Are You Better or Worse (Economically) Now Than YOU Were 3 Years Ago ?

[JGalt]

Tell me how I am not better off economically than I was at the start of 2021.

Ok.

2019 vs. 2024: Homes are harder to find, and even harder to afford​

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Ok

Do you think the added food cost for a couple adds up to more than 93K?

2019 vs. 2024: Homes are harder to find, and even harder to afford​

I had a house built in 2022, will live here till we retire and sell it. So that does not impact me at all.

Our home insurance has not gone up since we moved in. USAA is not known for fleecing its members.

I am a retired Marine, I have TriCare and pay 60 bucks a month for family coverage, with my son still on our policy while he is in school.

Do not need a new car, the two we have will last us till we retire and then will not be needed.

What else do you have?

 

[JGalt]

Do you think the added food cost for a couple adds up to more than 93K?



I had a house built in 2022, will live here till we retire and sell it. So that does not impact me at all.

Our home insurance has not gone up since we moved in. USAA is not known for fleecing its members.

I am a retired Marine, I have TriCare and pay 60 bucks a month for family coverage, with my son still on our policy while he is in school.

Do not need a new car, the two we have will last us till we retire and then will not be needed.

What else do you have?

Typical eletist attitude: "I gots me mine and fuck everyone else", right?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Typical eletist attitude: "I gots me mine and fuck everyone else", right?

well the question you tried to answer was "Tell me how I am not better off economically than I was at the start of 2021."

and you failed in your weak ass attempt.

But that aside, yeah fuck everyone else. If they want to keep voting for the duopoly they get what they deserve.

 

[braalian]

No. Much worse. And getting poorer year by year.

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And you think you’re not to blame for your own failure? What about personal responsibility?

 

[Mr Natural]

No better, no worse.

And with the exception of Nixon and the Draft, there hasn't been a president in my life that's had more than a minor impact (either way) on my life.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

No better, no worse.

And with the exception of Nixon and the Draft, there hasn't been a president in my life that's had more than a minor impact (either way) on my life.

Correct. I am doing way better, but not because of whom is sitting in the White House.

 

[Mr Natural]

Correct. I am doing way better, but not because of whom is sitting in the White House.

People who look to the president to make their lives better are looking in the wrong place.

 

[protectionist]

Substantially better now.

Because you love getting ripped off. Uh huh.

 

[protectionist]

I changed jobs last year and got a big salary bump.

And your big inflation bump wiped it out. At last you didn't lose ground.

 

[protectionist]

Let’s see my company is making record profits and paying record bonuses. Yep. All good.

I don't believe it. Businesses all over the country are getting killed from rent increases taking away their sale $$, but you're at record profits, huh ?

 

[protectionist]

Agreed, he should have bought before the Biden administration turned the American dream from home ownership to life in a tent or a car.

And turned the idea of buying a guitar, a piano, and a violin, to handing it all over to the landlord and the gas station.

 

[protectionist]

Consumer prices pushed up mostly by corporate profits,​

Mar 28, 2024 — Adjusted profits after taxes hit a record high of $2.8 trillion, beating the record of $2.7 trillion in the third quarter of 2022. Profits ...
But teabaggers blame Biden.
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Nice try, In the meantime we all know that Biden repeatedly cancelled oil leases/drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska. We all know that less supply = higher prices. In this case we've seen MUCH higher prices (like 100+% inflation).

And the manufacturers ? They're just going to sit there and do nothing, while their transport costs just doubled ? There's your inflation.
Corporate profits, my ass.

 

[protectionist]

/——/ I’m retired, debt free, my SS and a small pension covers my comfortable living expenses.
I earn a good living trading stock options. That being said, 2022 and 2023 were net losses in the market, but I’ve regained in back and then some. Prices are much higher so I’m always price shopping. I’m more fortunate than many.

Interesting.

 

[protectionist]

My income increased four fold from 2021 to 2024.

Yeah ? How ? Selling drugs ?

 

[Moonglow]

As a middle-class retired person, I am in about the same financial condition I was when Trump left office, ignoring the Covid bullshit. Inflation has increased my cost of living quite a bit, but that's only because I choose to spend a lot on personal gratification.

OTOH, I am convinced that Joe Biden is trying to create a legacy for himself by destroying the country, and that makes me sad because so many Americans are blind to it. The only good thing is that I am isolated enough and old enough that it won't harm me personally.

They said the same stupid shit in 1970-1980s. Supposedly we were done then.

 

[Moonglow]

protectionist no, it's call having skills and trades.

 

[protectionist]

Prices were higher in 2020 than 2019

 

[protectionist]

protectionist no, it's call having skills and trades.

I have a skill & trade, but I'm retired, and on a very fixed income, with prices going to the moon. Even if I still was working at my skilled trade, my wages wouldn't be keeping up with Biden's runaway inflation.

 

[Moonglow]

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But true