by RYAN LEDENDECKER
President Joe Biden’s crushing, record-high inflation continues to put everyday Americans in a tough spot, financially. With winter approaching and shortages of diesel and other critical fuels on Biden’s watch, millions of Americans will undoubtedly have a rough and scary winter ahead. People will die.
However, what’s not being talked about nearly enough is the most vulnerable group among us — senior citizens. Millions of seniors live on strict monthly budgets, and one can only imagine how difficult it must be to afford the necessities — simple things like food and utilities — on Biden’s watch.
Inflation is causing money to be tight for many people, especially senior citizens barely able to buy food.
Sustained high gas prices are causing people to drives less because they can’t afford it.
We will not be paying for Biden’s liberal world order.
People are angry.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 1, 2022
It’s getting so bad in Biden’s America that many seniors are being forced to consider roommate and home-sharing situations to keep from ultimately going under and losing everything.
Rodney Harrell, AARP’s vice president for Family, Home, and Community, told The Hill that U.S. seniors have several pressing concerns, especially as they determine how to keep their homes and live off their dwindling 401Ks while Democrats continue to wreck the U.S. economy.
“People are increasingly in life transitions that often mean they have less income, but their housing prices are going up. And that’s not a good combination,” Harrell said.
Harrell explained that a majority of seniors prefer to age in place. In other words, they want to spend as much time in their own homes as possible, and one can’t blame them, as it’s one of the last simple comforts in life to spend your final years where you feel happiest and safest.
But under Biden, those senior citizens face daunting odds of being able to live out their lives as they so choose. Interest rates have skyrocketed as the Federal Reserve continues its assault on lending in an attempt to quell inflation (it’s not working, by the way).
That means seniors who make the tough decision to sell their homes to live as comfortably as they can no longer even have that option because, under Biden, prospective home buyers no longer have the home-buying power they had as little as two years ago.
Interest rates are pegging the 7% mark, and they will likely continue to rise. As a result, the home-buying market is experiencing record-setting dips over the past few months that should frighten everyone, and the pain will likely last well into next year, causing unforetold issues down the road.
Seniors who are open to renting in a last-ditch effort to retain their God-given freedom can’t even do that, thanks to Biden and the Democrats’ outrageous spending and policies that got us into this predicament. Rent costs have spiked to insane levels across the country.
From The Hill:Older adults are facing uncertainty amid major life changes, and like millions of others, they are again looking for roommates to split costs.
Rents grew by nearly 25 percent from pre-pandemic levels, and experts forecasted in late September that rents will outpace inflation, stocks and home values over the next 12 months.
This rent spike is partly driven by the Federal Reserve’s efforts to stanch inflation, which has led to several rate hikes in recent months. These hikes have trickled down into the housing market pushing mortgage rates to 20-year highs and pushing potential homebuyers back into the rental market.Michele Higgs, community outreach coordinator for the Housing Partnership Initiative in Montgomery County, Md., explained to The Hill that as a result of this disaster, seniors have the option of joining home-sharing groups that find tenants looking to rent available rooms in their homes to bring in some extra income.
“The thing is, is this is something that can help you because the process is designed to help seniors age in place, number one, help to reduce isolation, and help them to get a little extra income. And so, when it’s presented that way, then it looks appealing,” Higgs said.
“So, the home sharing program is attractive because you have somebody who’s contributing to the household income. It makes it possible for people to pay their property taxes and not find themselves essentially priced out of the house they are aging in,” Higgs continued.
But let’s be honest — nobody wants random strangers living in their homes. Nobody wants a roommate at 75 years old. What an absolute joke.
Under former President Donald Trump, senior citizens weren’t forced to rent out their closets to make a few extra bucks needed to pay the bills. They weren’t forced to lease a cockroach-infested apartment with a 22-year-old punk just to avoid being stuffed away in a state-run nursing home.
It isn’t “Biden’s inflation”. From Financial Times, 11/02/22 – Fed should make clear that rising profit margins are spurring inflation
Profit margins have increased more rapidly than production and distribution costs. Our pockets are being picked.
Over 4000 new regulations since he Biden crime family was installed.
