General Discussion

Tell me again which party has ever retained power in an election after experiencing 40 year high inflation? That's why Carter was a one term president. Normal middle class people who never used to struggle suddenly struggled with the ability to afford groceries, rent, gas, buying a house, or pretty much buying anything. Regardless of the jobs numbers and jobs created under Biden, it didn't matter. The problem wasn't finding a job. It was that they had to work a lot more hours just to survive and afford basic needs. Wage growth has happened, but it's still behind inflation for most people. Including myself.. I got a pretty nice raise in my last union contract, but i'm still about 5 to 6 dollars an hour behind where I used to be before this mess happened according to the cpi inflation calculator. Trump is probably going to make it much worse, so he wasn't the answer, but people are going to have find that out the hard way I guess.