5 ms·
It really is comical hearing the major news tell everyone, "Look at this number here, everything is okay. The economy is great. Biden is doing a great job," whi
by encryptluks2 4y ago
It really is comical hearing the major news tell everyone, "Look at this number here, everything is okay. The economy is great. Biden is doing a great job," while gas prices are creeping back up to $5/gallon and people can barely afford housing, and there are constant layoffs.
- anonymouswacker 4y agoIt's comical if you're the court jester, but to most of us peasants, this is horrible. Our worst fears are coming true. The system is failing, but it's too big to fail.
- pessimizer 4y ago> people can barely afford housing Your scheduling is off. Right now we're attacking Biden for falling housing prices. We'll have to wait until prices start rising again to attack Biden for rising housing prices.
- encryptluks2 4y agoI keep hearing about falling housing prices but rent prices have only been increasing.
- wpietri 4y agoFor sure. Thank goodness the labor market has indicators pointing different directions (extremely low unemployment rate, more jobs than job seekers; but also more layoff headlines than usual). That way people can attack him for both the terrible lack of workers and the terrible lack of jobs.
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoReally? After they went up precipitously and now are returning to the previous (still unaffordable) level? Hardly a great benefit to the public. The lessening of another crushing blow I guess.
- chowchowchow 4y agoCreeping back up? Don’t see it here. https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts
- seibelj 4y agoIt’s pretty obvious the reason gas prices went down was because of the enormous drawdown of the strategic petroleum reserve. Post-election that will stop and it will go back up.
- chowchowchow 4y agoThat’s not relevant to the factuality of the claim that prices are creeping up presently, is it?
- encryptluks2 4y agoMy claim is factual. Where I live gas prices are rising back closer to $5/gallon.
- chowchowchow 4y agoNot gonna comment after this, I posted more in the other thread. This is spin by you after being called on saying something misleading.
- encryptluks2 4y agoNo need to spin anything. I tried being civil and compromising about it. You apparently prefer not to be after I explained that I don't live over the entire United States.
- anonymouswacker 4y agoGood point. Tapping into our strategic oil reserves is helping a little bit. Of course that, in a way, is a long-term price hike (when/if we ever replenish them). It's like taking out a loan.
- cpursley 4y agoYou're getting downvoted because people on this forum are mostly ivory tower types in the top 10% (i.e., insulated, with lots of runway and many options). But we're absolutely getting gaslit on the energy & food inflation. Just talk to anyone outside of the valley. Costs have gone up and people are nervous.
- adamc 4y agoPeople are nervous. It isn't clear to me that there is much in the short-term that can be done about it. The invasion of Ukraine and bad weather (likely a result of climate change), as well as various consequences of the pandemic, are making life hard.
- Kerrick 4y agoI think they're getting downvoted for mentioning a politician on Hacker News. From the HN Guidelines [0]: > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. and > Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies, generic tangents, and internet tropes. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- nitwit005 4y agoThey're being downvoted because it has almost nothing to do with the linked article, and is essentially a political rant.
- aprdm 4y ago> Just talk to anyone outside of the valley You mean, in the whole world, right? The situation isn't great in Canada or Europe too.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoNone of that is new though. Housing, healthcare, education, childcare have been increasingly unaffordable for at least a generation now. The focus on specifically food prices and gas prices makes it seem like a recent phenomenon but outside of this 10% (are you not in that?) it has been brutal for a long time.
- 4y ago
- ajg36 4y agoThank god Twilio laid off those workers so gas prices will finally come down.