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U.S. Government Database Redacts Names Of Non-Profits Receiving Over $250 Million In Taxpayer-Funded Ukraine ‘Aid.’
Do you think we should have provided Putin and his remote-control operatives with a list of names??
Yes. Transparency is the bedrock of a stable and legal democracy, things our current Federal Government has lost.
FFS you eeediot! He already knows, Clinton and Obama gave him a silicon valley, he has back doors to money transactions and even cell phone texts.
I guess you should ask Putin, then, if you need to know precisely how assistance is being transformed into resistance against Vladimir Putin.
It does seem to be working, doesn’t it? Mighty Russia is now employing paid corporate Wagner Group mercenaries, because Putin’s invading army of drunks, looters, rapists, and clueless, inadequately-trained regulars couldn’t retreat fast enough.
Maybe we should give Ukraine a single low-yield warhead and a single missile that could reach the Kremlin, and then suggest that everyone sit down and negotiate.
ffs as seen on tv crapola as always
Russia has about a million troops in reserve. They haven’t even BEGUN to fight this war.
Russia has no need or interest in nuclear war.
The failing NATO and Western Forces, however, do….if only to save face.
And you can’t “give” something to a fighting force that doesn’t exist. The Ukrainian military is gone.
How do you think the oil industry just racked up 3 consecutive quarters of record profits after cutting production?
You seem to think Biden is a villain for pointing out the obvious, and that billionaires are more concerned about the welfare of America’s working families than adding to their billions.
GOP now stands for Guardians Of Plutocracy.
Did he mention bug pharma’s tax payers funded profits?
Hey brag on all the build back broken stuff these failures have accomplished.
It didn’t.
The “oil industry” is a complex web of suppliers.
A few things to consider:
The US cut off it’s oil production and started buying it from SA. They are charging a lot.
The US destroyed Nordsteam, and is now gouging Germany and others on NG.
Come correct if you’re going to try to talk about this. Your propagandist antics fool no one.
You can easily check any credible news source months into the past and discover which oil industry corporations profited by how much. Basically, all of the big ones made a killing. It’s public knowledge because it’s business data that every economist, market expert, and serious investor on the planet follows.
The US government didn’t cut off oil production. Petroleum industry CEOs. The did that because the global price per barrel dropped to nothing, and they could BUY oil far cheaper than the cost of pumping it themselves. So that’s what they did—and continued to do as Putin crossed Ukraine’s borders and turned down the supply to Europe. So now we’ve got increased demand paired with reduced supply—which isn’t Biden’s doing.
The US government doesn’t control the global oil market. It doesn’t control oil industry profits, or CEO strategies, or the size of their bonuses.
Um, no….you CAN’T check and “credible information sources” because there are none. And no numbers exist that represent the true picture of the current energy war going on, world-wide.
The “oil industry making record profits” propaganda is more tripe from a failing regime. No one buys it.
The US government DID cut off oil production.
I guess you don’t know about quarterly corporate shareholder reports. The markets RUN ON financial information. It’s such publicly available data that makes stock values and dividends go up and down.
I have an MBA, and I know financial reporting way, way more than you do, junior. You obviously know very little.
The “record profits” schtick only points to why Pharma and Big Corps have record profits during and after covid.
Be careful, son. Your mindless voters might learn too much and then you’re really screwed.
They were paid for researching, developing, and mass producing millions of doses pf vaccines that save countless thousands of lives and allowed our healthcare system to continue functioning without collapsing. By the way, they were developed and mass-produced at the behest of the Trump Administration, which you seem to have conveniently forgotten.
From Effectiveness of mRNA Vaccination in Preventing COVID-19–Associated Invasive Mechanical Ventilation and Death — United States, March 2021–January 2022
Yeah, you know way more than everybody about everything. That’s the Magical Power of an MBA.
More have died from the vaccine and will continue to die. Vaccines saved no one. More bullshit from a known liar.
Yeah, that’s a steaming load of totally irresponsible horse manure. People have died because they believed such bullshit.
Read the research reports, based on real science, instead of willfully ignorant, politically motivated social media disinformation.
Do you think Trump isn’t getting his boosters? He’s just not telling you, because his rally crowd booed him when he said he was.
