Trump Should Learn From J.D. Vance When It Comes To Talking About Prices And Affordability
If his vice president can do it, so can Trump.If his vice president can do it, so can Trump.SNAP dependence makes taxpayers a personal grocery fund
While over 40 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits to buy their groceries, the government shutdown has left them empty-handed — and BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey doesn’t think it's a bad thing.
Especially considering the money that comes from the government does not actually come from the government, but from the millions of taxpayers who go to work every single day.
In one CBS interview, a SNAP recipient named Erin Annis told the interviewer that she needs SNAP in order to live independently, without requiring the assistance of her family.
“Having those resources, what does it mean to you and for your life?” the CBS interviewer asks.
“Everything. It means everything to me. I don’t know what I would do except have to rely on my family, and I don’t want to do that right now. There’ll be a time when I’ll probably have to live with one of my sons. But for now, I want to be independent; I want to be on my own,” Annis answers.
“Having these resources has allowed you to be independent?” the interviewer asks.
“Yes, it’s allowing me to be independent,” Annis answers.
“It’s like people forget where this money comes from. You’re not actually independent. You are completely dependent on the government. And it’s not on the government. I mean, the government doesn’t have its own money. The government has money from us,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says.
“And so you have people who are willing to sacrifice, who are trying to make ends meet, who are trying to provide for their families themselves who are paying for this woman to live quote-unquote ‘independently,’ to buy her groceries,” she continues.
“Our tax dollars are taken away from us in a compulsory way, like we have to — we will go to jail if we don’t pay our taxes. So the government is forcing the money that we earned out of our hands and is forcibly giving it to someone else who could rely on family to buy her groceries,” she explains.
“That’s not ethical. That’s not moral,” she adds.
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The American dream now comes with 23% interest
You may not know Steve Eisman’s name, but you should. He was the investor who bet against Wall Street in 2008 and won big — to the tune of $800 million, with a current net worth in the neighborhood of $1.5 billion. If you saw “The Big Short,” Steve Carell played him as Mark Baum.
Americans are past living paycheck to paycheck. They’re living loan to loan.
These days, Eisman hosts “The Real Eisman Playbook” on YouTube. And like in 2007, he’s warning again — this time about the fragile state of the American consumer.
He isn’t alone. In a recent episode, Eisman spoke with Lakshmi Ganapathi of Unicus Research, who shares her grim view of the U.S. economy. Their conversation, combined with the data, paints a picture more alarming than most headlines dare admit.
Consumers are broke
“If you deduct the AI expenditures,” Eisman said, “... the U.S. economy is not even growing, really, 50 basis points, outside of AI.” In plain English: Without the artificial-intelligence boom, growth would be nearly flat at around 0.5% growth — likely even lower — not the 3.8% the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported for the second quarter of 2025.
Ganapathi didn’t mince words either. “Consumers are broke,” she said. “The monthly budget math no longer works.”
That’s what happens when Washington spends decades pretending math doesn’t matter. During COVID, federal “stimulus” checks poured roughly $800 billion into households. The cash wave briefly made millions look creditworthy — even as the underlying economy collapsed.
“Subprime consumers became prime,” Ganapathi explained. With reporting on student-loan and credit-card delinquencies suspended, millions suddenly looked like perfect borrowers. Credit scores soared to 700 and 800.
“They got a check that made them look richer than they actually were,” Eisman noted.
Banks then bundled those inflated loans into asset-backed securities — the same shell game that fueled the 2008 meltdown. The illusion of “prime credit” returned, this time wrapped in COVID relief and moral hazard.
The debt pyramid
Ganapathi described auto loans now stretching to 84 months — seven years — at 22% to 23% interest, which is credit-card territory. Americans collectively carry $1.2 trillion in card debt and $676 billion in car loans.
Add mortgages and student loans, and the numbers turn grotesque. Americans owe $20.83 trillion on homes, with an average interest rate of 6.37% on a 30-year note, and $1.81 trillion on student loans. We pay roughly $1.6 trillion a year in interest alone.
And since Washington nationalized student lending under Obama, it can now garnish wages indefinitely. “If you file for bankruptcy,” Eisman said, “your student loan stays with you.” A debt you can never escape — courtesy of your government.
The federal government owes $38 trillion but somehow pays a third less in interest. Fairness, D.C.-style.
Kicking cans and eating debt
Ganapathi noted that 90-day-plus credit-card delinquencies have doubled since 2021. Consumers are defaulting on car loans. Banks, desperate to avoid repossession losses, simply “modify” the loans and call them current — the same can-kicking that defines Washington’s budget process.
At this point, 69% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Nearly a quarter of them now use “buy now, pay later” services to pay for their groceries.
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Yes — groceries.
Eisman spelled it out: People are literally financing food. They buy a week’s worth of groceries, then spend the next two or three months paying for them — often at interest rates that can hit 36% after a single missed payment.
Americans are past living paycheck to paycheck. They’re living loan to loan.
The illusion of prosperity
This is the real economy hiding beneath Washington’s sunny numbers — an economy where debt props up demand and borrowed time props up debt. It’s 2008 in slow motion, but this time it’s ordinary households, not hedge funds, holding the toxic paper.
When the middle class needs “by now, pay later” to eat, the “strong economy” line collapses into farce.
