GOP view of economy disconnected from reality

Cant outpace inflation though and the fact it takes san extra $1000 a month to live on now.....Poopeypants needs to double stock market standings to even come close to Trump's economy looneybird.
Nope. You dont need the stock market to double dipshit. In fact if you look at real wages you are better off in 2023 than 2019 thanks to income gains in 2020-2021 which offset inflation 2021-2022. If you aren’t better off then get off your ass, pull yourself up by your bootstraps and take advantage of the best employment situation the US has ever had.
 
Incomes are at an all time high so is employment. The credit card debt services are steady at all time lows. Means payments are a tiny part of incomes.

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61% of credit card holders are in debt .. with a balance of over $5800. 23% say they continue to go deeper into debt and 14% have admitted to missing payments in 2023.

Sorry .. not rosey like you're wanted to picture as this most likely highlights making minimum payments with the crushing interest rates.
 
61% of credit card holders are in debt .. with a balance of over $5800. 23% say they continue to go deeper into debt and 14% have admitted to missing payments in 2023.

Sorry .. not rosey like you're wanted to picture as this most likely highlights making minimum payments with the crushing interest rates.
gator has no idea what debt is he's a handout homey.
 
Nonsense. You shouldn’t look to deserve anything from the govt. Right?

It’s a good time to kick your Diet Coke habit. :)
Families are putting food purchases on their credit cards, Hutch because they can't afford to buy what they need with their weekly paycheck. Why you think that's funny escapes me!
As for what people "deserve" from their Government? How about a legislative agenda that doesn't create rampant inflation? How about Government officials that understand basic Economics?
 
C’mon man. No president sets grocery pricing. What would you have Biden to to ease your plight?

Realistically__If 20 cents on the dollar breaks you, then you should look inward.
The national trends don’t reflect the level of pain you’re expressing.

I’ve cut actually quite a lot of fat out of my spending habits and am better for it.
Telling someone that is living paycheck to paycheck to cut the fat out of their spending habits is condescending to a fault, Hutch! Why should they be forced to do THAT when it was something that was caused by a bunch of politicians that cared more about their agenda than they did about heeding warnings that what they were about to do would cause rampant inflation? Those people don't deserve this. They certainly didn't vote for it and you can bet they WON'T vote for the people that caused it this time around!
 
The article cites a number of “experts” trying to tell us that what most Americans are directly experiencing is “Disconnected From Reality”, citing studies that purport to prove that the economy is in great shape.

It seems obvious to me that it is these “experts”, these studies, and the OP that are very clearly disconnected from reality.
The "Mob Rule" Sneer Is Made by Those Who Want Snob Rule


The attitude you criticize only about one side is exactly the bipartisan ruling class's justification for having a republic instead of a democracy. Constitution-bangers can't hide their contempt for the American people.
 
Politicians like to take credit for when the economy is good and blame the other guys when it's bad. A free-enterprise economy tends to do what is best by itself.
A Free Market Is a Fleece Market

A "free market" means that whoever controls a market is free to do whatever he wants: make money as fast as he can, as much as he can, and whatever way he can. It is nothing but anarchy from the top, which inevitably leads to depression, often followed by tyranny.

A Free Market in traffic? Soon people driving tanks would be the only ones on the roads.
 
61% of credit card holders are in debt .. with a balance of over $5800. 23% say they continue to go deeper into debt and 14% have admitted to missing payments in 2023.

Sorry .. not rosey like you're wanted to picture as this most likely highlights making minimum payments with the crushing interest rates.
Debt service payments are on the trend Fat Donnie boy had going. Look at the Red line from when Donnie did it. We are exactly where we are supposed to be and on its way back down.

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When Kamala Harris says that American's would struggle with a $400 unexpected debt .. either Gator is admitting Harris is full of shit or the reality is being ignored.
That's how America works. The rich get richer off economic booms and the working class just gets more likely to live paycheck to paycheck. The middle class was destroyed by the Bush tax cuts and regressive taxation, union busting Republicans, and republican interference with raising minimum wages just for starters. They lost nearly 20% of the wealth to the top incomes.

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That's how America works. The rich get richer off economic booms and the working class just gets more likely to live paycheck to paycheck. The middle class was destroyed by the Bush tax cuts and regressive taxation, union busting Republicans, and republican interference with raising minimum wages just for starters. They lost nearly 20% of the wealth to the top incomes.

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According to your chart, 11% of the middle is gone. 7% went up, 4% went down.
 
Telling someone that is living paycheck to paycheck to cut the fat out of their spending habits is condescending to a fault, Hutch! Why should they be forced to do THAT when it was something that was caused by a bunch of politicians that cared more about their agenda than they did about heeding warnings that what they were about to do would cause rampant inflation? Those people don't deserve this. They certainly didn't vote for it and you can bet they WON'T vote for the people that caused it this time around!

Anyone who voted for Democraps did, in fact, vote for this.
 
Families are putting food purchases on their credit cards, Hutch because they can't afford to buy what they need with their weekly paycheck. Why you think that's funny escapes me!
As for what people "deserve" from their Government? How about a legislative agenda that doesn't create rampant inflation? How about Government officials that understand basic Economics?
You’re funny. It’s hilarious reading what shit you believe.
 
Telling someone that is living paycheck to paycheck to cut the fat out of their spending habits is condescending to a fault, Hutch! Why should they be forced to do THAT when it was something that was caused by a bunch of politicians that cared more about their agenda than they did about heeding warnings that what they were about to do would cause rampant inflation? Those people don't deserve this. They certainly didn't vote for it and you can bet they WON'T vote for the people that caused it this time around!
There’s always people living paycheck to paycheck and it certainly isn’t caused by politicians. :cuckoo:
 
There’s always people living paycheck to paycheck and it certainly isn’t caused by politicians. :cuckoo:
There is a record number of people living paycheck to paycheck, Hutch. There is also a record amount of credit card debt that people are currently carrying.

The inflation that we've been suffering under for the last two years WAS caused by the fiscal policies of government. Too much money chasing too few goods causes inflation. You learn that in basic Economics, Hutch! It was what Larry Summers warned this White House would happen if they went ahead with the massive spending they were proposing. They ignored him and we ALL paid the price for that!
 
Oh, you disagree with that, Hutch? What part? What Larry Summers said would happen? The record number of people living paycheck to paycheck? Or the record amount of credit card debt now owed by Americans?
 

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