More have died from the vaccine and will continue to die. Vaccines saved no one. More bullshit from a known liar.
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The only ones that tuned in to his politcal bullsh!t speech are the talking heads and those counting his lies.
Let him attack Trump he isnt running.
Trump isn’t running? He might as well be. He put ringers in the races with his own come-back scheme in mind.
“…he’s a celebrity who wants to be a politician…and we’ve seen how that goes.”
~Barack Obama, regarding Herschel Walker and Donald Trump_~
Haha. Obama is THE celebrity president, the Kardashian king. He did nothing and was merely plugged into a bigger plot.
He was cut from cardboard, and failed miserably….except on that “fundamental transformation” of our nation from a democracy to a one-party police state that you whole-heartedly support.
Trump has receipts. He had the right and actual qualifications to lead capital, people, and resources. He was a legendary executive, one who actually could run the Executive Branch.
Obama was not.
There’s another quite famous quote from Barry about someone we all know and love, about how you should never underestimate his ability to…
You know the rest.
Quoting Obama is what a failing ideology and their failing regime would do.
Trump has receipts? If anyone asks to see them, his lawyers will delay it for years in court. Trump has lawyers like the Wicked Witch of the West had flying monkeys.
Trump was a legend and real estate mogul before he ran. He also was the OWNER of the show that made him a “celebrity.” Hell, he was celebrity for decades even before that, for real reasons.
Receipts:
Receipts. Trump has them.
Obama doesn’t…unless you’re talking about war criminal who killed kids.
Barry isnt the draw he was with rock bands before his installation, then crime spree.
That speech took place in Washington DC’s Union Station.
It is so crime-ridden that its Starbucks closed recently.
I tuned in for a while but was put off by joe’s misunderstanding of what our country is.
It is a Constitutional Republic, not a “democracy,” as joe obsessed.
Sometimes I think dems confuse/conflate “democracy” with democrat rule.
Not the same.
“The Guy Who Showers With His Daughter Is Telling You You’re a Bad Person” – Tucker Carlson Roasts Joe Biden after Disgusting Union Station Speech
bidens inflation
bidens failed afghanistan surrender
Inflation is bad and hurts anyone on a fixed income, be it their ss check or paycheck.
But no amount of money makes it possible to buy things that are simply no longer available.
Baby formula comes to mind.
Every time I shop I notice there’s one or more things on my list that I cannot obtain.
Today it was chopped olives that I use in deviled eggs and as a sandwich filling.
But, yes, I can chop oilives from the cans of whole olives, so, at least there’s that.
Last week it was vitamin C chews.
But I could get vitamin C in another form.
joe spent a few moments on TV today badly.
He demonized 1/2 of the population but never touched on inflation, supply chain issues, the abortion issue, crime, illegal immigation flood, drugs from China pretending to be children’s candy or the lies about covid that led to shutdowns and our children losing ground in education.
Nope.
Demonizing those who do not vote democrat was his issue.
And “democracy.”
“You keep using that word.I do not think it means what you think it means.”
11/04/22 – Subcommittee Analysis Reveals Excessive Corporate Price Hikes Have Hurt Consumers and Fueled Inflation, While Enriching Certain Companies
Nah, it’s probably all Biden. He’s responsible for bumping up pump prices far beyond production costs, resulting in three consecutive quarters of record petroleum corporation PROFIT$. He’s also probably responsible for redesigning cereal boxes to hold less product while appearing larger on store shelves, and other such corporate sleight of hand to facilitate the picking of consumers’ pockets.
False
Partisan bullshit
Below are key findings from the staff analysis:
Consumer prices began to rise in early 2021 due in part to a strong pandemic recovery and supply chain disruptions. Prices began to rise in the United States in early 2021 as the economy started to fully reopen due to the widespread availability of coronavirus vaccines and the lifting of pandemic restrictions. Supply chain disruptions—especially following Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine—account for further inflation, but these factors do not account for all recent price increases.
