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Vance mocked for saying eggs cost $4 — while standing in front of a dozen for $2.99
(www.independent.co.uk)
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The conservative folks I talk to always, always, always bring up the price of eggs and the price of gas when they are talking about how bad the economy is these days.
I've heard "Groceries have doubled in price." many times. Obviously I can't prove that's not true for them, but then I ask what items that they buy regularly have doubled in price? The answer: "Eggs".
Okay, so what else, I know that eggs alone do not make up your entire grocery bill? "Everything". That's pretty much all I get.
Even if they can tell me a few more things that have doubled in price, it's basically going to be outliers or things I know for a fact they rarely/never buy. Like when it comes to the eggs, they'll make claims like "eggs are $10 a dozen", but when pressed about it, you find out they're talking about the gourmet premium brand that's always been way more expensive than the cheap ones and which they've never purchased in their entire lives.
Okay but groceries actually have doubled in price. Where they're wrong is the blame. They blame Biden, who actually got the trust busting stick out. While giving a pass to GOP leaders who just keep blaming the poor while grocery chains gleefully price gouge us.
This. I actually drink water now beacuse soda is too fucking expensive
Good! Water is better for you and amazing. Get you one of those vacuum metal water bottles (hydroflask or knockoff) and fill that sucker with ice cubes and water and you’ll never need soda again (except as the occasional treat).
I consume a lot of cottage cheese. Pre-Covid the 48oz container I buy cost about $2.50. The price spiked to about $5.00 during quarantine and has since fallen down to about $3.00. There's a lot of items that have followed similar trends and, while they're more expensive than they were in early 2020, they're not at their Covid spike prices which is what everyone seems to think.
The "gourmet premium eggs" (regular eggs laid by pastured chickens instead of life-in-a-tiny-cage chickens) also barely increased in price during the covid/bird flu/supply chain price gouge excuses.
Weird thing is, sometimes the "premium" eggs are cheaper than the standard eggs, because the prices don't fluctuate nearly as much. I have a thing of cage free brown eggs in my fridge that was actually cheaper than the plain, white store brand eggs right now.
I'm not a right winger and while I can't give specifics exactly, I do basically buy the same things every week because I'm boring like that. All cheap stuff, no organic or gourmet anything. I can say that in the last say 18 months I went from spending $65-$80/week depending on whether I was restocking non food items, to spending $110-120/week. Not exactly double, but damn close.
To get it back to the 70ish I now just eat less and I don't buy any extras like anything premade. :/
And are you stupid enough to blame this on the current Vice President? Or even the President?