The slight majority of Americans say they are worse off than four years ago, while their assessments of the U.S. economy are subpar and inflation remains a key concern.

As Carville said, "Its the economy, stupid"

  • kittin [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Here’s a study of inflation that excludes housing, groceries, and energy… oh turns out your eyes are lying.

    • Hexboare [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      me with my basket of groceries that's just caviar I don't know what they're complaining about

      • kittin [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        The 5 properties I bought back in 2003 are worth almost 3x what I paid for them how can you be complaining the economy is going amazing

      • Ildsaye [they/them]
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        2 months ago

        Me with gold dust stuck to the corners of my mouth, reeking of pure truffle oil: how-much-could-it-cost

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      I can afford more, um, playstations than I could four years ago assuming I don't eat!

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      Not to mention the cost of loans as the only inflation control mechanism the government uses is increasing interest rates.

  • vegeta1 [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    They're gonna be in for a shock when they find out caging immigrants and bombing citizens halfway across the globe doesn't improve this

      • BobDole [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        Oh dammit, that didn’t work. Let’s cut more taxes (on the rich, ofc) and cage more immigrants

  • TheModerateTankie [any]
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    2 months ago

    The Democrats declared victory over covid and took away all the progressive policies enacted because of the pandemic. That immediately took healthcare away from tons of people, and plunged many more back into poverty. They did this after taking a victory lap for lifting so many people out of poverty in the pandemic response.

    Covid isnt killing as many people but it's still a pandemic virus with unpredictable worldwide waves, but now everyone "middle class" and under are poorer and struggling with inflation. They are also getting sick a lot more often by something that can't be covid, because covid is over, right?

    Great job!

    • underisk [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      Hey don’t forget about the various long term effects of Covid infection we still don’t fully understand! Who cares if everyone contracts a flu that causes brain damage, they don’t need those brains to work!

      • TheModerateTankie [any]
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        2 months ago

        And lets just ignore the dramatic increase and heart attacks and stroke. That's a future problem that science magicians will fix.

  • REgon [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    But my graphs!

    "Majority of Americans feel are worse off now, than four years ago" fixed the title

  • REgon [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    But have you considered that medieval kings didn't have TV or a fridge?

  • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Worse off than at the height of the global pandemic? Uh... I mean I know things are rough right now, but I don't know if they're "wondering how many people I know won't survive the year" rough.

      • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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        2 months ago

        They do cite "September 2020" in the article as a time when 55% felt better off than four years ago; you know, the time when there was like two 9/11s of deaths daily

    • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      I wonder how many people even register that 4 years ago was lockdown or if it's just completely blurred out

    • Ivysaur [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      they're "wondering how many people I know won't survive the year" rough.

      For some of us this never ended, yes, because guess what else never ended?

    • miz [any, any]
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      2 months ago

      I preferred lockdown and having a reason to be stuck at home to being the only person masking and doomscrolling the genocidal extermination of small children