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re: Groceries are more affordable now than in 2019.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 9:34 am to texridder
Posted on 10/11/24 at 9:34 am to texridder
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the OP was about affordability not inflation. Are you impaired or just stupid?
well we can't afford anything because of inflation
Idk how this is a hard concept to grasp
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texridder
oh never mind
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Posted on 10/11/24 at 10:20 am to djmed
Though grocery prices are up, they are actually more affordable. What kind of stupidity perverse economic theory is this? I assume they are presuming that second job is making it easier to buy them now, but what about senior citizens and people on fixed incomes. Try explaining to them how the more expensive groceries are actually cheaper now. All you lazy people have to do is get a second and third job and then you will see they are not as expensive.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 10:40 am to djmed
You’re full of shite bro. Go suck one of your Dem buddies dick.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 10:41 am to djmed
Propaganda and misinformation from the state run media.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 10:51 am to ELVIS U
quote:Don't even have to know what groceries cost to know that groceries are less "affordable"....
Though grocery prices are up, they are actually more affordable. What kind of stupidity perverse economic theory is this? I assume they are presuming that second job is making it easier to buy them now, but what about senior citizens and people on fixed incomes. Try explaining to them how the more expensive groceries are actually cheaper now. All you lazy people have to do is get a second and third job and then you will see they are not as expensive.
Real wages, that is wages as compared to inflation, is down compared to pre-pandemic.
That means everything is less "affordable". Author is trying to be tricky with that word. Just a little bit of digging it backfires.
And, referring to my previous post in this thread, if anyone was wondering where illegals (and legal's) remittances come into play in this discussion:
- Those wages in the real wage calculation are wages paid by employers, not wages earned by labor. So if that wage paid leaves the US, that real wage calculation is skewed and is actually lower than what is believed. It's another issue created, and then masked, by illegal immigration.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 10:58 am to djmed
So the lunch that went from 7.99 in 2019 to 15.99 in 2024 is a figment of my imagination? 
Posted on 10/11/24 at 11:00 am to djmed
Take out the top 10% of wage increases and get back to me.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 11:10 am to djmed
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Groceries are more affordable now than in 2019.
I don't remember the price of eggs back in 2019, but seeing the basic general dozen version at the grocery today in the 3.50 range this morning didn't seem normal to me. just sayin...
Posted on 10/11/24 at 11:25 am to texridder
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the OP was about affordability not inflation. Are you impaired or just stupid?
What is causing "affordability"? It's inflation, retard. Now try again. Inflation due to your party's religion.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 11:26 am to djmed
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For the average U.S. worker, it now takes fewer hours of work to afford a week’s worth of groceries than it did five years ago, in August 2019.
Now factor in the inflation on everything else and redo your math
Posted on 10/11/24 at 11:28 am to texridder
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the OP was about affordability not inflation.
Food is less affordable.
Objectively, anyone thinking differently is a waterhead.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 11:28 am to djmed
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grocery prices are about as affordable as they were
They are "about as affordable". But not really "as affordable", and not "more affordable".
Posted on 10/11/24 at 11:29 am to djmed
Imagine not understanding the basic economic principles of how inflation is measured and trying to apply macro level numbers to just a single item… it’s either intellectually dishonest or just the signs of someone who has a hubris to their own intelligence, or lack thereof.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 11:31 am to MisslePig
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it’s either intellectually dishonest
It is.
The powers that be realize their constituents are idiots and will believe it.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 11:31 am to djmed
By one measure no one cares about?
Posted on 10/11/24 at 11:36 am to djmed
This is some next level gaslighting ...
Posted on 10/11/24 at 11:41 am to djmed
My monthly billing summaries for anything doesn't support that BS.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 11:42 am to djmed
Gas. Lighting.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 11:47 am to djmed
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Groceries are more affordable now than in 2019.
They’re calculating this just like they calculate inflation. Take all the shite that continues to shoot up out of the equation and then claim how affordable stuff is.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 11:47 am to djmed
1. No they aren’t.
2. Even if you believe this propaganda, you must believe grocery prices were too high in 2019. Why is it any more acceptable? Answer: it isn’t.
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