I shop for groceries at least once a week, usually twice, so I can see how prices continue to rise despite protestations by our president to the contrary. Yes, eggs — with a one-time, sudden spike — have returned to earth price-wise, but I can’t think of a single other product that doesn’t continue to face inflationary pressures.
Fortunately, I have a mortgage that is fixed rate, and I bought my house long enough ago that it is still (barely) affordable. I can’t imagine what it would be like today to find housing similar to mine for rent or sale. I couldn’t afford either lease or purchase, I guarantee you, not even in my highest-salaried days.
I doubt few in the White House feel the financial pinch the rest of us do, and certainly not those in the President’s Inner Circle. The government dole extends to executive branch employees in generous ways that few out here in the hinterlands can rival.
I realize that a president can’t go shopping in a grocery store for security reasons (though you once did man a McDonald’s window by yourself). Still, how about sending some people out weekly to check on prices in their neighborhood and have them report back to you?
Just a thought. It might open some eyes around the Oval Office.