Certain corporations are using the cover of inflation to raise prices excessively, resulting in record profits and profit margins. Beginning in 2021, certain corporations began enjoying record profits and profit margins—and continue to do so today. The Subcommittee’s analysis of financial information from a sampling of the largest corporations in several industries shows massive increases in profits between 2019 and 2021:
Three of the five largest companies in the shipping industry saw profits rise by 29,965%;
The two largest public companies in the rental car industry enjoyed a profit increase of 597%;
Four of the largest public companies in the meat processing industry saw profits go up by 134%; andFour of the ten largest public companies by market cap in the oil and gas industry had profits rise by 62%.
Over the same period, profit margins increased by 201% among the companies analyzed in the shipping industry, by 262% among the companies analyzed in the rental car industry, and by 53% among the companies analyzed in the meat processing industry.
Corporate statements confirm that certain corporations are seeking record profits. Statements from corporate executives in certain industries show they are exploiting news about inflation to raise prices even more than necessary to cover costs. For example:
“[A] little bit of inflation is always good in our business.” (Kroger, June 18, 2021)
“[W]e’re actually pricing to recover all of those inflationary impacts, just as we’ve done in the past. So you’ve seen us move retail prices up. As inflation has moved up mid-single digits, our pricing has moved. . . . And as I’ve said before, inflation has been a little bit of our friend in terms of what we see in terms of retail pricing. [F]ollowing periods of higher inflation, our industry has historically not reduced pricing to reflect lower ultimate cost.” (Autozone, May 25, 2022)
“[O]ur total pricing actions are forecasted to more than offset raw material and delivery cost increases. We are closely monitoring supply costs and other inflation, and we’re prepared to implement further increases as necessary. . . . [W]e don’t reduce prices on the back end of these increases [in underlying costs].” (HB Fuller, June 23, 2022)
Recent economic studies make clear that record corporate markups, profits, and profit margins contributed to—and continue to contribute to—ongoing inflation.
Studies by the Economic Policy Institute and Roosevelt Institute demonstrate that profits contributed more to price growth in the United States from mid-2020 through the end of 2021 than at any other point from 1979 to the present—and continue to contribute markedly today. This is especially true in highly concentrated industries.
Subcommittees are slow to come to conclusions that bright individuals reach much more quickly. From March 15, 2022: It’s not just inflation — it’s price gouging
Considering contemporary corporate ‘ethics,’ the fundamental drive to maximize profits, and the fact that individual CEOs are personally rewarded for doing so… Do you really think think a company wouldn’t raise the price of beans by an extra dime a can over increased production costs under cover of inflation?
What does your common sense tell you?
Committees run by Democrats trying to redefine inflation and idiot Biden’s part in causing it. High energy prices, inflation and shortages were all due to idiot Biden’s energy prices, insane spending and paying people NOT to work.
Partisan bullshit douchebag
The fed printing money and idiot bidens attack on energy has caused inflation.
There’s a base inflation level driving price increases—and then there’s pervasive price gouging on top of that. It’s not just the one thing.
No. Inflation has largely been caused by the Biden occupation printing and spending money.
This failing, illegal regime is struggling to get it’s propaganda corp like this idiot greg to spread more lies.
Dismissed.
We also just learned Biden is TRULY not the president after the government colluded with Twitter and others to suppress the truth.
You people are DONE.
Trump ran up debt more quickly than any other president in modern history. He ran up nearly as much debt in 4 years as Obama did in 8, and Obama was dealing with a crashed economy.
Musk Reveals Why Twitter Suppressed Hunter Biden ‘Laptop From Hell’ Story
Twitter interfered in the election, among others.
Biden is not the president. He’s an installed dictator.
Elon Musk Reveals What REALLY Happened to the Hunter Biden Laptop Story
#handled
Maybe Santa will bring you one of these for Christmas.
Dude, this coup of yours is finally getting real.
Biden won nothing.
There’s no way to pretend now.
The intelligence agencies of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA were working the DNC to lie and suppress legal information to rig an election.
Trump leveraged debt. Obama and now Biden are INFAMOUS for “running up debt.”
You’re a f*cking fool and you people are going down.
biden lied to the American people. The biden family crime cartel will be exposed as on the CCP payroll.
