Democrats mock Americans struggling to afford groceries



In a since-deleted post on X, Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee mocked Americans who are struggling to afford high grocery costs.

The account responded to an article on X that found that consumers had spent a record $10.8 billion on Black Friday online shopping. Despite the economic hardship many Americans have endured over the last four years, Democrats dished out a tone-deaf response.

Much of the inflationary spending came from the Biden-Harris administration and Democrat-approved legislation.

"And here we were thinking y'all couldn't afford eggs!" the account said in the now-deleted post.

Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee just deleted this tweet mocking Americans who are struggling to afford groceries: pic.twitter.com/8eVNhoU7On
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The post failed to mention the economic turmoil many Americans have actually experienced. For example, the cost of eggs jumped from $1.74 per dozen in 2020 to $3.82 in 2024, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Eggs are not the only commodity that has been affected by cost increases and inflation. The cost of groceries overall has skyrocketed over the last four years. In 2020, food inflation increased by 3.9%, compared to 6.3% in 2021, 10.4% in 2022, 2.7% in 2023, and 2.1% in 2024, according to the BLS.

Inflation affected not just the cost of food, but also the cost of living. Monthly inflation peaked under the Biden-Harris administration at 9.1% in June 2022. Although it has since subsided, inflation reached a multi-decade, record-breaking high of 8% in 2022.

Much of the inflationary spending came from the Biden-Harris administration and Democrat-approved legislation.

In July of this year, the national debt surpassed $35 trillion for the first time in American history. The Biden-Harris administration at the same time approved the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act, which respectively approved $1.9 trillion and $750 billion in spending.

The consequences were felt by Americans. Poll after poll leading up to the election showed that the most important issue for voters was the economy and inflation. At the same time, respondents indicated that they were worse now than they were four years ago and overwhelmingly trusted former President Donald Trump to handle the economy over his Democratic challenger.

This sentiment was ultimately reflected at the polls where Trump secured a historic landslide victory. Despite the tremendous loss Democrats endured, it appears they have not yet learned from their mistakes.

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You need how much to 'live comfortably' in each state?!



Inflation is still on the rise, and Americans across the country are struggling to stay afloat because of it.

However, there’s one thing all the states have in common where the money needed to “live comfortably” is through the roof: They’re all blue states.

“Living comfortably” is defined as the monthly income needed to cover a 50/30/20 budget, which allocates 50% of your earnings for necessities like housing and utility cost, 30% for discretionary spending, and 20% for savings or investments.

“They’re saying this is the minimum, this is what it takes to, you know, live comfortably in America,” Glenn Beck says, noting that barely anyone is capable of living like this under the current circumstances.

The top five most expensive states are all blue states. It costs $116,000 annually to “live comfortably” in Massachusetts, $113,000 in Hawaii and California, $111,000 in New York, and $106,000 in Washington.

The median income for a single, full-time worker is around $60,000, while the national median for living comfortably is $89,000.

“So there’s a shortage there,” Glenn says.

While Americans are expected to live comfortably despite ever-rising prices and losing a huge chunk of their salary to taxes, the government continues to spend in a way that will ensure this all only gets worse.

“What is the 50/30/20 number for the United States right now?” Stu asks. “It’s insanity. And we’re getting to the point very soon where just the interest on the money we’ve already spent is going to be more than our entire defense budget.”


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The Biden administration isn’t shy when it comes to boasting about how many jobs it’s created — but maybe it should be.

The administration has quietly — and conveniently — deleted 439,000 jobs from its 2023 job reports. This means that almost a quarter of all jobs added in 2023 didn’t even exist in the first place.

Former investment banker Carol Roth cites a saying attributed to Mark Twain in response: “There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.”

“The data is bastardized, and I would argue not even relevant to how our country’s economy is run,” Roth tells Glenn Beck, noting that this is all either odd, lazy, or nefarious.

“Those are your three choices,” she adds.

Meanwhile, there’s a record-high number of 8.7 million people holding down multiple jobs.

“Those are things that would make you scratch your head and say, ‘That’s moving in the wrong direction,’” Roth says.

While government jobs make up much of the recent hiring, Roth says it's “not sustainable.”

“Those don’t have the same level of productivity because they are paid for by our tax dollars and or the printing of money,” Roth explains.

According to Glenn, 216,000 jobs were added in December, and 52,000 of those were government jobs.

“Which brought us to an all-time high of 23 million employees for the federal government,” Glenn says, shocked. “It’s an astounding, astounding number.”


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