The Quiet Emergency!

The major reason I chose this subject for today's rant (although I never really need a reason!) is that I just got back from my favorite discount grocery store.

So discount they only take cash.  No credit cards allowed.  That much discount.    

So I loaded up, like usual, except this time management was waiting near the entrance to so I could arrange for a 2nd Mortgage on my house.  But I convinced them to take an arm instead.  I had a nice long convo with the checkout babe about their prices, even though theirs are the lowest around.  I held up an 11 oz. bag of shredded, mixed-green lettuce, for an example.  I commented to her that it was $0.89 a couple of years ago, and had been for as long as I could remember.  And it's now $2.59.  That, I said, is INFLATION!*  

She agreed, and shared some of her own war stories, most particularly about customers having to take stuff back 'cause they couldn't afford to pay for everything in their carts.  Sad.

So I did a little research on the subject.  I checked out the prices of various staples back in 2022, and what they cost now in 2024:

     -  Coffee:  Up 47%

     -  Eggs:  Up 101%

     -  Bread:  Up 39%

     -  Cereal:  Up 48%

     -  Orange Juice:  Up 87%

     -  Bacon:  Up 76%

     -  Hamburger:  Up 49%

     -  Home Insurance:  Up 29%  

     -  Gasoline:  Up 67%

     -  Electricity:  Up 123%

And I remind those of my fellow citizens who chose the current Administration, you voted for this... 

This caused me to ask myself, I wonder how many folks are living on Social Security and having to decide what not to eat these days?  So I checked.  And here's the answer...

About half our population aged 65 and above live in households that receive at least 50% of their family's income solely from Social Security.  That's 62 Million Citizens!  Or, 18% of our population is hyper-subject to inflationary pressures.  With no way at their age to counteract the negative effects.

Consider also that the average Social Security monthly paycheck is only 1,717,49!  How in the Holy Hell is somebody supposed to live on $1,700 a month?  Or a family, in many cases?  And this is for people who worked all their lives, and paid into the SSA Fund every payday for their entire lives.  And yet, there are those who want to talk about lowering their payments.  Or letting their Fund go broke entirely.

As they're slowing down, the cost of everything is running away from them!

Add this to $5.89 a gallon near me, and up to $7.59 near San Franpoopco, and you can now understand why more than 1.2 Million citizens have fled California in the past two years.  And more will be leaving as soon as their kid graduates from high school, or they retire, or they can sell their $500,000 house that's now priced at $1.200,000!  Not "worth" $1.2 Million, just "priced" at that figure.  Showing the enormous discrepancy between asking price and value. 

But finding someone to buy their house is the key!  In Joe O'Biden's America home mortgage rates are 8% and more.  Making home ownership out of the question for most Americans for the first time since Jimmy Carter's Recession! 

Oh yeah, and car insurance has doubled in the past three years.  And auto maintenance is up 38%.  Making automobile ownership no longer possible for an alarming percentage of our older folks.  Those who have already paid their dues, and just wish to live a quiet, comfortable retirement.  

But they no longer can.  The O'Biden Administration's rabid socialist ideology has seen to that.  

Retired folks who can no longer afford their homes, and can no longer afford their cars, and can no longer afford to eat, is our Quiet Emergency!  

These 62 Million of your fellow citizens have no voice.  Almost one in five of your neighbors are in real trouble!  They have no way of getting out the message; they can no longer afford to live in O'Biden's America!  So I'm lending what voice I have in an effort to help.  By asking that you pass along this message, or its essense, to your friends and neighbors.  It's important.  

And Hey, Washington!  Hey, Sacrascrewyou!  Get with it!  People are gonna' die if you don't get off your ass and do what we're paying you for!

*    Once again, the definition of inflation is too many dollars chasing too few goods.  With the O'Biden Administration having spent $9,000,000,000,000 (with a "T") more than we took in since being immaculated just 3 short years ago, the Country's awash in money!  So goods and services are being bid up from raw materials, through manufacturing, and distribution, through sales.  Only the Federal Gubmint reigning in its Gargantuan spending habit by a change of Administrations will return us to de-inflated prices.  Otherwise, the $15.00 hamburger will be the norm.  And our Senior Citizens will be starving...