Trump: I won on groceries. Very simple word, groceries. Like almost, you know, who uses the word. I started using the word. The groceries. When you buy apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs, they would double and triple the price over a short period of time. pic.twitter.com/4hDzdJFrTz
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 8, 2024
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That evocative word: groceries.
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Do Grocery prices ever go down? Not that I can recall. I don't think Trump should suggest something that won't happen.
The interviewer didn't seem to grok the difference between higher washing machine prices from tariffs and higher grocery (and fuel/energy) prices from systemic inflation. Progressives don't understand the regressive hidden taxation effects of inflating the basic necessities.
Ask a farmer, Madison Man.
When Joe first was saying Yes, I at first thought he was evaluating each individual banana in the bunch.
Joe Pera thing was hilarious. Sadly, a lot of Seniors are like this because of Biden's inflation. Right now, 70 dollars will get you coffee, oatmeal, milk, and 2 lbs of rib eye steak. There's a Pera Youtube video where he says Goodbye to the Halloween pumpkin by sending it off to die in a waterfall. Hilarious, to me.
It’s the groceries, stupid.
Government inflation stats are an absolute fraud and gamed by the establishment for propaganda all the time. The Biden Administration was perhaps the worst ever in recalulating numbers after the fact, and also in slowly reporting or not reporting uncomfortable things (e.g., crime during COVIDmania and Bordermania).
Don't expect anything from a government surrogate or anyone paid on the condition that they prentend blindness.
For a change I am (more or less) agreeing with Howard about something. Democrats, steeed in 19th century Marxism as they are, do not grasp the relationship between cheap gasoline and diesel fuel and cheap produce. Farmers do not send scores of slaves (or cheap migrant workers) out into the fields, they send machinery. After harvest they send their produce by truck to warehouses, and the produce may make additional trips by rail and/ or truck before ending up in your local grocery store. So, bottom line, high prices for gasoline and diesel fuel inevitably mean higher food prices.
Now if only Janet Yellen understood that.
I wonder how long it's going to take people like this crazy-eyed interviewer to figure out that they keep losing because they're unlikable, and not only that, but they're marching closer to being politically irredeemable. Maybe the voting public has finally figured out that Democrats only pretend friendship and open arms at the front door. It's all failed promises and slit throats at the back door.
...and Joe Pera cracks me up.
Reagan: "Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago?"
The egg situation has something to do with the "free range" movement. Free-range chickens and the eggs they lay are now the only chickens and eggs sold in some states. Free-range and organic chickens naturally cost more, and the free-range chickens are exposed to diseases from other animals and often have to be destroyed in large masses.
But yes, prices for everything went up in the Biden years. Democrats threw away 80 years or more of their history by saying that everything was great because the stock market was riding high. Harry Truman wouldn't have tried that gambit. William Jennings Bryan would have been apoplectic.
Well, that, and the tendency that California fascists have, to dictate to the marketplace, and the marketplace's laziness in taking California's bullsh*t seriously and making it apply it to the rest of the nation's markets.
Lol, Me to. Brought to mind this from "History of the World Pt 1
The cost of the agricultural base product has darn little to do with the cost of most food which I expect holds true even for produce, though to a less degree. Picking, sorting, washing, packaging, and shipping fruits and vegetables is still necessary.
From the USDA in 2008 a period of record high corn prices.
However, even for those products heavily based on field corn, the effect of rising corn prices is dampened by other market factors. For example, an 18-ounce box of corn flakes contains about 12.9 ounces of milled field corn. When field corn is priced at $2.28 per bushel (the 20-year average), the actual value of corn represented in the box of corn flakes is about 3.3 cents (1 bushel = 56 pounds). (The remainder is packaging, processing, advertising, transportation, and other costs.) At $3.40 per bushel, the average price in 2007, the value is about 4.9 cents. The 49-percent increase in corn prices would be expected to raise the price of a box of corn flakes by about 1.6 cents, or 0.5 percent, assuming no other cost increases.
In 1985, Coca-Cola shifted from sugar to corn syrup in most of its U.S.-produced soda, and many other beverage makers followed suit (see “High-Fructose Corn Syrup Usage May Be Leveling Off” in this issue). Currently, about 4.1 percent of U.S.-produced corn is made into high-fructose corn syrup. A 2-liter bottle of soda contains about 15 ounces of corn in the form of high-fructose corn syrup. At $3.40 per bushel, the actual value of corn represented is 5.7 cents, compared with 3.8 cents when corn is priced at $2.28 per bushel. Assuming no other cost increases, the higher corn price in 2007 would be expected to raise soda prices by 1.9 cents per 2-liter bottle, or 1 percent. These are notable changes in terms of price measurement and inflation, but relatively minor changes in the average household food budget.
Isn't stuff on Adult Swim supposed to be funny?
People refuse to understand that when the cost of production goes up....the cost of the product also goes up. Otherwise the producer (farmer, restaurant owner, clothing manufacturer...everyone) goes out of business.
It is like cursing McDonald's for raising the cost of their hamburger as if they are just being greedy, when the cost of wages, taxes, electricity, water, gas, packaging, straws, oil and every single freaking food ingredient has gone up. People expect the price of finished item to stay the same. Get REAL. Then the people get pissy and refuse to eat at McDonald's (that'll show 'em) and then get confounded and angry when the owner of the Franchise quits business. GO figure.
Yeah. Produce and Dairy fluxuate.
looks and sounds like Michael Caine without the cockney?
Progressive prices forced by naked credit and Democratic debt emissions adjacent to a Naive Green Deal, Obamacares, etc.
Joe and Kamala would tell you it's just those greedy corporations.
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