https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1437435509463257094
Remember when gas was under $2 per gallon and a cart full of groceries for a family of four was about $125 per week?
Pepperidge Farm remembers because that was barely two years ago.
Now it’s over $3 per gallon and the sane groceries are coating about $180 per week.
“seems like it was only last year…”
‘cuz it was!
In my high school years(early 80s) we were a family of 6. My mom would go to grocery shopping and fill 2 of those huge shopping carts to over flowing and write a check for $125…..
As Mrs B and I are wont to say to each other as we drive by the local gas station…
Thanks, Big Joe!
(In as sarcastic a tone of voice as possible.)
2008 when I was a baby engineer, I could spend about $100-150 at Walmart and Publix and come home with groceries for a couple weeks, a couple boxes of ammo, and extra groceries to put into the Hurricane stash.
Now that gets me through one stop for the weekly essentials.
Biden already has a couple of black marks on his record going into the mid-term elections. If this inflation stuff sticks, that’s going to be as bad as any of the other problems, perhaps more so because it directly affects people rather than being a distant and partially-forgotten bad memory.