is struggling. But The tweet was dumb and did not make the point he thought it made.

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FYI, the legislative branch passed those laws, not the executive branch.

POTUS is the chief of the executive branch.

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Understandable mistake for people who've never opened a fricking book.

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Elections most certainly have consequences.

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And not just federal. State and local governments that ad prolonged shutdowns are just as at fault.