America’s consumers are tapped out, overleveraged, and fresh out of illusions. The only question left is how long the lenders — and leaders in Washington — can pretend otherwise.
Democrats get too honest about life under President Biden, delete embarrassing post
The official Democratic Party X account made a monumental blunder late Thursday when it was a little too honest about the state of the country under President Biden.
It was just after dinner time when the Democrats' account attempted to do what it typically does: dunk on President Trump.
The account decided to make a post mocking "Trump's America," but unfortunately for Democrats, it immediately backfired.
'The democrats really thought they had something there.'
The Democrats posted an image on X titled "U.S. Grocery Prices Reach Record Highs in 2025," followed by the caption, "Prices are higher today than they were on July 2024 all in major categories listed below."
The attached graph showed prices of cheese, alcohol, grocery, dairy, produce, and meat.
In addition to the confusing double-speak, the graph showed that prices skyrocketed in 2021 and continued to creep upward through 2024.
It did not take long for readers to notice that the Democrats were accidentally highlighting the stark increase in prices that caused so much suffering under President Biden's term.
President Trump's rapid response team replied to the post almost immediately and pointed out that most of the prices started going down when President Trump took office.
Reporters soon noticed the Democrats had apparently deleted their post, but luckily an X user managed to archive the image for the whole world to see.
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"Obviously, the Democrats deleted it," Fox News host Carley Shimkus said on Friday morning.
She added, "They were saying that all of these prices have gone up in 2025. That's what the headline read. But when you read the graph, the highest points were during Joe Biden's administration."
Readers reacted to the Democrats with shock and awe, with one user writing on X, "The democrats really thought they had something there."
Another X user replied that it seemed "insane that not one person actually looked at the graph before green lighting the post."
While it is true that prices could always stand to come down more, the fact remains that cost of living under the current president has gone down in key areas.
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Not only did Americans enjoy a more affordable Fourth of July in 2025 under Trump, but the president has certainly followed through on one of his biggest promises that greatly affects families.
The price of eggs had dropped by 61% between Trump's inauguration and June, with even CNN admitting that the president's "egg price fiction has suddenly become reality."
Egg prices have ticked up in July to an average of $3.37 per dozen at the time of this writing, according to Trading Economics. However, this is nowhere near the more than $8 Americans were paying in March after prices exploded at the end of Biden's term.
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The price of eggs began spiraling out of control under the previous administration and continued rising even after President Donald Trump took office in January. While Trump noted that he had "inherited a mess," Democrats and their allies seized on the issue as an albatross to hang around the president's neck.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and a gaggle of other Democrats wasted no time complaining, suggesting in a letter just six days into Trump's second term that he was supposedly not doing enough to lower grocery prices. Democratic MSNBC contributor Brian Tyler Cohen, Brian Krassenstein, and other Trump critics piled on, mocking the president over the mounting egg prices.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and his comrades kept this line of attack in recent months, characterizing Trump's promise to lower prices as a lie.
Democrats' loss is once again Americans' gain.
The price of eggs has plummeted by 61% since Trump took office — a trend that forced even the president's critics at CNN to admit that his "egg price fiction has suddenly become reality."
The price for a dozen eggs remained south of $3 between 1994 and 2022. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data indicates that but for a few exceptions, the price during that period hovered around or below $2.
Over 5.2 million birds were culled in the last 30 days.
Prices began to skyrocket during the second half of the Biden era, then hit record highs earlier this year, reaching an all-time average high of $6.22 in March. In some places, the Associated Press indicated that consumers have been shelling out as much as a dollar per egg.
There were multiple factors at play, including the shift in various states to cage-free hens and record consumer demand. However, the primary cause was the mass exterminations of commercial and backyard bird populations ordered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in response to highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5) viruses.
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Blaze News previously noted that between Feb. 8, 2022 — when the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspect Service first confirmed bird flu belonging to the clade 2.3.4.4b in an American commercial flock — and March 2025, the USDA had directed the extermination of over 166.41 million birds. Fewer egg-laying birds naturally means diminished supply and higher prices.
The Trump administration announced a $1 billion strategy in February to curb bird flu, protect the poultry industry, and lower egg prices. Exploring temporary import options was a big part of the administration's strategy to drive down prices — and perhaps one of the most immediately effective.
In subsequent months, the administration promoted egg imports from various countries, including Brazil, South Korea, and Turkey, and leaned on Europe to export more. Simultaneously, the administration relaxed regulations for eggs laid by hens raised for meat, reported Reuters.
While the bird flu, which is endemic in wild birds, is still infecting commercial flocks — over 5.2 million birds were culled in the last 30 days — the importation of eggs and the easing of restrictions on eggs have helped lower prices.
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The USDA indicated on Friday that a major reason why prices are down is below-average demand for eggs.
"Shell egg demand posted a slight improvement headed into the Memorial Day weekend but remained well below average in the continuation of a trend that began during the sharp price increases in late winter," the agency said in its weekly report.
An April study from Clarify Capital highlighted by Fox Business noted that 34% of Americans had stopped buying eggs on account of the rising prices; 61% of Americans reported eating fewer eggs; and 44% reported using eggs less frequently in cooking or baking.
At the time of publication, the price of a dozen eggs was just over $2.50, according to Trading Economics.
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