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I hate to break your rant here but the 9% inflation is mainly being driven by corporate greed, mixed with adverse effects from COVID & the war in Ukraine and famine/disease. 
You know, all stuff that Biden has no control over.
Republicans are going to be dead-set on their messaging: "You don't feel the success and we'll make sure of it. You're in a recession." >

my $18 an hour 40 hour week paycheck is largely spent before I get it. This economy is SHIT. I don't need to have conservative ideals to see it. I just have to look at my bank account come the weekend. >

It's housing, we are all getting squeezed by greedy af landlords. >

Actually, I still live at home with my folks and STILL feel it. Not denying it, but it's more than just energy and housing here. When I'm able to spend almost $5 for a bottle of water for work there is a problem and I'm unwilling to call that an economic success. >

If you get a free place to stay and still manage to blow through $2500/mo., the problem is you. All of my bills combined outside of rent/utilities are below $1000/mo. 
Why tf would you pay $5 for a bottle of water when you can bring water from home for free? That's why it's $5 - because you are wiling to pay that. >

Well to call it free is a bit of a misnomer. I do pay my mom rent to help out with finances in the house, and pay her my cell line. All in all, I'm still throwing her over $200 a week, a third of what I take home every week. The rest kind of dries up as time goes on-Spotify, Netflix, YouTube Premium, other general expenses like meals on break, so on. Yeah, sure, you could argue some of that I could drop, and you'd be right, in fact I just canceled my Netflix because $20 a month is egregious.
But that's the point. That's what I'm making. Not that I'm buying that $5 bottle of water. The fact that inflation has been so out of hand, that I'm being asked to pay $20 a month just to watch Netflix in anything that isn't 720p with ads or that I'm being asked to spend $5 for water. You can't look at me in the eye and tell me that translates to economic success. >

That wage translates to about $37k a year.  Not rich obviously, but Netflix comprises roughly half of 1% of what you make -- that's not your main issue.  
Also, basing your perception of a nation's "economic success" on what resolution (720P!? dear God, might as well be homeless) of streaming you can get for 20 bucks is bizarre. >

Meanwhile, most Americans have no idea what Biden has done. He needs to get the word out against the current of Fox News, et al.
Americans not feeling impact of Biden agenda, Post-ABC poll finds >

Probably because 63% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. A good economy only really benefits the rich in this system. >

There is a significant degree to which this problem is self-inflicted and not the result of policy. 
When these numbers include majorities of people making over 100K/yr, the problem comes down to poor personal financial management. Americans are known for extreme personal spending and consumerism relative to most other first world countries, and this has been the case for a long time. >

About 35% of households in the US make 100k+, and less than half live paycheck to paycheck. So of that 63%, only ~16% live paycheck to paycheck. The economy doing better does not help poor people. All you have to do is look at grocery prices, or car prices, or house prices, or rent prices, or wages, or literally anything tied to cost of living. Everything in our lives is dictated by policy, by placing the onus on people’s personal responsibility you absolve the government of wrongdoing when that same government is the one that educated those people on finance in the first place. >

I mean this kind of proves their point. They're incorrect about superlatives, but 16% of households making 100k+ and still living paycheck to paycheck is a significant number. 
We definitely need better education on finances. It will only help though if people pay attention. >


Republicams greeted the stunning January jobs news with utter silence. What’s there for the party to quibble over when the economy generates 517,000 more jobs, unemployment drops to a 50-plus-year low, manufacturing continues to expand and wages increase at a steady pace?
The failure of a long-predicted recession to appear might not just send Republicans scrambling for the next shiny object with which to distract the public; it might shake up the 2024 presidential race.

Republicans will keep trying to tank the economy with debt ceiling theatre, but they cannot resist the strength of Biden's economy. Biden's power level is over 9000 and this isn't even his final form >

57% of Americans live pay check to pay check.  60% of Americans don't have enough aavings to cover a 1000+ emergency expense.  Inflation up 9.1% in 2022.  Utilities damn near doubled in a year. 
Yeah sure it's cool they printed more money in the last 3 years than all of american history put together.  But 80% of that money went to the 1%.  Inequality is greater than it has ever been.
So yeah i guess the biden economy is great if you already had 100a of millions of dollars in your bank account...but for the rest of us we lost a significant amount of purchasing power under biden.