Again, you are caught lying. You pretend the Chinese pandemic never happened. Thanks to Fauci, the economy was shut down. Thanks to Democrats, it was kept shut down in Democrat districts for far too long. This was to create the excuse for “aid”, which Pelosi personally did all she could do to super-size it. The spending was DEMOCRAT spending, as they controlled the House.
Obama didn’t deal with a crashed economy; he KEPT the economy crashed even while adding $10 trillion to the debt.
fauci is responsible for the deaths of 7 million people.
The reality? Obama inherited an economic dumpster fire, and left office 8 years later on the 75th consecutive month of US economic growth.
He inherited an economy crashed by Democrat social engineering. He spent $10 trillion and left Trump a lame, lethargic, weak economy. Trump built a growing, booming economy along with making the nation energy independent. Then, using fraud and censorship, idiot Biden came along and destroyed it all.
Nah. Obama was terrible. He limited the free press, killed kids and American citizens without due process, was the most communistic president we ever had.
AND he was just a cardboard cutout installed like Biden.
Not really a president, in the actual sense of the word. Just vessel.
I would steer clear of the hunter biden laptop story too. So, you dig up an old thread to change the topic of hunter
I guess you think this is #handled
Hahaha.
The companies making record profits are giving record donations, both legal and laundered, to Democrats.
The Democrat Party – the clear crony capitalists using fascism in America by combining our government with companies.
Glad Musk is getting things #handled
We’re gonna get you fascist pigs handled, too.
It isn’t Biden. The problem is too damn many billionaires.
Yeah, it ain’t his problem. He’s a billionaire, too. He can afford whatever he wants no matter what the prices. Not HIS problem… he just created it.
05/01/23 – Consumer prices rose slightly in March as annual inflation plunged –
Ok from your cut and paste
which excludes food and energy costs,
Seniors need little else, house paid for, car paid off or taken away for their safety.
Seniors tend to feel cold so often the thermostat being below 72 isnt an option.
They require AC as they easily dehydrate and over heat.
Bidens inflation is hurting them.
You will vote for that bastard knowing all of the above. We are in a recession moron. Just had another big bank fail.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/this-year-s-bank-failures-eclipse-2008-levels/ar-AA1aB3Ab
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-05-01/first-republic-silicon-valley-jumbo-mortgages-fueled-bank-failure
You apparently ignored the following sentence:
Here are the PCE figures for the preceding months
It excludes excludes food and utilities asshole exactly what I pointed out.
Inflation figures have ALWAYS excluded food and energy costs because their prices have ALWAYS been too volatile to reflect underlying long-term economic trends.
No they have not skippy. Do some research before showing your ass again.
The concept of core inflation as aggregate price growth excluding food and energy was introduced in a 1975 paper by Robert J. Gordon.[
Food and energy costs haven’t been included in the calculation for over a decade. The calculation today is the same as it was throughout the Trump years.
You just said they have always been excluded.
Inflation figures have ALWAYS excluded food and energy costs because their prices have ALWAYS been too volatile to reflect underlying long-term economic trends.
The point is that the rate of inflation is declining.
A minuscule amount skipping. Wait till the fed raises rates again.
Raising interest rates is the only effective control measure, since the GOP refuses to increase high-end tax rates.
Inflation figures have ALWAYS excluded food and energy costs because their prices have ALWAYS been too volatile to reflect underlying long-term economic trends.
Why don’t you want to talk about joes bastard grandchild and hunters lack of personal responsibility in providing for her
She is four, ripe for hair smelling or nipple pinching by Joe.
That’s the moronic gutter politics porn you love to wallow in. I don’t care to.
Really, Comrade Greggie?
Perhaps Curt can remind you of all the hateful crap you said about the Trump children.
Think you can find anything as vile as the following?
joe biden is a pedophile.
Yeah, I can, Comrade Greggie, this:
Gender-Affirming Care and Young People (hhs.gov)
Remember, the President supports the removal of breast tissue on young girls as well as addadicktomes.
Biden is sick, degenerate f*ck.
As are you.
Do you understand that “assigned gender at birth” reference .05% who are born with physical abnormalities that create a gender ambiguity at birth? In such cases, a doctor or nurse pretty much flipped a coin.
