re: Is The Economy really bad?

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so sorry for wondering how the clerk at my local Speedway drops $150+ on dinner for his family of five once a week

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My wife works with a single mom who is always broke, but she orders DoorDash twice a week from fricking places she could ride a bike to in 5 minutes.

She "borrowed" $50 from my wife for some school fee for her kid. I told her she'd never see that money again, and she never did, but now you know not to give her anything that you expect back.

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My wife works with a single mom who is always broke, but she orders DoorDash twice a week from fricking places she could ride a bike to in 5 minutes.

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Poor people tend to do things that help keep them poor.

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So turns out a several months in that tariffs are still a terrible idea.

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So you think we should have just continued to send 1 trillion of our GDP to other countries yearly? Brilliant. Someone had the balls to do something about that, thank God.

Oh good, Clark14 and SFP are here

2 wrongs dont make a good economy.

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the guy who said $350k was required to be middle class, how do you reckon he came to that conclusion?

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I take any post with 3, 5, and 0 in succession on this board with a bag full of salt.

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You think inflation problem started with tariffs???

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it showed how bad inflation was under Biden.

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You think the inflation we felt starting in 2021 was started by Biden?

Tariffs are just likely to exacerbate our inflation problems that were caused by Covid printing-spending of Trump and Biden, as well as low interest rates creating more consumer debt that inflated prices of all sorts of goods (like homes, autos, etc.), by making international trade more expensive.

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You think the inflation we felt starting in 2021 was started by Biden?

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With low-tboy’s way of thinking, absolutely.

Restaurant reservations in DC are down since Trump took action. Down 30%. But he claims the restaurants are overflowing. Hmmm.

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My wife works with a single mom who is always broke, but she orders DoorDash twice a week from fricking places she could ride a bike to in 5 minutes.

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Yeah, Mingo missed my point, which wasn't to claim that my generation had it just as hard or say they'd have a house if they quit buying Starbuck's every morning and is actually in agreement with his point about disposable income.

My point was that what is considered disposable income in the first place seems to have shifted. That's just an observation on my part, not a condemnation of younger people. We grew up in an almost completely different world than them. If lots of them have given up on things like home ownership (rightly or wrongly) and choose to spend money differently than I would, I'm not in a position to judge, and I don't. But I can still observe.