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Inflation

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

Apologists for the Lesko Brandon administration insist inflation is mild and getting better.  Except I know for a fact these jars were 2 for $6 last Summer, I buy it all the time, it’s a family favorite.  I noticed when the price went to 2 for $7 (if you could find them on the shelf at all) and now it’s jumped again.


That’s a 25% price hike in six months.  Okay, chip dip is not a necessity, I could lower my standard of living to get by without it.  But it’s pretty good anecdotal evidence that the state of the economy is not what Progressives claim it is.  And this is the kind of evidence ordinary people pay attention to.  It’s going to be an issue for the election.  Democrats are going to need a LOT more fake ballots to maintain control.

I’ll know Democrats are truly in a panic when Senator Warren pivots from breaking up the Big Meat monopoly to the Big Snack monopoly.  Frito-Lay, your days are numbered.

Joe Doakes

Who doesn’t get greedy…

…for Creamy Spinach dip?

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15 responses to “Inflation”

  1. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Since I do the majority of the grocery shopping for our household, I can emphatically say that overall prices are up an average of 32%. Meat, especially bacon, has had the biggest jump, with eggs, milk and bread right behind. Gas has also been jumping around, but last week, I found two random stations where it is less than $3. I’m in Chicago right now and in Skokie last night, I filled up at $3.599. In the city, it’s averaging $3.799 – $3.899.

    On another note, has anybody else attempted to buy Fritos in the Twin Cities area in the last month? Plenty of other Frito-Lay products, but Fritos are hard to find. Apparently, there is a strike at the plant that has slowed production. If you can find them, the price has jumped almost 30%.

  2. FRESCHFISCH Avatar
    FRESCHFISCH

    I’m in the HVAC industry and most of our products went up 20-25% in 2021.

    And that’s just HVAC, add in the other trades and that’s real inflation.

  3. Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenesis

    If the Democrats get the shellacking that they deserve this Fall, inflation will be the biggest reason why.
    The elites live in a bubble, a closed loop where the politicians and media and political activists only talk to one another, the opinions of the American people are despised and ignored. After all, didn’t half of them vote for the hated Orange Man?

  4. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    After all, didn’t half of them vote for the hated Orange Man?

    Some of them eat Creamy Spinach dip too.

  5. Pureblood Pete Avatar
    Pureblood Pete

    Ingredients for Tostitos Creamy Spinich Dip:

    Water, Spinach, Sunflower Oil and/or Canola Oil, Red Bell Peppers, Water Chestnuts, Whey Protein Concentrate, and Less than 2% of the Following: Onions, Modified Tapioca and Corn Starch, Salt, Sugar, Vinegar, Garlic Powder, Lactic Acid, Natural Flavor, Xanthan Gum, Datem, Torula Yeast Extract, Monosodium Glutamate, and Citric Acid.

    Im not the smartest man in the room, so can someone point out where the “creamy” is?

    When we make spinach dip, the main ingredient is sour cream, followed by spinich and spices. I guess a jar full costs about $2 (pre Brandon), but of course we don’t add any “datum”.

    I think there’s a lesson in there somewhere.

  6. Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenesis

    The lesson the Biden white house will get from this is that they need to improve their messaging.

  7. gl whisler Avatar
    gl whisler

    C’mon Man! Isn’t it obvious that the situation is rife for Price Controls?

  8. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    Price controls? Ugh, ’tis the season for the ghosts of failures past. In the early ’70s my father owned a Shell gas station. When Nixon decried a wage and price freeze, the price per gallon my father could charge at the pump was “frozen”, but not the price Shell Oil could charge him for the gas they delivered, which kept on going up. (In those days, “service stations” depended on gasoline sales to basically pay operating expenses, while the service bays and mechanics provided the main income.) He joined a “strike” with other franchisees to shut down their stations since the idea of a mandate to sell something at a loss didn’t go over well.

    Nowadays, nobody believes one “brand” of gasoline is better than another, though that was what the respective oil companies worked hard to promote back in the day. Once gas became so expensive it also became viewed more as a commodity that you were just happy to be able to get. The brand value of having Shell gas, or Gulf, or Marathon basically went away. (Now you buy gas at the place where you think you’re least likely to get caught in a gang crossfire.)

  9. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    NW,
    When I was in high school, I worked at a Spur station on 494 & Penn. That brand was owned by Murphy Oil Company of El Dorado, Arkansas. To my knowledge, they were the first oil company to market unleaded gas. There was a dial on the side of their pumps, 1 – 5. Number 1 was straight unleaded, then each click of the dial added a percentage of leaded premium, with a corresponding increase in the price per gallon. Obviously, Number 5 was straight premium. By the time I was a senior, the owner was pretty ambivalent about the unleaded, because Murphy charged him more for it and he felt that Murphy didn’t do a good enough job explaining to the consumer what they were getting. He did like the fact that 60% of our gas sales was Number 3, which both the customers and staff referred to as “half and half”.

  10. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    C’mon man! Inflation only hurts the rich!

  11. Emery Incognito Avatar
    Emery Incognito

    Woolly wrote: “The elites live in a bubble, a closed loop where the politicians and media and political activists only talk to one another, the opinions of the American people are despised and ignored.”

    Nothing like having Glenn Youngkin — a tall, white, good looking man educated at Rice and Harvard, having worked at McKinsey and Carlyle and worth over $400m represent a party that rails against elites. Irony is indeed dead. 

  12. Bill C Avatar
    Bill C

    Having a lot of money does not make you “elite”. Especially if your politics don’t match.

    Just ask the former president.

    I doubt Youngkin is going to the same social gatherings that the “elite” are attending. If he WAS, he won’t be in the future after having stolen VA away from the Dems “rightful ownership”

  13. Emery Incognito Avatar
    Emery Incognito

    The Trump Elite are like the old Elite. I’ve always wondered why Democrats were elites and all the Ivy League and Graduate Degreed Republicans were not.

  14. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Per Swiftee’s comment, I’ve noticed that when shelves are empty in the grocery store, it’s generally for processed foods. And writing as the son of a dietician who got her degree in Home Ec back in 1966, the “cream” in that Tostitos is the vegetable oil and whey protein. (side note; whey protein is what Mrs. Obama derisively called “cheese powder”) It’s analogous in some ways to a Hollandaise or cream sauce, just without that wonderful taste.

    I’ve not been hit as hard for the shopping I do, but that’s largely around the perimeter of the store and in the baking aisle. Not a lot of processed foods there.

    One other note is that if we want someone to blame for highly processed foods being expensive, that would be the “government”, whose “regulations” make it difficult to impossible for many smaller vendors to operate. Just sayin’. I remember when my uncle owned a small town meat locker and butcher shop, and one time he wanted to investigate selling out of state. It turned out that to ship outside the state, he’d have had to make investments into six figures, most notably a parking lot. Exactly what a paved parking lot has to do with food safety, I do not know, but that was what the regulators wanted, among other things.

  15. Emery Incognito Avatar
    Emery Incognito

    ^ Empty shelves and full wheelbarrows.

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