Government shouldn’t make a wrong call a life sentence, just to keep people who can’t grasp that reality comfortable.
No longer any need to “flip a coin”, you pathetic moron. DNA tests can be done at birth.
You whine about Ukraine but support child mutilation. You are
one f*cked up idiot.
Amen, bro…
Would a DNA test reveal the newborn’s future psychological gender orientation?
Why aren’t you willing to let parents and children decide for themselves how they should identify? You don’t even respect adults’ decisions about themselves. You want the world to conform to your own expectations. You think government should make sure that they do.
No, no DNA test can reveal future mental disorders.
Any parent who encourages, or simply allows, trans gender treatment of their minor children are guilty of child abuse. They should, instead, seek competent, psychological treatment for their children. Not some whacko psychologist/psychiatrist with a degree from some tony university.
Do you support minor children being able to make that decision on their own?
Of course not. Personally, I don’t think it’s a good idea for anyone at any point, unless actual physical abnormalities or serious psychological adjustment issues are involved.
Not for seniors as they are not taking into account egg prices going from 79 cents to 4 bucks.
Chicken from 99 cents to over 3 bucks.
Light bills up almost 15 %
Gas bills more than 5 times last year’s high price, according to data from the U.S. Energy.
So far as I know, Biden doesn’t sell chicken or eggs. Maybe you should complain to your grocer.
They murdered 36 million laying hens for non existent bird flu.
Correct, Comrade Greggie. Biden sells influence and sells out our nation.
Are you sure?
greg simply does not get it.
Greg is retarded.
We’ve all seen the same rising prices. What’s your point? You think Trump could wave his magic fairy wand and fix it all in no more than a day? NOBODY can quickly fix it with their magical powers. We should be encouraged by improvement. Let that be the trend, and things will get better.
Fool thats Barrys line and yes he did.
What I saw over Trump’s four years was an increasingly divided nation, skyrocketing debt, the super-rich getting even richer, an explosion of bigotry, the normalization of corruption in high places, a roll-back of individual rights and choices, and more civil unrest in America than there’s been since the 1960s. It all culminated with a violent effort to overthrow a presidential election. That was not progress.
Well you were the only one that saw that. Dismissed
Trump lost by a landslide because over 80 million voters saw it.
Civil unrest caused by blm antifa and democrat politicians calling for unrest.
Biden says debt ceiling non-negotiable, wont or cant even discuss it.
Are the super rich not getting richer under Biden? Damn you are dumb.
Bidens policies are hurting the poor and killing the middle class.
If republicans cause a default on the debt, every negative economic trend will take off like a doped racehorse. Social order could break down. Then all the idiots could take their assault weapons out into the streets.
It is impossible for the Republicans to default on the debt. That is a myth that has been debunked.
Only the treasury secretary and president can cause a default.
Maybe you should inform Kevin McCarthy that his threat to do so is an empty one, and that the House of Representatives is no longer relevant.
Things are going to get worse. You have no idea.
Why are prices on the increase?bidens economy is not sustainable
That’s certainly what you’re cheering for. You seem to delight in the nation’s every setback. I saw the same damn thing through the Obama years. Nothing but negativity on the right, as they resisted every effort to pull out of the worse economic downturn since the Depression.
No delight, more disgust at the carnival sideshow freaks in charge.
Go look up irony. All you saw was negativity from the right during the Obama years. Yet you were and are nothing but negative on Trump.
You really are clueless.
What was inflation during President Trumps four years?
Hint, much, much less than now.
Well considering food and energy are always consumed seems the government should include those the seniors would have recieved a much larger raise.
Why do you repeat ignorance?
The biden economy is unhealthy and progressively getting worse rather than better. Over 70% of Americans now say they hove no confidence in biden and his ability to foster a strong economy like we had in Q4 2019.
President Trump gave us four years of peace and prosperity.
biden spending~>biden inflation~>biden bonds~>biden bank crisis
Stupidity>Trump>Even More Stupidity
Stupid comment by a moron
07/03/23 – Consumer price growth falls for 12th-consecutive month to 3%
You guys really DO want to challenge the Chinese on giving “news” that’s the opposite of truth.
Not surprised.