Majority of Americans Feel Worse Off Than Four Years Ago
Majority of Americans Feel Worse Off Than Four Years Ago
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"
Here’s a study of inflation that excludes housing, groceries, and energy… oh turns out your eyes are lying.
me with my basket of groceries that's just caviar I don't know what they're complaining about
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
Me with gold dust stuck to the corners of my mouth, reeking of pure truffle oil:
Paul Krugman go on Hex
I can afford more, um, playstations than I could four years ago assuming I don't eat!
Not to mention the cost of loans as the only inflation control mechanism the government uses is increasing interest rates.
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
Sure, but what if we cut taxes for the rich and then increased military spending. Surely that would help?
Oh dammit, that didn’t work. Let’s cut more taxes (on the rich, ofc) and cage more immigrants
Nah bro that's russian dis/mis/cisinformation
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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!
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!
And lets just ignore the dramatic increase and heart attacks and stroke. That's a future problem that science magicians will fix.
I have been feeling dumb as hell lately
Our life was upended completely after we were evicted for not being able to pay back in lump sum all of the moratorium period rent payments, which ended up being something like 15,000 dollars. They would not let us on a payment plan; I tried. Led to the loss of my job shortly after, and we have not recovered still two years later. This evil country and anyone who makes excuses for it can burn forever as far as I care.
But my graphs!
"Majority of Americans
feelare worse off now, than four years ago" fixed the titleBut have you considered that medieval kings didn't have TV or a fridge?
Good
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.
The previous poll being compared was January 2020, i.e. predating global pandemic (or at least knowledge thereof).
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
I wonder how many people even register that 4 years ago was lockdown or if it's just completely blurred out
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?
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
And I wasn't doing great four years ago, either