"data [may] show consumer spending is growing and gross domestic product... continues to boom. [But] when you pay through the nose for a cup of coffee or when you can’t afford to buy a home, those data are meaningless: You feel shut out of the American Dream."

Hence, #Trump. Simple

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/06/economy/economy-trump-reelection/index.html

#usa2024

@mfioretti

So they are blaming an economy that has mild inflation and employers who were given permission during COVID to stop paying for salary increases on the Democrats.

This is, at best, fallacious and at worst nonsense. Under Trump, almost half a million died, people lost their jobs and the economy was close to crashing. When Biden took over it revved up and people were were working.

Now people think Trump will keep the economy going.

He won’t. He’s too damn stupid.

@feloneouscat everything I read and see looks like, both in the US and elsewhere, there is a big and growing amount of voters real angry and worried because they are working poor going worse every month, no matter how mild inflation is said to be.

Whether they are right or not to blame the Dems or their equivalents elsewhere, is another matter, but THAT what life looks for those people

@mfioretti

No. That’s what life the news says there is.

Look, we live on a fixed income in Texas. The only way I could retire is that partner gets a modest pension from the state. We have a tiny IRA (maybe two years then it’s tapped if the pension disappears).

You cannot have low unemployment and economic disaster. We were being gaslit. We were being told bullshit.

What did you actually see that told you that gave you the impression things were worse?

Gas when Trump left was $2.393. 1/2