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But just the other day he said…

President Biden On 30% Increase In Grocery Prices: People “Have The Money To Spend”

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/05/08/president_biden_on_30_increase_in_grocery_prices_people_have_the_money_to_spend.html

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Cool here’s the rest of it

“It really is, and it is real, but the fact is that if you take a look at what people have, they have the money to spend. It angers them and it angers me that you have to spend more. For example, the whole idea of this notion that you have… shrinkflation… It’s like 20% less for the same price, that is corporate greed. It is corporate greed and we’ve got to deal with it.”

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Typical Ozma shit. Bad faith bullshit is all they know apparently.

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Dude has no idea what life is like for the majority of people he “represents”…

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That line is taken completely out of context. The full quote, pasted elsewhere in this thread, is about how people can pay these price hikes, technically, but it’s rage inducing that they keep having to, and we need to address this kind of corporate greed.

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is about how people can pay these price hikes, technically,

But they can’t…

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2022/february/food-insecurity-for-households-with-children-rose-in-2020-disrupting-decade-long-decline/

Maybe you’re fine, but lots of people aren’t. The more prices go up, the more people can’t.

Desperate people do desperate things.

Do you think you’ll feel the effects of prices or starving masses first that effect your life enough for you to care?

Because things aren’t heading in the rights direction. Republicans break too much and Dems don’t try to fix it all. Damage accumulates if we don’t make repairs faster than damage is done.

Electing Dems who try to fix the damage, gets them more votes and more like minded people in office. Half ass measures are what’s holding us back, and you need to think about whose donations ensure we keep ratcheting backwards.

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The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

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It’s one banana, Michael. What can it cost? $10?

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